The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-11-15

that He loft them any directions There evidence
that they were not left to form organization as in
any neghborhood to-day an organization for such pur
poses springs from the elevation of the moral OF
mankind Christ left these
MEN WITHOUT A CHURCH,
without charter without outline OF policy, with
out any literature without ordination and simply com
mended them to 80 TO Jerusalem and wait till tho power
cae upon then from on high. They were not TO wait
TOT any outward manifestation, for anything TO flash
upon Them from the sky. They wait for some
thing 10 come within them Ii was TO be revelation.
They were all together that is explicitly stated They
spent their whole ume together there was therefore,
AZ mat comes from the unity of social forces No man
alone is able TO develop himself in the lowest
spheres OF development They were not only together
as so many materials, kindng into a flame, but they
were all OF one accord and very likely for the first time
In their lives, too. Sorrow often makes UNITY and they
were in orphanage They spent their time in prayer
and singing, which, If YOU look nj It, means that in
stead OF sitting together desoate, moaning and listen
ing To iomened predictions OF the future, and drivel
ling and grooming about their weakness and their wick
edness or anything OF that kind, they together and
prayed ana sang. Prayer is flight 1t Is nothing.
IL IL the nober part of man. winged with imagination.
hitting itself out of the bondage of material life and
talking with Him whom then IL While they
thus gathered together there n rushing sound
OF mighty wind and the fiery tongues that seemed to
speak 10 their souls that wisdom and eloquence should
be theirs thereafter What did Gomez We told that
II was the Divine Spirit IL becomes Of very great i'm
portance now TO determine
WHAT DIFFERENCE
between those they after that and as they
had been before IT, We observe that in the first place,
these men were lifted instantly by this inspiration
out from the condition OF vulgar commonplace into
condition which we will call by appropriate
name than that OF romanticsm They were lifted ont
Of the common rank into the heroic. By vulgar | do
not mean poor, unless poor in spirit or poor in sent
ment. The moment they were touched by the Spirit
there was something thatgave them -lntution
something that gave to the sentiments entranchise
ment-that brought them into the higher realms Of OK
istence: and there was the insight which comes from
the exaitation OF tho faculties OF man. There given
to MS all hours that disentangle problems. There arc
moods in which things all round, but that
dition does not nbide-lt is not permanent The
apostles, however, were clothed and filled with this
power OF exaltaon, and IL seemed to abide in them
Now II you ask in modern phrascology what was
done to them and what did IL ~ say that divine in
nuence descended on them, inspiring thcm IN such
way that all that part OF their life that
sprung from the flesh held in allegiance and con
trol and all that part OF their soufe which includes
reason, the moral sentiments the imagination and the
elements OF spirituaty-a that part was raised into
uncxampled power. When man Is in that condition
he IS like a light thunder and darkness rock
and storm at the basc but
AT THE TOP
the light burns clear and never goes out. When men
pray for the Divine Spirit II would be wise for them TO
understand precisely what it is that they pray ior and
what are some Of the laws and conditions under which
men may expect 10 be blessed by the Spirit. The
descent Of the Divine Spirit then will be made
known to us by its opening the eyes of the soul
10 invisible world and to truths that never have
physical forms and yet the most important truths
OF existence. People pray for the Holy Ghost.
"F me with the Holy Ghost" is one OF the stock
prayers
Mr.. Beecher compared who cry out in this way
without preparing TO receive the Holy Ghost to a man
who should go out TO well with his bucket and hang
ing 1t on the nozzle OF the pump, cry out, 20,
well, fill my buckctl' without making any
exertion himself. Another class Of Chris
tans adverted TO by Mr. Beecher being like
dry pegs the house of the Iord-.'good to hang old
theological garments on and that's ALL Many people,
he said, brought 10 Christ by adversely, which
penetrated their outward shell of wordliness just
the autumn fross strip the chestnut Of its burr and
permits the golden nut within to escape. "More
blessed said he, are they who, like the apple bios
som, come to maturity with the sunlight kissing It's
cheek into beauty