Ireland
Both
Belfast and Bangor have been visited with Pentecost.
England
In
the past year, news comes that probably 5OO people have received the Pentecost
in England.
China
We
hear from South China that about 1OO have received the baptism of the Holy Ghost
and they now have a paper in the Chinese called "Pentecostal Truths,"
which is being scattered in China and Japan. it Is a blessed paper and one can
feel the power in it even though unable to read it.
West
Africa
Brother
E. McCauley from Long Beach, California, opened a mission in Monrovia, Liberia.
God has been blessing the work. Other missionaries are helping. Sister
Harmon writes: "It is
marvelous at times to see the manifestations of the Spirit and to feel the
power. They shake like a person with a hard chill; they are in such earnest-ness
when they pray and God does so bless them, until you can hear them a block
away,"
Jerusalem
One
native minister of Beyroute, Syria, came to Jerusalem to spend the winter. God
has baptized him with the Holy Ghost
and
he speaks with tongues. Praise God!
God started this movement in A. D. 32 in this dear old city, and the
"latter rain" Is falling in 19O8. Glory to God!
Miss Elizabeth Brown of the Christian and Missionary Alliance, received
her baptism more than two weeks ago. She had the real old-fashioned
manifestations like many had St Azusa street. -- The secret of the matter was
she was so given up to God. Praise His name! She came to my room and requested
me to lay bands on her for her baptism. She felt waves of fire passing through
her head and face and then began to speak in tongues. She sings the heavenly
chant. It is precious to hear her.-Lucy M. Leatherman, Jerusalem, Palestine,
care of American consulate.
Sweden
The
Holy Ghost is falling on the humble in Gottenberg. In one prayer meeting. they
saw fire, and four persons were filled with the Holy Ghost and spoke with
tongues. They praised God until 5 o'clock in the morning. In a few days, more
than twelve persons were baptized with the Holy Ghost and speaking in tongues.
Eight
little children have been filled with the Spirit, speaking in tongues.
Some of them stand on a chair testifying for Christ.
Many
sick have been healed, sinners saved and backsliders coming to the Lord.
One day in February. Twenty-three were baptized in water in the name of
Jesus Christ. Nearly all of them had their Pentecostal experience. Many are
seeking the power of God day and night.
One
night the Lord sent a fisherman from an island near the city, using this dear
brother in the healing of four sick people and two sisters gut their baptism of
the Holy Ghost at the same time.
Many
sinners have come to God in different parts of Sweden. There are Pentecostal
companies here and there where the Lord is taking out a people for His name. A
number of workers who received their baptism in Los Angeles are there being used
of God. Address Brother Andrew G. Johnson, Backevick, 3 Hisingstad, Sweden.
India
In
Panditla Ramabsi's School at Mukti. Kedagon, India, God is working in power
among the girls again. God is pouring out upon them such a spirit of prayer
again. It is like the mighty roaring of the sea when they begin. The workers are
looking for a great outpouring of His Spirit again upon Mukti. He has also been
blessedly working among the Christian and Missionary Alliance people in Bombay.
Brother
Max Wood Moorhead of Bombay, India, writes:
"God is workiog mightily through the Bombay Presidency and there sre
witnesses now at Bombay, Khamgaon, Okola, Amraoki, Dholka, Dharangson. Rhesqaon,
Nasrapur, Pandharpur and Dhond. Praise God! Many natives are entering in, and how blessedly God uses
these ignorant, lowly Indians as channels of blessing to their own people. A
native boy of 19 was filled with the Holy Ghost in January and has been
wonderfully healed of consumption and instrumental in winning souls to
PENTECOSTAL
OUTPOURING IN SCOT-LAND
From
"Confidence," a free Pentecostal paper, to be obtained from the
editors, 11 Park Lea Road, Sunderland, England.
Pentecost
has fallen in Scotland at Edinburgh, Glasgow,
Dumfermilne, Sterling,
Clydebank, Falkirk, Tarbert, Toll Cross. Banton by Kilsyth, Kirkintillock,
Coatbridge and other places.
Some
incidents are reported from Kilsyth. a small Scottish town twelve miles from
Glasgow, and other points.
A
fireman at the colliery, as he was leaning on his shovel at work, began to speak
in tongues.
A
pitman at Motherwell broke out in the face of the coal-that is, while filling
his wagon or tub. He was singing. "How I love that sweet story of
old." He said he felt something go down and then come up. Then for two
hours he sat on his coal pile speaking in tongues as the Holy Spirit gave him
utterance. The men near by working
soon heard him, and one cried, "There's Jock through in tongues and me no
saved yet."
A
number have been converted just through hearing others speak in tongues. It was
so with young H. He loved cycle racing. Etc., and kept away from the meetings;
but when he heard his sister in the house "speaking mysteries"
praising God in an unknown tongue. He was broken down. In the Mission Hall, from
3 one afternoon till 2 the next morning. he dealt with God and was saved.
sanctified, and baptized with the Holy Ghost with the Scriptural evidences.
In
a village in this part of Scotland. the little chapel got on fire and about
twenty received their Pentecost with signs following and thirteen have been
soundly converted. They were
holding a "fellowship meeting" for those who had been fully anointed.
Outsiders hearing the vehement cries of praise slid the speaking in
tongues, gathered around. A sympathetic policeman kept the dour (his wife and
daughter. who had received the blessing were inside). At last he cried.
"Lads, I can stand it no longer. here goes." And he flung open the
door, and putting down his helmet, was soon pleading with God for the full
baptism of the Holy Ghost. And he
received it then and there and came through speaking in tongues.
It
is touching to see the boys at Kilsyth (quite a number have got their Pentecost)
all with their Bibles in the meeting, and little girls too, speaking in tongues
and giving out solemn messages.
In
other places children have had to suffer. We have heard of one whose father in
the drink kicked his little girl because she went to the meetings, and she
looking up at him, and through her tears said, "Glory to Jesus!"
An
engine driver at Kilsyth was making his way to the house, and his legs gave way.
The power of God fell on him, and they supported him to Brother Murdoch's
kitchen where many have received the baptism, and he was soon
"through," singing as the Spirit gave him utterance, and has been
singing ever since.
Many
'have already traveled to Kilsyth from the east and west, the north and south.
Some critical investigators arrived one day by train. They agreed to test
this thing by putting questions to the first Kilsyth man they met.
It was the porter who opened the carriage door.
"Any
meetings being held here?"
"Aye, sir, there are."
"Have you been to any of them?"
"Yes, I've been."
"Is it true that some folks are speaking
in tongues?"
"it's true enough."
"Do you know anyone?"
"Yes, I'm one myself."
Scottish
people know their Bibles. They are no fools, not carried away easily.
But they know that God has appeared in their midst, and they praise Him
and exalt the ever precious Blood by which victory is assured.
PENTECOST
IN AUSTRALIA
The
Lord has visited Australia in great power and souls have been baptized with she
Holy Ghost and signs following.
In
a cottage meeting, in February 19O7, in Melbourne, a young brother received the
baptism of the Holy Ghost and began to speak in tongues. Some fell under the
power of God and a great awe came over the meeting. The brother spoke and sang,
"giving messages in the unknown tongue and also interpreting.
A
few Christians stopped at the house on the way to church one Saturday night but
said they would have a little time of prayer first. The Lord came down in such
power that they could not go, and some spoke in tongues and sang heavenly music.
A
sister was washing up the breakfast things, when the Lord called her to prayer,
she immediately obeyed Him, and the Spirit
soon led her off in praise to Him in an unknown tongue. She says, "I
was simply lost I in His love."
A
few were waiting upon God one Friday night when the Holy Spirit fell upon a lad
19. He sang beautifully for over an
hour about Jesus' coming. Next
morning while work he sang praises to God in
an unknown tongue.
These
great blessings have come on the lowly and humble. Many have seen visions of
Jesus and of heavenly fire, and the interpretations speak of the soon coming of
Jesus.
A
Policeman Receives Pentecost
A
policeman, John Barclay, 161 Elgin street, Carlton, Melbourne, received his
Pentecost. The following is a part
of his testimony:
On
Easter evening, 19O7, at a Holiness camp about twenty-seven miles from
Melbourne, we all gathered for our usual praise and prayer meeting. A brother
read 1 Cor., 12th chapter. Then we all knelt down but no one seemed able to pray
aloud. The only words I could utter
were these: "Lord, reveal Thyself tonight."
Presently
some mighty. marvelous unseen power took hold of me, and I was thrown downward
on the floor. Everything around me disappeared. The other friends were as if
they never existed. I saw the heavens opened and my precious Jesus sitting on
the throne. Oh the joy and beauty and glory!
It is unspeakable. Then Jesus came right down into the room and I saw Him
smile all around. But He looked so sadly at me, and His look condemned me for
refusing before to yield myself fully up to Him. His loving but sad look broke
my heart and I burst into tears,
and cried:
"Lord,
I yield my all to You to do with me as Thou wilt!" I just cried from my
heart that verse, "I'll go where you want me to go, dear Lord" Then
the Lord smiled again. During all
this time I saw an innumerable host of angels in glory, and oh, such dazzling
light and beauty. Whenever I cried, "I'll go where you want me to go, dear
Lord," the dear Lord smiled on me and the angels waved pennons of white.
It was simply celestial: no beauty on earth like it!
No words on earth can describe what it was like. In visions He showed me
that there is as much rejoicing in heaven over a fully surrendered soul as over
a lost sinner returning from the wilds.
To
come back to Easter Monday evening, I was for about an hour and a half conscious
only of the Lord's presence. When I returned to earth again and looked around,
some were kneeling in silent prayer, others were lying prostrate on the floor.
Presently a sister broke out in prayer entreating God to bless His children and
save lost souls. Then she prayed in a strange tongue, which sounded like
Chinese. Then she started singing in the same tongue. What heavenly music!
It sounded very much like an angel's voice coming rolling over the
balconies of heaven. Of all the grand singers I have heard, I never heard
anything so sweet. She gave messages from God to several
Our meeting lasted till 4 o'clock In the morning.
On
return in my work at home, I got so hungry to know more of the dear Lord that I
began seeking in real deep earnest for the baptism of the Holy Ghost and fire.
Satan had been giving me a very bad time by telling me that it was all false
doctrine. I went into my bedroom and told the Lord to drive Satan away, that his
assaults were more than I could bear. Then all once a beautiful cams and peace
filled my soul. I was so happy that I could not even praise Him, but sat at His
feet with my eyes closed looking into His dear face, when I saw a light shine
from heaven far brighter than the noonday sun; It shone on my face brighter and
brighter, until I had to cover my eyes with my hands.
That
night I went to a meeting in a private house, and in this meeting Satan came to
me with greater power, and I was of all men most miserable. About 1O:1O p. m.,
Satan did his best to get me to go home; but my Jesus kept me wailing on the
Lord with others, some of whom were under the Spirit and speaking in tongues.
About 1 o'clock a. m., a brother laid hands on me, and I received my
baptism. My hands, arms, and whole body trembled greatly and I was thrown on the
floor. All the others were praising the Lord. He is the same, yesterday, today,
and forever. He baptizes with the Holy Ghost the same today as nineteen
centuries ago. On that night week the Lord gave me the tongues,
and since then I have spoken in four or five different languages. All
glory to His Name!
People
have told me that it is all of the devil; but the Jesus I serve and trust will
not allow Satan to deceive me. It is now over six months since I received this
baptism, and I know that Satan does not give the peace, joy, and happiness that
I have got.
A
burglar came to the altar at Azusa Mission, threw his skeleton keys under the
bench (he had been plotting to rob a house). He got gloriously saved, soon he
was sanctified. He was baptized down at the ocean, and shouted and jumped in the
water and out of the water, he was so filled with the power of God. That
afternoon he was baptized with the Holy Ghost and spake in tongues. He praises
God and weeps as he tells of His wonderful love and mercy.
A
sister finding there were some things hindering her from getting her baptism,
shut herself in her room arid prayed practically all day and all night. She
prayed through and got all her idols out of her heart and the power fell on her
"like hail," she says. She talked in tongues for a long time, though
she said when she came to the mission that she did not want tongues. But God
baptized her like all the rest.
A
brother came from China to Los Angeles and received the baptism of the Holy
Ghost and went on his way to England, and writes that it was the most wonderful
experience of his life and he is rejoicing in the fullness of the Spirit.
The
leading man among the colored Freemasons in Indianapolis and who was also
cartoonist for two newspapers was sanctified and baptized with the Holy Ghost
speaking in divers new tongues. He resigned and had prayer with his members in
the lodge room, and they were much touched. Some of his brethren have since
received their Pentecost also.
What
hath God Wrought? In two precious years since the Lord poured out the Pentecost
In Los Angeles in a little cottage on Bonnie Brae street, He has spread it
around 'the world. Hallelujah. Many are rejoicing with joy unspeakable for the
great blessings that God is pouring out in this latter rain. Many saved,
sanctified, healed of disease and baptized with the Holy Ghost and fire. Many
happy families filled with the Spirit and working for Jesus. Soon after the
Pentecost fell, the saints rented the lower room in the old building on Azusa
Street, which has been much blest of God. To Him be all the glory and praise.
When the place was about to he sold so that the Mission would have to move, the
saints agreed to purchase it with three years' time to pay the $15,OOO,
expecting the Lord to send the money all in before that time, and He has done it
and answered our prayers in a wonderful way. We humbly thank God. We
love to think of the blessed old "Manger Home" where so many of us
have received the baptism of the Holy Ghost. Many saints love the spot and will
rejoice that God has given to us.
Christ's
character is our pattern and His word is our discipline. We want to he Just like
Jesus in His suffering, His passion, His death. He is our ideal. Glory to God!
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religion of camp meetings, revivals, missions, street and prison work and
Christian Unity everywhere,
Repentance-Mark
1:14, 15
Godly
Sorrow for Sin, Example--Matt.9:13. 2 Cor. 7:9, 11. Acts 3:19, Acts 17:
Confession
of Sin-Luke 15:21 and Luke 18:13,
Forsaking
Sinful Ways-Isa. 55:7, Jonah 3:8. Prov. 28:11.
Restitution-Ezek.
33:15. Luke 19:8.
And
Faith in Jesus Christ.
First
Work-Justification is that act of God's free grace by which we receive remission
of sins. Acts 1O:42, 43. Rom, 3:25,
Second
Work-Sanctification is the second work of grace and the last work of grace.
Sanctification is that act of God's free grace by which He makes us holy.
John 17:15, 17.-"Sanctify them through Thy Truth; Thy work is truth."
1 Thess. 4:3; 1 Thess. 5:21; Heb. 13:12; Heb. 2:11; Heb.
Sanctification
is cleansing to make holy. The disciples were sanctified before the Day of
Pentecost. By a careful study of Scrip-tore you will find it is so now:
"Ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you."
(John 15:3: 13:1O); and Jesus had breathed on them the Holy Ghost (John 2O:21,
22). You know, that they could not receive the Spirit if they were not clean.
Jesus cleansed and got all doubt out of His church before He went back to glory.
The
Baptism with the Holy Ghost is a gift of power upon the sanctified life; so when
we get it we have the same evidence as the Disciples received on the Day of
Pentecost (Acts 2:3, 4), in speaking in hew tongues. See also Acts 1O:45, 46;
Acts 19:6; 1 Cur, 14:21. "For
I will work a work, in your days which ye will not believe--though it be told
you."-Heb. 1:5.
Healing-We
must believe that God is able to heal-Hz. 15:26:' "1 am the Lord that
healeth thee." James 5:14; Psa. 1O3:3; 2 Kings 2O:5; Matt. 8:16,37; Mark
16; 16, 17, 18.
"Behold
I am the Lord, the God of all flesh; is there anything too hard for Me?"-Jer.
22:27.
Too
many have confused the grace of sanctification with the enduement of Power, or
the baptism with the Holy Ghost; others have taken "the anointing that
abideth" for the Baptism, and failed to reach the glory and power of a true
Pentecost.
The
Blood of Jesus will never blot out any sin between man and man they can make
right; but If we can't make wrongs right the Blood graciously covers.
(Matt. 5:23, 24.)
We
are not fighting men or churches, but seeking to displace dead forms and creeds
and wild fanaticism with living, practical Christianity. "Love, Faith, Unity" are our watchwords, and
"Victory through the Atoning Blood" our battle cry.
God's promises are true. He said: "Be
thou faithful over a few things, and wilt make thee ruler over many."
From the little handful of Christians who stood by the cross when the
testing and discouragement came, God has raised a mighty host.
Chinese
Pentecostal Paper--The Lord laid it on my heart to get out a paper in the
Chinese language. I put it before my Chinese brethren and they prayed over it
and God put it at once on their hearts, and they began to translate pieces into
Chinese. God has given us a Chinese
brother who has received the baptism of the Holy Ghost and is a good printer.
The paper is already being scattered among the millions of China. Offerings to help the dear Chinese brethren, who are poor in
this world's goods, get out their paper and circulate this Gospel may he sent to
Brother Mok Lai Chi. 5 Laddes St., Hong Kong, China.--Bro. McIntosh.
Word
comes that Bishop Homer of the Holiness movement of Canada has been baptized
with the Holy Ghost as on the day of Pentecost. He had been claiming his baptism for twenty years and he says
this is the greatest baptism he ever had.
Two
Pentecostal papers in the Norwegian language are being published, the "Sandhedans
Tolk," published by Brother H. Langeland, Paulsbo, Wash., and "Byposten,"
by Brother T. B. Barratt, Christiania, Norway.
The
Lord had baptized a number in the little faith cottage back of the Mission.
He has used our dear Sister Farrow whom He sent from Texas at the
beginning of the outpuring of the Spirit in Los Angeles. In her room in the
cottage, quite a number have received a greater filling of the Spirit and some
have been healed and baptized with the Spirit since she returned from Africa.
ELECTRIC
MESSAGES FROM THE FIELD
I
can feel the breath of heaven, It's coming. Perfect victory for our precious
work.
This
Gospel is sweeping like rain over the parched fields. Jesus is coming so soon,
and the Lord is using those instruments that are given into His hands.
To
think we have a part in this great Gospel, with persecutions.
The blessed Christ is so near, even at our very door. O the rapture when
He bursts the clouds and we hear the glad news, "Behold all things are
ready, go ye out to meet Him."
God
is working and all hell cannot stop
There
is no one that can rob us of our power. We could easily sin and lose it, but we
have learned the secret of abiding in His love, which is by keeping clean.
I
praise God that He set me free. There are not men or devils enough to check this
great river the Father for Jesus' sake has put into my being. Bless His name. O
let the Lord have His way with you, and be as free as heaven makes you.
Jesus
brought the living, burning words of the Father into this old world, and bless
His dear name, He has left them here for those that love Him and keep His
commandments, and walk softly before Him. O to think He has given us this power
and these words of the Father that bring instant healing, and rebuke demons and
bring salvation to poor perishing souls.
We
have been praying for the Apostolic power, and the Lord has been testing His
Pentecostal people to see if we are pure gold, tried in the fire. He could not
trust us without trying us first. The Lord wants soon to give the perfect gifts
in the body, and He is going to give them to the true and tried ones only. He is
getting us ready as fast as He can and as fast as we will let Him. Praise the
name of our matchless Christ!
"Many
are railed but few are chosen." O I do want to be one of the few that shall
walk Him in white. I feel if I can only sit in some corner of heaven and look on
the stately form and face of my Christ who has done so much for it, it will be
enough. My very soul is bowed down in humility as I even think of what He's done
for me. O may we keep at His lovely feet. May we see Jesus only. May we in this,
last onslaught of Satan on the true children of God, in this last outpouring of
the Spirit, stand as one man.
If
we do faithfully the work God has called us to, in the face of all hell, we will
see results. Many will preach a mere compromise but I will not do it. Can't and
be true to God. This old world has seen nothing but failure and weakness on the
part of God's people, and the time has cools to rise and shine, shake off the
yoke. Bless His dear name! As soon
as the saints get a little persecution for keeping things straight, they take to
the background and say, May be I was too harsh." But if we won't be
faithful in this age, the Lord will raise up those that will.
We must have Peters and Pauls in this closing age as well as in the
beginning of the church. If we can't stand the evil report as well as the good.
we need another dip in the Blood. My soul demands reality. We must be what we
say we are. If we have the power of the Holy Ghost, we have something that can
stand, and after doing all stand.-F. L. C.
Character
and Work of the Holy Ghost. His character is love. If you find people that
get a harsh spirit, and even talk in tongues in a harsh spirit, it is not
the Holy Ghost talking. His utterances are in power and glory and with blessing
and sweetness. The character of the Holy Ghost is precisely like Jesus the Word
of truth, for the Holy Ghost is "the Spirit of truth."
He speaks always of the Word and makes everything like the Word. Jesus
was the Son of God, the suffering Christ; and the Holy Ghost comes into the
world to reveal this suffering Christ to us. He is a meek and humble Spirit--not
a harsh Spirit. He is a Spirit of glory. When He comes into a believer, He comes
to tell them all about Jesus' salvation. He reveals Christ. He paints Him as the
wonderful Son of God, the brightest gem the Father had in heaven --our only hope
of salvation and reconciliation with the Father. How sweet it is to have the Holy Ghost come to you and show
you Jesus through the Word. He
witnesses and reveals through the Word, and never gets outside of the Word.
Every
man born of the Spirit is born of Jesus Christ. The new birth puts you into the church and sin puts you out.
No
wonder people get the missionary Spirit as soon as they get the baptism because
they become partners with the Holy Spirit.
In
the baptism of the Spirit, you are under the power of Spirit, and do not have to
judge by what your eyes see and your ears hear but what the Spirit reveals.
SANCTIFIED
ON THE CROSS
"I
pray not that Thou shouldst take them out of the world, but that Thou shouldst
keep them from the evil. They are not of the world even as I am not of the
world. Sanctify them through Thy truth, Thy word is truth." Jesus is still
praying this prayer today for every believer to come and be sanctified. Glory to
God! Sanctification makes us one
with the Lord Jesus. (Heb. 2:11.)
Sanctification makes us holy as Jesus is. Then the prayer of Jesus is
answered, and we become one with Him, even as He is one with the Father. Bless
His holy name.
He
says again in I Thess. 4:3, For this is the will of God even your
sanctification." So it is His will fur every soul to be saved from all sin,
actual and original. We get our actual sins cleansed away through the Blood of
Jesus Christ at the cross; hut our original sin we get cleansed on the cross, It
must be a real death to the old man. Rom. 6:6, "Knowing this that our old
man is crucified with Him, that the body of sin, might be destroyed, that
henceforth we should not serve sin: for he that Is dead is freed from sin."
So it takes the death of the old man in order that Christ might be sanctified in
us. It is not sufficient to have the old man stunned or knocked down, for he
will rise again.
God
is calling His people to true holiness in these days. We thank God for the
blessed light that He is giving us. He says in Ii Tim. 2:21: "Ifs man therefore purge himself from these. he shall be
a vessel unto honor, sanctified and meet for the Master's use." He means
for us to be purged from uncleanness and all kinds of sin. Then we shall be it
vessel unto honor, sanctified and inset for the Master's use, and prepared unto
every good work. Sanctification makes us holy and destroys the breed of sin, the
love of sin and carnality. It makes us pure and whiter than snow.
Bless His holy name!
The
Lord Jesus says, "Blessed are the pure in heart."
Sanctification makes us pure in heart. Any man that is saved and
sanctified call feel the fire burning in his heart, when be calls on the name of
Jesus. O may God help men and women 'every-where to lead a holy life, free from
sin, for the Holy Spirit seeks to lead you out of sin into the marvelous light
of the Sun of God.
The
Word says. "Follow peace with all men and holiness without which no man
shall see the Lord." So, beloved, when we get Jesus Christ our King of
Peace in our hearts, we have the almighty Christ, the everlasting Father, the
Prince of Peace. "Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed
on Thee, because He trusteth in Thee." We shall have wisdom, righteousness
and power. For God is righteous In all His ways and holy in all His arts. This
holiness means perfect love in our hearts, perfect love that casteth out fear.
Brother
Paul says in order to become holy and live a holy life, we should abstain from
all appearance of evil. Then the
apostle adds, "And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly, and I pray
God your whole spirit and soul and body he preserved blameless unto the coming
of our Lord Jesus Christ." (I These. 1: 22, 23.) "To the end He may establish your hearts unblameable in
holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ
with all His saints." II
Thess.
3:13.) Bless His holy name. O
beloved, after you have received the light, it is holiness or hell. God is
calling fur men and women in these days that will live a holy life free from
sin. We should remain before God until His all cleansing Blood makes us holy,
body, soul
Pentecost
means a continual revival among God's people.
Gifts
cannot save us. We see that by the life of Jesus. Many people are going to hell trusting in gifts. The Word
tells us that without love we are nothing.
The Blood of Jesus Christ is our only salvation.
The
Word of God is the standard in this wonderful salvation. If you get on board the
Word of God, the train will take you straight through to glory; but if you take
some other way, you will have trouble at the gate. We preach a clean cut Gospel,
for we will have to give an account at the judgment.
Adam
was a lifeless man of clay when the Spirit of God breathed the breath of life
into his nostrils, and he became a living soul. So when the Spirit of God comes
into a church or an individual, He wakes it up and it becomes a live body. The
Holy Ghost has no dead churches. He brings life wherever He Is.
Just
as angels could not remain in the kingdom of God when they sinned, so people
cannot live in the kingdom of God, His church, if they sin. The only way to
remain in unity with Christ and His Spirit flowing in our souls Is to be
obedient subjects. Obedience keeps us in the body of Christ and: His love
flowing like an ocean.
When
the Lord heals us or saves us, He tells us to "Sin no more, lest a worse
thing come upon thee." As long as we walk in obedience to God, His
blessings will fail upon our souls; but if we turn back to sin and break our
covenant with God, our last state will be worse than the first. Let us walk in
the light of His precious Word.
God's
ministers are "a flame of fire." He wants men and women all on fire.
He wants us not only saved from sin but on fire. The Holy Ghost is dynamite and
fire in your soul. He wants us to
have not only the thunder but the lightning. The Holy Ghost is lightning. He
strikes men down with conviction, slays and makes alive.
I
put everything on the altar, all I hoped for and longed for I gave to the Lord,
and when I prayed, the fire came down and God sanctified me and made me holy.
Then I went home and said, I have got another religion. Well, it was not another
religion but the old Ishmael was cast out, the carnal nature was destroyed, and
God filled me with love and then closed the door and left me in that state.
Nothing could come in but love.
This
Pentecostal blessing is so sweet. When you lay down at night, how He comes and
blesses your soul and sings through you and preaches through you, and the first
thing in the morning It is Jesus. There is glory shining in your soul and He
seems to light up the room and everything in your soul cries out, "Its
Jesus only." It is the power of the Holy Spirit through your soul. When He
comes into your heart, He doss not bring any trash but He comes to reveal Jesus.
We
must remember that tongues never bought this salvation, but it is the blood of
Jesus Christ that purchased salvation. God wants men to have every gift but not
to be led by gifts but by the Word of God, by the precious Blood of Jesus. Glory
to God "This is My beloved son, hear ye Him." We want to know God
above all. When we have the Christ
of God in our hearts. we can stand before the very gatling guns of hell and tell
them that the Blood cleanseth.
The
baptism of the Holy Spirit is power and understanding of the Word and the glory
of God upon your life. Whenever the Lord wants to play His piano, He tunes up
the harp and plays with His own fingers, speaking or singing in any language he
wishes. The man that hears you speak a message right from the throne fails down
and seeks God and gets up to report that God is in you of a truth. The baptism
of the Holy Spirit makes you more humble and filled with divine love and the
graces and fruits of the Spirit are manifest.
When
you get the baptism with the Holy Ghost, you will surely go up into The mount
with Christ. If you want to know what it is to praise God and have the joy of
the Lord in your soul that flows like a mighty river ,tarry and get your
personal Pentecost. He keeps the rivers flowing in your soul that you may be fit
for irrigation wherever you go. Jesus
said, "He that believeth on Me out of his belly shall flow rivers of living
water. But this spake He of the Spirit which they that believe on Him should
receive." (John, 7:38, 39.)
Honor
the Holy Ghost. Someone may say, " If you can speak in tongues, let me hear
you." Don't you ever try to do
that. The Holy Ghost will never speak in that way. It is not ye that speak but
the Holy Ghost, and he will speak when He chooses.
Don't you ever try to speak with tongues or say that the power belongs to
you. It is by My Spirit, saith the Lord. When singing or speaking in tongues,
your mind does not take any part in it. He wants you
to pray for the interpretation, so that you can speak with the Spirit and
with the understanding also. (I Cor,. 14:16)
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THE
BAPTISM OF THE HOLY GHOST
The
Azusa standard of the baptism with the Holy Ghost is according to the Bible in
Acts 1:5,8; Acts, 2:4 and Luke, 24:49. Bless His holy name. Hallelujah to the
Lamb for the baptism of the Holy Ghost and fire and speaking in tongues as the
Spirit gives utterance.
Jesus
gave the church at Pentecost a great lesson of how to carry on a revival, and it
would be well for every church to follow Jesus' standard of the ~ of the Holy
Ghost and fire.
"And
when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one
place." O beloved, there is where the secret is: one accord, one place, one
heart, one soul, one mind, one prayer. If God can get a people anywhere in one
accord and in one place, of one heart, mind, and soul, believing for this great
power, It will fall and Pentecostal results will follow. Glory to God!
Apostolic
Faith doctrine means one accord, one soul, one heart. May God help every child
of His to live In Jesus' prayer: "That they all may be one, as Thou,
Father, art in Me and I In Thee; that they all may be one to us; that the world
may believe that Thou hast sent Me." Praise God! O how my heart cries out to God in these days that He would
make every child of His see the necessity of living in the 17th chapter of John,
that we may be one in the body of Christ, as Jesus has prayed.
When
we are sanctified through the truth, then we are one in Christ, and we can get
into one accord for the gift or power of the Holy Ghost, and God will come in
like a rushing mighty wind and fill every heart with the power of the Holy
Spirit. Glory to His holy name.
Bless God! O how I praise Him for
this wonderful salvation that is spreading over this great earth. The baptism of
the Holy Ghost brings the glory of God In our hearts.
The
Holy Ghost Is Power
There
is a great difference between a sanctified person and one that is baptized with
the Holy Ghost and fire. A sanctified person is cleansed and filled with divine
love, but the one that is baptized with the Holy Ghost has the power of God on
his soul and has power with God and men, power over all the kingdoms of Satan
and over all his emissaries. God can take a worm and thresh a mountain. Glory to
God. Hallelujah!
In
all Jesus' great revivals and miracles, the work was wrought by the power of the
Holy Ghost flowing through His sanctified humanity. When the Holy Ghost comes
and takes us as His instruments, this is the power that convicts men and women
and causes them to see that there is a reality in serving Jesus Christ. O
beloved, we ought to thank God that He has made us the tabernacles of the Holy
Ghost. When you have the Holy
Ghost, you have an empire, a power within yourself. Elijah was a power in
himself through the Holy Ghost. He brought down fire from heaven. So when we get
the power of the Holy Ghost, we will see the heavens open sod the Holy Ghost
power falling on earth, power over sickness, diseases and death.
The
Lord never revoked the commission He gave to His disciples:
"Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead," and He is
going to perform these things if He can get a people in unity. The Holy Spirit
is power with God and man. You have power with God as Elijah had. God put man
over all His works; but we know that when Adam sinned, he lost a great deal of
his power; but now through the Blood of Jesus, He says, "Behold, I give you
power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the powers of the
enemy." The Lord Jesus wants a church, when He comes back to earth, just
like the one He started when He left the earth and organized it on the day of
Pentecost.
Tarry
in One Accord
O
may every child of God seek his real personal Pentecost, stop quibbling and come
to the standard that Jesus laid down for us in Acts 2: "And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a
rushing mighty wind, and It filled all the house where they were sitting."
Glory to God! O beloved, if you
wait on God for this baptism of the Holy Ghost just now, and can get two or
three people together that are sanctified through the Blood of Christ, and all
get into one accord, God will send the baptism of the Holy Ghost upon your souls
as the rain falls from heaven. You may not have a preacher to come to you and
preach the doctrine of the Holy Ghost and fire, but you can obey Jesus' saying
in the passage. "Where two or three are gathered together in My name, there
am I in the midst of them." This is Jesus': and if two or three are
gathered together in His name and pray for the baptism of the Holy Ghost, they
can have it this day or this night, because it is the promise of the Father’s
glory and you will find it a truth In your own life. God's promises are true and
sure.
The
Baptism Falls on a Clean Heart
Jesus
is our example. "And Jesus
being full of the Holy Ghost, returned from Jordan, and was led by the
Spirit." We find in reading
the Bible that the baptism with the Holy Ghost and fire falls on a clean,
sanctified life, for we see according to the Scriptures that Jesus was
"holy, harmless, undefiled," sod filled with wisdom and favor with God
and man, before God anointed Him with the Holy Ghost and power. For in Luke,
2:40 we read. "Jesus waxed strong in spirit, filled with wisdom, and the
grace of God was upon Him"; and in Luke, 2:52, "And Jesus increased in
wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man."
After
Jesus was empowered with the Holy Ghost at Jordan, He returned in the power of
the Spirit into Galilee, and there went out a fame of Him through all the region
round about." Glory to God! He
was not any more holy or any more meek, but had greater authority. "And He
taught in their synagogues, being glorified of all."
Beloved,
If Jesus who was God Himself, heeded the Holy Ghost to empower Him for His
ministry and His miracles, how much more do we children need the Holy Ghost
today. O that men and women would
tarry for the baptism with the Holy Ghost and fire upon their souls, that the
glory may be seen upon them just as It was upon the disciples on the day of
Pentecost in the fiery emblem of tongues. The tongues of fire represented the
great Shekina glory. So today the Shekina glory rests day and night upon those
who are baptized with the Holy Ghost, while He abides in their souls. For His
presence is with us. Glory to His name. I thank Him for this wonderful
salvation. Let us ring His praises through all the world that all men may know
that the Comforter has come. Bless His dear name!
Jesus'
First Sermon After His Baptism
"And
He came to Nazareth where He was brought up: and as His custom was, He went into
the synagogue on the Sabbath day and stood up for to read. And there was
delivered unto Him the hook of the prophet Esaias. And when He had opened the
book, He found the place where it is written: The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me
because He hath anointed Me to preach the Gospel to the poor: He hath sent me to
heal the broken-hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering
of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are blind, to preach the
acceptable year of the Lord." (Luke. 4:18, 19.) Hallelujah. Glory to God!
This is Jesus' sermon after His baptism with the Holy Ghost, preaching in
the synagogue. He acknowledged that the Spirit of God was upon Him.
Jesus
was the Son of God and born of the Holy Ghost and filled with the Holy Ghost
from His mother's womb: but the baptism of the Holy Ghost came upon His
sanctified humanity at the Jordan. In His humanity, He needed the Third Person
or the Trinity to do His work. And He could truly say that His fingers became
instruments of the Holy Ghost to cast out devils.
The
Holy Ghost Flows Through Pure Channels
If
men and women today will consecrate themselves to God, and get their hands and
feet and eyes and affections, body and soul, all sanctified, how the Holy Ghost
will use such people. He will find pure channels to flow through sanctified
avenues for His power. People will be saved, sanctified, healed and baptized
with the Holy Ghost and fire.
The
baptism of the Holy Ghost comes through our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ by
faith in His word. In order to receive it, we must first he sanctified. Then we
can become His witnesses unto the uttermost parts of the earth. You will never
have an experience to measure with Acts. 2:4 and 16, 17, until you get your
personal Pentecost or the baptism with the Holy Ghost and fire. (Matt., 13:11)
This
is the latter rain that God is pouring out to His humble children in the last
days. We are preaching a Gospel
that measures with the great commission that Jesus gave His disciples on the day
when He arose from' the dead. (Matt. 28:19.2O-):
"Go
ye therefore and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father,
and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: teaching them to observe all things
whatsoever I have commanded you: and to, I am with you always, even unto the end
of the world. Amen!" They received the power to measure with this
commission on the day of Pentecost. (Acts, 2:4.) Bless the lord. O how I bless God to see His mighty power
manifested in these last days. God wants His people to receive the baptism with
the Holy Ghost and fire.
A
MOTHER'S EXPERIENCE OF PENTECOST
This
is my first writing to the dear Apostolic Faith. I will say that I am all under
the Blood, and I have victory, complete victory. I do praise Him for convicting
and converting my soul and sanctifying me wholly and giving me the blessed
baptism of the Holy Ghost. I
received it when I sought in earnest, over a year ago.
I
was fearful that it was hypnotism till I got right hungry for it; and I just
went to the seekers' board and knelt there. I had with me my two month's old
baby, and four older ones. They were sleepy, so I just got the baby down on the
bench asleep, and asked God to take care of the children, and He did. My husband
had been away from home at work, but I had been praying for God to give him work
here at home Whittier. So he was there when I got my baptism. But I did not know
he was in the room. I believe God sent him right back to the meeting where I was
seeking.
I
just said to Jesus, "Here I am before You." it seemed I could almost
see myself lying on the altar. I said, "Lord, have your way; I don't want
to be deceived about this matter. Lord, just keep hack the powers of darkness
and have your way with me, and quicken the Spirit, for you know my chance of
coming to the altar. I don't know that I will ever get another chance all those
children and no help with them so do the work right now." And I did
believe. Praise His holy name! He wonderfully came to my rescue right then, and
I spake in three different languages, and still do, O praise His holy name!
Sister John Woodruff. Whittier, Cal.
WORTH
TARRYING FOR
I
was wonderfully converted on Scriptural lines, Dec. 14, 1884, for years have
been a believer and seeker for Bible Holiness, obtained the experience at a
Holiness camp meeting in June. 19O3, and have had several anointings and refreshings
since, hut have always felt a real lack of power for effectual
service.
On
the night of Dec. 9th., last, while we waited upon our face at home, asking God
to soon fulfill His promise, and give me the longing desire of my
heart, the
baptism of the
Holy Ghost.
He answered back, "This is the night." With great assurance, we
stepped out into the storm and faithfully wounded our way to the little Mission,
where we had given fourteen years of our life in service. Only one other hungry
heart came out through the storm: but we two knelt before God and claimed the
promise, and as our voices mingled together in intersession, suddenly I began to
praise. And as I praised, prayer was left behind. All I could do was to praise
Jesus, the Blessed Lamb of God. And as a great volume came welling out, it
seemed to come from my very inmost being. All at once I felt a choking, gasping
feeling in my throat and my vocal cords were manipulated in a peculiar way, and
I knew the Holy Ghost had come to his temple within, which he had been preparing
so long.
He
now began to speak with the tongue yielded to Him, at first in a stammering way,
finally flowing out in a clear, distinct language, which sounded like Chinese.
He spoke twice in what seemed to be two languages. I rejoiced in the full
Bible evidence. My soul was filled full of love as sweet as heaven. He shook and
thrilled me over and over again. Oh, it was wonderful to me, a man of 60 years
of age!
Now
after thirty days have gone, the blessed love remains.
The emotional part has cooled down, but the hunger has all gone and He
satisfies me, and I find a new power for service. I am a new man with a new
hook, and a new message, in a new tongue. It does satisfy my soul.
It has been a help and inspiration to the few dear ones who are digging
down deeper, that they may soon make the landing also.
Four
days afterwards, eighteen miles from home, walking all alone in the snow, God
gave me the gift of a tongue, what language I know not as yet, but I can use it
at will. God has given me the interpretation of it, so I can glorify him as 1st
Cor. 14:22, a sign to the unbelievers. It
is worth tarrying fourteen months for, yea, for fourteen years. It is truly the
fullness of the Holy Ghost coming in His full official character to empower for
service as In Acts 1:8, and in Mark 16:17, 18.
I
want to give just a little word to all honest seekers: look up, get hold upon God, do not be discouraged. He will
come in His own way and surprise you when He does come (Hab. 2:3, last clause.)
Be definite and personal in your prayers. Do not ramble all over and pray
for others, but pray for yourself, and He will surely come to the joy of your
hearts.--W. H. Standley, Watertown, N. Y.
Sanctification
is a beautiful realm. You are saved from all Inherited sin, crucified with
Christ: the resurrection life of Jesus Christ in your soul. You have faith for
the healing of the sick and faith to get people saved and sanctified and the
presence of the Lord is with you.
The
Holy Ghost is the Teacher of teachers. He knows the word of God.
You can talk with Him and ask Him for yourself. It is the sweetest thing
to get alone with Him and let Him open the scripture to you.
He is the interpreter of the word, the Spirit of truth to guide you into
all truth.
PENTECOST
AT A FUNERAL.
COCOANUT
GROVE, Fla., Feb.19.
Last
Monday afternoon I was called to preach the funeral sermon of a little child,
the infant son of Mrs. Geo. Thompson of this place. The child was nearly three
months old and the idol of its mother's heart. The parents were both unsaved and
their grief was almost unbearable. The
mother especially was in a very critical condition, having cared for the little
one in its sufferings and watched over it as only a loving mother can. With the
father, she had watched it for days, as it seemed to hang between life and
death.
I
had talked with the father and he told me he could not ask God to spare it.
Three times, he said, he had promised God if He would answer prayer and spare
his loved ones, he would serve Him, and then had gone on in sin as before.
"God Is not to he fooled with," he said.
The
heart-broken mother was unable to be in the service. Her strength was almost exhausted and she was prostrate on
the bed. They brought her in to view the corpse for the last time, and it was a
pitiful scene. It took three or four to get her back to the bed where she
fainted away and was unconscious for some time during the burial service.
We
went in to speak to her before leaving, and she called my wife to sing for her.
They carried the little folding organ in by the bed, and she sang, "1
remember Calvary." And the mother sprang up, knelt by the organ and cried,
"Pray, Mrs. Eckert, I must get ready to meet my darling babe." So
after two prayers, she got back on the bed again and said, "Sing." My
wife sang three more songs, "Anchored in Jesus." "Lean upon the
arms of Jesus," and "Mansion In Heaven," and the mother joined in
the last chorus, smiling and waving her hands. Then she raised up and they
repeated the chorus again. Then,
with the light of heaven in her face, she told us about those mansions in heaven
and that she was going there to see Jesus and her darling babe." She said,
"Jesus Is here." Then she began to sing, this time all alone; and as
we listened to catch the words, we recognized the "voice divine," and
she was singing and speaking in a foreign language, just as they did on the day
of Pentecost. (Acts, 2:4) Glory to God!
After
singing and speaking for some time, she said. "Jesus is coming soon, He
told me." She also sang in English about the soon coming of our Lord then
began telling us what God had done. She said. "How good God is, see how
quick He done it! Why He just came down and washed me clean, took away all of my
sorrow and pain, and then just came In Himself and filled me. Oh you don't know
how good He is!" Then she would sing and speak in tongues and praise God,
and plead with her husband and other friends to pray.
We
remained with them nearly two hours, and she spent all of that time shouting and
praising God-Her strength was restored, and when we asked if she wanted
nourishment, she said, "No, I am strong. I don't need anything."
Several were present who had been very much opposed to the baptism with the Holy
Ghost end the speaking in tongues, but they were convinced.
Last
night she was at the cottage prayer meeting, and again we heard her tell her
wonderful experience and sing and speak in tongues. We had prayed very earnestly
for God to use the death of the child to save the parents; and before going to
the funeral, I had gone off to my place of secret prayer and asked God to make
it a Pentecostal funeral. And He answered In such a wonderful way that we were
made to understand more fully what Paul meant in Eph., 3:20. Glory to God!
What can be too hard for our Father?
We
have a band of seventeen baptized saints here who speak in tongues as the Spirit
gives utterance. Several hungry
hearts are still seeking and people are being convinced of sin.--Clark Eckert.
Pastor Holiness Church.
PROMISES
TO THE OVERCOMER
In
Revelations 2nd and 3rd chapters. Christ gives thirteen promises to the
overcomer:
He
shall eat of the tree of life. 2:7.
Shall have a crown of life. 2:10.
Shall eat of the hidden manna. 2:17.
Shall receive a while stone and a new name written therein. 2:17.
Shall have power over the nations. 2:26.
Shall have the Morning Star, which is Christ. 2:28.
Shall be clothed in white raiment. 3:5.
Shall not be blotted out of the Book of Life. 3:5.
Shall be confessed by Christ before God the Father. 3:5.
Shall be a pillar in the temple of God. 3:5.
Shall have written on him the name of God and the city of God. 3:12
Shall sit with
Christ in His throne. 3:21
Paul was a full
overcomer, for he said: “I have fought a good fight, I have finished my
course, I have kept the faith. Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of
righteousness.” May we be
faithful unto death. How are we to overcome? Only by the Blood of the Lamb and
the word of our testimony. Full overcomers will have part with Jesus in the
first resurrection.
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CHINESE
FILLED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT
Pentecost
has come to the South China Alliance Mission. Some of the missionaries attended
meetings In Macao and received their Pentecost and came hack to Wuchow
wonderfully filled with the Spirit and speaking in tongues. Some of the Chinese
Christians came back with the same experience. In a few days one of the
missionaries in Wuchow received his Pentecost and also a number of the Chinese
Christians. One missionary who bad been very poorly and had decided to return to
the home land on that account received a wonderful baptism of power and was
perfectly healed. Sister Ethel Landis at Kwei Peng, South China wrote:
"A good many of the Chinese have received their Pentecost and are
singing, praying, and praising in new tongues. The burden of it all is that
Jesus is coming soon and we must prepare to meet Him, The best part is to see
these dear Chinese Christians yielding fully to God and being filled with the
blessed Holy Spirit.
THE
LORD IS SENDING MISSIONARIES
Missionaries
to Egypt-It is now almost a year and a half since I received my personal
Pentecost. Since that time, I have been actively engaged in God's mighty
Pentecostal work. He has been graciously blessing. We expect to be in
evangelistic work for a few months and then go to Egypt as missionaries. S G.S.
Briesford, 110 N. Seventh Street. Colorado Springs, Co.
Los
Angeles to Ceylon, India--Brother A. H. Post left Los Angeles Aug. 1, 19O7. The
Lord graciously used him along the way. He writes: "I had the privilege in the will of God to visit Wales
for over two weeks; and, praise be to our Lord, He is beginning a real Pentecost
in that land, as also in many places in the British Isles, Scotland, Ireland and
Wales, as well as England. In London, quite a number have received the baptism
of the Holy Spirit."
Later
he writes from Kandy, Ceylon, India: "The
Lord directed me to this inland city shout seventy-five miles from Colombo,
There are a few here who are definitely tarrying for the baptism of the Holy
Ghost. I feel sure the Lord will give victory and bring a Pentecostal revival to
the island,"
Missionaries
to Ireland--The last day we were at Spokane, Wash., we were staying with a
couple of old ladies, and one of the ladies asked me to pray for her healing.
When we prayed for her and anointed her and laid our hands on her for her
healing, the power of God fell on her and she received her baptism and spoke in
tongues a clear language. O glory
to God! Victory through the
precious Blood of Jesus. We expect to sail for Ireland about the middle of
June.--Brother and Sister Thos. Griffin, Address 943 W. North Avenue, Chicago,
IL. (The above is a short extract from letters received from our precious
brother and sister from Los Angeles; The Lord is using them on the way to
Ireland.)
Missionaries
to Johannesburg, South Africa--Eleven Apostolic Faith missionaries from
Indianapolis have lately sailed for South Africa. Brother and Sister H. M.
Turney from Los Angeles who have been in Honolulu are also on the way and have
written from England. God is making them a blessing on the way.
From
Johannesburg, Africa, where the missionaries are going, we received this letter:
"A few days ago. I was much blest in having a couple of pages, in a
very much-dilapidated condition, of The Apostolic Faith put into my hands. Both
these pages have pieces torn from them, nevertheless I do just feel that God has
put them into my hands to revive my heart. The paper is now setting afire the
hearts of a few other Christians, and we now, praise God, have also been led to
pray for the baptism of the Holy Ghost with fire. Both in Cape Town and
Johannesburg, a few earnest Christians are now meeting daily, and waiting upon
God with one accord and are trusting and believing that God will baptize us with
the Holy Ghost and fire." May God send the "latter rain" in a
deluge over that land. He is truly sending missionaries into a whitened field,
Missionaries
to Palestine. Many souls in China have received the baptism of the Holy Ghost
through the labors of Brother and Sister McIntosh at Macao and other places in
China. The Lord told him to
"go to Macaso" before he knew there was any such place but he looked
It up on the map and found It. Of late he says the Lord told him to "go to
Sharaaim, Palestine." He did not know there was such a place till the Lord
spoke to him. Now he is on his way there. Address him. Brother T. J. McIntosh.
Jerusalem, Palestine, care of Thomas Cook & Son.
ITALIANS
AND INDIANS RECEIVE THE HOLY GHOST
Bro.
A. H. Argus, of 299 St. Johns Ave., Winnipeg, Canada, has just Returned From A
Pentecostal Trip and Writes This Blessed Letter.
The
first place I visited was Toronto, at which place I did enjoy the fellowship of
the saints. Pentecost has fallen in at least five missions there. From there, I
went to Ottawa and then to Athens, where we held meetings and some real
remarkable cases of conversation, sanctification and of the Pentecostal baptism
were manifest. God truly, was with us in power and we all did rejoice in the
marvelous way in which He poured out of His Spirit in the place. After sixteen
days there, the lord permitted me to return home by way of New York City.
In
that city, while I was there, twenty-five received the baptism in one week.
Five of the saints were fasting for ten day' and, no doubt God was there
in a special way. Pentecost has fallen in other missions in that city, also in
adjoining cities-Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington, D.C..
At
the latter city I held two meetings for Sister Thomas, who has charge of the
Pentecostal mission there. God
truly is with a number of the saints in that place. I shall not soon forget the
sweet fellowship we had together.
From
there I went to Chicago, in which city Pentecost has fallen in thirteen or
fourteen missions and hundreds have received this Pentecostal experience.
Brother Durham has a strong work there. About a year ago, one or two Italians
became convinced that this work was of God, and were saved, and pressed their
way clean through to Pentecost: As a result, others followed and soon an Italian
mission was opened, which is being run on Pentecostal lines.
Many are being saved, sanctified and baptized two of their numbers have
returned to their native country-Italy, they say to preach this Gospel. Truly
these Italians appear to be under the anointing of the Spirit.
I
also was at Zion City, where a number have received the baptism. On Sunday
morning and evening, while I attended, there was a congregation of about 500 and
seventy-five were at the altar. At St. Paul and Minneapolis, God is doing a
great work.
Truly,
the latter rain appears to be falling on every kindred, tongue and nation. While
I was away, a number of Indians from the Reserve, about 2OO miles north heard of
the work in Winnipeg and came in the city. Five of them received the baptism and
others were saved and sanctified. Since they returned home, we have heard that
other Indians have been saved. While the Indians were at the meetings in the
city, two of the saints, under the power of the Spirit, spoke in other
languages, which were understood by the Indians and one of the interpretations
was, "Jesus Is coming soon."
Truly,
these are marvelous days. Reports are coming in from nearly every quarter of the
globe of how the latter rain is failing In many places and, truly, It is
encouraging to see that the God of Pentecost Is just the same today.
THE
PENTECOSTAL REVIVAL
(From
"Good Tidings," published at 71O Wayne avenue, Dayton, OH.-Part of a
letter by Miss E. Sisson.).
Esthonia,
in Russia, brings us the story of a half-dozen or more little peasant girls upon
whom came the mighty power of the Holy Ghost, and with it "the gift of
tongues." Several among them in a holy ecstasy speaking they understood not
what; but to one among them was given "the gift of interpretation."
She said the burden of all they told was, "Jesus is coming soon.
Prepare!" Take note, just here, beloved, that in all lands and all tongues,
where God has thus spoken, this has
been the first proclamation. "Jesus is coming soon. Make ready!”
"The
Christians have seen their God."
In
one of the more recent accounts of revivals in Secunderabad, India, it is said
the Holy Spirit came on them suddenly in the church prayer-meeting; the prayer
of contrition was like the roar of a cataract. The heathen outside came running
from every direction, looking in at every window, and watched the novel
proceeding. As the Christians breaking through to God and coming out under the
fiery baptism, lifted their rapt and ecstatic faces, the heathen went home to
their villages, reporting with awe, "The Christians have seen their
God!"
God
Heals In India
From
the second year of "The Revival" in Khassia Hills, India, a missionary
writes it is spreading in such a wonderful way like a great prairie fire.
Nothing is able to withstand it. It bursts out into a flame in the most
unexpected places. Then follows
account of the healing of a poor heathen woman of a most loathsome skin disease,
because of which the heathen had thrust her from the village to die in the
jungle. While on the roadside she stood listening to the preaching of the gospel
and suddenly exclaimed, "God has given me medicine. He will heal me with
this medicine," and began rubbing her poor body with her hands when she
exclaimed, "I am well!" It was so. The heathen around saw and were
filled with awe.
This
Gospel means a crucified life. We
must take up our cross daily and follow Christ.
The cause of so many losing the anointing of the Spirit is that they
neglect to mortify and crucify self. He wants our eyes, our ears, and all our
members kept unto Him, that we might live after the Spirit and not after the
flesh. He is looking for people
today that will die out to the flesh. How can our eyes revel to the things of
this world and our ears listen to worldly music if they are consecrated to the,
master’s use. People say this is fanaticism, but it is the teaching of the
precious word of God. We must
measure up to it. He wants us to have our ears closed to the world and open to
heaven.
Cheng
Ting Fu, Chih-ll, North China, is the address of Brother Bernstein, Brother and
Sister Roy Hess, and ten other Pentecostal missionaries from Los Angeles and
Chicago. The saints have been sending money to feed the starving there. Brother
Hess says: "When I see the
starving condition of this people and then look back where I came from and see
them have so much. I feel like saying, O Christians, sell all your idols and
hell! Send out missionaries." Brother Bernstein writes: "We have our
own regular meetings every night and the Holy Ghost is in our midst. Lately life
has baptized my wife with the Holy Ghost and fire, and she spoke sod sang in
other tongues. Glory to God In the highest! Our two boys, 11 and 8 years of age,
were baptized some time ago, so we are a baptized company. God is working among
the Chinese Christians here. There are some that are praying earnestly for the
baptism of the Holy Ghost and fire. We have meeting with them every morning in
our home, besides we have a meeting with the people on the streets every day and
give the hungry a little food daily. The people here in general are very poor.
They want to sell their children for a few dollars, because they have nothing to
feed them. It is a great opportunity to tell them of the love of God.
We have rented a store on the main street for about $1.50 a month. Had
the first meeting Sunday, many people coming and going. We have a blind man
taken out from the beggars and have clothed him and are feeding him and giving
him the Gospel. I told him about Jesus' Blood that cleanses from all sin. He did
not understand it, and I explained that when we used water to wash his face, it
got clean. He answered at once, 'Tomorrow I want to come and wash my heart in
Jesus' blood'."
HEAVENLY
VISITATIONS IN INDIA
DHOLKA.
Gujerat, India, Feb.17.
No
pen can fully describe what God is doing here, and we are only In the midst of
things, not at the end of this wave of power. Praise God!
Yet I cannot longer keep from you the blessed tidings.
Last
week the Lord sent Miss Gardner and me from Bombay to this place, having said
to us in tongues before leaving. "Ask for great things." "Ask in
the heavens above or in the depth below." We found the missionaries here a
prepared people earnestly desiring the full baptism of the Holy Ghost. Some of
them had definitely prayed long for it. Brother Schoonmaker was already fully in
the baptism and has been greatly used of God.
The
second day, all with one accord began to tarry before the Lord, the missionaries
deciding by the will of God in them, to lay aside all the work that could be
laid aside, and God has graciously enabled the busy workers to attend all the
meetings since. We have tarried
each day from 3p. m. till about midnight, with an intermission for dinner.
The
first day, the lord worked mightily and baptized one sister, accompanying the
baptism with a new tongue. She was filled with joy and praise and has gone on by
leaps and bounds ever since.
Friday
was a day of testing. The meeting seemed full of the love of God but the power
seemed much less than the day before. The Lord sent Miss G. and me out into a
field during the intermission to find out what was the matter.
We humbled ourselves before God and begged Him to reveal the cause of
failure. I began to speak in a tongue and she to interpret, and He said,
"If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall unto this mountain,
remove hence to yonder place, and it shall remove. O thou of little faith,
wherefore didst thou doubt?" And
other verses about faith. O the blessed faithful God!
Let no one say tongues are of no use. We 'accepted the reproof from our
great Master and sought faith. It was given and the power came back.
On
Saturday and Sunday, the mighty work went on. He baptized a sister and gave her
a new tongue. Anointed another and gave several of us another new tongue and
gave Miss G. the interpretation of all. O praise God with me. By this time, He
had the Holy Spirit as oil on the whole waiting company, and all mouths were
filled with praise and prayer.
Monday
was the most marvelous and glorious day of my whole life so far. At the
beginning of the meeting, Jesus talked with me like this:
“What do you think I ant going to do?" "I don't know.
Lord." "What do you believe for?" "I think you will baptize
someone." "Do you not believe I will do more?" "I hope
so." "Will you believe I will do greater things today than any day
before?" "Yes, Lord, I will believe. He spoke also to Miss G. in the
same way, telling her He would do mighty things before midnight.
I
said, "Lord, let me see fire on all these heads, do let me. Lord."
Then I began to speak in a tongue. I soon became aware that I was praying for a
brother. Then I saw a great shower of blood fall all over him.
Then the prayer went to another brother, and a reservoir of oil was
poured over him. Next it was for a sister, and as she lay on the floor, her body
was covered in flaming fire. Another
deluged in a flood of water from above, another stamped all over visibly with
seals. Before another there appeared a great heart that kept
enlarging, then a white door in the top of the heart, and both settled lightly
down on her breast. Another seemed gradually enveloped in a cloud.
The first brother to receive his baptism was eclipsed In glorious white
light. Miss G. who was in a trance was covered over with soft white stuff,
something like snow or feathers. On me the rain was falling. I asked Jesus was
the white stuff was. He said, "It is dew only I made it look white to be
visible." All this impressed me that the Holy Spirit in all His aspects
rested upon us and will be manifest to us. Oh glory to Jesus!
When
Miss G. came out of the trance, she had seen a part in vision as I in the
revelation.
A
brother immediately said that God had been telling him for two days to ask two
of us to lay hands on him for the baptism. We did so, each praying in English,
then in tongues. The interpretation
was given, "I indeed baptize with waster, but He shall baptize with the
Holy Ghost and fire." "Ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not
many days hence." "Ye shall receive power after that the Holy Ghost is
come upon you, and ye shall be my witnesses unto the ends of the earth."
Then there came much praise in the tongues. Then the Spirit said that
hands should be laid upon another brother. We obeyed and await the manifestation
of the baptism upon these two.
Then
the power fell. There were times
when we were all shouting, screaming and laughing together under the power of
the Spirit. The Spirit has definitely given discernment of spirits during these
days and rebuked one and another of us, and is teaching us many things. We are
looking for still greater things. Think what it will be to this mission station,
to this Bible school and this orphanage to have all the missionaries baptized
with the Holy Ghost.
O
beloved, let it speak to other mission stations and churches all over the world
that God has come to fully equip us for His service. Let waiting ones not try to
pray for others but for themselves. Let companies of those baptized who are
praying with others waiting on God keep the one object before those in the room,
not introducing other subjects of intercession. There must be one accord and one
purpose in order that the Spirit may have a clear channel in the fellowship of
Jesus, Kate Knight, Bombay, India.
THE
HOLY GHOST AND THU BRIDE
We
read in Rev., 22:17, "The Spirit and the bride say come." O how sweet
it is for us to have this blessed privilege of being a coworker with the Holy
Ghost. He inspires us with faith in
God's word and endues us with power for service for the Master. Bless His dear
name!
Every
man and woman that receives the baptism of the Holy Ghost is the bride of
Christ. They have a missionary spirit for saving souls. They have the spirit of
Pentecost. Glory to God!
"And
let him that heareth say, come: and let him that is athirst, come; and whosoever
will, let him take the water of life freely." O what a blessed text. The
bride of Christ is calling the thirsty to come to Jesus because this is His work
of the Holy Ghost in the believer. He intercedes for the lost: He groans for
them.
The
Spirit also calls the believer to come to Jesus and get sanctified. He points
the sanctified to Jesus for his baptism with the Holy Ghost. When you are
baptized with the Holy Ghost, you will have power to call sinners to Jesus, and
they will be saved, and sanctified, and baptized with the Holy Ghost and fire.
Amen!
Christ's bride is pure and spotless. "Thou art all fair, my love, there is no spot in thee." (Sol. Songs. 4:7.) Christ's bride is clean, free front sin and all impurity. He gave Himself for her, that He might sanctify and cleanse the church with the washing of water by the word. That He might present it to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that it should be holy and without blemish. (Eph., 5:25,27).
Christ's
bride has but one husband. (2 Cor., 11:2.) She is subject to Him. (Eph., 5:25.)
The Bridegroom is the Son of God. (2 Cor., 11:2.)
We
are married to Christ now in the Spirit, (Rom., 7:2,4.) Not only when He comes are we married to Christ but right
now, if you are sanctified and baptized with the Holy Ghost and fire, you are
married to Him already. God has a people to measure up to the Bible standard in
this great salvation. Bless His holy name. Amen! W. J. S.
SPEAKING
IN TONGUES
If
you search the Scriptures carefully, you will find that when people get the
baptism with the Holy Ghost and fire, they will speak in tongues and magnify
God. (Acts 10:46.) We read in Acts 2:32,33:
"This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses.
Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the
Father the promise of the Holy Ghost. He bath shed forth this which ye now see
and hear."
So
when you receive the baptism with the Holy Ghost and fire. His power will be seen and heard upon you.
People will hear new songs and speaking in tongues. (Acts 2:4; Acts
2:16,17). We read also in Acts 2:11-13: “Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them
speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God.
And they were all amazed and were in doubt saying one to another, What
meaneth this? Others mocking said, these men are full of new wine.” What was
it that the people saw and heard? It was the Holy Ghost upon the disciples and
the speaking in tongues.
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