The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-10-09
Holiness, Sanctification,
Baptism of Fire.

| God That Answcreth bv Fire Let lin be
| Cod am lead by this communication
and thus publicly, to lay before those of
| your readers, who like myself may be
| Christians, and who may have desire
| to know what is the mind OF God in these
| things. | invite no controversy, but will
| endctvor simply to show what the Holy
| Spirit has taught me from His word in
| regard to some doctrines now being
pressed in Il manner calculated (without
| intent have no doubt to distress many
OF the children of God. Now as to "Eire, y
| find it mentioned in the New Testament
| 10 times (without referring to the Old
| and in almost every instance | find it in
| connection with judgmcnt-many times
! Il terrible iudgment-in no place is it con-
nee ted with the Christian or the church.
The Lord said in Luke ~, 40, but tarry
We ut Jerusalem until We be enduei with
fled in Acts |, 4, ., Commanded them
that they should not depart from Jerusu-
lem, but wait for the promise of the
Father, which We have head of Me, for
John truly baptized with water; but We
shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not
many days hence John the Baptist
uses these words ''and with fire. and is
recorded in the four gospels, but is there
not II spiritual significance in the very
way the evangelists record his words?
For find in Matthew 3, 10, II, -, "and
now also the axe is laid unto the roots of
the trees, therefore every tree which
brngeth not forth good fruit is hewn
down and cast into the fire. indeed bap-
tie YOU with water unto repentance but
He that cOmcth after me is mghtier than
|, whose shoes am not worthy to bear:
he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost
and fire Whose fan is in his hand,
and he will thoroughly purge his floor.
and gather his wheat into the garner but
lie will burn the chaif with unQucnchablc
fire. In Luke we have, 3:l6, ''He Shall
baptize you with the Holy Ghost and
fire. and then adds verse II which is the
same as Matthew, Sig, quoted above.
find then in these two gospels the ''bap-
tis" of fire in the very closest connec-
ton with Il Judgment by fire Now in
Mark 1.S, but lie shall baptize YOU with
the Holy Ghost And in j ohm / 33, Fine
same is He which baptizeth with the Holy
Ghost" In these two gospels there be-
ing no Judgment by fire mentioned. the
baptism OF fire is omitted. | ask then is
TINS not Significant, when we remember
that tile LORD .Jtsus never used the words.
anu III none Of the epistles do we find the
rehioteso reference to any baptism of fire
as lor tie Christian or the church. In
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