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Ghost?
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Rev. F. B.
this book
To
gratefully dedicated
the former, because in his public ministry and
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is
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he has been a great inspiration.
To
the
because two years ago, in a single sentence,
life to me when he led me to

know more about the Spirit of God.
Under God, to both of these, his servants, I owe
he opened up a new
an inexpressible debt of gratitude.
CONTENTS
PAGE
CAP
I.
What
a.
How MAY
Know Him ?
31
3.
How MAY
Receive Him ?
65
4.
What
saith the Scripture?
of the Result ?
loi
RECEIVED
WHAT
YE THE
HOLY GHOST
SAITH
THE SCRIPTURE?
?
WHAT SAITH
Cap
THE SCRIPTURE?
" Search the Scriptures

have eternal Hfe
me.
-John
for in
Gen.
moved upon
xxxiii.
testify of
V. 39.
yiTTRIBUTES OF THE
^^
them ye think ye
and they are they which
i.
And
SPIRIT.
the Spirit of
the face of the waters.
The
HOLY
Spirit of
God
Job
God hath made
me, and the breath of the Almightyhath
me
given
Whither
shall I
whither shall
Isa. xl. 13:
Hfe.
Ps.
cxxxix. 7
go from thy Spirit? or
I flee
from thy presence ?
Who hath directed the Spirit

11
RECEIVED YE THE HOLY GHOST?

of the Lord, or being his counselor hath
taught him
Zech.
iv.
nor by power, but by

the
Lord
shall
Not by might,
my
Spirit, saith
Luke
of hosts.
Holy Ghost
i.
come upon
35
The
and
thee,
the power of the Highest shall over-
shadow thee
therefore also that holy
thing which shall be born of thee shall
be called the Son of God.
to
lie
Why
hath Satan
to the
Holy Ghost ? 4
63
vi.
the Spirit that quickeneth..
It is
V. 3
John
Acts
thine heart
filled
:
Thou
hast
not lied unto men, but unto God.

Cor.
ii.
10
But God hath revealed them
unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit

searcheth
of
God.
all
1 1
things, yea, the

:
deep things
For what man knoweth
the things of a man, save the spirit of
man which is in him ? even so the things

of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit
12
U^HAT SAITH THE SCRIPTURE?
Heb.
Spirit.
I
Heb.
God.
of
Peter
of
God
29
x.
eternal
Spirit of grace.
and
Spirit of glory
upon you.
resteth
Seven lamps
The
The
14:
iv.
The
14:
ix.
Rev.
iv. 5
of fire burning before the
throne, which are the seven Spirits of
God.
Rev.
xi.
The
11:
Spirit of life
from God.
Miraculous Influences of the
Holy
Spirit.
it
shall
will
flesh;
come
Joel
ii.
my
Spirit
men
your young men
and
also
all
pour out
But
of
if
my
shall
shall
upon the servants
and upon the handmaids
Spirit
upon
prophesy, your old
see visions
that
and your sons and your daugh-
dream dreams,
28
And
pass afterward,
to
pour out
ters shall
will I
28, 29:
in those
Spirit.
Matt.
days
xii.
out devils by the
cast
God, then the kingdom of

13
God
come unto you.
is
For John
but ye
Acts
Ghost
is
But ye
power, after that the Holy
come upon you
be witnesses unto
and
be baptized with the Holy
Ghost not many days hence.

shall receive
5,
with water;
truly baptized
shall
i.
me both
in all Judea,
and
and ye
shall
Jerusalem,
in
Samaria, and
in
unto the uttermost part of the earth.
Acts
ii.
2-4
And
suddenly there came
a sound from heaven as of a rushing
mighty wind, and
filled all
it
where they were
the house
And
sitting.
there
appeared unto them cloven tongues
and
as of
fire,
And
they were
it
sat
upon each
all filled
like
of them.
with the Holy
Ghost, and began to speak with other

tongues, as the Spirit gave
ance.
Acts
viii.
them
utter-
15-17: Who, when they
were come down, prayed

14
for them, that
M/HAT SAITH THE SCRIPTURE?

they might receive the Holy Ghost
as yet he
was
fallen
upon none
only they were baptized in the

the Lord Jesus.)
Then
laid
of
(for
them
name
of
they their
hands on them, and they received the
Holy Ghost.
Acts
x.
44, 46:
While
Peter yet spake these words, the Holy
Ghost
word.
fell
on
all
them which heard the
For they heard them speak with
tongues, and magnify God.
2-6
He
said unto them.
Acts
xix.
Have ye
re-
ceived the Holy Ghost since ye believed
And
so
they said unto him,
much
We
have not
as heard whether there be
Holy Ghost.
And
any
he said unto them,
Unto what then were ye baptized ? And

they
said,
said Paul,
Unto John's baptism.

John
Then
verily baptized with the
baptism of repentance, saying unto the

people, that they should believe on
15
him

which should come
after him, that
When
Christ Jesus.
they were baptized
Lord
his
they heard
name
in the
And when
Jesus.
on
this,
of the
Paul had laid
hands upon them, the Holy Ghost
came on them
and they spake with
tongues, and prophesied.
9-1
is,
To another
Spirit
xii.
by the same
faith
to another the gifts of healing
the same Spirit

of miracles
to another the
spirits
divers kinds of tongues
interpretation of tongues
by
working
prophecy
to another
another discerning of
to
to another
to another the
:
but
all
these
one and
the
selfsame
dividing to every
man
severally
worketh
Spirit,
Cor.
as he will.
that
Gal.
ministereth to
eth miracles
iii.
you the
among
He
therefore that
Spirit,
and work-
you, doeth he
the works of the law, or

16
it
by
by the hearing
IVHAT SAITH
of faith
them
Heb.
ii.
THE SCRIPTURE?
4
God
also bearing
and won-
witness, both with signs
and with divers miracles, and
ders,
of the
Holy Ghost, according
to his
gifts
own
will.
Prayer for the Holy

Ps.
1 1
li.
me.
Luke
xi.
Take not thy Holy
Spirit.
Spirit
Uphold me with thy free

13
how
to give
dren
If
ye then, being
good
gifts
how much more
from
Spirit.
evil,
unto your
know
chil-
your hea-
shall
venly Father give the Holy Spirit to them

that ask
him ?
Acts
iv. 3
When they
had prayed, the place was shaken where

they were assembled together
were
Eph.
all
iii.
filled
with
the
and they
Holy Ghost.
16: That he would grant you,
according to the riches of his glory, to
be strengthened with might by

in the inner
man.
17
his Spirit
received ye the holy- ghost?

Sins against the
Isa. Ixiii.
Holy
his
to
lo:
They
Spirit
Holy
Spirit.
rebelled,
and vexed
therefore he
was turned
be their enemy.
Matt.
31
xii.
the blasphemy against the
But
Holy Ghost
be forgiven unto men.
shall not
32
And
whosoever speaketh a word against
the
Son
him
the
of
man,
shall
it
be forgiven
but whosoever speaketh against
Holy Ghost,
shall not
it
be forgiven
him, neither in this world, neither in the
world to come.
Mark
iii.
29
But he
that shall blaspheme against the
Holy
Ghost hath never forgiveness, but

in
vii.
danger of eternal damnation.

51:
Ye do
always
resist
the
is
Acts
Holy
Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.
Acts
viii.
18-20:
saw that through
And when Simon

laying
on of the
Apostles' hands the Holy Ghost was

18
JVHAT SAITH THE SCRIPTURE?

given, he offered
Give
me
soever
them money, saying.
also this power, that
hands, he
lay
Holy Ghost.
the
him.
on whom-
may
But Peter
Thy money
receive
said unto
perish with thee, be-
cause thou hast thought that the
God may be purchased

Eph.
iv.
30
of God.
with money.
Grieve not the Holy Spirit

Thess.
Heb.
the Spirit.
gift of
19:
v.
29
x.
Quench not
Of how much
sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he
be thought worthy, who hath
despite unto the Spirit of grace

ii.
He
what the
that hath an ear, let
done
Rev.
him hear
unto the churches.
Spirit saith
The Work and Influence of

THE Holy Spirit. Gen. vi. 3 My
Spirit shall not

Isa. xliv. 3
him that
is
always strive with man.
For
I will
thirsty,
19
pour water upon
and floods upon

the dry ground
upon thy
thine
seed,
the
When
my blessing
4: And they
upon
among
spring up as
19:
Spirit
pour
and
offspring.
lows by
my
will
the grass, as wil-
watercourses.
enemy
the
Isa.
Lord
up a standard against him.
Spirit that
which
is
upon
and
thee,
have put
lix.
come
shall
like a flood, the Spirit of the

lift
shall
my
in
shall
:
My
words
thy mouth, shall
in
not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of

the
29
mouth
Neither
Hag.
I
Spirit
ii.
hide
will I
more from them
my
Ezek. xxxix.
of thy seed.
my
face
any
have poured out
for I
upon the house
of
According
word that
to the
Israel.
covenanted with you when ye came
out of Egypt, so
among
you.
my
Zech.
upon the house
Spirit
xii.
of
20
remaineth
10: I will pour
David, and upon
IVHAT SAITH THE SCRIPTURE?

the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit
and
of grace
shall look
of supplications
upon me
whom
and they
they have
pierced, and they shall mourn.

iii.
1 1
indeed baptize you with water
unto repentance
tize
Matt,
but
... he
bap-
shall
you with the Holy Ghost, and with
fire.
John
of the
water that
never
thirst
iv.
14:
Whosoever drinketh
I shall
give him shall
but the water that
I shall
give him shall be in him a well of water
springing up into everlasting

vii.
38
He
John
life.
that believeth on me, as the
Scripture hath said, out of his belly shall
flow rivers of living water.

this
spake he of the
that believe on
Spirit,
39
(But
which they
him should receive
the Holy Ghost was not yet given
for
be-
cause that Jesus was not yet glorified.)
John
xiv.
16,
17:
21
\m\\
pray the

Father, and he shall give you another
Comforter,
you forever
whom
it
may
he
that
abide
even the Spirit of truth
the world cannot receive, because
him
seeth
but ye
knoweth him
not, neither
know him
he dwelleth with
for
you, and shall be in you.
When
with
the Comforter
John
come,
is
xv. 26
whom
send unto you from the Father,
will
even the Spirit of
truth,
which proceed-
eth from the Father, he shall testify of
John
me.
you
that
xvi.
It is
go away
for
if
you.
When
he
prove the world of

ness,
He
go not away,
depart, I will send
if I
come unto you
the Comforter will not
but
expedient for
and
of
is
sin,
him unto
come, he
and
judgment.
will re-
of righteous-
John xx. 22
breathed on them, and saith unto
them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost. Acts

22
IVHAT SAITH
ii.
38
THE SCRIPTURE?
Repent, and be baptized every-
one of you
in the
name
of Jesus Christ
for the remission of sins,
receive the gift of the

iii.
and ye
shall
Holy Ghost. Acts
may be
19: That your sins
blotted
out, v^hen the times of refreshing shall
come from
Acts
V.
the presence of the Lord.
32
We
are his witnesses of
these things;
and so
Ghost, v^hom
God
that obey him.
Holy Ghost.
Holy
also the
hath given to them
Acts
man
Stephen, a
is
vi. 5
They chose
and
full of faith
Acts
ix.
of the
31: Walking in
the fear of the Lord, and in the comfort

of the
Holy Ghost,
Acts
X.
44
them
v^hich heard the vôrd.
vvêre
multiplied.
The Holy Ghost
on
fell
45
all
And
they of the circumcision which believed
were astonished, as many as came with

Peter, because that
on the Gentiles
23
also
was poured out the

Acts
Ghost.
man, and
xi.
full of
The
24
the
gift
of the
He was
a good
Holy Ghost.
Acts
were
with
xiii.
52:
joy,
and with the Holy Ghost.
XV. 8
Holy
disciples
filled
Acts
God, which knoweth the hearts,
bare them witness, giving them the Holy

Ghost, even as he did unto
viii.
1 1
If
Rom.
us.
the Spirit of him that raised
up Jesus from the dead dwell
in you,
he that raised up Christ from the dead

shall also
his
quicken your mortal bodies by
Spirit that
As many
as
dwelleth in you.
are led
by the
14:
Spirit of
God, they are the sons of God.
23:
Not only
they, but ourselves also, which
have the
first-fruits of
viii.
26
infirmities
The
:
for
Spirit
the Spirit.
also
we know
should pray for as
helpeth our
not what
we ought
24
Rom.
we
but the
U^HAT SAITH THE SCRIPTURE?

maketh
Spirit itself
intercession for us
with groanings which cannot be uttered.

27
And
he that searcheth the hearts
knoweth what
mind
the
is
of the Spirit,
because he maketh intercession for the

according to the will
saints
Rom.
XV. 13:
of
God.
That ye may abound
in
hope, through the power of the Holy

Ghost.
Cor.
words
ii.
Not with
man's wisdom, but
of
and
stration of the Spirit
Cor.
iii.
16:
Know
in
enticing
demon-
of power,
ye not that ye are
the temple of God, and that the Spirit

of
God
dwelleth in you
Cor.
xii.
Now there are diversities of gifts, but the

same
Spirit.
the Spirit
is
withal.
Spirit.
The
manifestation of
given to every
To
man
to profit
another faith by the same
Cor.
i.
22
Who
hath also
sealed us, and given the earnest of the

25

Spirit in our hearts.
ye are
sons,
Spirit of his
Gal.
God hath
Son
Abba, Father.
into
iv.
Because
sent forth the
your
Gal. v. 5
hearts, crying,
:
We
through
the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness
by
and ye
flesh.
shall
1
Walk
16:
faith.
not
fulfil
For the
in the Spirit,
the lust of the
flesh lusteth against
the Spirit, and the Spirit against the

flesh
and these are contrary the one
to the other;
so that
ye cannot do the
things that ye would.
be led of the
the law.
25
18:
we
live in the Spirit,
If
He
Gal.
vi.
that soweth to the Spirit shall of
the Spirit reap

13,
ye
ye are not under
us also walk in the Spirit.
i.
if
Spirit,
let
:
But
14:
life
everlasting.
Eph.
After that ye beHeved, ye
were sealed with that Holy

promise, which
is
Spirit
of
the earnest of our in26

heritance until the redemption of the
purchased possession, unto the praise of
Eph.
his glory.
we both have
access
22
the Father.
ii.
In
Through him
by one
Spirit
whom
ye also are
unto
builded together for a habitation of
through the
Eph.
Spirit.
iv.
God
En-
deavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit

in the
bond
of peace.
body, and one

called in
Spirit,
There
one
even as ye are
one hope of your
The Holy
is
30:
calling.
God, whereby ye are
Spirit of
sealed unto the day of redemption. Eph.
The
of the Spirit
is
in all
goodness and righteousness and
truth.
V.
9:
fruit
18:
Be
18
Praying always with
filled
with the
suppHcation in the
This shall turn to
Spirit.
all
Spirit.
my
vi.
prayer and
Phil.
i.
19:
salvation through
your prayer, and the supply

27
Eph.
of the Spirit

of Jesus Christ,
and
also in power,
i.
Our
word
in
Tim.
Holy Ghost.
in the
much
in
with joy of the Holy Ghost.

7
i.
God hath
spirit of fear
and
gos-
only, but
Having received the word
affliction,
Thess.
came not unto you
pel
not given us the
but of power, and of love,
sound mind.
of a
14:
That good
thing which was committed unto thee
keep by the Holy Ghost which dwelleth

in
us.
John
he abideth
in us,
he hath given
know ye
24
iii.
us.
We
by the
i
John
the Spirit of
know
we
that
we
is
of
God.
Hereby
God Every
:
that confesseth that Jesus Christ

in the flesh
is
John
V.
spirit
come
Hereby know
dwell in him, and he in us,
because he hath given us of his

I
which
Spirit
iv.
that
It is
Spirit.
the Spirit that bear-
eth witness, because the Spirit

28
is
truth.

7
For there are three that bear record
in heaven, the Father,
the
Holy Ghost
8
one.
And
and these three are
there are three that bear
witness in earth, the
and the blood
faith,
Rev.
you, and peace,

Spirits
and the water,
i.
from
praying
xxii.
say,
Come.
The
Spirit
29
in
the
Grace be unto
which are before
Rev.
in
Building up yourselves
on your most holy
Holy Ghost.
spirit,
and these three agree
Jude 20
one.
Word, and
the
the seven
his
throne.
and the bride
RECEIVED
YE THE
HOLY GHOST ?
31
HOW may
KNOW HIM?
Cap
II
"Afterward he brought
the house
me
HOW MAY
KNOW HIM?
again unto the door of
and, behold, waters issued out from un-
der the threshold of the house eastward."
Ezek.
xlvii. I.
ATOTHING
^
could be more important,
in these days,
than a clear discern-
ment
of the character
Holy
Spirit.
There
and the work
of the
perhaps more ig-
is
norance concerning him than any other

part of revealed truth.
By many
he
is
regarded as an undefinable influence.
By many
others he
is
33
supposed to come

and go
in a
vague
way; now
sort of
with the Christian and
now
absent from
him to-day with the church, to-morrow

;
in
some
distant part
All this
work.
is
unscriptural,
who
grieve him,
of the world at
as
with the true child of
and must"^
certainly
God
ABIDES
as that Jesus
died and arose again.
To know him aright has always meant

POWER. To be ignorant of him has always meant confusion and ultimate defeat.
The promise
POWER,
you."
''
Ye
shall receive/
Holy Ghost coming upon\
the
It
is,
is
a possible thing for our-^
creed to outrun our intelligence.

again and again,
Ghost."
Is
it
''
We say/
believe in the Holy\
really true?
With a
sin^
gle church believing in
him we might
|
move
the world for God.
There
is
both ignorance and

34
"^
indif-
HOF^
MAY
KNOIV HIM?
ference concerning him, and the reason

is
most apparent.
This
sation of the Spirit."
knows
in
It
And
in at Pentecost.
is
the
''
dispen-
was ushered
Satan very well
that so long as he can keep us
doubt
as
the
to
Spirit's
work, or
mystified as to his personality or presence, just so long he has nothing in us

to fear.
He
cares not for your intel-
lectual greatness
snare of
sees
he
but he trembles when he
it
FILLED
one
can make a very
WITH THE Holy
Ghost.
Three propositions
would be glad
to
impress upon the mind, and in the light

of
them we
study together the third
shall
person of the TRINITY

personality^
guments
First,
he has a
might present many
to prove
my
statement.
ar-
What
stronger could there be than the words

35

of our
Lord himself ?
And
''
I will
the Father, and he shall give

f
pray
you an-
other Comforter, that he
may
you forever; even the
Spirit of truth;
whom
it
abide with
the world cannot receive, because
seeth him not, neither
but ye know him
for
knoweth him
he dwelleth with
you, and shall be in you."

i6, 17.)
(John
xiv.
Notice the word ''another."
This indicates that he
is
to take the place
Could anything
of Jesus himself.
less
than a person take the place of a person ?
Notice also the personal pronouns
repeated as the Master speaks of the

Comforter.
14,
Refer also to John
xvi. 13,
where the pronouns are again
re-
peated, and then read what Paul writes

to
the
Holy
You
Ephesians
Spirit
of
" Grieve
God."
(Eph.
not the
iv.
30.)
surely cannot grieve an influence,

36
HOIV
and
us
this
is
believe
MAY
all
KNOIV HIM?
some would have
that
him
Either they
be.
to
are mistaken or the Apostle
Which
position do
Secofid,
This being true
not zvait to be
his fullness.
in error.
you take?
this is his dispensation.
we need
is
with
filled
Some have thought
all
this
necessary, and have quoted the experi-
ence of the waiting disciples at Pentecost as a proof; but
it is
be remem-
to
bered that they were waiting for the
coming
live in
in of a dispensation, while
it.
The Holy Ghost
place said to have

Pentecost.
we have
will
left
he
TJiird,
fulfilled
will
they are as follows
later,
:
fill
but
First,
when
us
These
in a
word
make an un-
conditional surrender to him, and let
abide in you, not because

37
no
the world after
the conditions.
be explained
in
is
we
it is
his
him
work

to
do
but because you have bidden
so,
Throw open every door
him.
your
of
nature,
and give him undisputed pos-
session.
Second, beheve his promise
''That
we might
receive
the Spirit through
Do
had
man
rant,
He
(Gal.
/<7//>^."
iii.
14.)
all
no respecter of persons.
is
former parish a young Irish-
in a
would declare him
and he was
but
had
of all that
out the "
When
man
of
we
the
men
and laying before them

in
mind, told them
first
could do nothing with-
infilling of the
this
men
together a few of the
of the church,
the plan
With
secret.
a heart burdened for the

city, I called
to be igno-
God marvelously
This was the
used him.
this
promise of
these things, then trust him to do
his work.
I
\\\^
Holy Ghost."
had been explained
leave the room.

38
noticed
He
did not
HO^V
MAY
KNOJV HIM?
return while the meeting was In session.
When
sought him
of the lower
ally
on
"
shall
God,
He was
God.
plead with thee for this
God were showing
if
him what was
in the
Father,
give up every
only
in
never forget his peti-
blessing;" then, as
I will
one
in
of the church, liter-
his face before
prayer.
tion
rooms
found him
"
My
known
sin,
way, he said
plead with thee for power;" and
then, as
if
his individual sins
were pass-
ing before him, he said again and again

"
I will
give
them up
I will
Then, without any emotion, he
up."
from
rose
his
knees,
turned his face
heavenward, and simply said
now
them
give
claim the blessing."
For the
time he became sensible of

ence,
''
:
my
And
first
pres-
and with a shining countenance
he reached out
his
hands to clasp mine.

39
You
could feel the very presence of the
Spirit as
I
he said
**
have received him
And I
have received him."
believe he
had, for in the next few months he led
more than
sixty
men
into the
had been trans-
of God.
His whole
life
formed.
He
now being
is
just
we are
awaiting many
thing
of the
we
use,
many
for
differ
one
this
there
is
an enlarging vision
of us
Holy Ghost
but of
persuaded
all
set apart
We may
to preach the gospel.

as to the terms
kingdom
could say,
as did the disciples at Ephesus, "
We
have not so much as heard whether there

be any Holy Ghost."
Whether we speak
baptism, an
or an anointing,
us himself, for
we
him and not a mere experience

latter
may
2.)
of this vision as a
infilling,
may he show
(Acts xix.
seek
;
the
be a thing of the moment,

40
HOJV MAY
KNOIV HIM?
the former abides forever.
(John
xiv.
16.)
/
/
The
forty-seventh chapter of Ezekiel
me
gives to
Holy
the
There
river,
it
is
it
is,
and the work he does.
something
in the source of the
in the direction in
something
in its increasing
which
depth
nears the sea, and something in
fruited
we
Spirit
something
runs,
as
a beautiful figure of what
banks to lead us to him of
study.
ple from
which the
suggestive.
in the
in
river flows.
where
It is
the temple
Old Testament was divided

:
first,
his
way
into
the outer court,
which any child of
make
whom
mind the tem-
As you know,
three main parts

into
have
First
its
Israel
might
second, the holy place,
white-robed
only the
might walk to and
fro
41
and
priests
third, the

holy of holies, where only the high priest
might go, and that but once a year. This
Old Testament temple
typifies the
which Paul speaks
ple of
Testament
Know
''
:
in the
tem-
New
ye not that ye are
the temple of God, and that the Spirit

of
1
God
So the
6.)
fold
Cor.
division
iii.
Testament temple
There
17.)
iii.
New
(i
''Which temple ye are."
yourself:
Cor.
you?"
dwelleth in
is
(i
likewise a three-
There
here.
is
is
first
the
outer court, which corresponds to the
body
the second court
court
third
the
is
is
the soul, the
spirit.
There are
some people who never
live
beyond the
outer court; but such do not understand
what
it is
for the
to live.
body
influenced
*'
He
to
It is
a possible thing
be controlled,
by the
that raised
Spirit, for
or, at least,
we
read
up Christ from the dead

42
MAY
HOJV
quicken your mortal bodies
shall also
by
(Rom.
that dwelleth
Spirit
his
KNOIV HIM?
ii.)
viii.
It
is
you."
in
apparent to
that he works in the soul, that

real
Spirit manifests
/
Here
the ^*ego."
self,
himself, for
is,
the
the
also
we
all
read
" Seeing ye have purified your souls in
obeying the truth through the
(i
Peter
But
22.)
i.
Spirit."
must be aware
all
that there are experiences deeper than
the soul, and thus

spirit; this is
we
are led to the
the "holy of holies."
It
has been called " the secret place of the

j
i
I
Most High."
And
dwells.
we read
f
The
in
(i
Spirit
"
God
" For ye are bought with a
and
God's."
"
the place where
here the Spirit works, for
therefore
price:
body,
It is
glorify
your
Cor.
vi.
20.)
in
your
which are
spirit,
himself
43
God
And
again:
beareth witness
.--

with our
of
spirit,
that
(Rom.
God."
we
viii.
are the children
And just
i6.)
which reference has
in the chapter to
been made the sanctuary was so

with the water that
it
of the altar eastward, so
be "
filled
we may
with the Spirit," and so
for ourselves,
the manifestation of
illustrated
in
be swayed by
may be
but there
power
to others,
the flowing river.
whole nature, body,
soul,
and
his presence.
ple pictures the real
filled
communion,
that there shall not only be

is,
filled
rushed out by the
way
that
as
spirit,
If
the
self,
Our
may
the tem-
man
of
to-day, then the water must stand for
something.
God, what would you say?
we
are
Word of
I am sure
In the light of the
making no mistake when we say
that the water typifies the
Holy Ghost.
We surely have the right to say as much,

44
MAY
HOIV
KNOIV HIM?
for Jesus himself said
the
woman
of
Samaria he said
whosoever drinketh
shall give
him
the water that

in
him a well
is
the
last
plainer
But
water that
of the
never thirst; but
I shall
give him shall be
of water springing
(John
iv.
indwelling Spirit."
day
*'
:
shall
everlasting life."
*'
Speaking to
it.
of the feast
when he
said
''
He
into
14.)
This
But
at the
he made
up
still
it
that believ-
eth on me, as the Scripture hath said,
out of his
belly
Hving water.
shall
(But this
flow rivers
of
spake he of
the Spirit, which they that believe on
him should receive
for the
Holy Ghost
was not yet given; because that Jesus
was not yet

39.)
This
is
glorified."
(John
vii.
38,
the river flowing out from
the sanctuary, running through the desert,
healing the waters of the sea of

45
life.
God
This
figures or types.
It
by means
often speaks to us
may be both
each
profit-
emblems
of the
come
will
illustration.
and
interesting
able to present other

Spirit, for
an
is
of
to us with a
particular lesson.
THE WIND.
I.
Sometimes he
is
figure of the wind,
when we would
spoken of under the
and
this
is
generally
present his quickening,
There
powerful, penetrating influence.
many
are
things about
mentioned,
all
of
it
which
may be
which help us to under-
stand the work of the Spirit the better.

^
wind
First, the
bloweth where
est the
is invisible:
it listeth,
''The wind
and thou hear-
sound thereof, but thou canst not
tell
whence
eth
so
is
it
cometh, and whither
every one that

46
is
it
go-
born of the
HOIV
Spirit"
MAY
(John
KNOIV HIM}
8.)
iii.
To my mind
beautifully presents to us one
to
draw attention
Son.
We
not
to himself, but to the
are told in another place con-
cerning the Son, that he

of
of the
He came
chief traits of the Spirit.
this
''
made
himself
no reputation, and took upon himself
the form of a servant, and was
made
the likeness of men,"
7.)
(Phil.
ii.
But
made
herein was the love of the Spirit

manifest, for he
came
without even the
Suppose
he
had
in
the world
into
form of a servant.
become
incarnate,
would there not have been a temptation to forget the incarnate
Son
in the
contemplation of the incarnate Spirit?
The Holy Ghost always
magnifies the
Lord Jesus QXm^t^ just as
the river from
the sanctuary ran
the
wind
is
eastward.
penetrating.
47
It
Second,
is
said
vacuum."
that "nature abhors a

is
but
true,
vacuum, and we may
Spirit abhors a
assured that just as soon as the
rest
room
made
is
for
He
overflowing.
but
him he
till
surrendered
ishness, sin,
will
all
feel the blessedness
we have
forsaken
selfishness
God,
if
found
The
valley
the dead
came
is pozverfiil.
is
all
for self-
we would have
Third, the
the Spirit in his fullness.
tion
us to
and worldliness cannot pos-
sess the child of
wind
fill
abides with us now,
we may never
of his presence
sin,
likewise true that the
is
it
This
perfect illustra-
in the valley of
was
filled
when
the
dry bones.
with the bones of
word
of the
to his servant to prophesy.
Lord
John
McNeil says he can imagine that Ezekiel

looked
"
Yes
down and he was
"
;
afraid to say
he looked up and he was afraid

48
MAY
HOIV
to say "
Lord
No " and
;
God,
thou
prophesied as
as
KNOIV HIM?
so he answered, "
So
knowest."
"
was commanded
and
prophesied, there was a noise, and
behold a shaking, and the bones came together,

held,
bone
lo,
And when
to bone.
be-
came
the sinews and the flesh
up upon them, and the
skin covered
them above but there was no breath

:
them.
Then he
said unto me.
in
Prophesy
unto the wind, prophesy, son of man,
and say
to
Lord God
breath,
the wind.
Come from
Thus
saith
the
the four winds,
and breathe upon these
may live. So I
he commanded me, and
slain,
that they
prophesied >
as
the breath
came
into
them, and they lived, and f
stood up upon their

great army."
Surely this
is
feet,
(Ezek.
an exceeding \
xxxvii.
a picture of
49
all
7-10.)
that the

church might be,
we
if
were, as individ-
with the Spirit."
uals, ''filled
II.
The dove
is
THE DOVE.
an emblem of the Holy
com-
Spirit, telling of his loving, tender,
forting work.
birds,
all
the most lovely.
is
for its
This, of
mate
is
Its aflfection
almost pathetic.
choice of a home, in the

keeps, in
self,
it
is
In
company
food, as well as in
its
its
a beautiful picture of
that the Spirit

helpful to
the family of
me
may be
to
receive him fully

of his nature.
in us.
know
its
it
very
much
It is
very
that
when we
we become
partakers
One could
not be petu-
lant, impatient, censorious, disagreeable,
and be
filled
of his
fullness
with his fullness.
we have
50
For when
received,
we
HO^V
have
''
MAY
(John
KNOIV HIM?
grace for grace," and what can
mean but
this
i.
Galatians
the Spirit
a dupHcation of graces
In Paul's letter to the
6.)
we
read
**
:
But the fnnt
temperance
no law."
of
love, joy, peace, long-suffer-
is
meek-
ing, gentleness, goodness, faith,
ness,
against such there
You
(Gal. v. 22, 23.}
notice that the
word
''fruit"
is
is
will
used
in
the singular number, and the inference
must be that when we give ourselves up

to the Spirit
graces, but
is
we
all
have, not one of these
of them.
First, the
Surely here
a patient bird.
us a lesson of the Spirit.
it
dove
brings
We
have
grieved him a thousand times, and yet

the same tender, patient Spirit.
he
is
As
another has said
he
is
grieved."
''
*'
:
Look
at the
way
Let no corrupt com-
munication proceed out of your mouth,

51

but that which
edifying, that
is
it
may
And
the hearers.
good
to the use of
minister grace to
grieve not the
Holy
God, whereby ye are sealed unto
Spirit of
the day of redemption. Let
bitterness,
all
and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and
away from you,
speaking, be put
evil
with
malice
all
and be ye kind one
to
another, tender-hearted, forgiving one
another, even as
God
for Christ's sake
hath forgiven you."
Compare
this
(Eph.
iv.
29-32.)
with the malice and
evil
speaking and censoriousness and slander that are notoriously

professing
Christians
wonder that the Holy
Every
common among
we no longer
Spirit
word, every
idle
is
grieved.
unkind
ex-
pression, every unholy thought grieves
him, yet he
to
fill
us
tarries,
with
his
52
waiting, yearning
blessed
presence
'
''X
HO IV MAY
and power.
KNOH^ HIM?
Second,
We
loving bird.
and
all
dove
is
are well acquainted
with the thought that

loves us,
the
God
must be
the Father
sensible of the
love of the Son, but of the. love of the

Spirit
we
Paul
writes
are not so well informed.

:
"
Now
beseech
Yet
you,
brethren, for the Lord Jesus Christ's
and
sake,
love of the Spirit,
for the
that ye strive together with
God
prayers to
'*
30.)
sinner
The
who
for
me
in
your
(Rom. xv.
me."
love of the Spirit for every
trusts in Christ for salvation
can be measured only by the
infinite
and eternal love
and by
of the Father,
the intense, self-sacrificing, boundless,
and unchanging love

first
mention of the Spirit
Testament suggests
"
of the Son."
And
the Spirit
his love.
in the
The
Old
We read
moved upon
the face
-^^'^^^^"~-
^^""
53
'

(Gen.
of the waters."
"
The word
2.)
i.
Hebrew
**
moved
*'
brooded," giving us the figure of the
the
in
Hterally
is
mother-bird hovering over her 3ôung;
and
it
if
means
This
word
the
studied more closely,
to be ''tremulous with love."
the
is
is
and he
picture,
first
same yesterday, to-day, and
To be
''filled
means
to
What
be
with
with
a transformation
to the individual
and
this
love to
we
my
read
"
thus
spirit.
would mean
it
to the church
would mean the reclaiming

In Isaiah
forever."
Spirit"
the
filled
" the
is
of the lost.
But thou hast
soul delivered
it
margin you read that
" thou hast loved

pit."
It
up
my
it
and
means
soul from the
would mean the winning
souls.
54
in
from the
pit of corruption " (Isa. xxxviii. 17),
in the
It
of
HOIV
may
It
MAY
been
and
converts
speaking for
The people crowded around
her only for the purpose of
At
ridicule.
one evening when she had told her
last,
story with
the pathos with which
all
she was capable, she went
down from the
platform and pushed her

the
that
Miss Booth
in France.
singing
know
Army
Salvation
first
was thus won
weeks.
KNOJV HIM?
be interesting to
one of the
had
crowd
till
way through
she reached a fallen
sitting in the rear of the
room.
girl
She
threw her arms about her neck and

kissed her
upon the
so,
''
My
first
other,
dear
upon one cheek, then

and she
sister,
said as she did
would that
could love you into the kingdom."

girl
looked up
lips
like
cheeks in
those
many
in a startled
The
way; pure
had not touched her

a day.
55
She burst
into

Miss Booth led her sobbing to
tears.
the penitent form, where with true re-
pentance she cried out for forgiveness.
God saved
her and she has been a good
Oh, that the church
soldier ever since.
might be
filled
"Come, Holy
with this
Spirit,
spirit!
heavenly Dove,
With all thy quickening powers

Come, shed abroad a Saviour's love,
:
And
that shall kindle ours."
III.
THE
When God would

healing,
comforting,
OIL.
reveal to us the
illuminating,
and
consecrating influences of the Spirit, he

directs
shadows
our
minds to the
oil,
which
forth these characteristics.
In
a part of the description of the ancient

tabernacle
you read
for the light."
this
sentence
(Ex. xxxv.
8.)
" Oil
This sug-
gests the illustration another has used,

56
MAY
HOH/
KNOIV HIM?
letting the oil represent the Spirit, the
wick the Christian, and the light stand

for the result of the union of the two.
There may be an abundance of

a plentiful supply of wick
oil
and
there can-
not be light until the two are brought

together.
us,
and
know
the Spirit abides in
will forever,
but there can never
be a manifestation of his powder
till
by
the consent of our wills he has undis-
The two may be
puted possession.
brought together, and for a time the

light
is
is
brilliant,
dim and
but in a
flickering,
little
difficulty
become incrusted and must
be trimmed.
be right
it
and every house-
keeper can understand the

the wick has
while
wîth
It
is
God
not enough for us to

to-day, that
have a manifestation of
must KEEP RIGHT.
his
The
57
we may
power
secret
we
may be

found
one sentence
in
Even
sins instantly."
*'
:
if
Confess your
the
oil
and the
wick be brought together, there
is,
or no light,
little
still
that there
is
and the
may be
difficulty
a knot in the wick.
It is
not enough that the Spirit abide with

us
The
he does.
this
right in the sight of God.
When
9-13.)
money
with-
the
Ghost, he
failed,
not right.
We
power
the
civ.
*'
oil
He
to
the
Holy
because his heart was
when
the heart
the very fullness of

is
make
It is
15.)
of
have, however, the priv-
we have
himself.
(Acts
he tried to purchase
ilege of believing that
right
This was the
with Simon the sorcerer.
difficulty
viii.
heart must be
is
God
sometimes said to be
the face shine."
not possible to be
(Ps.
filled
with the Holy Ghost and then simply

delight
in
the
fact
58
ourselves.
God
HOIV
MAY
KNOIV HIM?
never bestows such a
consume
it
we
gift that
upon our own
hists.
may-
He
is
the outflowing river, and also reveals
He
himself in the shining countenance.

is
called the " oil of gladness."
" There-
fore God, thy God, hath anointed thee
with the
lows."
oil
of gladness
(Ps. xlv. 7.)
above thy
fel-
a most com-
It is
forting thought that Satan ca.nnot rob^
us of our
life,
Christ in God."
of our JOY.
It
that
for
is
" hid
with
But he may deprive us

has been said that
it is
the work of Christ to bring us to heaven,
but
it is
the work of the Spirit to bring
heaven to us now.
The
us: ''In thy presence
is
(Ps. xvi. 11);
and
Psalmist
fullness of
since
it
is
the
tells
joy"
work
of the Spirit to lead us into God's pres-
ence, that
means
just
HEAVEN.
59
one thing, namely,
IV.
Water
the
THE WATER.
many
typical of
is
Sometimes
Bible.
things
stands
it
in-
for
judgment, sometimes for the Bible
it-
but most frequently for the Holy
self;
Ghost does
many
it
things
Very
stand as a type.
may be
said of the water,
and the same things apply
Holy
to the
Spirit.
it
water
without
money and without
r There
is
'
about the
\^free.
To
Spirit.
his fullness.
and
''
*'
By
by grace are we
refreshing.
still
"
waters."
this
rich or poor, to
come with
grace are
we
filled
all
saved,"
with his
Second, the water
blessed presence."
the
price.
no truer thought than
wise or ignorant, he will
is
We may have
First, the
He
leadeth
me
(Ps. xxiii. 2.)
60
beside
When
HOIV
the journey
and hard
MAY
is
KNOIV HIM?
and the way dusty
long,
to travel,
and weary, what
is
and we are worn
more refreshing than
the springs of water ?
We stoop to drink
and push out on our way

that the water
is
to the traveler, yea, a
thousand times more, the

is
to the
is
weary
ones.
Spirit of
The water
a well ''springing up."
from the throne,
it
rises
and here
munion
that
is
is
does
others.
us.
again to
Thus the
Spirit
brighter and his
to travel?
its
own
The
is
a river, and
itself,
but for
always leads
has not found that in
living for others he has
way
its
always refreshing.
not flow for
And who
in us
the thought of com-
water flowing out from us

that
God
comes
It
source, for water always seeks

level;
All /
rejoicing.
What
is
61
made
his
own path
this
own
easier
but the very
'\

best of refreshment?
is
cleansing.
work
the
to
'*
am
well aware that
sin,"
all
but
is
it
of the Spirit to bring that
may
remembrance, so we
him
God.
Sometimes
which means to
roSy
must have been

said
"
Be
it
is
''clear up."
in Paul's
work
''cleans-
ing" has several different meanings

of
the
speak of
The word
as cleansing.
Word
it is
of the blood of Jesus Christ
cleanse from
work
to
Third, the water
in the
katJia-
This
mind when he
careful for nothing
but
in
everything by prayer and supplication

with thanksgiving
let
your requests be
made known unto God.

of
God, which passeth
ing, shall
And
all
the peace
understand-
keep your hearts and minds
through Christ Jesus."
(Phil. iv. 6, 7.)
Careful for nothing, prayerful for everything, thankful for anything, as another
62
HOIV
has
MAY
which means to
glad to
God
KNOIV HIM?
Sometimes
said.
am
*'
know
surely does.
it
katharizo^
is
clean "
make
and
that this the Spirit of
We
are told to keep
ourselves ''unspotted from the world."
That would be most
difficult
were
not for the presence of the Spirit
him
it is
While
easy.
"shifts"
mine
at the
their
beginning of their
make them but

;
the end of the " shifts "

to
tell
going
hands and faces were
clean as they could
difficult
with
mountains
in the
of Colorado, I noticed the miners

into the
it
at
would be
it
whether they were by
nature black or white, and yet there
was one part

as clean as
that
of the face
which was
when they entered
was the
ball of the
eye
just
the mine
and that
not because no impurities had touched

it,
for
the mine was

63
filled
with such,

but because there
is
which keeps working
when
and uncleanness
be only
filled
all,
the time, and
its
it
are in the midst

in this world,
clean every whit
with the Spirit."
this river
source,
good
it
''
mind
its
We
away.
it
we may be kept
in
all
tear-gland
the least speck touches the eye
washes
of sin
little
if
but
we
Keep
from the sanctuary,
marvelous influence for
as
it
flows, and, not the least of
keep
in
mind the
flowed.
study
till
It will
we
direction in
which
bear us on in our
are in the very
his presence."
64
**
secret of
HOW may
RECEIVED
YE THE
HOLY GHOST
65
RECEIVE HIM?
HOW MAY
Cap
III
RECEIVE HIM?
" That we might receive the promise

through faith."
npHE
-*-
Gal.
Apostle Paul in his journeyings
had come
to
company
there a
were trying
holy
of the Spirit
14.
iii.
life.
in a
Ephesus and found

of twelve
rude
They were
They had been
way
men who
lead a
to
John's disciples.
instructed
by him
doctrine of repentance, and
it
in the
is
sup-
posed that they were members of the

church of Corinth.
there
Possibly because
was evidently something lacking in

67

their testimony, or, as others
posed, because they
nying the power of
have sup-
may have been deGod in their Hves or

them
conversation, the Apostle puts to
the question,
*'
Did ye receive the Holy
And
Ghost when ye beheved?

said unto him.
as hear
Nay, we did not so much
whether the Holy Ghost was."
(Acts xix.
ment
they
2,
R. V.)
It is
not for a mo-
be supposed that they were
to
ignorant of the existence of the Spirit,

for they
were Jews, and
their Scriptures
teemed with references

Then,
too,
to
his
work.
they must have heard John
speak of him.
What
they meant, un-
doubtedly, was that they had not heard

of
him
this
as the abiding Comforter
they were
members
like
many
of to-day.
cended the
Spirit
68
and
in
of the church-
When
came.
It
Jesus as-
was
his
HO^ MAY
work, as
it is
RECEIVE HIM?
now, to take up
David might
in the hearts of beHevers.
me"
Take not thy Holy
''
pray,
(Ps. H.
but
ii),
it
abode
his
Spirit
from
would be
a be-
trayal of ignorance for the child of
There
to offer such a petition to-day.
not a thought in the
is
ment suggesting
him away."
that
What
we
God
New
Testa-
"
grieve
may
a difference there
between the Old Testament picture

the Spirit and the
of
him
New Testament
There he
is
is
of
view
represented as
having his part in the work of creation

"
And
the Spirit of
God moved upon
the face of the waters."
(Gen.
He
is
of
deliverance for his people
there
made known
the Spirit of the
and he judged
war."
(Judges
i.
2.)
as the source
:
"
And
Lord came upon him,

Israel,
iii.
and went out
lo.)
69
He was
to
then,

as now, the spring of
courage
"
And
strength and
all
the Spirit of the Lord
came mightily upon him, and he

as he
would have rent a

But
xiv. 6.)
will
Testament he
pray the Father, and he
you another Comforter."

1
"
''And
the ''Comforter":
called
is
him
(Judges
kid."
New
in the
rent
shall give
(John
xiv.
He is called the Teacher or Guide

When the Spirit of truth is come, he
6.)
will
guide you into
all
truth."
(John
xvi. 13.)
There
in
the
is
an illustration of
Old Testament, which another
has used.
when
this truth
In the days of the flood,
Noah opened
the ark, the
little
the
window
of
dove flew over the
waters, and finding no place to rest the

sole of its foot,
it
came back again
to
He
go
the outstretched hand.

70
let
it
MAY
HOIV
RECEIVE HIM?
Flying hither and
forth a second time.

thither,
it
came back with an oHve
in its
mouth.
time,
and
it
the sole of
more
fies
He
go yet the third
found a resting-place for
its
foot,
and
The dove
forever.
the Spirit.
tells
let it
Moses,
returned no
generally typi-
In this case
burning
lips
in
at least
He came
of
Abraham, but
He came when
and plucked,
as
speaking
Isaiah,
the old dispensation he

abide.
it
Old Testament, breathing upon
through the
fied,
it
a story of his coming.
in the
leaf
is
in
not said to
Jesus was cruci-
it
were, the olive
leaf of
peace from the cross
olive
the symbol of peace), and bore
it
is
(for the
back to the presence of God, saying,
" Peace hath
the Son."
been made
in the
But he came the
at Pentecost, with a rushing

71
death of
third time
sound as

of a
mighty wind, and from that day
this
he has never gone back.
found
He
to
has
his abiding-place in the hearts of
beHevers.
It
is
interesting
is
manifested, and
how
his
Sometimes
described.
how he
notice
to
he
coming
is
is
repre-
sented as ''clothing" his chosen ones,

as, for
example
''
:
of Jerusalem, until
Tarry ye
ye be endued with
(Luke xxiv.
power from on high."

49.)
is
is
The word
translated "
endued
elsewhere rendered ''clothed."

also represented as "
indicate his freeness
pour out
i.
in the city
my
He
23.)
spirit
poured out," to
" Behold, I will
unto you."
or taking complete possession
shall
be
He
(Prov.
represented as " filHng,"
is
was predicted
"
of
filled
John the
of.
Baptist, "
It
He
with the Holy Ghost."

72
HOIV MAY
And
far
RECEIVE HIM?
to be " filled with the Spirit "
more a
scriptural
expression than
Holy Ghost."
to be ''baptized with the
John the
Baptist, Elizabeth, Zacharias,
Jesus, Stephen, Barnabas,
told to be
V.
and Paul were
"filled with the Spirit,"
all
''
filled
There
8.)
is
with
the
and we are
with the Spirit." (Eph.

a distinction here well
worth our consideration.

tized
is
Spirit "
To be " bapmay mean a
Pentecostal experience, a great rush of

feeling, a
change as great
liever as the
in
the be-
change from night to day.
Not many people have such an experience,
and
deprived
for that reason multitudes are

of
the
real
To be
Spirit's presence.
the Spirit "
blessing
may be
of the
" filled with
almost the opposite
of such an experience as that referred

to.
Mr. Meyer says that you can

73
fill
RECEiyED YE THE HOLY GHOST?

water just as surely by
cistern with
ting
drops of water
little
by pouring
in great
There are
really
it
as
hogsheads of water.
two parts
Holy Ghost.
ceiving of the
into
fall
let-
to the reFirst of
all
there
is
the baptism of the Spirit, as
found
in
as
Corinthians
body
the
members, and
all
"
the
members
of that
body, being many, are one body

also
we
Christ.
is
all
For by one
bond or
free
to drink into
and have been

one
is
come upon you
in all
all
made
i.
*'
:
But ye
power, after that the Holy
be witnesses unto
and
we be
The second
Spirit."
described in Acts
shall receive
Ghost
so
baptized into one body, whether

or Gentiles, whether
is
Spirit are
we be Jews
part
For
and hath many
one,
is
13
xii. 12,
me
both
and ye
in
shall
Jerusalem,
Judea, and in Samaria, and

1\
HOIV
MAY
RECEIVE HIM?
unto the uttermost part of the earth."

This
power, and depends upon one's
is
moral condition.
According
then, every child of
line,
to this out-
God
has re-
ceived the baptism of the Spirit

also,
because of
body
of Christ.
this,
he
member
is
of the
This experience can
never be repeated;
so,
then,
un-
is
it
scriptural for the Christian to be talking
about the baptism of the Holy Ghost
when he has
may be
already received
filled
it
but he
with the Spirit and then,
because of his moral condition, lose the
power
of the Spirit, as
ciples doing.
first
we
They were
chapter of Acts, and
find the disfilled
in
in the
the fourth
chapter of Acts, thirty-first verse,

said again that
''
they were
all
it is
filled
with the Holy Ghost, and they spake

the word of
God
with boldness."
75
If
you
study the second and third
will
chapters,
you
had lack
of courage,
will find that the disciples
and
for that
reason had lost their blessing

the Spirit
came upon them
became possessed
but when
again, they
of the very thing in
which they had been lacking.

is,
therefore, one baptism,
The Holy Ghost
very
There
many
fillings.
as certainly abides in
us as that Jesus Christ stands to-day at
We
the right hand of the Father.
need
only to remove the hindrances in order

that he
may
manifest his power;
therefore, ''Take
I
am
and
him
ye away the stone."
persuaded that to be "
the Spirit "
we must make
definite surrender
to
do
his
He
work.
begin in some
so,
little
his presence, just as

76
with
a complete
and then
will,
way
it
filled
to
trust
doubtless,
manifest
were drop by
HOH^ MAY
RECEIVE HIM?
drop.
To-day a new pathos
voice,
to-morrow a new touch
of the
hand, and so on day by day,
presence in
all
The
blessed reality.
first
be a
step,
how-
ever, in this blessing, as the

into the
of faith.
by the
in
step
first
Hfe of the eternal,"

I
is
a step
used to be greatly troubled
recitation of personal experiences
many
would
''
his
till
will
fullness
its
the
in
One
of the public meetings.

''
say,
was converted such a
year;" another, such a month; another,

such a day or hour; and to
it
was
tell
the
am
dis-
no longer, and
for
two
was
discouraging, for
year,
much
reasons
could not
less the day.
tressed about
it
First,
my birthday,
and
living spiritually
should
living physically
me
even
I
if I
But
know
did not
may know
even though
77
know
that
I
am
do not
know when
My
Hfe."
second reason
the fact that

I
have had
found
is
in
have a better experience
my
of the Spirit
to choose
" passed from death into
eyes opened to the truth
and
if
you
will allow
me
between the man who has had
a definite experience in conversion, and

of the
Holy Ghost, and the
man who may be
uncertain as to the
knows
little
time of his conversion, but knows about

the third person of the Trinity,
choose the
certain that
not
latter
I
every time, for
may be
know when
I will
I
am
a Christian and
crossed the
line,
but
cannot be a Christian with an experience of power until

definite
know something
about the Holy Ghost.
What vague
concerning him
ideas
!
and views we have
We
think of him as
coming and going, with us to-day, away

78
MAY
//OAK
RECEIVE HIM?
We
from us to-morrow.
We
outpouring.
song,
and
Ghost," as
when
cry out in sermon, in
he were
if
'*
prayer,
in
the fact
is
pray for his
still
Come,
Holy
in the skies,
that he abides with us
ALWAYS and
is
right hand.
He may
nearer to us than our
not always be
manifesting his power, but that
cause
we have
in the
way.
be-
placed some hindrance
In a sense, there
fold bestowal of the Spirit, but

this,
is
is
a two-
it is
like
quoting from Dr. James H. Brooks
in his
work on the Holy
are told that
Spirit
on the evening
''
:
of the
We
same
day that our Lord arose from the grave,

'
when
the doors were shut where the
disciples
were assembled
for fear of the
Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst,
and
saith unto them.
And when
Peace be unto you.
he had so
79
said,
he showed

unto them his hands and
were the
disciples glad,
Then
the Lord.
his side.
when they saw
said Jesus to
you
again, Peace be unto
on them, and
said this,
he
breathed
unto them. Receive
saith
ye the Holy Ghost'
No
(John xx. 19-22.)
one can imagine that these solemn
words were uttered
in vain, or that the
disciples did not then receive the
Ghost.
significant
Lord
the
all
when we remember
the only place in the
New
where the word rendered

is
Holy
makes the language and
It
action of our risen
is
them
my Father
you. And
as
hath sent me, even so send
when he had
Then
more
that this
Testament
'
breathed
found, and that the Saviour never
elsewhere
The
is
said to breathe
on any one."
other was the bestowal of the Spirit
at Pentecost,
when they were

80
qualified
HO^V
MAY
RECEIVE HIM?
Hence there
as witnesses.
bestowal of the Spirit
is
a twofold
one secret and
were
inward, within closed doors as
it
the other open and outward in
its
The former
ifestations.
peated
the latter
is
is
man-
never re-
repeated over and
over according to the measure of our
and
faith
was
of our desire.
The former
Christ's gift to his servants
it
was
a special blessing for a special purpose.
The
latter
Ye
was
in fulfilment of the
ise,
"
the
Holy Ghost
ye
i.
shall
shall receive
power, after that
come upon you
is
be Witnesses unto me."
and
(Acts
8.)
One word needs

and over again
to be
we
if
"surrender."
have
fulfilled
sounded over
are
recipients of this blessing.

is
prom-
to
be the
That word
The very moment we
this
condition then rest

81

assured that he will begin the manifes-
We
are not to sup-
we may mark
out the channel
tation of himself.
pose that
in
which he
is
be given up
to run, for the \YILL
in this as in other things.
It is generally
to
be
filled
must
supposed, however, that
with
the
Spirit
always
means power from the human standpoint,
and
this is
anything but
always means power

estimation of
It
but power in the
God may mean
the thought of men.
true.
It is to
bered that Peter was
defeat in
be remem-
" filled
with the
Holy Ghost," and preached the sermon

at Pentecost, while
Stephen was "
filled
with the Holy Ghost," and was stoned

to death
one was as great a victory
the sight of
God
as the other.
Not infrequently the

go mourning
in
children of
God
and
find
after this blessing
HOIV MAY
it
not,
and
RECEIVE HIM?
for the reason that
they are
seeking the consciousness of the bless-
We]
ing rather than the Spirit himself.
have nothing to do with the consciousness:
we
are to have faith in God, be-
lieving in
much
asm we are working,

without
Consciousness of power
may be
old horse with which
is
we
when
bidding.
his
There
dangerous thing.
enthusi-
as well as
we do
either
when
the indwelling Spirit
with great emotion and
/'
a very
hardly an
are familiar
which we would be willing to drive
if
that horse were conscious of his power.
He
could break
stant
but
he
away from
is
us in an in-
We/
not conscious.
have the consciousness, and he has the

power, and so
ever
and
we
let
will.
we guide him
Let us
just believe
him be conscious
83
whitherso-
of
all
God,
that
we
may
accomplish.
It is
ours just to be
submissive.
I.
HOW MAY
First.
One
with which
seek to
RECEIVE HIM?
of the most important steps
am
know
familiar
him,
first
is
of
this
all,
do not
that
you
might teach or preach with power. This

is
not the
way
do not seek
to
to the blessing.
know him
that
Again,
you may
have the peace of which others have
spoken who have known him

fullness.
This
rather, bid
is
not the
him abide
in
in all his
first step.
But
you, that,
first
HE MAY HAVE POWER OVER

YOURSELF. He is the fire, and will,
He is
if allowed, burn out the dross.
of
all,
the water, and he will keep the temple

clean.
Then only may we expect

84
to be
HO^^ MAY
said
sels,
Moody
Mr.
used.
**
:
RECEIVE HIM?
God does
many
has so
times
not seek silver ves-
and he does not require gold ones
for his service, but
he must have clean
ones."
Second.
The second
been indicated.
step has already
It is this
SURRENDER
FULLY. To give up ninety-nine parts
of
the nature and withhold the hundredth

is
to put a hindrance in the
blessing.
If
been raging
that
of the
a contagious disease had
in a certain house,
had a desire
know
way
and you
to live in the house,
you would not do
every room had been purified.
it
If
you
until
every
room but one had been fumigated, and

that the smallest room,
you know that
you would not occupy the house.

will the
Holy
in the life
till
Spirit
it
has
85
Nor
work with power

all
been surren-

dered to him,
has
it
till
all
by true confession
clean
been made
then make
ready for the blessing which

promised.
my
opened
can remember
of
for five
visions of his
what
had
years, I
had
power and glimpses
might be
has
when God
eyes to this truth.
been struggling
had
God
with the Spirit," but
were "
if
all
filled
this time, like
the disciples at Ephesus, there was a

great lacking.
place where
make
At
I felt
last
that
the surrender.
the path
he said
I
I
reached the
was willing
reached
it
to
by
marked out by Mr. Meyer when

"
If
you are not ready
to sur-
render everything to God, are you ready

to say,
said,
am
willing to be
everything'?"
about
easy,
'
made
am
willing."
seemed^
That
and alone before God

^^
willing,
simply
Then he made
HOIV MAY
RECEIVE HIM?
He
the
way
my
ambition, then
easy.
my
then
to me,
me
brought before
my
personal ease,
home, then other things came
and
them up."
simply
said,
''
I will
give
And last of all my ''will' 'was

Then
surrendered about everything.
without any emotion,

said,
it
was
" faith
said,
"
My
Father,
for, as
Mr. Meyer
without emotion,"
now
claim from
thee the infilling of the Holy Ghost."
From
that
moment
a living reahty.
was
to love
tion
if
my
family before,
they ever knew what
happy
never
it
ques-
was to
called our-
in the love of
each other.
Bible before, and

I
it
we had
never knew what
had
been
never knew what
love me, although

selves
to this he has
it
was to study the
why
should
I ?
not just then found the key?
knew what
it
87
was
For
I
to preach be-
"Old
fore.
in
my
things are passed
Christian experience,
The
third step
is
letter to the Galatians,
" That
we might
found
in Paul's
receive the promise of
will notice
that
"That we might
through
all
where he says
the Spirit through faith."
You
behold,
"
become new."
things are
Third.
''
away;
(Gal.
14.)
does not say,
it
receive
the
It is often so
faith."
iii.
Spirit
quoted.
This would be unscriptural, for we have
He
the Spirit.
ever.
with us to abide for-
It is just to believe his
the third step

to the
is
man
is
one of FAITH.
he
to him, " It
feeling after;"
seek the
is
is
faith first,
the
"Receive the promise by

88
who
without feeling
and so we say to
infilling of
and
We say
seeking Christ, and yet
hesitates because
we say
word
all
then
who
Holy Ghost,
faith."
HOIV
MAY
RECEI'/E HIM?
These steps do not

low
be
of necessity fol-
first if
one so desires; but the next
suggested would be this
step
your eyes fixed upon

is
may
in logical order, for the last
an
When
this.
you
translation,
illustration
the
place
remember
will
of
and Elisha were
Elijah
journeying toward
There
Christ.
Old Testament
keep
of
the
that the
people came out at Bethel, Gilgal, and

other places, and entreated
tarry
with
them
Elijah said, " Tarry,

(2
the
Kings
Lord
liveth,
and
pray thee,
ii.
6.)
And
it
here.'*
As
said,
as thy soul liv-
eth, I will not leave thee."

''
and
season,
''And he
6.)
ii.
for
Elisha to
came
to
(2
pass,
Kings
when
they were gone over, that Elijah said
Ask what
unto Elisha,
thee, before
shall
do
for
be taken away from thee.

89
And
Elisha said,
pray thee,
upon me.
ble portion of thy spirit be
And
he
thing
am
said,
nevertheless,
hast asked a hard

if
thou see
taken from thee,
unto thee
(2
Thou
Kings
ii.
but
9,
if
a dou-
let
not,
it
me when
shall
be so
shall not
be so."
it
Suddenly, as they
10.)
and
talked, the chariot of fire appeared,
Elijah
became a passenger.
suppose
Elisha was too greatly surprised to speak

at first; then he cried out,
my
And
Elijah dropped
(2
it
up.
it
is!"
and the
it
is
12.)
ii.
imag-
said that
Suppose he had wrapped
around him, saying,
able
father,
Kings
upon him,
the old mantle, for
he took
it
My
father, the chariot of Israel,
horsemen thereof."
ine,
''
what
*'
benefit
How
comfort-
would
it
have
this.
He
been?
But he did not do
had
reward when the old mantle
his
90
fell
HOIV MAY
He
Upon him.
RECEIVE HIM?
simply stood on the
banks of the Jordan and used the mantle
as his master
had used
We
waters parted as before.

the Spirit not that
him upon our own

that
we may be
himself.
it,
lusts,
but in order
world as Jesus
Do you remember
I
are given
we may consume
in this
" Verily, verily,
and the
his words,
say unto you,
He
that
y believeth on me, the works that I do

shall he do also and greater works than
-
these shall he do
Father"? (John
because
xiv. 12.)
go unto
What
but Elijah and Elisha again?

the secret of
all:
it
suppose
had
Eli-
master before.
followed
him so
had absorbed the very
closely that he
spirit of Elijah
is
KEEP YOUR EYES
spirit of his
he
this
Here
FIXED ON A TAKEN-UP MASTER.

sha had the
is
my
but
91
it
was the double
RECEr/ED YE THE HOLY GHOST?

portion he was seeking, and that he received.
Christ
So
is
it
we have
with us
if
we
are in
the indwelHng Spirit
but we need, and we must have, the

double portion, and
knowledge
may have
of the Spirit,
may
tion,
''
comes with a
which every one
in Christ.
II.
It
this
SUGGESTIONS.
be helpful to ask the ques-
Why
have
not received him
"
?
may be for many reasons.

First. It may be because we have disobeyed some clear command of the Master if at any time in the past we have
This
broken a thread
ment,
we need
in the
weaving
not expect to
of a gar-
know about
the fullness of the Spirit until
we have
made
If
the past right with God,
it
was
an unkind word spoken, an inconsistent

92
HOIV MAY
RECEIVE HIM?
action which caused another to stumble
or
some unforgiven
fall, if it is
make
it
enough
and
right;
then, too,
we
to get right, as
but we must keep
no way by which
right.
it
is
not
often hear,
And
may be
this
then
sin,
there
is
so easily
accomplished as just to be quick to obey
God's least commands. Be very sensitive
and teachings
to his leadings
prayer of David's
and know
my
my
thoughts
wicked way
way
try me,
if
(Ps.
me
found
in the
The second suggestion may

first,
but
distinct, at least for the
emphasis.
is
and know
cxxxix. 23, 24.)
be embraced with the
made
God,
there be any
me, and lead
in
everlasting."
Second.
and see
Search me,
''
:
heart
offer this
It
may be
sin.
93
is
sake of
that the difiiculty
in the fact that
confessed your
it
you have not
In a western city

a gentleman approached the evangelist
laboring in the city with this question
**
Can you
no power
in
a class of
me why
tell
my
men
and have had
Christian
in
that I have
it is
for three years,
The
may be
have
the Sunday-school,
never been able to lead one

Christ."
life ?
evangelist
and have
them
of
replied,
because your heart
**
to
It
not right
is
with God, and that you are hiding some

sin."
then
The man's
face
became
pale,
the secrecy of the minister's
in
room he made
years ago
his confession
was a
"
night in balancing
my
hundred
dollars for
account
my
Twelve
clerk in a mercantile
establishment in the city of P
the
and
books
which
One
had two
could not
books were balanced, but
money was
there.
The books
bal-
anced the next day and the next week,

94
HOIV MAY
RECEIVE HIM?
and the money was
Then
for.
*
Use
it
you can put

took
and
it,
Here
it.
it
'''
tion."
you
a position
"
and
me!
handing
cannot take
will
it,
have had
said,
have to make
it
to
it,"
he
restitu-
to his feet, ex-
can never do
it.
have
now worth twenty thousand
dollars a year to me,

it if I
he
I
to say,
pity
''
is,"
me
know
God
The man sprang
claiming
to
these years
all
it
ever
will
back.'
the evangelist.
said
came
the devil
no one
not accounted
still
and
should lose
were even suspected of being
honest in the past."
" It
is
dis-
either resti-
tution or no power," said the evangelist.
The man was
still
rising to his feet,
do
it if I
city
die."
for a
moment
he exclaimed,
He made
his
then,
''
way
I will
to the
where the wrong had been com-
mitted, into the private office of the

95
man
whom
against
The
confession.
ened to
he had sinned, and made
his
Christian merchant Hst-
words
the door of the

us pray about
knees, and
then, rising, he closed
office,
They
it."
when
and
Let
on their
"
Go back
your work, and God's blessing go with
you.
does."
forgive
you
just as freely as
The man came back
sat
down
knew
till
before his class to
He
of Christ.
to his
this
said to
them
week why
it
tell
"
out.
It
never
them
never
was because
have
Then, turning to
not right myself."

class,
home
was that
could not get you for Christ.
now found
he
The next Sunday
with his face shining.
he
fell
'*
the prayer was offered
the merchant said to him

to
said,
was
his
he made such a plea as he had
made
that every
and with the
before,
member
result
of his class accepted

96
HOIV
MAY
RECEIVE HIM?
Christ as Saviour, and a few Sunday<J
church of which he was
after joined the
a member.
It is
very easy to under-
He had
stand why.
simply gotten right
with God, and then the
been abiding
in
him and
is
Third.
have too
in
his
that
him
it
who had
the time, used

Spirit's
may be
Have you
Word.
It is
his Bible
the pov-
erty of the knowledge of the
God
that
makes us poor
standing of the
Spirit.
we
God
not always
when one knew

Spirit well
way.
that
communion with
little
he knew the
all
always the
Again,
noticed that
Spirit,
in
Word
of
our under-
He
inspired
men of old to write the Book. Why

should we not know him if we know his
holy
thought?
When
philanthropists
one of our Christian
was
presiding, a
number
of years ago, at a great Peace Congress in

97

Washington,
erations a
midst of their delib-
In the
company
They were asked
of Indians
to speak,
came
and through
an interpreter an old chief made the

lowing remarks
"
We
in.
fol-
have come here
to see the Great Father, the President.
We
have come to ask him to help our
people."
And
then looking about on
the crowd assembled, he said:
people are not
like yours,
and children are not
homes
like
are not like yours.
the Indian," he said,
must take
to
''
our
"Our
women
yours, our
Can you
tell
what medicine he
make him right?"
Then
Major-General O. O. Howard, who was

a
member
of the congress, the
man who
wears an empty coat-sleeve to the honor

of his country, the
man who
is
a loyal
soldier of .Christ as well, sprang to the
speaker's desk, and with his one

98
arm
HOIV
MAY
RECEIVE HIM?
raised aloft the Bible, exclaiming, while
every one was thrilled

tell
him
this
And
it is.
right
the
is
It is
''
:
Mr. Speaker,
Good Medicine."
the
the medicine to
world's
wrongs;
it
make
is
the
medicine to purify the heart; and to
know
to
this
know
is
to
know
the Spirit
is
the Spirit, while
POWER.
99
n'^.
RECEIVED
YE THE
WHAT OF
THE RESULT?
HOLY GHOST ?
101
Cap
WHAT OF
IV
THE RESULT?
" But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy

Ghost is come upon you and ye shall be witnesses
unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and in
Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth."
:
Acts
i.
8.
"P EFERRING
again to the river from
-*^^ the sanctuary,
swer to
get the best an-
The
this question.
ways leads us
river ran
God
al-
into the world, that
we
The
into the desert.
may go
we
to the lost
and
bidding them in the
on the authority
Spirit of
tell
name
of the
103
them
of
life,
of Christ
and
Word and by
RECEll/ED YE THE
HOLY GHOST?
the power of the Spirit to believe in
him, that their position
a good
illustration of
osheth.
He
may be changed
which
is
dwelt at Lo-debar (which
means " the place
no pasture
of
through the kindness of David,

athan's sake, he
table that he
river
was
is
healing,
were healed.
:
"
And
it
"),
but
for Jon-
brought to the king's
may have
running into the
ing
Mephib-
for
sea, the
plenty.
we
The
read that,
waters thereof
The
river
was
shall
come
to pass, that
life-giv-
everything that liveth, which moveth,
whithersoever the rivers shall come, shall

(Ezek.
live."
xlvii. 9.)
It is fruit-pro-
ducing and food-providing.

river
it
it
v/as
What
But there was one thing
could not do, namely, change
marshy places
the
" But the miry places
thereof and the marshes thereof shall

104
WHAT OF
not be healed
(Ezek.
salt."
THE RESULT?
they
shall
be given to
The
ii.)
xlvii.
Spirit
does not come to improve man's carnal

''
nature.
flesh
all
is
That which
flesh,"
the
that
born of the
is
and always
does,
river
as
described
above,
we may have repeated
lives.
Our
but not of
position
We
it."
is
^'
But
will be.
in
our
in the world,
have had placed
in
our keeping for wounded hearts the

very balm of
words of eternal
bread of heaven
we have
life,
in
marvelous change
fact,
in the
individual
if
"filled with the Spirit."
day
in
have the
the very
we have
all
There would be a
things in Christ.
as in the
We
Gilead.
the church
church as well
only
we were
We
have to-
men enough, and
they have money enough, and, humanly

speaking,
we have power enough

105
to put

enemy,
to flight the
''
have a friend
most
only
we were
with the Holy Ghost."
filled
if
remarkable
in
New York
woman.
City, a
She
has
turned away from her social position,

given up, for the time being, her home,
with the
devotes
full
all
consent of her family, and
her time and her strength to
the rescuing of ''fallen girls."

literally
prayed up the Door
an institution which
such
and there
is
She has
of
Hope,
a refuge for
is
all
never a night so dark
or so long but the doors of this
home
One
night
are open for the wanderer.

at
midnight, leaving her home, going
out on an expedition through the slums

of
New
York, she held
She
beautiful pink rose.

of her friends,
''
the vilest girl
meet
in
I will
in
106
her hand a
said to
one
give this rose to
my wanderings."
iVHAT OF THE RESULT?

She made her way
a place which
is
Street,
It is
hell.
men and women go
hope has
all
Mulberry
a veritable
the place where
when
to
fled
from them and
they are ready to throw themselves into

In one of the subcellars, sur-
perdition.
of
New
was the
girl
rounded by some
characters,
Whittemore,
ing.
in her
York's worst
whom
Mrs.
mind, had been seek-
This was the description she gave
of her
her hair was torn out as
had been
in
sin
her face bore the
her clothing hung in rags
from her poor, thin shoulders

were pressing
old shoes
she
a recent brawl, as they found
out afterward she had
marks of
if
their
her feet
way through her
her eyes were as blue as
the sky, and for that reason she was

called
by her companions "Blue
As my
Bird."
friend stood looking at her, she

107
me
told
had
that the vilest profanity she
ever heard was falling from her
lips.
She pushed her way through the crowd

of
men, and placed
in
the
the pink rose, saying as she did so

dear,
ever in your
if
come
friend,
to the
life
Door
hand
girl's
:
"
My
you want a
of
Hope, and
I will
be a mother to you."
The
girl
\at once replied, " I'm too sinful to be
/saved or helped."
left
But Mrs. Whittemore
her that night with the prayer that
she might come.
just as
''.
Door
my
of
friend
was going
first
miserable
after,
into the
Hope, she found Blue
looking more
The
Several days
Bird,
than before.
thought was one
of
dis-
couragement, and the second almost a

determination to put her out into the
street, for
it
did seem impossible, even
with God, to help her.

108
Then she
said
IVHAT
"
looked
OF THE RESULT?
down
at her in her misery,
and thought, There

Christ died,
one
lost
and
in the
if
she had been the only-
world he would have suf-
fered and died for her.

sin
and saw her
ery,
my
and
for her.
forgot her mis-
heart was
forgot her
filled
with love
stooped, and taking her sin-
my
hands,
kissed
upon one cheek, then upon the
first
other,
Then
soul.
stained face in both
her
whom
a soul for
is
and that broke her heart
sobbing before me.
We
she
fell
put her
in
bed, nursed her back to a semblance of

strength,
self
and then she went
a missionary,
down
forth, her-
into the
Mul-
berry Street dives, out into Sing Sing

prison,
everywhere where she
felt
she might win a soul for Christ.
went by day and
months
night.
of active service
109
that
She
After a few
God
called her

had been instrumen-
to himself, but she

tal in
leading over one hundred girls

the knowledge
into
like herself
Saviour."
my friend,
asked
of
Mr. Had-
Jerry McAuley's successor in the
ley,
Water
old
ley,
how
Street Mission
Mr. Had-
**
:
did Blue Bird look: was she
beautiful?"
His reply was:
had seen her
face in repose
'^
If
you
you might
have said that she was homely, for her

face
still
bore the marks of her sin;
but," said he,
Water
the
her
tell
''
if
you had seen her
Street Mission,
in
and heard
the story of her conversion, and
then seen her stand with face uplifted,

as
of
if
she were looking into the very face
Him who had made
her
free,
and
heard her as she repeated his name over
and over
'jESUs!
you would have
Jesus! Jesus!'
said, I
110
am
sure, that she
IVHAT
looked
like
OF THE RESULT?
an angel." Then
What was the secret of

He gave me two reasons.
**
he
''
said,
me
her power?"
*'
First of all,"
''
she was
filled
with the
Blue Bird had never a thought
Spirit.
own
and
soul,
asked him,
she was fully saved; then after
that " he said,
of her
she belonged to him body,
spirit."
that, I said
And when
he told
" Blessed God,
if
canst take a poor fallen girl and so
thou
fill
her
with thy Spirit that she could be trans-
formed
fill
into a soul-winner, thou
me;" and
more,
beHeve he can
believe he did
done
for
been
said,
is
But there are
all, for,
no respecter
as has
of persons.
certain particular results
which would be manifest

every one
nay,
and what he has
one he can do for
he
canst
who would
in the life of
give the Spirit
undisputed possession of his

Ill
life.
We
First.
know God
should
better:
" For what
man knoweth the things of a

man, save the spirit of man which is in
him ? even so the things of God knoweth
no man, but the
we have
received, not the spirit of the
world, but the Spirit which
we might know
that
we
is
of
God
the things that are
Which
freely given to us of God.
also
Now
God.
Spirit of
things
speak, not in the words which
man's wisdom teacheth, but which the
Holy Ghost teacheth
comparing
ual things with spiritual.
man receivth
for
of God
:
him
But the natural
not the things of the Spirit
they are foolishness unto
neither can he
know them, because
they are spiritually discerned."

ii.
spirit-
(i
Cor.
1-14.)
Seco7id.
apprehend
We
should be better able to
Christ, for
112
you
will
remem-
IVHAT
OF THE RESULT?
ber that the Spirit came into the world

to testify of him.
this
There
the very course
in
a hint of
is
the
of
river
which ran from the sanctuary.
There
would have been no point
if
at all
any
other direction had been given as the
course of the river, but the east
The camp
significant.
of Israel
ways pitched toward the

rising
because
Israel
east
is
most
was
al-
the sun-
was looking and
longing for the coming of the Messiah.
The
east
tion
and with the coming glory
What
is
connected with the resurrecof Christ.
can the course of the river signify
but the fact that the Spirit always runs,

if
we may so speak of him, toward Christ ?

to know one is to know the other.
Do you
when Jesus
not remember that
breathed on the disciples and

ceive ye the
Holy Ghost,"
113
said,
it
was
Re-
''
after
Was
His resurrection?
the gift of the
in
them the
first
taste
of
*'
may mean
for
yet with
all
this
We
and the
the joy that
is
here in this present time, this
He
ple
is
:
is
Now
are
And
imparted
is
but the
coming by and by.
exam-
called the Earnest, as, for
"
in
Spirit just
what that means.
earnest of what
is,
of the Spirit
every one.
risen with Christ,"
reveals to us
resurrection
And
what the indwelling
fact,
giving
just
Spirit,
Hfe " for themselves?
*'
he not then,
which stablisheth us
he
with you in Christ, and hath anointed

us, is
God who
;
hath also sealed
us,
and
given the earnest of the Spirit in our

hearts."
is
(2 Cor.
i.
21, 22.)
An
earnest
often represented as a pledge, but this
does not give the
real idea.
It is rather
part of the purchase-money, paid

114
down
IVHAT
OF THE RESULT?
and security that the
as the guaranty
full
amount
will
time stipulated
meaning, then,
be handed over
at the
the contract.
The
in
is
simply
the indwelHng Spirit
you
this
all
that
may have meant
in the past in the
way
to
of sweetness
of experience, depth of joy, delight in
communion, or manifestation
these things are

what
is
coming
be?
come,
is
When
this is the
if
then what must the harvest
Here we have thought about him,
he has come to us
we have
said
in the night visions,
over and over his dear
name, but then we
we
power
just the foretaste of
after a while.
the fullness of time

first-fruit,
of
shall
be
like
shall
him.
'Well, the delightful day will
When my
And
him and
see
come
dear Lord will bring
I shall see his face.
115
me honi^

Then with my
Saviour, Brother, Friend,
blest eternity I'll spend.
Triumphant
in his grace."
Third. There will be growth.
would naturally follow because
we have found
This
He
the Spirit to be.
the wind, the dew, the rain, and
other things,
growth downward
in
ward
him
**
"
(Col.
"
There
be a
Rooted and
built
all
7)
growth up-
things,
which
the head, even Christ" (Eph.
Spirit.
of
am
growth
in
iv.
is
15);
in all the fruit of the
sure that, with this thought
mind,
some questions
many
of the trouble-
in the life of the
might be
settled.
when he
said,
spake as a
many
will
ii.
Into him in
growth outward
is
which induce growth
of
all
in the natural world.
up
what
of
''
church
Paul had this in mind
When
child, I
was a
child, I
understood as a
116
child,
WHAT OF
I
thought as a child
came a man,
(i
THE RESULT?
Cor.
xiii.
but when
put away
1.)
Try the question
be-
chil.dish things."
the
of
so-called
popular amusements of the day with

this idea of
quickly
it
growth
in
mind.
could be settled.
be denied that there
to
is
See how
It is
not
a certain
kind of pleasure in some of the things
which are manifestly inconsistent
But
the lives of professing Christians.

it
is
tian
just as
true that the real Chris-
has in his
life
that which
beyond the mere pleasure
that
there
to
which
sweetly that
the
when
sirens
sang
a ship would
117
but
appreciate
You remember the island

which we read in mythology the
on
far
of the world
they are not comparable
must be growth
is
this.
and
in
of
isl-
so
come
RECEIVED YE THE HOLY GHOSTS'

near
the
its sailors
would be charmed with
They would
music.
leave
their
posts of duty, and the vessel would be
wrecked on the
Then
rocks.
would put forth from the

the
spoil.
One day
filled
the
island to gather
a vessel neared the
island having Ulysses
He
the sirens
as
sailors' ears
commander.
with wax, and
bade them fasten him to the mast, and

then forbade their releasing him, whatever his
commands might be under
When
spell of the music.
the island
it
seemed
as
never sung so sweetly.

gled to be free
to let
him
if
the
they neared
the sirens had
Ulysses strug-
he shouted to the
sailors
go, but they did not hear him,
and they would not
let
him
go.
passed the island in safety.
one way of going by.
some would have us

118
It is
They
This was
the
way
settle the question
IVHAT
of "
OF THE RESULT?
amusements
there
is
a better way.
came near the
But
for the church."
Another
vessel
The
island of the sirens.
wax
to be placed
in the sailors' ears, neither
was the com-
officers did
not order
mander fastened
to the mast.
The sirens
sang their sweetest songs, they played
most entrancing music, but the
their
sailors did
and
not turn their heads to
for this reason
listen,
they had Orpheus
on board, and Orpheus sang a sweeter
song than the sirens ever knew.
Thanks
be unto God, we
may have Orpheus on
we have
a peace the world can
board
never know!
But the ear must be
trained to hear the music.
Just as
Jesus was on earth, at one time

said
''
:
Then came
heaven, saying,
and
will glorify
it
was
there a voice from
have both
it
when
again.
119
glorified
it,
The people
RECEIVED YE THE HOLY GHGST

therefore that stood by, and heard
said that
it
thundered
others said,
angel spake to him."
to
beHeve
29.)
him
it
(John
God
voice of
He
to
me
is
in
the fact that
"And when
his
the
it
man
hand went
soul.
At
to
walk without them

be a
eastward, he
(Ezek.
measurement the
use
filled
my
could hardly
and
believe
hint, at least, of the fact that
one has been
in-
that had a line
cubits."
this first
walk with
river
ran to the sea.
" waters were to the ankles."

ankles
called the
the
forth
measured a thousand
xlvii. 3.)
and
something very suggestive
creased in depth as
in
God
of
they heard
to himself;
with their ears, he with his
There
28,
called thunder,
others an angel's voice.
An
xii.
was the voice
what some
it,
it
to
when
with the Holy Ghost

120
IVHAT
he
manifest the fact in his daily
will
What
walk.
and
to
walk
in the Spirit?
to live in such habitual
interrupted
we do
is it
have him so enthroned
It is to
soul,
OF THE RESULT?
communion with
in the
and un-
him, that
not take a step without his direcIt
tion.
to
is
recognize
his
abiding
presence, to heed his slightest suggestion, to
be
lifted into
a purer and sweeter
atmosphere than that which surrounds
The second measurement,
the world.
and the
bow
''
waters were to the knees."
No
the knees to pray.
knows how
Spirit.
prayers
pray
to
How
often
until
one really
he knows the
we wonder why our
have not been answered!
doubt not but that the
also
helpeth
our
'*
real reason could
be found just here: we did not ask

the right way.
in
Likewise the Spirit

infirmities:
121
for
we
know
not what
we ought
we should pray
for as
but the Spirit himself mak-
eth intercession for us with groanings
(Rom.
which cannot be uttered."
The
26.)
measurement, and the
third
"waters were to the
The
loins."
and what can
but that the Spirit
is
this
suggest
the strength of our
With him temptation
life?
loins
symbol
are always in the Scripture the

of strength,
viii.
is
easily
met, burden-bearing becomes a delight,
and we can do
he
fills
"
us.
a thousand
Afterward he measured
and
it
could not pass over

risen,
things just because
all
was a
for the waters
waters to swim
in,
could not be passed over."
There
5.)
is
river that I
were
a river that
(Ezek.
xlvii.
one thing about swimming
which every swimmer knows, namely,

this
when he swims he
122
brings into play
IVHAT OF THE RESULT?

every muscle of his body
Thanks be unto God, the
active.
may sway
every power of
soul upHfted
new
in-
Spirit
my being
the
He gives me a new name,
song, a
new hope
things are passed

itself
is
mind quickened, the
heart purified, the
not one
away
in fact,
''
old
very world
" the
becomes new.
But one
of the very best things
read about the river
is
this
we
''And by
the river upon the bank thereof, on this
and on that
side
trees
side, shall
grow
meat, whose leaf shall
for
not
fade, neither shall the fruit thereof
consumed
it
shall
bring forth
new
all
be
fruit
according to his months, because their
waters they issued out of the sanctuary
and the
fruit thereof shall
be for
meat, and the leaf thereof for medicine."

(Ezek.
xlvii.
12.)
There was new

123
fruit

every month
been
what a
river
it
must have
do not know anything better
about the Spirit than
this
he brings not
only things old, but things new, before

us.
We
manna
if
shall not
need to
we have
him.
live
We
on old
shall not
need to be rehearsing old experiences

told a thousand times
but the world
dififerent
face
to
all
us,
with the Spirit."
dwelling
may mean
been given us
things will wear a

if
we be
know
make
illustration to
we know him
be a new world, the
will
new book,
Bible a
if
plain
of
''
filled
no better
what
his in-
than that which has
in the life
and death of
one of earth's noble women.
Over
London, some time ago, a noble
woman
died.
God touched
were closed
beating.
her eyes, and they
her heart, and
They
In
it
ceased
its
carried her into one of

124
IVHAT OF THE RESULT?

the greatest auditoriums, that the city
and the world might pay her honor.

representative of the
by being
herself
ladies
were there
England came
last
Lords and
the rich people of
and weep.
At
came pressing
their
to look
the poor people
way
Queen honored
present.
;
The weep-
into the great building.
ing thousands passed beside the sleeping
woman.
made her
At last a very poor woman

way down the aisle. She had
every mark of poverty; she carried a

child
on one arm, and led another by
the hand.
When
she reached the coffin
she put the baby on the
floor,
loosed the
clasp of the older child's hand,
and then
stooped to kiss the glass which covered

the
face.
She thereby stopped the
passing of the throng.
The
guard, step-
ping forward, took her by the shoulder,

125

saying as he did so
have to move on
She
people."
"
Woman, you
her face to his
lifted
then, turning to the
surging mass of people

she cried out
move on
and carried
upon
this
boys from
''
:
My
the building,
friends, I will not
baby, that
woman's
and to weep."
in
have walked sixty miles,
my
hell,
will
you are stopping the
moment, and
for a
and
face.
I
might look
She saved
my
have a right to look
Then bending down
she
kissed again and again the glass cover-
ing the face, while the multitude sobbed

in
sympathy with
Who
her.
was she
sleeping in the coffin yonder?

that
was Mrs. Booth, the mother
Salvation
Army, one
of
Why,
of the
the grandest
women God has ever called into his

vice, and I am sure you know why
ser:
not
because her social position was better

126
IVHAT
OF THE RESULT?
than yours, for that might not be true

not because her intellectual qualifications
were superior to yours,
might be untrue
filled
for that
but because she was
with the Holy Ghost.
always the secret of POWER.
127
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RECEIVED YE THE HOLY GHOST?

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