Sermons & Devotionals by Daniel Steele
Daniel Steele
The Higher Life Prayer
In the third chapter of the Epistle to the Ephesians (verses 14-21, which see) Paul's closet door gets ajar, and all the Christian ages are thrilled with his sublime whisperings in the ear of God. Come, stand by me and listen. It is an honorable kind of eavesdropping. Like his Master, Paul's most ea... Read More
Daniel Steele
The Obedience of Faith
IN the epistle to the Romans St. Paul uses this expression twice in the Greek. It indicates more than justification by faith, the great doctrine which is set forth and defended in that epistle. It shows that true obedience springs from faith in Jesus Christ, and receives all its vitality from that r... Read More
Daniel Steele
The Probation for Holiness
THE advocates of entire sanctification, with Wesley, Fletcher, and Watson at their head, affirm that this blessing "is as distinctly marked and as graciously promised in the Holy Scriptures as justification, regeneration, adoption, and the witness of the Spirit." [Watson's "Institutes," Vol IV., pag... Read More
Daniel Steele
THE QUALITIES OF A SUCCESSFUL MINISTRY
For he was a good man, and full of the Holy Ghost and of faith: and much people was added unto the Lord." -- Acts 11:24. The last clause of the text is so evidently a consequence of the qualities of Barnabas, that there is no need of the usual illative word, therefore. Much people, according to the ... Read More
Daniel Steele
The Sixth Mile-Stone
ON this ever-memorable day, November 17th, 1876, I pass the sixth mile-stone in the highway of holiness. Should I refrain from the utterance of praise to the Lord Jesus, the King of Glory, to God the Father, and to the blessed Comforter, the stones beneath my feet would cry out. It may interest no o... Read More
Daniel Steele
The Sons of God -- Rank in the Scale of Being
MAN'S rank among the creatures of God is a theme of more than speculative interest. It has a practical value, for the revelation of a man's greatness, as an exiled prince soon to be crowned, is a strong motive to a life of moral purity. Professor Dana, of Yale College, raised the question whether so... Read More
Daniel Steele
The Spirit Gives no Testimony to Perfected Holiness
The objection is made to the Wesleyan doctrine of the witness of the Holy Spirit to the fact of entire sanctification, that there is no Scripture which specifically mentions such a witness. To this we reply that this proves too much. There is in the Bible no specific witness of the Spirit to justifi... Read More
Daniel Steele
THE TEN SPIES -- AN EVIL REPORT
There is much more in the Old Testament histories than lies on the surface. Without adopting the fanciful hidden sense read into the Scripture narratives by Swedenborg and some extravagant modern typologists, we may without peril or dangerous error follow in the footsteps of inspired apostles when t... Read More
Daniel Steele
The Tense Readings of the Greek New Testamen
IN this age of astonishing scientific progress, when the microscope applied to living tissues reveals whole continents of evidence of design in bioplastic life, and marvelously strengthens theism in its debate with atheism, we have applied the same instrument to the Greek Testament, in the aid of ex... Read More
Daniel Steele
The Three Dispensations
In John Fletcher's portrait of St. Paul as a model evangelical preacher, he very emphatically insists upon a thorough knowledge of the three great eras of spiritual life. These he denominates the dispensation of the Father, of the Son and of the Holy Ghost. He who is unacquainted with the peculiarit... Read More
Daniel Steele
The Three Perfections
ASIDE from the absolute perfection of God, the term perfection, as used in the Holy Scriptures, in its application to human beings, has three distinct meanings. Much of the difficulty in understanding the doctrine of Christian perfection arises from a confusion of these three significations. 1. The ... Read More
Daniel Steele
THE "OVERCOMETHS" IN THE REVELATION.
In the message of Jesus Christ to the seven churches there recurs a favorite verb on which the destiny of each individual member turns. As the conditions of salvation are the same in all ages, we should understand what is implied in this verb to overcome, and how vast and various are the rewards whi... Read More
Daniel Steele
The "Seven Feet of Gravel" Cure
A person suffering from an annual attack of hay fever, having been told that Oliver Wendell Holmes, the poet physician, had effected a cure of that malady in his own case, wrote to that renowned littérateur, inquiring for the antidote. In accordance with his concise and vigorous style, the great hum... Read More
Daniel Steele
Twelve Years from Glory to Glory
WHILE that eloquent preacher and voluminous writer, Thomas Aquinas, "the Angelical Doctor," was composing his "Summa Theologiae," he left off to celebrate the Lord's Supper, in which he was over-whelmed with the revelation of Christ's love, and filled with the rapture of the Holy Spirit. After this ... Read More
Daniel Steele
Twenty Years with the Comforter
IN the autumn of 1870 my long hunger to know the full meaning of the promised Comforter, who should abide in the disciples testifying of Christ, culminated in an earnest seeking and a joyful finding. He came and He abides. The bliss was too great to be kept secret. It overflowed upon everybody whom ... Read More
Daniel Steele
WHY DID MOSES VEIL HIS FACE?
The revision throws much light on this question, showing that the traditional answer is erroneous. That answer is, that the purpose of the veil was to subdue the excessive brightness, or to conceal it entirely, so that the Israelites could look at Moses and come nigh without fear. Let us first study... Read More
Daniel Steele
A Short Autobiography of Daniel Steele
I was born into this world in Windham, N. Y., October 5, 1824; into the kingdom of God in Wilbraham Mass., in the spring of 1842. I could never write the day of my spiritual birth, so gradually did the light dawn upon me and so lightly was the seal of my justification impressed upon my consciousness... Read More
Subscribe
Get Bible verse every day in your inbox
Read on Mobile
Most Searched
Group of Brands
© 2026 Bibleportal.com All rights reserved.
Daniel Steele was the first great Bible scholar and theologian of the Holiness movement. He was professor of theology at Boston University and, later, became the first president of Syracuse University, then Boston University, becoming a colleague of Borden Parker Bowne, and a writer of significant essays on the Wesleyan theology of sanctification.
His writings are well worth reading, in large part because of their emphasis on Biblical interpretation. Steele was an able defender of the teachings of Wesley and Fletcher.