Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1902-10-23
THE HOLY GHOST.
Sunday Discourse by DR.. Chapman, the
Noted Pastor Evangelist.
Shows How the Holy Ghost Is the Christian
Helper Beyond All Others-Is the Life
of the Church.


New York CITY. - The sermon here
furnished to the press is the most impress
Wilbur Chapman prepared some time ago
for the, Bible Institute Colportage Associa-
ten. 1t is entitled The Holy Ghost in
His Relation to the Church." and was
preached from the text: and the Lord
added to the church daily such as should
be saved" Acts ?; AZ.
In the honest endeavor which we make
properly to live the Christian life and in
the end receive reward from the hand OF
crown, the Holy Ghost beyond all others
is our helper, He is certainly to be count
ed as the director and leader OF our church
life, We need expect no great outpourlns
of the Holy Ghost so long as His leader
ship is ignored. and without this high
spiritual atmosphere we may expect, as IN
dvidsals, no special victories.
On the day of Pentecost two great events
occurred; the first was the exaltation OF
Jesus Christ at the right hand of the
Father--"This Jesus hath God raised up,
32): the other was the outpouring of the
Spirit. because Jesus had been raised up
and exalted. The point is that Christ as
our head had poured out upon Him the
Holy Ghost; thus receiving Him in trust
for the body; and it naturally follows that
what the head has received the members
of the body have a right to claim. Since
that day, in the plan of God, the Holy
Ghost has been the administrator of the
make Christ real to every believer. If lie
had tarried with us in the flesh and l had
claimed His presence, He would have been
denied to you; but now that He is present
in the Spirit. we may all have Him and
lay claim to His presence. and the love OF
God may be shed abroad in our hearts by
the Holy Ghost. He is in real sense the
vicar of Christ. and there can be no other.
The Son of God is to-day at the right hand
Spirit of God ought to be enthroned and
exalted in the church representing the
risen Christ. He is, to counsel her, to
guide her and to control her-in a word,
He is to govern all things in the church,
from the least things unto the greatest.
The Scriptures are evidence that lie has
message for the church. 1t is generally
believed that the epistles to the seven
churches in the Revelation contain the pro-
phetic setting forth of the church's history
its declines and recoveres, its failures
and returns, and it is believed by many
that we have come to the Laodiccan period
of history of the last DAYS OF the church.
Seven times we have the expression re-
peated: He that hath an ear, let him hear
what the Spirit saith unto the churches"
1t is to be noted that this expression is
used after each of the churches had back
slidden. Ephesus had LETT her first love;
smyrna was rich, and likely to be proud
pcrgamos was touched with the doctrine
OF Balaam; lhyatlra was influenced by Je-
zebel; Sardis had name to live, and was
1o,1. Dl,,1, a1,l,iu hnJ hut IL l., elp !,
while Laodlcea was neither hot nor cold.
The real cure. for bachsliding in the church
ls that which comes to ls by, the Holy
Ghost OF the revelation of Gods will and
the Interpretation Of Gods word,
ri, ,t ~.
Inc ehurch is calied-ont pody, We We
were CHOSEN N nm oeiore inc Morla
.1nhaHallpn, anu we gre eiect accofain@ 70
NE me ,uoreknowleoSe OF "od' tor thus saIth
,he scripture. Jesus IS IN heaven alIt'S-
Enose Is here carving out the pan lHi9
pan eAtenuS 10 ',le h,ihotes' dttall@ 81 we we
i'ds o' .ne rnurrn, ne mas 9laa,het 'l'c
oihces we must haye' ana the k'nd OF men
We, we must lay ho.a upon TO MI hrlhi
wherefore lie satin When lie ascenGcd op
on hlgh, ne led captlVity captive ana gave
gus unto men. And ne gave some apoa'
gelists and some, pastors and teachers;
for the perfectng Of saints, for the work OF
the ministry, for the edtying of the body
of Christ" Ephcsans 4: 8, IL, II. The
church is really the habitation of God.
Hear what the Scriptures have to say
Eph. 2: 10 to 22--"Now therefore We are
no more strangers and foreigners, but fel.
lowcitizens with the saints, and of the
household of God; and are built upon the
oE Ia, Il
Jesus Christ Himself being the chief cor,
nerstone: in whom MI the buiIdino ftjy
framed together proweth unto a holV TEN,
ple in the Lord; in whom We also are
bmlded together for an hahitation of God
through the Spirit" If Ic is dwelling in
MS we must be careful of our church life,
for we NAV grieye Him and oucnch Him
by the way we live and work, MANY
things are done today in the church which
NAV commend themselves 10 mon and vet
falj utterly short NJ The onnroval of God
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