The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1895-03-28
'nEV. DIR. TALMAGE.
L,rnay,s SERMON IN THE NEW
YORK ACADEMY OF MUSIC
subject: "rongucs OF Fire."

,r,s XIX, 2.
Tho word ghost, which means soul, or
~, has been degraded In common par
- We talk OF ghosts as baneful and
E.s,h,l and In frivolous or superstitious
~ But my text speaks OF Ghost who IA
fs,ipotent and divine and everywhere pres
Z. "a ninety-one times In the New Testa-
r., called the Holy Ghost. The only time
- heard this text preached from was in
!. onening DAYS of my ministry. when n
..,ons old scotch minister came up 90 help
I'm nv village church. On the day of my
Lalnation and installation he said, "If
! cot into the corner of n Saturday
\, without enough sermons for Sunday.
IA for me. aud will come and preach
[, vou." The fact ought to be- known
u, The first three years OF pastors life
|. anuallingly arduous. No other profess
!, makes the twentieth part OF the demand
| voung man. III secular preacher
,.,res one or two speeches for n politi-
campaign IL IL considered arduous. II
.c,urer prepares one lecture for year,
4 thought TO have done well. But a
n,e uastor has two sermons to deliver
.,v sabbath before the same audience, be-
- all his other work, and the most of
|,is,ers never re ,Dver IRON the awful ner-
M strain Of the frst three years. Be
rfathetic with all young ministers and
,hhold your criticisms.
NJ aged Scotch friend responded TO my
II call and came and preached from the
that now announce. / remember moth
Int the text. II was the last sermon he
--rached. On the following Saturday he
called 90 his heavenly reward. But /
,erber Just how he appeared as, leaning
y the pulpit, he looked into the face OF
nj aar ffn
hos and electric force asked them, in the
ria OF my text. "IIave ye received the
II Ghcstw The Office of this present dis
re is to open door, to unyeil Person
10 introduce altorce not sufficiently rec
l-,d. H. ia as great as God. He IL God.
second verse OF the first chapter Of the
II introduces IIim--Genesis J., 2. "The
nj Of God moved upon the face OF the
en,"-that is, as an albatross or eagle
pals her wings over her young and warns
m into life and teaches them to fly, 80 the
nn Spirit spread His great, broad,
ant wings over this earth in its callow
uune lged state and warmed 1t into life
auttered over It and set II winging its
through immensity. II IL the tip top of
eautiful aud sublime suggestiveness. Can
not almost see the outspread wings over
nes; Of young worlds? "The Spirit OF
mother appearance OF the Holy Ghost was
a,7lsalem during great feast. Strangers
king seventeen different languages were
ent from many parts OF the world. But
ne house they heard what seemed like the
ng Of n cyclone or hurricane. 1t made
trees bend and the houses quake. The
was. "What IL that And then a forked
e OF FIRE tipped each forehead, and wha,
the blast Of wind and the dropping fire
nic took place. until Peter explained that
es neither cyclone nor connagration, but
tnlliance and amounting and baptlsmal
er Of the Holy Ghost.
at scene was partially repeated In a
i when Rev. John Easton was preach
There was the sound Of rushing,
ty wind. and the people looked to the
10 see II there were any signs OF n storm,
il was clear sky, yet the sound of the
was so great that horses, frightened
e loose from their fastenings. and the
e assembly felt that the sound was su-
atural and pentecostal. Oh, what an
ito and almighty and glorious person
& the Holy Ghost, He brooded this
e into life, and now that through sin II
become dead world He will brood II
|econd time into life. Perllous attempt
VI be n comparison between the three
bns Of the Godhead. They are equal
here il some consideration which at.
s itself to the third person of the Trim
the Holy Ghost. that does not attach
to either God the Father or God the
We may greve God the Father and
e God the Son and be. forgiven, but W.
irectly told that there Is sin against
Holy Ghost, which shall never be for
either In this world or in the world "a
Aud II is wonderful that while ON the
you hear the name OF God and Jesus
used In profanity you never hear thC
Holy Ghost. THIS hour speak OF the
Ghost as Biblical interpreter. as hu'
constructor. as solace for the broken
; pa, as preachers reinforcement.
Bible is mass OF Contradictions, ar
ation OF impossibilities, unless the
Ghost helps us TO understand il. The
says Of itself that the Scripture Is not
,s private Interpretation" but "holy men
spake as they were moved by the HOLY
that Is, not private Interpretation
e.1 oily Ghost Interpretation. Pile on youI
4 ta0le all the commentaries OF the Bib,
thew Henry and Scott and Adam Clark,
'A loert Barnes and Bush and Alexander
% eu the arch9 ologies, and all the Bibl,
!, narles, and all the maps Of Palestine
the International series OF sunday
NJ, lessons. Aud II that is all you will no
nj stand the deeper and grander mean
uos the Bible so well as that Christian
pn ialneer who, Sunday morning, ate
hs shaken down the fodder for the eat
/, omes into his cabin, takes up his wei
e Bible, and with prayer that stirs tn
ls rs asks for the Holy Ghost to unfolC
y bok.
and more unreasonable would I be II
icr] take up The Novoe vremya OF ST
49,. burg, all Drintpd in Russian and say
Hs y Is no sense In this newspaper, for
,a,d understand one line of all its col
than for any man TO take up tn
and without getting Holy Ghost IL
IN 'aon as TO its meaning say: "Thi
IN insults my common sense. lscanno
f4ndit Away with the incongruity!'
'ays Out the Holy Ghost, who inspires
fipurcs, can explain the Scriptures
. - realize that, aud YOU will be as enthu
loyec OF the old book rs nay vener
leii end who told me in Philadelphia las
: y hal he was reading the Bible througl
leays y-hlnth time, and il became more at
ana thrilling every tlma he won
row IT, In the saddebags that linn.
iHN my horses bncS rs rode from Jeru
'v'. Town - the Dead Sea and up to Da
u@ had all the books about Palestin
.ys Nv. Vould carry, but many a man on hi
lH IN the privacy Of his room, has ha
Aa upon him more vivid appreciation G
NV lol God than many a man who ha
wv al the scanss OF Chnst's bsEth, an
VI eloquence, and Peters Imprisonment
" iluas proves, and ijah's ascsn
W. 10 not depreciase any Of the help
iea study, bat do say that they a
e. come infinitely short without d
i.oS' hmunlcation from the throne OF Co
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