Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-03-28

! take this entire audience into the peace
| of the Gospel quicker than you could
| lift your eyes heavenward. Come,
! Holy Ghost! Come, Holy Ghost! Heis
| come! He is here! 1 feel him in my
heart. There are thousands who feel
him in their hearts, convicting some,
saving some, sanctifying some.
! The difference in evangelical useful
ness is not so much difference in brain,
in scholarship, or Evolutionary gifts, as
in Holy Ghost power. You will not
have much surprise at the exthaor-
binary career of Charles G. Finney as
soul winner, if you know that soon
after his conversion he had this ex-
perience of the Paraclete. He says:
LAS turned, and was about to take a
seat by the fire, l received a baptism of
the Holy Ghost. Without any expecta-
ton of it; without ever having the
thought in my mind that there was any
such thing for me; without any recol-
lection that / had ever heard the thing
mentioned by any person in the world,
the Holy Ghost descended upon me in a
manner that seemed to go through me,
body and soul Indeed. it seemed to
come in waves and waves of liquid love.
for 1 could not express it in any other
way 1t seemed like the very breath OF
God. l can recollect distinctly that it
seemed to fan me like immense wings
No words can express the wonderful
love that was shed abroad in my heart
l wept aloud with joy and love. These
waves came over me, and over me, and
over me, one after the other, until re-
call cried out, L shall die If these waves
continue to pass over me- l said,
Lord, l can not bear any more"
Now, my hearers, let five hundred of
us. whether clerical or lay workers, get
such divine visitation as that, and we
could take this world for God before the
clock of the next century strikes one.
Instances OF Power.
How many marked instances of Holy
Ghost power! When a black trumpeter
took his place in Whitefeld's audience
proposing to blow the trumpet at a GER
tain point in the service, and put every
thing into derision, somehow he could
not get the trumpet to his lips and at
the close of the meeting he sought out
the preacher and asked for his prayers.
1t was the Holy Ghost. What was the
matter with Hedley Wears, the memoir
able soldier, when he sat with his Bible
before him in a tent, and his deriding
comrades came in and jeered. saying:
Turned Methodist, eh?" And another
said, You hypocrite! Bad as you were
never thought you would come to this,
old fellow" And then he became the
soldier evangelist, and when a soldier
IN another regiment hundreds of miles
away telegraphed his spiritual anxieti-s
10 Hedley Wears, saying, What shall I
do! Wears telegraphed as thrilling a
message as ever went over the wires,
BelleVe on the Lord Jesus Christ and
thou shalt be saved" What power was
being felt? 1t was the Holy Ghost.
AND what more appropriate? for the
holy Ghost is a tongue of fire." and
the electricity that flies along the wires
Is tongue of fire. And that reminds
me OF what | might do now. From the
place where l stand on this platform
there are invisible wires or lines of in
iluence stretching to every heart in all
the seats on the main floor, and up into
the boxes and galleries, and there are |
other 1nnumerable wires or lines of in
nuence reaching out from this place |
into the vast beyond, and across con- |
and under the seas, for in my
recent journey around the world I did |
not find country where 1 had not been |
preaching this Gospel for many years |
through the printing press. So as a |
telegraph operator sits or stands at a |
given point, and sends messages in all |
and you only hear the click, |
CLICK, click of the electric apparatus, but |
the kilograms, go on their errand, God |
help me now to touch the right key, and |
send the right message along the right |
wires to the right places! Who shall 1 |
hrst call up? To whom shall 1 send the |
message? I guess 1 will send the first |
to all the tired, wherever they are, for |
there are so many tired souls. Here |
goes the Christly message, Come unto |
me all we who are weary and 1 will give |
you rest"
Receiving the Spirit of Truth,
Who next shall I call up. I guess the |
next message will be to the fatherless |
and widows, and here goes Gods mes
sage, Leave thy fatherless children, / |
will preserve them alive, and let thy |
widows trust in me-" Who next shall I |
call up? 1 guess my next message will |
be to those who have buried members |
Of their own families, and here it goes. |
The trumpet shall sound and the dead |
shall rise" Who next shall 1 call up? |
guess the next message will be to |
those who think themselves too bad to !
be saved. Here it goes, Let the wicked |
forsake his way and the unrighteous |
man his thoughts and let him return |
unto the Lord who will have mercy and |
unto our God who will abundantly par
dom" Who next shall I call up? 1 |
guess 1t will be those who may think |
I have not yet touched their case. |
Here 1T goes, whatsoever, whatsoever,
whatsoever will, let him come" And
now may God turn on all the electric
power into this gospel battery for the
last tremendous message, so that it may
thrill through this assemblage, and
through all the earth. Just six words
will compose the message. and I touch
the key of this gospel battery just six
times and the message has gone! Away!
Away it flies! And the message is,
Have we received the Holy Ghost?"
That is, do you feel his power? Has he
life, and take full pardon from the
crucified Christ, and turned your face
toward the wide open gates OF a well
heaven? We appeal to thee,
OH Holy Ghost, who didst turn the
Philippian jailer, and Saul of Tarsus,
and Lydia of Thyatira, and helped John
Bunyan out of darkness when, as he
describes it, Down fell l as bird shot
from the top of the tree, into fearful
despair, but was relieved by the COM
Portable words, THE blood of Jesus
Christ cleanseth from all sin,'" and
helped John Newton when standing at
the helm of a ship in the midnight hurri-
Il