The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-09-11

eundsy Morning ssrron)
THE nineteenth chapter Of Tho
Acts, and the second verse: Have
ys received the Holy Ghost since ~
believed
"The personality. the divinity and
the attributes OF the Holy Ghost AZ
ford one Of the most inspiring. one
Of the most beneficial examples In
our spiritual life. We are told that
when the Holy Spirit came at Pente-
cost. He came as the rushing OF a
mighty wind. and ovenurging ex-
pectAncy. When Jesus was baptized
In the River Jordan OF John. out
from the expanse OF heaven was
seen 10 foat the spirit OF God like
a snowflake. and they heard sound
a. of whlriing wings. and the Holy
Spirit in the form Of dove lowered
over the dripping locks OF
Christ Neither your eyes nor mine
will ever behold such a scene;
neither shall our ears ever hear
such a sound again. You cannot dis
sect or weigh the Holy Spirit. nor
Anzlyze Him as a chemist may anal
we material matter in his iaoora'
tory, but we can all feel the pulsing
q the breath Of His eternal spirit.
"why, an angel OF heaven could
not come TO Detroit and live two
weeks and loaf with the people YOU
leaf with. and then return 10 heaven
without first being disinfected and
fumigated and given a bath IN lysol
and carbolic acid.
'-rne Holy Spirit Is 4 personality.
and rot merely an influence. and the
spirit 0f God Is sensitive. hence this
tnjunction. 'Grieve net the spirit NJ
God The ordinances Of the church
never saved soul and never will,
but II is the Holy Spirit, and this
shirt L. a personality and analogous
4 10 the love OF mother for her child
who has gone wrong and brought
shame upon her fair name-ths love
Of tiod for the erring. sin-curse1
world II Is the same as the grief
a. wife whose husband has broken
his marriage vows az IL they were
made Of spider webs.
AS 10 the doctrine Of future pro-
baton, 1 say II man doesn't set
ne his future before the undertaken
pumps the embslming nuid into him.
then he's goner.
Children Of God
1T is my desire to give you
brief outline OF the Holy spirit--to
bring God into spiritual touch with
lpan. want TO say TO you that do
NIT believe in the universal Father
hood Of God. or the universal broth
erhood Of man. either. You are not
child Of God unless you are
Christian. and IL you are not q child
~ God. you are a creature OF God
~ Is the saloonkeeper, tie gaahlsr.
The nadsme OF the red light
There must be a link 10 connect
Che inhnite 10 the finite. The Holy
6pirii Is the means vf this communt
<afSon.
'..ioshua fighting battle Tor God
Ssid sat the sun would set, and II
would grCw dark before lie wou,5 be
allie Ia EAish this battle
just make he sun stand still
little v hiIe and prclon- this day till
u whip that bunch ,c a frazzle. aud
~ win ss-na your name ringing down
through the ages he said TO God.
end God reached up and grabbed The
sun and said: Stay there, don't
move until thy servant Joshua gives
you the "hIghball.'"
sampson with the Hcly Spiri,
upon him could take the law bone OF
nm ass and lay dead thousand
Philistines. Samson without the
Holy Spirit was as weak as new
born babe and they poked his eyes
out and cut OF HIS locks, and SO
with the church and her members
Wherever the Apostle Paul went
he had either revival OF a riot. He
had been on the firing line for Jesus
Christ for years and never once dip
ped his colors.
"He visited Corinth and when he
stepped into the inn ne noticed a
gang Of men talking on the corner.
re went to the hotel keeper and
said:
Who is that bunch over there -
why. they're the church people
here In Corinth.' answered the pro-
prietor.
"'Not on your life" answered 81:
Faul, not that gang
"rhen 81. Paul went over into the
corner and said: Have We received
the Holy Ghostr
Never heard OF g. said one OF
the men.
Paul said we are living in a new
dtrpensation OF grace and salvation
~ offered free 20 oil whp win &C
cept.
I'VE are all made Of one blood and
one man. Because you rode here
today in an automobile instead O,
hoohng II, does not make you an,
better. And because YOU may wea
. diamond az big as a hickory nu
In your shirt front doesn't make yol
. any better.
when God built the universe II,
spoke and the Holy Spirit had tn,
work done. When God wills the Hol,