Milford chronicle., 1906-05-25

! GuL ups ANOM d NtSAAluUuY MONlQ
u given. Now an earnest prayer woul
- be lifted up. The meetings would Il.
- start at z or o'clock and run for a
. hour and a half and have every on
= look at his watch if the servic
~ went a second over ninety minute.
y, But there the meetings would start a
= any time. Then when the meeting
once got started they would run on ant
on, sometimes five or even ten hour
: long, as though the Christian peopl
! were loath 70 leave each other and 2,
! home and - TO sleep. Yes, the Welsl
, revival was to me an exact duplication
Of the days preceding Pentecost
In the Upper Chamber.
Come, let me take you to the upper
chamber in Jerusalem. It is the year
30 \. D. 1t is about the 1st Of June
or the beginning of summer All the
hillsides about Jerusalem are covered
with flowers. As we come to this up
per chamber, which was supposed to
belong to the Evangelist Mark. who
was one of the biographers of Jesus,
we find that these disciples had been
abiding there for nearly ten days, or
ever since the ascension. 1 hear a
wOman's sweet voice lifted in prayer
1t is the voice of Mary the mother of
Christ. The voice goes something like
this: 90 Lord Jesus, I cared for thee
when thou vert a child I am thy
mother, but thou art my Lord Send
thy spirit into our midst Come quick
~ with thy power Come and cleanse
us from all sim" Then as the prayer
died away in pleading sobs methinks I !
hear a voice starting a song as we
sometimes hear in a Methodist gather |
ing, but instead. of n Methodist bvmn |
the voice leads the little gathering |
through the noble melodies of the
grand old Twenty-third Psalm of Da-
yid which is promise in music. And
as the climax is reached a strange
spiritual influence sweeps over the room
when the voices chorus that last grand
verse, "Surely goodness and mercy
shall follow me all the days of my
life, and l will dwell in the house of
the Lord forever"
Then for a little while silence reigns.
Why, It is so still that you can almost
hear each heart beat Then another
sob. Then Peter arises and says: "Oh,
brethren, why did l deny him? Why
lid desert him at the saddest moment
# his life? l can now see him turning
lis great loving eyes upon me. l de-
lied him not only once, but twice and
hrice. But, though the cock crew to
emind me, he never reproached me.
Ie surely forgives if we come and ask
is forgiveness" Then another silence.
hen a searching of the Scriptures.
hen a sobbing voice says: 81 am
hOmas, the doubter. But he forgives
le, even me-" Then the prayer and
ne supplicatiOns and the confessions
o on. But on the tenth day, while
icy were still praying, suddenly each
ian and woman and child turned to-
ard the others and cried: Look!
ook! See the flames! 1t is the mani
station of the Holy Spirit" And. oh,
Y friends, if we come to God believ-
G that he would bless us if we asked
m and if we would only meet and
ay and agOnize and consecrate our
Ives to his service as the disciples of
1 did on the day of Pentecost do you
It believe Christ would give to us the
CHER power of gospel life? He will.
i'll you not therefore here and now
art forth to seek your Pentecost and
gin to plead and to consecrate your
lOle life to the Masters service?
Came When Most Needed.
But cannot close without just one
ought more. This baptism of the
wer of the Holy Spirit came to the
ielples of old in the days when they :
t their greatest need Of the promis-
comforter or supernatural power.
e crucihxiOn was over. Yes. The
'urrectiOn had come. Yes. But one
Y less than two, weeks before sud
My Christ had again departed. Up
IN the Mount of Ascension he went;
her and higher until his body dis
pears behind the clouds; higher and
her until in bodily presence he was a
le forever. Oh the unutterable lone
ess and helplessnessl Christ gone,
IN whom were they to lean? Then "
ne the power of the Holy Spirit.
at power is ready to descend upon
II JOu OhAy ,pLSpuLc SOuASelA AOE va
ds gift. IA
riend, you need this higher power. W.
j need it now. Let me see; how
g ago did she die-she who was SO In
ch to your spiritual life? You need w
J higher power. You need it now. "
st Sunday as a preacher you deliv-
d a sermon which was in literary
Sc a poetic gem. But after you fin
ed you knew as a messenger Of Ir<I
list that it rang false all through.
! need this power in the home. In
IT own strength you cannot rear
family Alright for Ged. Can 1t be
we are going to refuse longer to
this power Of the higher spiritual
? 1t is said that on March IA, 1906, C0
British steamer Phenix foundered ~
sea of the banks Of Newfoundland
nearly all on board were lost be-
Sc its hull was battered to pieces and
he barrels and heavy fixtures which
'e torn from the ships deck and
n by the waves hurled against the
rs side, until under these battering u
10 khr 81,