The following excerpt is from B.B. Warfield's Perfectionism. He is critiquing the work of William Boardman who was the author of The Higher Christian Life . According to Warfield, this movement took off where Oberlin perfectionism left off. One common point of all these perfectionist movements is the separation of justification and sanctification chronologically and the separation of Christians into two classes. Christians who are only justified or carnal Christians and Christians who have received the 2nd blessing or 2nd work of grace. Notice the problem here? So little is Mr. Boardman inclined to sink "the second experience" in the first, that his tendency is to exalt it above it. He speaks of it as "the second and deeper work of grace." He declares plainly that "the second is the higher stage, and more difficult too. It is really harder to overcome sin in the heart, than to break way from the world at first. And it is harder to come to the point of trus...