The Washington times., 1918-01-06

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and the attributes of the Holy Spirit
AFFORD one of the most interesting,
inspiring, instructive, and at the same
| time mysterious studies in all the
Scriptures
When the Holy Spirit came at Pent-
ecost, he came as a rushing mighty
wind, and he lowered over each of
the eXpectRnt Pentecostal worshipers.
When Jesus was baptized Of John in
the River Jordan; out from the blue
expanse of heaven came what looked
! like a snowflake. As il came nearer
the earth, it assumed the form of a
dove and we are told that whirring of
wings was heard and that the Holy
Spirit in the form OF a dove lowered
over the dripping locks of the Son of
God as he stood on the banks of the
| Jordan.
Two Such Probabilities.
There have been but two such Wis
| ible manifestations of the Spirit, and
the probabilities are that this side of
the grave neither your eyes nor mine
shall ever behold such scenes: neither
shall our ears ever be privileged to
! hear such a sound again.
You cannot dissect, you cannot
weigh, you cannot analyEe the Holy
| Spirit as a chemist would some sub
stance in his laboratory, but we can
all feel his power and we can all
enjoy the orchard fruits of his plant
ing, for 1 read that the fruits OF the
! spirit are love, JOY, long suffering,
gentleness, brotherly love; against
such there is no law.
Jesus Christ was a distinct being. He'd
was born, crue.fied, dead, buried
ascended into glory. The Holy Spirit Is
a personalities much Of a personality
as God, Christ, you, /, anything or any
body.
''Howbeit, he shall not speak Of him
self. but whatsoever he shall hear,
that shall he speak and he shall show
you things to come"
Always In Future Tense.
Speaking Of the Holy Spirit as a per-
sonality, not an Influence. therefore we
are born of the Spirit. he is our advo-
cate. Jesus always thinks OF the Spirit !
in the future tense. He said, at is
a good thing for you that l go l
away. II go not away the ,
Comforter will not come"-the future !
tense-"but when l am gone, I will ]
send him unto you from the FAhe-." 3
and 1 reed. ''Grieve not the Holy
Spirit OF God" as II men and women
can and do grieve the spirit Of God by
the wrong atmosphere in their lives. by
the wrong atmosphere in their homes, (
by the crowd they keep company with. !
Why, an angel from Heaven couldn't
come down and stay here two weeks
and train with the crowd that some of
you go with and call good and then get
back to Heaven without having a bath
in lysol and carbolic acid and Tornado
hyde
Therefore, we grieve tH0 Spirit by
the wrong use OF our lips; we grieve
the Spirit by the things we stoop to
do. oh. there are multitudes OF men !
and women who will do things in pri-
vate that they wouldn't do in public
1T would mean their disgraceI There
is many a man who wouldn't keep
somebody on the side, who wouldn't
stagger and reel home into the arms
Of his wife, but he will stoop to do
the mean, contemplate, dirty, sour
rilOus, derogatory, undetermined, vii
lifying, little things that show that
he is led by the flesh and not by the
Spirit. although he may have been
baptized, sprinkled and immersed
every fifteen minutes, knows the cat
echism from A to 2, and has been con
hrmed every half hour! There are
Of them,
Proves Personality.
The fact that you can grieve the
Holy Spirit proves. from inference at
least, his personality. You can't
grieve an influence, so the Holy Spirit
is more than an influence or the Bible
would not tell me to be careful and
not grieYe the Spirit. 1 can't grieve
an influence, SO the Holy Spirit Is a
and that proves his sen
too. So the Holy Spirit
must be capableIof being grieved by !
the something you do. and the places
you go, and the things you say, or :
the Bible would not warn US to be
careful. =
1 have been told that a dove has {
been known to tremble when the {
single feather Of vulture's wing has {
been held in front of IL. I don't
know whether that is true or not but :
know that the Spirit of God is =
80 sensitive to the slightest evidence {
1f sin in your life that it trembles s
when He sees you stopping to do the {
Kings that He knows there Is but
me inevitable outcome for. and tina:
6 eternal damnation in hell for the {
mpenitent. I
No Fog over Eyes.
There is no fog or mist over the :
yes and the mind OF the Holy Spirit, t,
ny friends, about eternal damnatIon
or the impenitent IL he does not turn
rom his sin and yield to Jesus Christ.
And this sensitiveness presents to
ne the Father and his love, too. !
Where there is no love you cannot
Srieve. 1t is analogous to the feel :
ngs of a mother whose heart breaks
because her boy, by some act. has put :
/ stain upon the family escutcheon :
hat nothing can ever erase-becaube !
hat girl, by her good -for-nOth =
'oquettish ways, and her gOdt !
life, and the miserable
lunch she goes with, she will soon,
ir. present to the world the mute !
violence of Illicit affection. and by :
ler you help to feed the red light
4 some great city. Or the nun who q,
wore to be true to you as long as =
he sky and waves were blue and has :,
urned from that marriage vow and |,
'rOken it as II II were made Of =
pider webs, until he has made the a
ame synonymous with everything y
hat is low down, groveling. and in n
amous in the world. 'Grieve not the h
pirit of Cod" q
So important is the office work =
I the Spirit that / read, Wherefore h
say unto you. all manner OF sin and c
lasphemy shall be given unto men;
ut the blasphemy against the Holy