The Yale expositor., 1895-03-29

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
comet He is here! / 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 a 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 a.
soul winner. IL you know that soon
after his conversion he had this OK
perience OF the Paraclete. He says:
las turned. and was about to take a
seat by the fire. received a baptism OF
the Holy Ghost. Without any expecta-
ton OF IL; 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
manner that seemed to go through me.
body and soul. Indeed, 1t seemed to
come in waves and waves Of LIQUID love,
for 1 could not express it in any other
God. 1 can recollect distinctly that 1t
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 l cried out. 4 shall die If these waves
continue to pass over me- / said,
Lord. 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 black trumpeter
took his place i'm Whiteheld's audience
proposing to blow the trumpet at q GER
tain point in the service, and put every
thing into derlsion. 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 tent, and his deriding
comrades came in and jeered, saying:
Turned Methodist, eh?" And another
said, You hypocrlte! Bad as you were
1 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 anxieties
10 Hedley Wears, saying, What shall
DOR Wears telegraphed as thrilling a
message as ever went over the wires.
Believe 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 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
huence stretching to every heart in all
the seats on the main floor, and up into
the boxes and galleries, and there are
other innumerable wires or lines Of in
hOence reaching out from this place
into the vast beyond, and across con-
tinents, and under the seas. for in my
recent journey around the world / did
not find country where had not been
preaching this Gospel for many years
telegraph operator sits or stands at a
given point, and sends messages in all
directions. 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 placesl Who shall
first call up? To whom shall / send the
message? 1 guess 1 will send the first
TO all the tired, wherever they are, for
there are so many tired souls. Here
goes the Chrlstly message, Come unto
me all we who arc weary and will give
you rest
Receiving the Spirit OF Truth.
Who next shall cal up. 1 guess the
next message will be to the fatherless
and widows, and here goes Gods mes
sage, Leave thy fatherless children, j
will preserve them alive, and let thy
widows trust in me-" Who next shall
call up? L guess my next message viii
be to those who have buried members
of their own families, and here Ii goes.
THE trumpet shall sound and the dead
shall rise" Who next shall l call upi
l guess the next message will be to
those who think themselves too bad to
be saved. Here 1t 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.
DON" Who next shall 1 call up?
guess 1T VIII be those who may think
have not yet touched their case
Here it goes. whatsoever, whatsoever,
whosoever 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 1t may
thrill through tkis assemblage, and
| through all the earth. Just six words
will compose the message, and l touch
the key OF this gospel battery just six
times and the message has gonel Away
Away 1t fiiesi And the message is
Have we received the Holy Ghost?"
| That is, do you feel his power? Has he
enabled you to sorrow over a wasted
life, and take full pardon from the
crucifed Christ. and turned your face
toward the wide open gates OF a well
coming heaven? We appeal to thee
oh, Holy Ghost. who didst turn the
Philippian jailer, and Saul of Tarsus
and Lydia of Thyatira, and helped Johr
| Bunyan out of darkness when, as he