The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-01-31
The Boldness of Peter and John
Accomplished Wonders.
THIS WICKED WORLD WITH IT'S
DEAD CHURCHES AND UNCoN-
VERIFIED AND BACKsLIDUEN
PREACHERS. NO MORE UNDER
STANDS HOLY GHOST RELIGION
THAN THEY DID ON THIS DAY
OF PENTECOST.

!. On the afternoon Of the Pentecost.
while Peter and John continue their.
preaching in Solomon's porch, encircled
10y multitude much excited over the
stupendous miracle of healing the cripple
at the Beautiful Gate, the priest, the
chief jaDitor of the Temple and the
Saducees interrupt.
2 They can no longer stand the truth
so powerfully preached by Peter and
John, because it literally digs them up
by the roots.
j. 1t is now late il the afternoon So
they arrest them and put them in prison
over night
\. The vast multitutles of Pentecos.
are in the city. The preaching which
followed the falling of the Holy Ghost at
O'Clock in the morning, has continued
all day, and is attended with conviction.
such us the world has never seen. Three
thousand were converted in the morning.
and now five thousand in the afternoon.
Doubtless the other hundred and eighteen
were preaching all this time. The null
tltude was 50 great they scattered out in
all directions. Hence SO many were con-
verified. AS Peter and John were The
most prominent preachers. their notoriety
especially enhanced by the miracle of
healing, they thought to arrest the holi.
ness movement by their incarceration in
the Jail
D. The leading church officials, cler-
ical and laity, assemble early the next
morning (the day after Pentecost) 10 try
Peter aud John for preaching holiness.
Remember Peter and John spent the very
night following that wonderful Pentecost
IN the public Jail. You nll want the
Pentecostal experience. Yov can have
it, but would you take the prosecutions
which follow? This wicked world with
its dead churches, and unconverted and
Dacksiidden preachers no more under
stand Holy Ghost religion, than they did
on the day of Pentecost. when they i'm
puted the whole affair to n drunken
frolic. If they had the power they would
this dry put you in Jail for protesting
and preaching sanctfication.
Il. When l was in Jerusalem in 1895. T
visited the old Judgment halls of Annals,
the Roman high priest, and Caiaphas, the
Jewish high priest, on Mt Zion, where
Peter and John were arraigned and tried
for preaching heresy. The beloved editor
OF this paper is honored above hIs com
rades i'll the Apostolical secces sion.
When in Lexington, Ky, he is arraigned
before the magnateS of Southern Method.
ism for doing precisely what Peter and
John did in Solomon's porch. Dear
Cousin Henry, am old enough to be
your father, but l now doir my diadem
and 90 into eclipse. God has conferred
on you an honor for which am can
didate, but have not yet been found
worthy. Your guardian angels, Peter
and John, will bend over heavens BATTLE
ments to see that you get through all
right. Fear not, my brother; learn a les
son of boldness from Peter and John.
T. You see here human authority in
conflict with Divine. History repeats
itself. The same thing is now going ON
with this brother and Others who dare t.
be obedient to the heavenly mission.
Here you see Peter and John arrested
and tried by lot OF blind preachers.
who had taken the Church of God out of
Gods hands, and proposed to run it to.
SUIT their own carnal purposes. Cod
gives us all the holiness of Peter and
John.
:. Here Peter and John were full of
the Holy Ghost, and more than II match
for the DEVILS preachers. Satan & preach
ers throng the world this tay like the
locusts OF Egypt. God keep us filed
with the Holy Ghost. Then like Peter
anu John we will no true as angels and
bold as liors.
y, 10. Peter gives MI the glory 20 Jesus.
God help us to do So
H. They rejected Jesus. The church
officials now reject the Holy Ghost. 1t is
the same, for the Holy Ghost *, the
Spirit Of Jesus.
H. Jesus alone can save Hence we
should, like the apostles, follow Him
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