Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-03-08
WJLLNESS OF SPIRIT
NTCHOLSON'S THEME
! AT DARBY SERVICES
MANY Brave Slush, Snow and
Rain to Attend Revival
L in Temple at
III Terminal
COUNTY FOLK PRESENT

enow. slush and rain could not keep
,he people away from the Nicholson
,1or,mlneer tabernacle In Darby for the
.orr,on by Evangelist BILLY" Nicholson
80. ofternoon. Long before time for the
, -or,,ices to begin many women had as
..,b,sd in the big temple at the p. r.
= terminal, and when Prof j. r. Hem
..,,ror the choir leader, started the pre-
,..,Dorv song service there was a fair
Ia audience from west Philadelphia,
1onsdowne, Colywn, Glenolden and other
y,o,ovare County towns. as well as the
naval large Darby representation
Mr. Nicholson preached the nrst OF ms
sn,ons on '"The Holy Spirit" During
ssn newt two days he will preach on the
snS .,,o tonic He made 1t plain that he
saas wide difference between persons
III arc church members and those who
~ at the same time, filed with the Holy
Spirit
"You can't keep a person quiet when he
,s Allied with the Spirit" said the evan
To,st you don't need centrifugal
nump TO get word of testimony out of
you II is like an arteslan we'll"
"The Fulness of the Spirit" was his
tonic today and he based the sermon on
Acts PA and Ephesians 5;17-1S.
"pentecost ought 10 De n daily occur
rance in the life of every believer If 1t
is wrong to be drunk as sinful man,
then it is just as wrong not to be filled
with the spirit" he said
ut Is an absolute necessity that I be
filled with the spirit of God. The first rea-
son is that I may have n spiritual holi-
ness You can make child moral, but
you can never make 1t spiritual.
gr,oro ;, oplv ono snurpe Of ho1inese
that is the Holy Spirit. We can only be
changed into the spirituality of Christ by
the Holy Spirit You can never live the
supernatural life by natural means. 1t is
only as l am being fed day by day that 1
am being filled.
'The whole secret" he declared, 'is al
lowing the Lord the right of way in life.
Christ must fashion us and present US.
II is an absolute necessity if l am to
work How can / perform these greater
!, works except 1 am being filled, day by
4 day? You lost heart you became weary
! in well doing, and finally quit altogether.
! BY the energy of your resolutions you
can never do the work.
BLESSINGS FOR BELIEVERS.
IT suppose nearly all the crazy things
:. today are in some way gathered around
the teaching of God" Here he spoke of
!, the extremes of the extremists, and eau
!. toned his hearers.
"Ths fulness of blessing" he con-
tinued, us for every belever-men and
women. This is my inalienable brthright.
This fullness of blessing is for every
believer everywhere l used to think 1t
was for the preacher while he was preach
ing, but that's not so. The common, or
dinary things of life are the reason why
we need to be filled with the Holy Ghost.
Many of the 100 never preached-only
few. The others scattered back to the
ordinary pursuits of life and there they
were still filled with the Holy Spirit.
TELLS OWN EXPERIENCE.
Every believer has the Holy Spirit,
but the Holy Spirit does not possess every
believer. There Is all the difference in
the world between a believer who has the
Holy Spirit and one possessed by the
. Holy Spirit, At Pentecost they were filled
with 1t. | received the Spirit at the time
Of my conversion, but it was months after
ward before He possessed me.
There is a striking analogy between
drunken man and a Spirit-filled man.
First, he is mystery. Second, you can't
silence him; he will talk. Third, you
can't discourage him. You may lock him
up, but he goes back to the same old
thing Lift these three characteristics
into the realm of spiritual things and
YOU have n mystery.
when ran down that street beating a
tamborine, after l received the Holy
Spirit" referring to that Incident in his
life which he had given in the tabernacle,
1t was mystery. The five elders and
my minister didn't understand me. You
can't keep person quiet when he is filled
with the Spirit. You don't need centri-
iugal pump to get a word of testimony
out OF YOU 1t is like an artesian we'll
out of the heart the mouth speaketh.'
FILLED WITH THE SPIRIT"
You can't dicourage person filled with
the Spirit Some are so years old and are
Just wee babies. When we are filled with
the Spirit of God all loneliness vanishes.
"hen man is filled with the Holy Ghost
ne isn't concerned about pleasing men;
hes pleasing God. You are Indifferent to
%hat old Mother Grundy thinks. When
nIed with the spirit of God we are on the
loo' and to be filled with Gods spirit we
must be emptted of other things"
Then Mr.. Nicholson illustrated that re-
tianity.