The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-04-03
BY THE HOLY SPIRIT.

By THE HOLY SPIRIT.
REV. DR.. TALMAGE O!sCoURsEs ELo-
ouENTLy on TONGUES FFiRE.
rhey Who Have r:ece;:e4 the Divine Pres
ence IN Their Hearts Are Lifted Above
Sorrow and NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. of Noted
Evamsel:s,s-
New YORK, March 24-Wian DR..
Talmage assembled the platform Of the
Academy OF Music This afternoon lie
faced an audience quite rs large asany
that had assembled IN the great build
ing siace these services began, while
several thousand others were outside
unable to secure seats or even standing
room. He took Tor his subject.
Tongues Of Fire" the text selected
being Acts Xix, 2, Have ye received
the Holy Ghost"
The word ghost, which means a soul
or spirit, has been degraded in common
parlance. We talk of ghosts as bale
full and frightful and in q frivolous or
superstitioas way But my teStspeaks
of ghost who is on.nipotent and III
vine and everywhere present and nine
ty-one times in the New Testament
called the Holy Ghost. The on Y time
ever heard this text preached from
was in the opening daEs OF MY MINIS
try, when glorious cid Scotch minis
ter came up to help me III my village
church. On the day Of my ordination
and installation he said, ii you get
into the corner OF :. Saturday night
without enough sermons for Sunday.
send for me. and | will come and
preach for you" The fact ought to
be known that the first three years
of a pastors life are appallingly ar
duous
No other profession makes The TWEEN
tieth part Of the demand On a young
man. If a secular speaker prepares one
or two speeches for political cam
paign, it is considered arduous. # a
lecturer prepares one lecture for year
he is thought to have done well. But
young pastor has two sermons to de-
liver every Sabbath, before the same
audience, beside all his other work,
and the most of ministers never recov-
er from the awful nervous strain of
the first three years. Besympathetic
with all young ministers and withhold
your criticisms.
Nv aged Scotch friend responded to
my first call and came and preached
from the text that I now announce. [
remember nothing but the text. 1t
was the last sermon he ever preached.
On the following Sabbath he was call
ed to bis heavenly reward. But | re-
member Just how he appeared as,
leaning over the pulpit, he looked into
the face of the audience and with ear
nestness and pathos and electric force
asked them, in the words of my text,
ssHave ye received the Holy Ghost
The Office of the present discourse is to
open door, to uageil Parsonage, to
introduce a force not. sufficiently re-
cognized. Heeis as great as God. He
is God. The second verse of the first
chapter of the Bible introduces him.
Genesis i, 2, The spirit of God moved
upon the face of the watersn-that is,
as an albatross or eagle spreads her
wings over her young and warns them
into life and teaches them to fly, so
the eternal Spirit spread his great,
brood, radiant wings over this earth
in its callow and unfedged state
and warmed it into life and futtered
over it and set it winging its way
through immensity. 1t is the tiptop
of all beautiful and sublime suggestive
ness. Can you not almost see the out
spread wings over the nest of young
worlds2 1.-The Spirit of God moved
up n the face of the waters"
Another appearance of the Holy
Ghost was at Jerusalem during great
feast. Strangers speaking seventeen
different languages were present from
many parts of the world. But in one
house they heard what seemed like the
coming of a cyclone or hurricane. 1t
made the trees bend and the houses
quake. The cry was, What is that!"
And then forked flame of fire tipped
each forehead, and what with the blast
of wind and the dropping fire panic
took place until Peter explained that
it was neither cyclone nor confagra-
ton, but the brillance and amounting
and baptismal power OF the Holy
Ghost.
The scene was partially repeated in
forest when Rev. John Easton was
preaching. There was the sound of a
rushing, mighty wind, and the people
looked to the sky to see if there was
any signs of a storm, but it was clear
sky, yet the sound of the wind was 50
great that horses, frightened, broke
loose from their fastenings, and the
wholeassembly felt that the sound was
supernatural and Pentecestal. Oh.
what an Infinite and almighty and
glorious parsonage IS the Holy Ghost.
He brooded this planet into life, and
now that it has become dead world
he will brood it the second time into
life. Perilous attempt would be the
comparison between the three persons
of the Godhead. They are equal, but
there is some consideration which at
taches itself to the third person Of the
Irn1Cy, LOe I1o1y VliOsI, tAdI oOeS uoI
attach itself to either God the Father
or God the Son. We may grieve God
the Father and grive God the Son and
be forgiven, but we are directly told
that there is sin against the Holy
Ghost which shall never be forgiven,
either in this world or in the world to
come. And it is wonderful that while
on the street you hear the name of God
and Jesus Christ used III profanity you
never hear the words Holy Ghost.
This hour speak of the Holy Ghost
as Biblical interpreter, as human re-
constructor, as solace for the broken
hearted, as a preachers re enforce
ment.
The Bibieis a mass of contradictions
an affirmation of imDoSSihilitieS unless