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And if, under the inspiring associations of this historic and holy day, you feel your soul touched with a new spirit or consciousness rising up in you from the grave of its own dead self to new desires and new thoughts, and a new sense of the living nearness of the Holy Ghost the Comforter, then you know and you need no prophet to tell you that the Pentecostal gift has not failed, and there is good hope that you will not spoil either your youth or your manhood with any form of ignoble life.
The Psalmist says, "I shall be anointed with fresh oil," and to every sanctified child of God, there may and do come seasons of refreshing, also of girding and filling, and fresh anointing for particular services, which are sometimes called fresh baptisms, but which are not to be confounded with the one true abiding Pentecostal experience.
Among the members of the pentecostal Church, two were struck down dead for falsehood of the blackest kind. Among the earliest professed converts in Samaria was Simon Magus, in the bonds of iniquity. And so it will ever be.
The minister of Christ is set apart to give himself as much to prayer as to the ministry of the word. In faithful obedience to this law is the secret of the Church's power and success. As before, so after Pentecost, the apostles were men given up to prayer. In chapter viii. we have the intimate connection between the Pentecostal gift and prayer, from another point of view.
So successful was his preaching that night, that he reconverted many of his converts, who fell and moaned about the penitent form and crowded for room amongst scores of new converts burnt by the pentecostal fire, including half a company of negro soldiers from the garrisoned Twenty-Fifth Infantry, a dozen troopers from the Fourth Cavalry on its way to the Philippines, as many drunken man- of-war's men, divers ladies from Iwilei, and half the riff-raff of the beach.
'I guess the church's been dedicated. I feel like we'd heard the big wind an' I guess, mebbe, the Pentecostal tongues. "An' Timothy he's an awful tender-hearted man in spite o' bein' so notional Timothy just went on in with the milk, without sayin' anything. An' Eppleby side of him.
What was known with certainty was that the Father preached against the impurities and injustices of the age with a vehemence never heard before, and that when he spoke of the wickedness of the world toward woman, of the temptations that were laid before her temptations of dress, of luxury, of false work and false fame and then of the cruel neglect and abandonment of woman when her summer had gone and her winter had come, his lips seemed to be touched as by a live coal from the altar and his eyes to blaze as with Pentecostal fire.
The time was slow in coming. Easter had passed with Ermentrude far too ill for Christina to make the effort she had intended of going to the church, even if she could get no escort but old Ursel the sheet of snow had dwindled to a mere wreath the ford looked blue in the sunshine the cascade tinkled merrily down its rock mountain primroses peeped out, when, as Father Norbert came forth from saying his ill-attended Pentecostal mass, and was parting with the infirm peasant hermit, a tall figure strode up the pass, and, as the villagers fell back to make way, stood before the startled priest, and said, in a voice choked with grief, "Come with me."
'As we have opportunity let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith." "That is to the point," said Hubert. "But to return to the Pentecostal precedent," said Mr. Gray; "if we were to sell out, at whose feet would you propose laying the proceeds?" He looked slyly at Hubert. "At Doctor Schoolman's?" "Never," said Hubert, and then he laughed.
The dawn was quite near on its way now. A dove called from the wood to its mate. Surely it desired to tell it that morning came. 'We've got some fresh Intelligence, my host said gravely. 'Pentecostal Illumination, rather, I said. 'Did you happen to remember what the Day was? He nodded. 'We'd better not sit up talking, he told me. 'It might seem to spoil it somehow.
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