Milford chronicle., 1895-03-29
BY THE HOLY SPIRIT.
REV DR.. TALMAeE OlscoURsEs ELo-
ouENTLY ON TONGUES OF FIRE.

II REV DR.. TALMAeE oIscoURsEs ELo
!, oUENTlY ON TONGUES OF FIRE.
They Who Have Received the Divine Pres
ence In Their Hearts Are Lifted Abov
Sorrow and AIizfortune-Labors of NOte'
Evangelists.
s NEW YORK, March s4.-when DR.. Tai
mage asoended the platform of the Acad
emy Of Music this afternoon he faced al
audience quite as large as any that had as
sembled in the great building since thes,
services began, while several thousand 9th
ers were outside unable to secure seats OF
even standing room He took for his sub.
ject, Tongues OF Fire, the text selected
being Acts xix, 2, " Have ye received the
Holy Ghost2'
The word ghost which means a soul OF
spirit has been degraded in common par
lance We talk Of ghosts as baleful and
frightful and in frivolous or supersti-
tious way But my text speaks of a ghost
who is omnipOtent and divine and every
where present and ninety-one times in the
New Testament called the Holy Ghost
The only time l ever heard this text
preached from was in the opening days of
my ministry when a 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 a Saturday night without enough
sermons for sunday, send for me, and l
will come and preach for you. ne fact
ought to be known that the first three
| years Of pastors life are appallingly ar
duous
! No other profession makes the twentieth
/ part of the demand on a young man If
q secular speaker prepares one or two
/ speeches for political campaign, it is con
sidered arduous If lecturer prepares one
lecture for a year, he is thought TO have
done well But a young pastor has two
sermons to deliver every Sabbath, before
the same audience beside all his other
work. and the most Of ministers never re-
cover from the awful nervous strain of the
first three years Be sympathetic with all
young ministers and withhold your oriti-
oisms
Eleetrifying Words.
My aged Scotch friend responded to my
first call and came and preached from the
text that / now announce l remember
nothing but the text 1t was the last ser
mon he ever preached On the following
Saturday he was called to his heavenly re
ward But | remember just how he ap-
peared 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 Ghostf'' The
office Of this present discourse is to open a
door to unveil a Parsonage, to introduce
force not sufficiently recognized He is as
great as God He is God The second
verse of the first chapter of the Bible in
PRODUCES him Genesis T. 2, The Spirit of
God moved upon the face of the waters 4
that is, as an albatross or eagle spreads !
Der wings over her young and warns {
them into life and teaches them to fly, so ]
The eternal Spirit spread his great, broad,
radiant wings over this earth in its callow q
md unhedged state and warmed it into I
ife and iuttered over it and set it wing q
ng its way through immensity 1t is the S
iptop Of all beautiful and sublime sug /
yestiveness Can you not almost see the v
wings over the nest of young I
gorlds2 The Spirit of God moved upon S
he face of the waters b
Another appearance of the Holy Ghost v
vas at Jerusalem during great feast Il
strangers speaking II different languages a
we're present from many parts Of the b
7orld. But in one house they heard what n
semed like the coming of a cyclone or D
uTrioane 1t made the trees bend and G,
be houses quake The cry was What tl
that? And then forked flame Of fire ii
pped each forehead, and what with the fC
last of wind and the dropping fire panic fc
)ok place until Peter explained that it I'll
as neither cyclone nor oonaagration, but hi
le brilliance and amounting and baptis bl
Ial power of the Holy Ghost as
That scene was partially repeated in a fe
lrest when Rev. John Easton was preach he
lg There was the sound of a rushing lis
lightly wind, and the people looked to the
~ to see if there were any signs of a
Orm, but it was clear sky, yet the sound Iv
the wind was so great that horses, fright fr
led, broke loose from their fastenings, on
I'd the whole assembly felt that the sound M,
as supernatural and Pentecostal Oh, Sb
hat an infinite and almighty and glori an
IS parsonage is the Holy Ghost He ar
CODED this planet into life, and now that be
rough sin it has become q dead world a
will brood it the second time into life mi
srilous attempt would be a comparison is
tween the three persons of the Godhead No
ley are equal, but there is some consid- tal
alton which attaches itself to the third mr.
rson of the Trinity, the Holy Ghost, I'm
1T does not attach itself to either God tbf
, Father or God the Son We may vi
Ieve God the Father and grieve God the wo
n and be forgiven, but we are directly urf
d that there is a sin against the Holy inc
ost which shall never be forgiven, either WI
this world or in the world TO come And tbi
is wonderful that while on the street ont
] hear the name of God and Jesus tbi
rist used in profanity you never hear If
words Holy Ghost This hour I speak bnt
the Holy Ghost as Biblical interpreter, the
q human reconstruotor, as a sOlaoe for To
broken hearted. as preachers re-en- tbii
cement bar
Power of the holy Ghost. ises
The Bible is a mass of contradictions ana
affirmation of impossibilities, unless tina
Holy Ghost helps us to understand it enc
3 Bible says Of itself that the Scripture GET
lot for private Interpretation, but bur
,ly men Of God spake .as they were som
Ved by the Holy Ghost that is, not tror
rate Interpretation, but Holy Ghost in the
lretation Pile on your study table all Tba
Of the Bible-Matthew tear
Try and Scott and Adam Clarke and will
ert Barnes and Bush and Alexander But
all the archeologies, and all the Bible YOU
ionariesi and all the maps of Pales The
} and all the international series of Gho
day school lessons. and If that is all n
will not understand the deeper and er,s
lder meanings of the Bible so well as
Christian mountaineer, who Sunday kno
ming after having shaken down the edg'
Ter for the cattle comes into his cabin smi