The morning times., 1896-10-19

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Yesterday ut the First Presbyterian Cnurcn
from the text: Acts XIX, Have ye
received the dolly Gl.vsJ.' he salu:
The word guosJ, wmCn means a soui, OF
spirlU has been uelraued III common par
lance. We talk OF ghosts as Daieiul anu
InrnUful, an in Il frivolous or supersu,ious
way. but my text sptahs oi 'i 6hos' "ho
is umniputent anu divine, and everywhere
present; anu nineJy-one times in the New
Testament cIlleI The Holy yunost The only
Time 4 ever heard J..is text preached from
was In the opening days Of my ministry,
when a glorious OH Scotch minister eaIiie
| up Ia heap me in my village cnurch. on
| the day of my urdina ton and Installation,
lie said:
IN you get into the corner of SATURDAY
| night wiunoaL enOugn sermons Tor suhuay'
| send for me, and 1 Will come and preach
| for you
The iacu ought to be known that the first
| three years of Il pastors life are ap-
P.i,iinGly .irduous. No other Procession
| makes the twentict1 partor the demands on
| II Young man. Ii Il secular speaker pre-
| pares two or three speccncs for a rolillcai
| campaign, IL is considered arduous III
| lecturer prepares one lecture in year, he
| is Thought To have done well. But young
pastor has two sermons To deliver every
sabbath, before tne same auuieuce, besiue
| all his uUner work; AMI tine moSUoI ministers
|
of the first three years. Be sympathetic
with all Young ministers, ami Withhold your
| criticisms.
! THE FIRST TINE.
My aged Scotch friend responded 10
! my first call ana came and preached from
the text that / now announce. l re-
member nothing but the text. 1t was the
| last sermon he ever preached. On the iol-
| lowing Saturday he was called to his
| heavenly reward. But remember Just how
| he appeared as, leaning over the pulpit,
! he looked into the face OF the audience,
and with earnestness and pathoS, and cleo
trio force, asked them, in the words OF
rN text: Have .ye received the Holy
| Gbost?'
.lne office of this present discourse is
| Ia open u door, unveil parsonage, TO
| introduce n force. not sufficiently Tecog-
nIZed. He is as great as God He is God.
| The second verse of the first chapter OF
the Bible introduces him: Genesis. i:2,
| The spirit of God moved upon the face
| OF the waters!
Another appearance OF the Holy Ghost
was at Jersusalem, during great feast
| Strangers speaking seventeen different
| languages were present from many parts
| Of the world. But in one house they heard
| what seemed like the coming of cyclone
| OF hurricane. II made the trees bend and
| the houses quake. The cry was, What is
| that?' And then forked flame OF fire
| tipped each forehead; and what with the
blast OF wind and the dropping OF fire,
panic took place, until Peter explained
that it was neither cyclone nor confla-
| grafton, but the brilliance and ancint-
| ing and baptismai power OF the Holy Ghost.
| That scene was partially repeated in
| the early part of this century In forest
| when Rev. John Easton was preaching
There was the sound OF a rushing, mighty
| wind, and the people looked to the sky
| to see if there were any signs of a storm,
| but it was clear sky; yet the Sound of
the wind was SO great that horses, fright
| ened, bfike loose from their fastennEs.
| and the whole assembly felt that the
sound was supernatural and rentecostal.
| Oh, what an infinite, and almighty, and
| glorious parsonage is the Holy GhoStl He
brooded this planet into life, and now
| that through sin 1t has become dead
world he will brood il the second time
| into life.
THEY ARE EQUAL.
| "Periious attempt would be n comparison
| between the three Persons OF the God
| head They are equal, but there is some
| consideration which attaches itself to the
| Third Person of the Trinity, the Holy Ghost,
| that does not attach itself to either God
the Father or God the Son. We may
| Grieve God the Father and gr.eve God the
told that there is Il sin against the Holy
| Ghost which shall never he forgiven, either
in this world or in the world TO come. And
IL is wonderful that while on the street
| You hear the name of God and Jesus Christ
used in profanity, you never hear the
words, Holy Ghost.
The Eiblc is mass of contradictions.
and affirmatiOns OF impossibilities, unless
the Holy Ghost helps US 10 Lnuersta nd it.
| The Eible says OF itself, that the Scripture
| is not for private interpretation but holy
| men of God Spakc as they We're moved b
| tine Holy 6ho>i : that is, not rivatc inter
probation. Pile on your table all the
commentaries of the Bible, and If that
is all, you Will not understand he deeper
| and grander meanings Of the Bible so We'll
| as that Christian n.ountaineer, who, Sunday
| morning, after having shaken down the
fodder for the cattle, comes into his cabin,
takes up his wcll-worn Bible, and with a
prayer that stirs the heavens, asks for
the Holy Ghost to unfold the Book.
mo one hut the Holy Ghost, who IN
spired the Scriptures. can explain the
Scriptures. Fully realize that, and You
will be as enthusiastic lover OF the old
book rs my venerable friend " ho told me
that he Was reading the Pihle through the
sixtieth time. and 1t became more at
tractive and thrilling every time he vent
through it.
|
Somerville, N. J., in my boyhood days, Mr..
Osborne, the evangelist, came to hold a
special service. / see him now as he
stood in the pulpit. Before he announced
his text. and before he had uttered n word
OF his sermon. strong men wept aloud, and
it vas like the day of judgment. 1t was
the Holy Ghost.
A YEAR OF REVIVAL.
''In 1877 the electric telegraph bore
strange messages. One of them read,
My dear parents VIII rejoice to hear that
have found peace with God.' An
other read: Dear Mother: The work
continues, and 1, too, have been con-
vertcd.' Another read: AT last faith
and peace What vas it? The Holy
Ghost. In that year 1867, Jaynes' Hall,
Philadelphia, and Fulton street prayer
meeting, New York, telegraphed each
| other the number OF souls saved, and the
rising of the devotional tides. MONDAY
prayer meetings were held in all the cities.
Sbi,s came into harbor; captain and all the
sailors saved on that voyage. Police and
fire departments met In their rooms for
Divine worship. At Albany. the legisla-
ture of the State of New York assembled
in the rooms of the court OF appeals for
religious service. Congressional prayer
meeting was opened on Capitol Hill.
From whence came the power? From
the Holy Ghost. That power shook New
York That power shook America. That
power shook the earth. That power could