Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-01-04

Tho 18th chapter of the Acts. and
the second verse: Have yo received the
Holy Ghost since ye believed7'
The personality, the divinity and
the attributes of the Holy Ghost afford
one OF the most inspiring. one of the
most beneficial examples in our spirit
ual life. We are told that when the
Holy Spirit came at Pentecost, He
came as the rushing Of a mighty wind,
and oyersurging expectancy. When Jesus
was baptized in the River Jordan Of
John. out from the expanse of heaven
was seen to float the spirit of God like
a snowflake. and they heard sound
as OF whirling wings, and the Holy
Spirit In the form of a dove lowered
over the dripping locks OF Christ. Neither
your eyes nor mine will ever behold such
o scene; neither shall our ears ever hear
such sound again You cannot dissect
OF weigh the Holy Spirit nor analyze
Him as q chemist may analyze material
matter in his laboratory. but we can all
feel the pulsing Of the breath of His
eternal spirit.
''why an angel of heaven could not
CCfHo 10 Enliauelpnla ana i've TWO weeks
and loaf with the people you loaf with
and then return to heaven without first
being disinfected and fumigated and
given q bath in lysol and carbolic acid
''The Holy Spirit is a personality, and
not merely an influence. and the spirit
OF God Is sensitive, hence this injunc-
tion. 'Grieye not the spirit of Cod The
ordinances of the church never saved
soul and never will but 1t is the Holy
Spirit. and this spirit Is a personality
and analogous to the love of a mother
for her child who has gone wrong and
brought shame upon her fair name-the
love of God for the erring. sin-cursed
world. It is the same as the grief of
wife whose husband has broken his mar
riage vows as IL they were made of
spider webs.
LAS to the doctrine of future probation,
say IL man doesn't settle his future
before the undertaken pumps the en-
balming fluid into him, then he's
goner,
CHILDREN OF GOD.
1T is my desire to give you a brief
outline of the Holy Spirit-to bring God |
into spiritual touch with man. We
speak Of Him as the Father. but 1 want |
to say to you that do not believe in the |
universal yTatherhood of God, or the
universal brotherhood of man, either. You !
are not child of God unless you are a
Christian. and IL you are not a child of
God. then you are a child of the devil.
For unless you are Christian. you are
not child of God, you are a creature
OF God; so is the saloonkeeper, the gam
bier. the madame OF the red light
There must be link to connect the
infinite to the finite. The Holy Spirit is
the means of this communication.
doshun fighting a battle for God saw
that the sun would set. and 1t would
Brow dark before he would be able to
finish this battle.
F" Just make the sun stand still a little
while and prolong this day till I whip
that bunch TO frazzle, and 1t will send
your name ringing down through the
ages he said to God. and God reached
up and grabbed the sun and said: Stay
there, don't move until thy servant
Joshua gives you the "highhall."'
Sampson with the Holy Spirit upon
him could take the jawbone Of an ass
and lay dead q thousand Phiistines.
Sampson without the Holy Spirit was as
weak as a new born babe, and they poked
bis eyes out and cut off his locks, and
20 with the church and her members.
Wherever the Apostle Paul went he
had either revivai or a riot (Applause).
He had been on the firing line Tor Jesus
Christ for years, and never once dipped
ais colors.
NE visited Corinth. and when he
topped into the inn he noticed a gang
I men talking on the corner. He went
0 the hoteIkeeper and said:
. Who's that bunch over there1'
- Why, they're the church people
Gars IN Corinth.' answered the propris-
Or.
z Mot on your nfe. answered St Paul.
not that gang,
'sThen ST. Paul went over into the
orner and said; Have ye received the
zoly Ghost7' I
g Never heard of it, said one of the
aen
Paul said We are living In = now dis {
ensation Of grace. and salvation is offer I
4 frea 70 all who will accept.
We are all made OF one blood and
ne man and believe IN the universal
ailowship OF Christ and the brotherhood (
{ man Because you rode here this
aorning IN an automobile, instead OF .
aalLLn.- Il dos nnl InnI-a Hnm any hAttAr |