One morning as I awoke, I heard the Holy Spirit say, "Hattie, My child, preach holiness!" He brought to my remembrance a woman who asked me to meet her at the throne of grace. "Pardon me," she exclaimed as she noticed those kneeling at the altar and crying out for God to cleanse them. "Is this the way you have to go?"

"Yes," I answered. "And it"s a blessed way!"

"Oh, it's a hard way!" she replied.

What way? First to the cross, then to the throne, by the cleansing blood of Jesus! It is the message of holiness, and it is a straight, narrow way. The next morning she came to church and said, "I have spent the previous day straightening up old accounts--but I have nowhere begun to straighten all that has to be straightened!" A change could indeed be plainly seen in her face.

After seeing such a miracle of transformation in even one life my heart was readily moved to say, "O God, by Thy grace I want to--and will--preach holiness!"

--Hattie Hammond
January 1928