The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-05-20
GREATEST DAY
IN THE HISTORY
OF HUMANITY
So Says Rev. Hunting at St. Bar.
thOIOmeW'S in His Sermon
Yesterday Taken from the
Text on "PentecOSt."

'PentecoSt, the greatest day III ms
tory was the topic of the sermon
preached by Rev. Dir. G. c. Hunting at
st Bartholomew Episcopal church
services. held in Good Times Club hall
yesterday morning. The attendance
was large and the music was excellent.
For the offertory, Mr. Arthur l.. Shell
of Leadville and Mrs. e. L. r. Wallace
sang n duet. AT the evening service
Mr.. Shell sang The Holy City"
The text for the morning sermon
was from Acts H.. verses / to 1: And
now when the day OF Pentccost was
fully come, suddenly there came a
sound from heaven as of rushing
mighty wind. and it filled all the houses
where they were sitting. and they
were all filled with the Holy Ghost
'Today is the feast of Pentecost,
said DR. Hunting. when looked at in
n certain way this is the greatest day
in its history. to humanity. We celc-
brate this day, the suhlimest gift ever
| made 10 man The gift of today was
the greatest change that WAS ever
made in what man is in himself in
his powers and spiritual endowments,
in what he can become.
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heaft, the characler' "llieh ilaN's mn
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to teel right ana |" oeslie flsi''
| opens |" MN ne ei l'oiiheSs "eioi'
uhthehsh'' ana makes nm really Ii"r'
like G"d, ana anle to Know COO u
love iiim ana To I'VE with Inn
"Christmas is the commemoration ol
| the birth of Christ, the head of the re-
| deemed humanity. PentecostN is tins
| commemoration of the birthday of hu-
manity itself. 1t is the day when a
! new and divine power came into the
very soul of man. changing them from
| their old selves filling them with new
energy fresh from the heart of God
| begetting them anew from the dead
ness of sin, giving them by a new
| birth through the, spirit, the power tc
become the sons of God.
| We do not have Il full conception of
| the Holy Spirit and His work. Preach
crs are prone to teach only of Christ
and His gospel. seeming to ignore the
| fact that the blessed spirit is co-Cqual
with Christ and the Father in the unity
of God The Holy Ghost is the divine
spark of our nature that nourishod by
right life makes us part of God. We
are divine in that the life in us is God's
| life. Tie clay of the flesh is of the
earth. The life is from 'heaven above
| This is the greatest gift to man. With
| it is the possibility and the opportu
| nifty to do noblcr and better things to
| lead n higher life life nearer the
source whence all things spring.
This gift is real power from the
unseen world. a part of the power of
| Cod 1t was the entrance of a divine
| person. at one with the Father and the
Son into our very souls.a to work his
| incomprehensible and blessed work
| This gift was more tl.an the disclosure
of truth. the communica tion of light
and of holy influences drawing and