Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1895-03-28

/ shook the Atlantic ocean. That powe,
4 shook the earth. That power could
I take this entire audience into the peace
! Of the Gospel quicker than you could
/ lift your eyes heavenwaro. Come
Holy Ghost, Come, Holy Ghost! Heis
comei He is herei / 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 50 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. If you know that soon
after his conversion he had this ex-
perience of the Paraclete. He says:
As l turned, and was about to take a
seat by the fire, / received a baptism Of
the Holy Ghost. Without any expecta-
tion of it; without ever having the
thought in my mind that there was anv
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 i'm a
manner that seemed to go through me
body and soul. Indeed. 1t seemed to
come in waves and waves of LIQUID love
for I could not express it in any other
way. 1t seemed like the very breath of
God. ! can recollect distinctly that it
seemed 10 fan me like immense wings.
No words can express the wonderful
love that was shed abroad in my heart.
] wept aloud with joy and love. These
waves came over me, and over me. and
over me, one after the other. until re-
- I fFsfaH hal 9
continue to pass over me. I said.
Lord. can not bear any more
Now. my hearers. let five hundred Of
us. whether clerical or lay workers, get
such a 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.
II 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:
urned 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 anxieties
70 Hediey Wears saying. What shall ]
90 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 a tongue OF fire And that reminds
me OF what | might do now. From the
place where | stand on this platform
there are invisible wires or lines of in |
huence stretching to every heart in all I
the seats on the main floor, and up into /
the boxes and galleries. ana there are
other innumerable wires or lines of in
nuenee 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 ind country where / had not been
preaching this Gospel for many years
through the printing press. So as
telegraph operator sits or stands at a
gwen point, and sends messages in all
directions, and you only hear the click, |
eilck 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
hrst call up? To whom shall send the I
message? ! guess l 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 ye who are weary and / Will give
YOU rest"
Receiving the Spirit of Truth.
Who next shall cal up. / guess the |
next message viii be to the fatherless
and widows, and here goes Gods mes
sa ge, Leave thy fatherless children, l
Will preserve them alive. and let thy
widows trust in me-. Who next shall /
cah up guess my next message win
be to those who have buried members
Of their own families. and here it goes,
The trumpet shall sound and the dead
shan rise. Who next shall / call up?
| guess the next message will be IL
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 abundantIy par
don" Who next shall ] call up?
guess it will he those who may think
have not yet touched their case.
Here it goes. 'Whosoever. whatsoever.
whosocver Will let him come" And
now may God turn on All the electric
power into this gospel battery for the