The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1902-12-18

fhost came on them; and they spake

Ghost came on them; and they spake
with tongues and prophesied. And all
the men we're about twelve" We learn
from this lesson that these men were
disciples of Christ, or followers of him,
and had been baptized unto Johns
baptism, but had not as yet received
the Holy Ghost, but did receive him
by the laying on of hands. We turn
back to Acts ii:41: "Then they that
gladly received the word were baptiZ-
ed; and the same day these were added
unto them about three thousand souls"
Mind you, this word does not say that
three thousand were baptized, neither
does it say that any except those who
Holy Ghost, but the plain inference is
that they were convicted of sin and
converted, which would add them TO
the christian faith. We will now turn
to Acts iv:31 and see where they did
receive the Holy Ghost: "And when
they had prayed the place was shaken
where they we're assembled together;
and they were all filed with the Holy
Ghost, and they spake the word Of God
with boldness, and the multitude of
them that believed were of one heart
and one soul. Regeneration adds to
His church believers, but the Holy
Ghost only can make men of one heart
and one soul. Paul says in Heb. x:14-
IS: "For by one Offering he hath per-
fected forever them that are sanctitied,
whereof the Holy Ghost also is a wit
ness to u.s." And he says ''this is the
covenant that | will make with them
after those days l will put my laws into
their hearts and in their minds will |
write them and their sins and iniqui-
ties will ! remember 10 more" And
what more? Now, where remission of
these is there is no more offering for
sin. These are precious promises to
His sanctiied ones and | can witness
to that second work Of Gods promised
gifts to his children on the Gath OF
February, 1898, at 5 o'clock a. M, after
| had heard the word | was convicted
for the blessing and sought it earnestly
for three days with many tears. And
this is not all that the little book will
teach Paul says in Eph. iv:4-5: ''There
is one body and one spirit, even as We
are called in one hope of your calling.
one Lord, one faith and one baptism. y
One Lord means one God of us all; one
faith is that saving faith in the blood OF
!, Christ; one baptism is that spiritual
} baptism that ~regenerates and sanctifies
} the soul and also sets the members in
!. His body, the church, as it pleaseth
Him q Cor. xii:19) And God wants
every born child to covet some one OF
these gifts spoken Of here and he has
promised to give it to you and you shall
} know the fact. We find in Luke iv:1S
that the Savior says, "The spirit of the
Lord is upon me because he hath
} anointed me to preach the gospel to the
poor" and he says to follow in his
D steps, and I coveted that blessed gift
, also and received the assurance by the
; spirit that it was granted on the 9th o.
, January. 1899, at Z o'clock a. m, anC
, into hundreds Of homes have / gone
} telling the POOR of a full salvation anC
His gifts to His children. Let's reaC
, the listaHd see EGod has any gift tina
you would like to have Now Fan
saws We are the body of Christ anC
members in particular. And God hatl
\ SET -Ome IN tn chureh-irst apostles
seeondl prophets, thirdly teachers, af
\ ter that those to perform miracles, the