The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-30

And then he ate with them, honeycomh
end fish, as evidencin~ the fact that
they were not being addressed by an
illusion, but by corporal being. While
they still wondered with astonishnent.
he proved to them that their risen Lord
was no longer merely a man, but that
be had experienced a change in his
resurrection, so that now he was a
spirit beirg and could go and come
like the wind-appearing in body of
flesh when his purposes so demanded
He gave proof of this by vanishing
out of their sight, dissolving the body
of flesh and bones and the clothing as
easily as he had created them and by
the same Divine power.
The Pentecostal Blessing.
The glorified, resurrected Jesus re
NAMED with the infant church for 4O
Gays, watching over their interests. On
four or five occasions he appeared to
them again in different forms and for
the further nculcation of the great
lesson that he was risen and changed,
henceforth a spirit being. Then he as
cended up on high to appear In the
presence of God on behalf of his faith
full ones first. as later on he Will ap-
pear in the I'M rest of the world. The
FATHERS recognition of the merit of his
sacrifice, applied ION our behalf" was
manifested by the importation of the
holy Spirit on Pentecost day. Tradl-
Gonally this same wonderful upper
Divine blessing and favor, which came
only upon consecrated believers and
has come upon the same class, and upon
none other. from that day unto this
begetting them individually by me holy
Spirit to the divine nature with its
promises of glory, honor and lmmor-
tality to the faithful, in association
with the Lord Jesus in his Millennial
Kingdom.
of the Lords word through the Prophet
Joel, namely, of that portion which
says, "In those days will l pour out my
Spirit upon my servants and upon my
handmaids'' Joel it, 2S). We are glad,
dear friends, that what occurred at
that first Pentecost and what has con-
tinue7 all through this Gospel Age, d
Pentecostal blessing upon each indiv1d-
ual member of the Body of Christ, Is
merely a foretaste Of Gods great favor
towards Adams race. As st. James
declares q, 49, the church is merely "a
kind of first-fruits unto God OF MS
creatures" True, the f1rst-fruits IN
the Glorious Head and High Priest, and
his sanity followers the antityp1cal
under-priests of the Royal Priesthood
But a great blessing is yet to come, for
there shall come still greater out
Of Gods Spirit as mentioned in
the same prophecy in the words, AFTER
those days, saith the Lord, L viii pour
out my Spirit upon all flesh; and your
sons ans your daughters snalI seek Ior
me- and your young men shall see
what your ancients dreamed
Of"
This will have it's fulfllnent during
: Millennial Age. not that the word
in general will be begotten Of the holy
Spirit to a spirit nature like unto the
angels and like unto Christ, as in our
case, but the Lord has promised to
take away the stony heart and to give
a heart of flesh to all the willing and
obedient Of mankind during that Mill
Iennial Day In such, a right spirit
shall be renewed as they become obedi-
ent to- the gracious arrangements Ct
Messiah's universal Empire and that
right spirit in man, that right DISPOSE
ton, will be the holy Spirit-God's
Spirit or disposition. II was given to
man originally when he was created
perfect. upright, in the image and ike