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12. 20, how we'll I remember tha
meeting, twelve days before her death
the last she attended OH earth Sh'
could not better have chosen her word
| if she had known it was to be her las
exhortation, and she desired it to b
remem bered through all ages. In he
sick ness, too, how patient and cheer
full. She taught us in her death how
Christian dies, as she had shown US b,
her life how Christian should live"
The Spirit in the Acts Of the Apostles
The book Of the Acts of the Apostles
would better he called the Acts Of the
Holy Spirit. Itopens with the assur
ance from the lips of the risen Lore
that the power of the Holy Spiri
should come upon the waiting, believ
ing disciples. And then as soon az
he ascended from their sight into
heaven we behold the little company
of men and women, all who had the
courage tn identify themselves will
the crucified and despised Nazarene
enter the upper room to wait for tht
promise of the Father which had beer
given to the Church. Their manner
and time of waiting we know, also the
number assembled together. For ter
days the one hundred and twenty dis
ciples continued with Que accord In
prayer and supDlication, their minds
intent upon the gospel of the Spirit
about to be inaugurated and promul'
gated.
The time having fully come and the
conditions being fulfilled the answer
came with suddenness and power and
every one present was filed with the
HOLY Ghost. That marked the OPEN
ing of new era in the kingdom. A
new regime was entered upon. A
new force comes into operation in the
development and spread of the gospel
of Jesus Christ. Now the disciples be.
gin to understand the meaning of
those strange. enigmatical words of
the Master spoke to them the night
before his crucitixion; "lt Is expedient
for you thot 60 away: for If I 20 not
away the Conf will not come
unto you; but if I go away 1 will
send Him unto you." 1t was strange
utterance indeed that the best thing
that could happen to them would be
his death. But 80 it was. His bodily
presence with them must necessarily
be limited by earthly environments,
whereas in the person and power OF
his Spirit, the Comforter, he would be
with them always even unto the end
of the world.
With the descent of the Spirit and
the incoming of this new power into
the hearts of men, note the effects:
Peter, the timid, the wavering one,
becomes the bold, masterful rock man
whose words smite the hearts of sin
ners as the hammer of the Lord, and
three thousand in one day acknowl-
edge Jesus as their King. Not only
did the marvellous power attend the
of Peter and the other apos-
Ties, but they were ali filled with the
Holy Ghost and spake with other ton
CUES as the Spirit gave them utterance.
Therefore they went everywhere
the Word. They did not
wait for commissions or parchments or
being sent forth by conferences or
synods, but being inwardly anointed
and impelled by the Spirit they went
forth under His divine leadership.
To read the first chapter of the his
tory of the Christian church, the Acts
of the Apostles, with this thought in
mind, the Mission of the Holy Spirit
in founding the Church, would be
fraught with suggestive and inspiring
thought. The Foreign Secretary Of
Board said, at one of his
annual meetings, that he was accus-
toned to give outgoing missionaries,
as complete manual of instructions,
a copy of the Acts of the Apostles.