The Hawaiian gazette., 1912-01-30

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fast as possible.
accents. $ Not one meager dozen sylla
bles could they recite of the tumble
What remember such stuff! Never
Impossible! 1t was impossible. Blu
Jesus said, What is impossible wit
man is possible with God So on
day without single effort to recall
sounds, heard and forgotten more quick
ly than heard, those men carried GU
of themselves with mighty emotion
began to speak with other tongues thu
mighty works of God Though the,
had been Christians three years, the.
had never guessed what powers SHOULD
be theirs. But on Pentecost they EN-
tered new stage. Men listened anC
marveled. They caught tone in theil
voices never heard before. 1t was moi
the words. 1t was the music Of God
Have you ever begun to speak lik,
that7 Do men detect in your words tn,
accents of Jesus9 1t is all within the
realm of the possible.
With other Tongues.
I" with other tongues reads tn,
narrative. Different from the Language
they had learned-so different that non,
were more astonished than themselve.
when later on they came to think il
over; so different that the hearers were
nightly excited. 1t is an experience
to which you and / need not be stran
ger. I'd like to talk that way, wouldn Y
you? And yet hist! the story goes OF
to say, 1--WE do hear them speaking il
Pour own tongues the mighty works o.
God. Ahl that Is the beauty of it
when God touches the heart with Hi
fire the lips breathe sounds that thus
far had been foreign to them. But
people stop and listen-all kinds OF
people = with varying needs and di
verse experiences. Yet, passing belief
the message is in<the language of each
soul, the mothertongue of the human
heart. 1t is not great words we are
after. We Christians are sent to speak
to human wants, to knock at the in
most door with familiar call that
shall lead the lonely spirit to open and
bid us be at home. Such words move
men, for God is in them.
Original Impressive.
"There is stately Greek verb used
in this verse of my text. You will
find it only three times in all the New
Testament. 1t is translated utter
ances' in this passage The original
possesses a dignity and beauty which
no English phrase can render. 1t seems
to dwell in the high regions of noble
oratory, in the holy land where live
Handel Is Messiah and Haydn IS Crea
ton. Those listening Jews on Pente-
.s,b4 H., al
ing of the fishermen Christians. There
was refinement quite part from any.
thing they had ever seen either in high
born Hebrew priest or cultured Phari-
see. Run through the book of Acts
and you can not fail to mark this quail
ity clothing with gentle graceful light
the forms of the early apostles. Rough
Peter is uncouth no longer as he faces
the Sanhedrin in whose presence he had
thrice denied his Lord. His words are
bold enough, I'VE must obey God rather
than man. We can not but speak the
things which we saw and heard. Yet
the holiness is chastened with the rare
delicacy of love for those for whom
his Master had prayed on the cross.
There has been no monopoly in this
apostolic succession as the centuries
have run their course. We miss this
beautiful grace in proud pontiff and
church magnate to see it battle with
heavenly radiance the person of some
disciple who never had a
years schooling in his life. Oh, the
regal dignity of the spirit in whom God
has taken up His residencel This grace
you and | may know. Have we it7
Does our conversation ever reveal that
sweet stateliness which awes while it
so strangely wins! God grant us this.
supreme gift.
The Scientific Mind
Luke was a scientist He loved to
race effects to their causes. His two
PRICELESS books will give you the answer
Why and how scores of times. So, when
lie set himself to tell the story of PEN
ecost, he put in the explanation, and
aid minds like his in all subsequent
Iges under everlasting debt which we
hall delight to pay him in the good
iWe coming.
Why did those men speak in that
Sayf How came it about that suddenly
hey entered this blessed experience Of
alking no longer to mem ears but to
mems heartsf Luke knew we would
e asking just such poser, so he wrote,
as the spirit gave them utteranee.
hats the why and the how of it. !
heres the secret of all the helpful |
lives there ever were lived,
the spirit gave them utteranee.' If |
ou and ever do anything for Christ |
,orth doing the reason win be found in |
hose FIVE words.
"And now why cannot we in this