The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-10-16

| pOral Kingdom OF lSracl az tndt uIne.
He had been raised from the dead.
Many of his dark sayings had been
made plain. They could not doubt any
more now that he was the true Mes
siah Now. what about the future,
Are you at this time about to re
store again the kingdom OF Israeli"
| That is none of your concern, was
the reply The Father takes care of
all that in his own way. The thing
for you TO do is to go into all the
world and make known my gospel to
all the nations. You can get along
now better without my physical pres
ence than you can with it. They did
not think so, but it was true.
Second. though Christ was leaving
his disciples, he was not leaving them
without a teacher and helper, one who
was to stand by their side and help
them and make them strong, give
them power for their work. They were
to take up his mission and carry it
one for he said "As the Father hath
sent me, so send / you into the world
mission and that power could not come
from any human or earthly source
That power was to none less than
the power OF God, the Spirit of God,
God within them, and at work within
them. This was the great thing they
must possess. No kind of human ma
ohinery, organization. native endow-
ments. or human accomplishments,
nothing we can conceive of apart from
the Holy Spirit He would give them
power that which makes things 60
Third how does He give power.
This we ought to know. Jesus said that
he would teach them, quicken their |
memories and lead them into all truth. |
He was the Spirit of truth and he |
would enable them to see and under
stand the truth as they had never |
understood before. He would bear
witness to Christ, revealing his char
actcr and mission to them in much |
before. lie would glorify Christ. lie I
would give them liberty, courage, joy,
and he would feed the fountains of
their hearth as long as they lived
midst of hostile world. He would
give them inner assurance of his
presence and help and the Fathers
love would ever flood their hearts.
Fourth. The conditions of this
power Jesus said for them to tarry
at Jcrusalm till they be endowed with
power from on high. The Scriptur tells
us that both men and women tarried
for the ten days in an upper room in
Jerusalem devoted to earnest and con-
tinued prayer They were all of one
accord in one place. They felt the
need of the blessing and sought God
for It. They could not go about their
work without IL. Jesus says, "If ye
being evil know how to give good gifts
unto your children, how much more
shall your heavenly father give the
Holy Spirit to them that ask it." 1t is
conditioned upon our earnest prayer
Peter said that God would give the
Holy Spirit to all those who obeyed
lim. The disobedient cannot hope to
lave the spirit of power The condi-
ions are very plain and God is urgent
hat his children be fitted for their
work here Are We willing to fulfill
he conditions?
The minister was aflame with his
hcme and closed with an impassioncd
ppeal which swept his congregation
II its close a remarkable demonstra-
ion took place lie called for every :
nan of his church who would pledge
imself to seek this gift of power from
iod to take his hand. Dozens of men ,
literally sprang for it, The same de q
was manifest when he :