New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-08-18

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me?' He tasted the utmost crisis OF the races AZ
which taketh away the sin OF the world w.
THE NEW ENVIRONMENT.
But now we come to the second potency IN n.
unfolding plan Of the grace OF God. which has
new atmosphere or element in which this life Is ~
the right hand Of the Father new Soree S ss' q.
free TO empower the Church. viz. the Holy suirif-
wrought in many ways upon human souls Tbs-Ss
Vas h9weyer an important sense IN which Il could
Consider two remarkable promises referred n q,
which the Holy Spirit was to exercise after
in Acts f. 90. In the mids; OF Peters Penttsees,s77
sermon in which ne explains the peculiar power Of
the right hand OF God exalted and having - -
Gbosf ~ ba9b sbsg foItS or the Holy
ana hear" The plain implication OF this language
the, fulhlment OF promise which God the Father
Would seem 10 have been 10 the eject TIA, ~ mis-
Christ, as the second Adam should pass success
Ascension and thus become perfected. and should
return TO the Father. bringing a gloried human
with an Ascension gift. viz. the Holy spirft
human o kind This Spirit When received rse ao q
make possible a people ike Himself Thus re-
CGtRnnE tR ee eRaraeT e Of the meh5
Adam This was the first promise and the second
Ne and it in Luke xiv is: And behold 4 90
the promise of Nv Father upon YOU but tarr Ss "a
in the city OF jerusalem until ye be endued Win
This gift Of the Holy Ghost was in a unique and
particular sense the Ascension gift and destined 70
mark in the reformation Of man into a
new spiritual commonwealth
ing as Conditioning spiritual pOVTer2 II vas ro -
not only the executive agent for administering the
new atmosphere in which the spiritual life should
The Holy Spirit which Christ poured out was
given all enswathing medium, In which the
Disciple may begin and live his new life with power
more than human.
PROFESSOR COOKIES EXPERIMENT
The late Professor Josiah Cooke. OF Harvard Uni
versity in a valuable book, entitled The Creden-
tas Of Science the Warrant Of Faith" thus speaks
of a striking experiment 10 which every year he
used TO- introduce his classes which always as he
which it Illustrates and the stiu more wonderful
the professor was wont to place a loose pile q
netic current passing through the coil OF the in
strument The result was tna5 tne mag9stic RED
in the neighborhood Of the poles, and with this the
nails from direct contact with the magnet ITSELF
As the current passes and the field IS estao
thus determined. become a tough. plastic mass
which be moulded into the form Of an areh Or
OF any similar structure So long as the current
flows the structure will stand. but the moment the
ppears and the structure that has been reared
crumbles into pile Of nails ..
Of the Father gave the spirit at PentseoSt 70 rem
was to have His being; He established IN and
How difTerent our iIves as spiritual beings would
be if realized this as it is, II We would abandon
ourselves TO II, how We might reckon on IT'S en-
When Temptation comes and in a moment OF
passion or weakness sin awakens in me, then ths
remembrance Of my relation 70 this spiritual sle
as myself myself ar Vet reSonng on that held q
force within which am placed by It's power, al IS
The Church at Pentecost received IT'S baptism o.
spiritual power once for al Just as the indyi1ual
also the Individual Is live IN the power Of that
baptism. according to the import OF lis symbolism.
THE NEW HABIT OF BEING
But third provision for naturaIizing and con-
the fact that thus related 10 the new Alan
and as taS St " en pa fe T e5 cones @
a new life through faith in Christ who died and
The problem Of the Christians new being Is TO
become habltuaIed 70 ms process N az rs ysTsd
bearing about in our body the dying OF the LSrd
In Christ we have the archetype The pattern 70
which each disciple in the haot OF hts Oetuz n 70
be conference.-the be thus conforned because ne
disciple is organcaly connected Win ms corporate
As in the course Of Christ each new surrender 70
ar S feliowship with Him strengthened and con
frned the viii OF Jesus humany VlG ~ 1870
the tempter. and established INN ~ = 49,
with the Father 50 IN our course ca rt- II
process results. to speak. IN nlSner KIM OF
In the fixing OF this new habit Hes the secret Of
Christian sanctihcation- This sanStincll..1 49, -
ShTftiansd new by t i0 variety Of issues have
rbe 1ife e. OF the second Adam not n HIM L
is rot in US. Not one experience, passeL On. "a ~,
a. is one prfncipie accepted once for all ard re-
peatediy applied as often as new teSt arissS go
We pass through our final change Into the glory.