Bisbee daily review., 1909-01-07
METHODIST EPISCOPAL cHuRc-

Evening sermon by the pastor, Ed ward n. Raley
 Csc and Abuse of 5sewer-'1'hou shalt recieye poWer.--Acts I:7" Power. yes that Is what men want. 1 Power to rule, power to light, to work. | to dominate When God created man He promised hin power to rule aud | be over all created things. Be has 1 succeeded quite well in fulfilling the promise yet man has never been quite satisfied, always a little more 1 power. a little more authority. a little more wealth, a little larger iuflueace. 1 It is not the nature of man to be con ] tent. to arrive at satisfaction eveA in 1! this realm It was then good news and satisfactory news when the Risen l Savior promised the disciples that he would send them something that would equip them with power. Power { is a magic. thrilling. awe-inspiring word It suggests force and strength and might, the doing of things. Gray | ity, sunbeams, earthquakes, volcanoes, growth, life, expansion, contraction,
 freezing, heating. steam, electricity, fwind. storms, waves, rivers floods
 Power, watch the locomotive pulling ! fifty cars to Douglas. Watch tTe en- 1 zines in the mines, in the factories, i in the great steamers rushing back and forth from one continent tO an ether
 l Power. physical power. It is spien- did. desirable. bcacficiaL All men l should get all the physical power pcs. s ble. Power inttilectual-physic Ia desirable. but of little use unless the z n 1g rnCtss Man has both given Gins The machine and the animal have only | physical What reforms and revolu- ! tons and advances and achievements 1 in the worlds history brought about | by intellectual power. often one man 1 the central force of a nation or an ] age Socrates, Alexander, Caesar, | Charles Marteh Dante, Shakespeare, Milton, Luther. Wesley, Washington, ! Lincoln and thousands of others with a song, with a picture, vita music, ! with liberty, with some great idea ! burning its way out of their souls, are men of power, leaders in the worlds drama. Power moral power, spirit ual power, ethical power
 "Ye shall receive powet IS the eternal promise from the leader of men, He was not thinking Cf phys;- cal or intellectual power. but spiritual After all the first two do not long endure, unless the tlird-thc spiritual ! is there. We affirm then that the most potent agencies and forces in this universe are not the physical. not i even the intellectual, but the spiritual. | Men shall have spiritual power. wonderful gift, matchless blessing. | That which will enable them to turn ' this world from an enshadowed place ! of signs and sorrows and sins and death to Q paradise of song and love 1 and peace and joy.
 What we have of charity and kind ness and generosity and unselfishness | comes out of mans spiritual fountain, never from the physical or intellectual. | All power is good if used properly. The machine with its power is good 1 if it produces safety pins, frying pans ! and suspenders. It is bad if it pro ! duccs army bullets, whisky and slot machines.
 | The physical strength of a man is abused when he beats his horse as one did on Opera Drive Saturday when he becomes a bully, when he kicks his wife to deatl.
 Intellectual power is abused by the tyrant, the corrupt man in business or politics. when he writes a vile book. when he downs the spiritual light and life of those weaker than himself as an Tngersol
 Even 50 holy and pure force as spiritual power may be abused. Many examples of quacks and shams and fakirs in religious realms. Modern H.
 lusuations like Mrs. Eddy, Dowie,
 and most of the sO-cailed spiritualists.
 All those who secure a following by
 announcing the end of the world.
 Working upon the weak until they secure the'r money are familiar ex-
 amples All may receive this power
 promised by the Savior on just one
 condition, when you let the Holy Spir