The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1895-09-04

the indwelling of God. Fire is sympollo
Of purity, aggression and intense aroof.
The want of this age is fire, you
fire burning in the hearts of man, stirring
the brains, impelling their emotlo us
thrilling their tongues, glowing IN the
countenances. vibrating in the actlohs'
expa ding in the intellectual powers,
AS his boon said, Christ performed Iqr
us IL twu-fold mission. First when ne
died upon Calvary, pouring out MS
atoning blood, He secured for us saliva
tion, and the words of Isaiah came true;
He was wounded for our transgressions,
He was bruised for our inquiries, our
chastisement was upon Him, and with
His stripes we are healed Then when
He assembled upon high, and took HIS
seat of glory at the right hand OF tne
Father, He secured for us the Holy
Spirit and the words of Joel came true;
'.The Spirit of the Lord shall be poured
two places for us to visit-first Calvary,
where we get our pardon and Justltca-
ton, the Pentecost, where we get our
power and sanctification.
1t is interesting to note that Christ did
no miracles, nor did He preach, until
His baptism in the river Jordan, when
the Holy Ghost came upon Him as dove,
enduing Him with power. As He said
after this experience "The Spirit of the
| Lord God is upon Me andHe has annolnt-
ed Me to preach the gospel to the poor, he
hath sent Me to heal the broken hearted,
| to preach deliverance to the captives, and
recovering of sight to the blind. and to
set at liberty those who are bound. +"
Surely if our Master needed spiritual
enduement or baptism, we need it and
we must learn and experience the coun-
terpart of our Lords appointment. Ii
we are to baptize the world, as dew up
on the grass, we must first, be baptized
heaven. If we fail to visit Pentecost
our lives will be impure, unholy, fruit
less, but receiving the Holy Ghost we
shall be transformed. Envy and jealousy
shall disappear, and as coworkers in the
same vineyard, serving one master, work
ing for one object, we shall ignore our
differences and magnify all things of
form but We shall have unity Of spirit.
AS Dr. Cuyler says: "We shall be unit
ed in Christ for @ world without
Christi When the power of the Holy
Ghost is come upon us we shall do greater
works even than Christ did, according
to His promise, The conversation OF
soul is greater than the raising Of Laza-
rus from the tomb at Bethany. The sun
of the Holy Spirit shines to fill every
| avenue of our lives. He not only cleanses
our words and outward acus, but the
| imaginations and affections of the heart
which are hidden and secret from the
world The Holy Ghost is a partner and
His special work is to convert us of sin
| and to cause the machinery of our beings
| to run smoothly and in accord with our
| Makers laws.
Another very Important blessing which
| I have already limited at comes with the
| reception of the Holy Spirit. and that is
Power. Eye shall have power when the
| Holy Spirit has come upon you." We
shall have power in grasping consciences
and piercing hearts This epoch comes
| in the lives of all great preachers. When
Moody received it he jumped from an
ordinary preacher into giant, and now
he sways the multitudes as the wind
sways the ripened, grain lin the harvest
Y. NJ c. A. conference gave this simple
illustration of tho power of the Holy
Ghost. He was accustomed to employ
tramps in saving his wood. but one day
he had an electric motor attached to the
old saw, and as result it accomplished
more work in one hour than tramp
could in ten days, by actual reckoning.
Now it was the same saw, but had added
power. So we, becoming connected with
the electric current of Heaven-the Holy
Spirit-we shall have hundredfold
more power and efficiency. In Gal. 3:14,
we find how we can receive the Spirit
1t is by faith. 1t comes not in a great
sarily all night, but it comes by cool,
strong, calm, collected faith Christ
stands here today as our trustee, with
our share which He has purchased. Will
we receive it? Claim it brethren, as YOU
would claim deposit at your credit in
but claim it. We have only to open our
hearts and breathe in the blessed Spirit.
1t may not cause at first rapturous feel
ings of joy, there may be no rushing
mighty wind or the apparition of fiery
tongues upon your shoulders, and you
may not really know you have got the
enduement until perhaps you begin
person and then you will see the tear
start and the lip culver. This may be
a sure sign to you that you have the
power of the Spirit and you may go forth
conquering and to conquer in the blessed
assurance that you may ask anything
in the Fathers name and he will give it
to you.
A German Professor once said to a
graduating class in theology: Young
men, remember that without the Holy
Ghost, theology is not only stone and
not bread, but it is absolute poison.
More men have been ruined in handling
the deep things of God without the Holy
Ghost to aid them, than by any other
process. The light is made for the eye,
but if the. eye is diseased, the light be-
comes intolerably painful and torments
the eye. So the truth is made for the
soul, but if our soul is unsanctified, that
which ought to come to it as it's own
native air, hurts, Injuries and destroys.
An eminent divine says: 81 would to-
day, if called upon to make the choice,
let my Greek and Latin, and my philoso-
ply and my church' history and my ethics
60 by the board, if I must choose between
them and the Holy Ghost in preaching
the gospel.
Let us repeat these beautiful words of
Simpson: Beloved, He is waiting to-
day to give you His own very Spirit, to
breathe upon you and say. Receive ye
the Holy Ghost" and you may take Him
warm from the bosom of Jesus, sweet
as the breath of His love, pure as the
light of His holiness, mighty as the
strength OF His omnipotence. Would
you have the love that suffers long and
is kind? Receive the Holy Ghost Would
you have the love that Wanted not it.
self and is not pulled up, but acts ever
with sweet and lowly meekness? Receive
the Holy Ghost. Would you have the
love that doth not behave itself unseen
~, and cannot do rude act or speak a
hard or harmful word? Receive the Holy
Ghost Would you have the love that