Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1895-03-30
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IUUCHEU AS BY FIX II.
REV. DR.. TALMAGE breaches IN NEW
YORK ON THE HOLY GHOST.
Another Grca, Thron: Turned Away From
the Academy of "usic The Wonderful
Power of tar Onnipo,cmi Holy Ghost.
Tongues of Fire.
NEW YoRK, March ~ When Dir
Talmage asccndcl tho platform of tho
Academy of Music this afternoon. ho
faced an audience quito rs large as any
that had assembled in the great build
ing since these services began, while
several Thousand others were outside ur.
able 10 secure seats or even standing
room. He took for his subject Tongues
of Fire, the text selected being Acts
xix, ,. Have yo received tho Holy
Ghost
Tho word ghost, which means u soul,
ar spirit, has been degraded in common
parlancc. We talk of ghosts rs balcful
and frightful and III frivolous or su.
pcrsti,ious way. But my text speaks of
\ Ghost who is omnipotcnt and divine
and everywhere present and 81 times in
the New Testament called tho Holy
Ghost. Tho only time over heard this
text preached from WAS i'll tho opening
days of my ministry. when a glorious old
Scotch minister camo up to help me in
my village church. On tho day of my
ordination and installation he said. IF
YOU get into the corner of a Saturday
night without enough sermons for sun
day, send for me. and | will come and
preach for yuu. Tho fact ought to 10
known that the first throo years of pas
tors life arc appallingly arduous. No
other profession makes the twentieth
part of the demand on u young man. II
secular speaker prepares ono or two
speeches for n political campaign. it is
considered arluous. II lecturer pre-.
pares ono lecture for year, he is
thought TO have done well. But young
pastor has two sermons TO deliver every
Sabbath before tho samo audience. he.
sides all his other work. and tho most Of
ministers never recover from the awful
nervous strain Of the first three years.
Be sympathot tic with all young ministers
and withhold your criticisms
The Holy Ghost.
Ny aged Scotch friend responded TO
my first call and came and preached
from the text that | now announce I
remember nothing but the text 1t was
the last sermon he ever preached. On
the following Saturday he was called
to his heavenly reward But | remom-
Der Just how he appeared rs. leaning
over the pulpit, he looked into the face
of tho audience. and with carnestness
and pathos aud electric force asked
them, in the words of my text, ''Havo
ye received tho Holy Ghost:" The Office
of this present discourse is to open q
door. TO unveil Parsonage, to intro.
duco n force not sufficiently recognized.
Ho is rs great rs God He is God Tho
second verse of the first chapter of tho
Bible introduces him-Genesis i, =.
The Spirit Of God moved upon tho face
of the waters that is, as M albatross
or eagle spreads her 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 and un-
fiedged state and warmed it into lifo
and fluttered over it and set it wingng
its way through immensely 1t is the
tip top of all beautiful and sublime s1g-
.,f,,.Dcy . u.
outspread wings over tho nest of young
worlds? Tho Spirit of God moved upon
the face of the waters.
Another appearance of tho Holy Ghost
was at Jerusalem during II great feast.
Strangers speakin; II different Ian
gnages were present from many parts
of the world. But in one house they
heard what seemed like the coming of
cyclone or hurricane IL made tho
trees bend and the houses quake. Tho
cry was, What is that" And then u
forked fame of fire tipped each fore
head. and what with the blast of wind
and tho dropping fire u panic took place,
until Peter explained that it was neither
cyclone nor conflagration. but tho bril-
lance and amounting and baptismal pow
er of tho Holy Ghost
That scene was partially repeated IL
u forest when Rev John Eastou was
preaching. There was the sound of q
rushing, mighty wind. and tho people
looked to the sky TO see il there woro
any signs of n storm. but it was clear
sky, yet the sound of the wind was so
great that horses, frightened, broke loose
from their fastcnings. and the whole as
sembly felt that the sound was supcrnat
ural and pentecostal Oh, what an in
finito and almighty and glorious person.
age is the Holy Ghost! He brooded this
planet into life, and now that through
sin it has become n dead world he will
brood it tho second time into life. Peril
Gus attempt would be comparison be-
tween the three persons of tho Godhead.
They are equal. but there Is some con-
sideration which attaches itself TO tho
third person of tho Trinity. the Holy
Ghost, that does not attach itself to ci-
ther God the Father or God the Son. Wo
may grievo God the Father and Srieve
NUu tuc COIl anu 10 lbIpiNctl, uut Nt lIt
directly told that there is sin against
tho Holy Ghost which shall never bo
forgiven either i'll this world or in the
world to come And it is wonderful
that while on tho street you hear tho
name of Gcd and Jesus Christ used in
profanity you never hear tho words
Holy Ghost This hour | speak of tho
Holy Ghost rs Biblical interpreter, as
human constructor, as n solaco for tho
broken hearted. rs u preachers re-cn-
forcement.
Better Than Concordance.
The Bible is mass of contradictions,
an affirmation of impossibilities. unless
the Holy Ghost helps us to understand
it. Tho Bible says of itself that tho
Scripture is not for private interpre-
tation. but holy men of God spake
as they were moved by the Holy Gho.t"
that is. not private Interpretation. hut
Holy Ghost interpretation Pile on your
study table all the commentaries of tho
Matthew Henry and Scott and
Adam Clarke and Albert Barnes AMI
Bush and Alexander. and all the arcEp-