The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-05-09

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this life Of ours so that death viii
be departure into lullest life,
richest life, save by coming into
constant intercourse with the
Divine Spirit realizing His care
and love, and guidance ana this
/ is conditional on prayer. Ii you
accept Christ as a Teacher-if
His teaching has any Influence
with you, then you must give
heed to His own words: "If ye
then, being evil, know how to give
good gifts unto your children,
how much more shall llyour Heaven
ly Father give the Holy Spirit to
them that ask Him." You might
have thought Christ would have
said. "lf ye then, being evil,
know how to give good gifts unto
your children, how much more
shall your Heavenly Father give
good gifts to His children?" 1
am so glad He did not say that.
He said "to them that ask Him.;
for if He had said, ooh, but l
cannot call myself one of His
children-but His promises are
to them that ask Him.
ALL OF Us NEED THE GIFT OF THE
HOLY SPIRIT.
Now all | have written, all l
may write, is to beseech you who
read this page to ask for the gift
of the Hole Spirit. / do not care
by what name you call yourselves
Nor whether you call yourselves
by any name; l ask you to pray.
Prayer is asking-and His prom
Use is to them that ask!
We need spiritual people, both
young and old, who shall be so
possessed by the Divine Spirit
that one cannot be with them
without wishing to be like them,
and we are going to have them.
How? Through prayer. Moth
ers and fathers who have been
sorely troubled because of their
sons and daughters, and have
talked to them and told them
what will be the end of their
courses and have only driven them
farther away from them-they
are going to stop talking, and are
going to pray, and are going to
ask for the only power that can
convince Of sin-the power of the
Holy Spirit, and that Spirit of
God-Almighty God. We have
tried to convince by reasoning
and beseeching, but we are not
almighty. l remember just now
d verse OF an old hymn of my
childhood:
"But power Divine can do the deed
@ And that ulest power greatly need:
Tiny spirit can from drOss define,
And melt and change this heart of NINE"
WE ARE NEVER ALONE WHEN WE
PRAY
Only really believe what some
ofyou have said you believed every
Sunday Of your lives, perhaps,
since you were little children-"I
believe in the Holy Ghost" Do
you? Where is He? In you. And
if you will let Him He will ener-
gize your will-fill you with holy
desires and aspirations and in
spire you to do any work that He
gives you to do. BY this l do not
mean only what is called religious
work. All work is religious-or
Christlike to care for your moth
er-He cared for His mother; it
is Christllke to care for little
children, for He said, "Suffer lit
tie children, to come unto Me-;
it is Christlike to carry on a bus
iness-He was a carpenter. But
remember His life was a life of
prayer. He went apart to pray
He spent whole nights in pray
er. He was enabled to overcome
fearful temptations because He
was filed with the Spirit. He
prayed for US just before He left
this earth. He said to His Father:
l pray for them: l pray not for
the world, but for them which
Thou has given me; for they are
Thine. And all Mine are Thine,
and Thine are Mine and | am
glorifed in them" " AndHeprays
for Us now, and He has sent the
Spirit to pray in us, to help us to
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