However, I instantly recognize the “ holy audacity and his constant boldness of action” that Frodsham ascribes to the Pentecostal infilling. I certainly lack other enduements that Smith possessed, so that I am not qualified to discuss those. The many years I have walked in His Spirit, as well as in His Rest allow me to recognize at least these states instantly. He was Spirit-filled but regrettably he had not obtained His promised Rest himself, or he would have correctly discerned where Smith's various spiritual assets had originated. The authour: Stanley Frodsham was devout Pentecostal man appointed by Smith's daughter to write from accounts recorded by others. There has been enough time for the “ Great Awakening” to be a memory rather than a present experience, while the spiritual strengths and weaknesses of the new Pentecostal infilling were still poorly understood. Smith could not review the manuscript of this book. Smith Wigglesworth himself died in 1946 at the ripe old age of 87, a flame of God to the very end. Timing: The book was first printed in 1948. HIS SECRET OF SPIRITUAL STRENGTH selected from: “ Smith Wigglesworth Apostle of Faith” by Stanley Frodsham Foreword All the facts within Smith's journals are correctly quoted, but I am afraid that Frodsham was labouring under some innate disadvantages in interpreting the life of one who walked within such a profound unearthly mystery as did Wigglesworth.
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