There is much difference of opinion among many of God's children
as to the time and order of the baptism with the Holy Spirit, and
many who believe that entire cleansing is subsequent to
salvation, ask if the baptism with the Spirit is not subsequent
to cleansing, and, therefore, a third blessing.

There are four classes of teachers whose views appear to differ
about this subject. There are:--

1. Those who emphasise cleansing; who say much of a clean heart,
but little, if anything, about the fullness of the Holy Spirit
and power from on High.

2. Those who emphasise the baptism with the Holy Ghost and
fullness of the Spirit, but say little or nothing of cleansing
from inbred sin and the destruction of the carnal mind.

3. Those who say much of both, but separate them into two
distinct experiences, often widely separated in time.

4. Those who teach that the truth is in the union of the two, and
that, while we may separate them in their order, putting
cleansing first, we cannot separate them as to time, since it is
the baptism that cleanses, just as the darkness vanishes before
the flash of the electric light when the right button is touched;
just as the Augean stables were cleansed, in the fabled story of
Grecian mythology, when Hercules turned in the floods of the
River Arno; the refuse went out as the rushing waters poured in.

There are three very blessed portions of Scripture which show us