Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1895-03-28
TOUCHED AS BY FIRE.
REV. DR.. TALMAGE breaches IN NEw
YORK ON THE HOLY GHOST.

Another Great Throng Turned Away From
the Academy Of AIusic-The Wonderful
Power Of tho omnipotent Holy Ghost
Tongues OF Fire.
NEW YORK, March 24.-When DR..
FTalmage assembled the platform of tn,
Academy Of Music this afternoon, he
faced an audience quite as large as any
that had assembled in the great build
ing since these services began. while
several thousand others were outside un.
able to secure seats or even standin;
room. He took for his subject Tongue
Of Fire" the text selected being Act.
xix, 2, "Haye ye received the Holy
,Ghost?"
The word ghost, which means soul,
or spirit has been degraded in common
parlance. We talk Of ghosts as baleful
and frightful and in frivolous or su-
perstitious way. But my text speaks Of
a Ghost who is omnipotent and divine
and everywhere present and 81 times in
the New Testament called the Holy
Ghost The only time / ever heard this
text preached from was in the opening
days of my ministry, when glorious old
Scotch minister came up to help me in
my village church. On the day of my
ordination and installation he said, "If
you get into the corner of Saturday
night without enough sermons for Sun
day, send for me, and will come and
preach for you" The fact ought to be
known that the first three years Of pas
tors life are appallingly arduons. No
other profession makes the twentieth
part of the demand on young man. If
a secular speaker prepares one or two
speeches for a. political campaign, it is
considered arduous. II lecturer pre-
pares one lecture for a year, he is
thought to have done we'll. But young
pastor has two sermons to deliver every
Sabbath before the same audience, be-
sides all his other work, and the most of
ministers never recover from the awful
nervous strain of the first three years
Be sympathetic with all young ministers
and withhold your criticisms.
The Holy Ghost.
My aged Scotch friend responded to
my first call and came and preached
from the text that / now announce /
remember nothing but the text. 1t was
the last sermon he ever preached On
the following Saturday he was called
to his heavenly reward. But / remem-
ber just how he appeared as, leaning
over the pulpit. he looked into the face
of the audience, and with earnestness
and pathos and electric force asked
them, in the words of my text. Have
ye received the Holy Ghost?" The office
of this present discourse is to open a
door, to unveil Parsonage, to intro
duce force not sufficiently recognized.
He is as great as God. He is God. The
second verse Of the first chapter of the
Bible introduces him-Genesis i, 8.
"The Spirit of God moved upon the face
of the waters that is, as an albatross
or eagle spreads her wings over her
young and warns them into life and
teaches them to fly, 30 the Eternal Spirit
spread his great, broad, radiant wings
over this earth in its callow and un-
fiedged state and warmed it into life
and fiuttered over it and set it winging
its way through immensity. 1t is the
tip top of all beautiful and sublime sug-
gestiveness. Can you not almost see the
outspread wings over the nest of young
worlds? 1.-THE Spirit of God moved upon
the face of the waters ("
Another appearance Of the Holy Ghost
was at Jerusalem during great feast.
Strangers speaking II different Lam
guages were present from many parts
Of the world. But in one house they
heard what seemed like the coming of
a Cyclone or hurricane. It made the
trees bend and the houses quake. The
cry was, "What is that?" And then a
forked fiame of fire tipped each fore
head, and what with the blast of wind
and the dropping fire panic took place,
until Peter explained that it was neither
cyclone nor confagration, but the brill
lance and amounting and baptismal pow
or Of the Holy Ghost.
That scene was partially repeated in
forest when Rev. John Easton was
preaching. There was the sound Of q
rushing, mighty wind, and the people
looked Co the sky to see If there were
aLy signs of storm, but it was a clear
sky, yet the sound of the wind was SO
great that horses, frightened, broke loose
from their fastenings and the whole as
sembly felt that the sound was supernat-
ural and pentecostal. Oh, what an in
finite and almighty and glorious person
age is the Holy Ghost! He brooded this
planet into life, and now that through
sin 1t has become dead world he will
brood it thesecond time into life. Peril
GUS attempt would be comparison be-
tween the three persons of the Godhead.
They are equal, but there is some con-
sideration which attaches itself to the
third person Of the Trinity, the Holy
Ghost, that does not attach itself to eli
ther God the Father or God the Son. We
may grieve God the Father and grieve
God the Son and be forgiven, but we are
directly told that there is a sin against
the Holy Ghost which shall nauar ha
Some mothers, children are always well
dressed and other observant mothers wonder
I how it can be afforded on a small income
\ We'll let you into the secret, hoping ycu will
profit by IT, These managing mothers have
i the knack Of making over garments and odds
and ends. which are made to look new by col.
oring over with Magic Dyes, at expense q
only few cents and little easy work, iol