The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1895-03-29
TOUCHED AS BY FIRE.
REV. DR.. TALMAGE BREACHES IN NEW
YORK ON THE HOLY GHOST.

Another OreaC IhronS turned Away Fro
the Academy of Music-The wonderf,
Power of the Omnipotent Holy Ghos
Tongues of Fire.
New YORK, March 24.-When Dl
Talmage assembled the platform of tn
Academy of Music this afternoon, b
faced an audience quite as large as an
that had assembled in the great build
/ ing since these services began, Will
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, "Have ye received the Hol,
! Ghost?"
The word ghost, which means a soul
or spirit, has been degraded in common
parlance. We talk of ghosts as balefu
and frightful and in a frivolous or su
perstitious way. But my text speaks O.
a Ghost who is omnipotent and divine
and everywhere present and 81 times il
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 glorious ole
my village church. On the day of my
ordination and installation he said, "Ii
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
/, of f,,ct \, af
tors life are appallingly arduous. No
other profession makes the twentieth
part of the demand on a young man. If
secular speaker prepares one or two
speeches for political campaign, it is
considered arduous If lecturer pre-
pares one lecture for 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 l now announce.
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-
Der 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
luce 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 j, 2.
THE Spirit of God moved upon the face
If the waters"-that is, as an albatross
II eagle spreads her wings over her
7oung and warns them into life and
caches them to fly, so the Eternal Spirit
spread his great, broad, radiant wings
over this earth in its callow and I'M
lodged state and warmed it into life
md f1uttered over it and set it winging
is way through immensely. 1t is the
lip top of all beautiful and sublime sug-
,estiveness. Can you not almost see the
wings over the nest of young
worlds? ''The Spirit of God moved upon
he face of the waters.
Another appearance Of the Holy Ghost
vas at Jerusalem during a great feast.
Strangers speaking II different lam
,uages were present from many parts
# the world. But in one house they
leard what seemed like the coming of
cyclone or hurricane. 1t made the
rees bend and the houses quake. The
~ was, "What is that?" And then a
orked fame of fire tipped each fore
lead, and what with the blast of wind
nd the dropping fire panic took place,
ntil Peter explained that it was neither /
yolone nor confagration, but the brill
lance and amounting and baptismal pow
r of the Holy Ghost
That scene was partially repeated in
forest when Rev. John Easton was
reaching. There was the sound of a
ushing, mighty wind, and the people
1oked to the sky to see if there were
ny signs of storm, but it was clear
Ky, yet the sound of the wind was so
reat that horses, frightened, broke loose
,om their fastenings, and the whole as
smbly felt that the sound was supernat-
raj and pentecostal. Oh, what an in
mite and almighty and glorious person
ge is the Holy Ghostl He brooded this
lanet into life, and now that through
n it has become dead world he will
rood it the second time into life Peril
as attempt would be comparison be-
yeen the three persons of the Godhead.
hey are equal, but there is some con-
Iteration which attaches itself to the
lird person of the Trinity, the Holy
host, that does not attach itself to Ell
Ter God the Father or God the Son. We
ay grieve God the Father and grieve
cd the Son and be forgiven, but we are
rectly told that there is sin against
10 Holy Ghost which shall never be
rgiven either in this world or in the
orld to come. And it is wonderful
at while On the street you hear the
,me of God and Jesus Christ used in
ofanity you never hear the words
oily Ghost This hour l speak of the |
oily Ghost as Biblical interpreter, as ,
human constructor, as solace for the '
oxen hearted, as a preachers re-en- !
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