From the Back Cover
The author states in his introduction: “I have had a deep conviction for many years that practical holiness and entire self-consecration to God are not sufficeintly attended to by modern Christians in this country. Politics, or controversy, or party spirit, or worldliness, have eaten out the heart of lively piety in too many of us. The subject of personal godliness has fallen sadly into the background. The standard of living has become painfully low in many quarters. The immense importance of “adorning the doctrine of God our Saviour” and making it lovely and beautiful by our daily habits and tempers has been far too much overlooked…Sound…doctrine is useless if it is not accompanied by a holy life. It is worse that useless: it does positive harm…It is my firm impression that we want a thorough revival about scriptural holiness.”
John Charles Ryle served for almost forty years as a minister of the gospel before being appointed as the first Bishop of Liverpool in 1880. His other writings include
Expository Thoughts on the Gospels
The True Christians
A Call to Prayer
A New Birth
Practical Religion
Light from Old Times