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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 Jesus. His heathen mother and a heathen lad,
an old friend. He has also been a messenger or power to missionaries from the
homeland. At Dolka, a station of the Christian and Missionary Alliance, where
five missionaries have received Pentecost, six orphan lads are magnifying God in
new tongues." 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?" 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! ---page 1-- THE APOSTOLIC FAITH For the next issues of this paper address Subscription Free THE APOSTOLIC FAITH MISSION Stands for the restoration of the faith once
delivered unto the saints-the old time 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) ---page 2----- 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 NOR 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 campmeeting 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. -----------Page 3---------- 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
front 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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