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BOOTH. ** And, behold t I send the promise of my Father upon you : hnt tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem,, until ye he endued wiih power from on high,'* — Luke xxxiv. 40. *• But ye shall receive power , after that the Holy Ghost is come upon yoi*.**AcTsi. 8. MY chief reason for taking up this subject is to meet the difficulties of some whom I believe to be anxious and honest inquirers. Taking those who have written and spoken to me as representa- tives of a class, it occurred to me that there might be many others in a similar state of mind, and iit is a great joy to me if the Lord uses me to meet: real difficulties, and to help those who are exercised by them into a higher state of grace and a more thorough and complete devotion to the Lord. This is my end. God is my witness in every service. Now, I do not want to make any reflections, and will not do so any further than I can help ; but in dealing with such a subject we cannot avoid this, to a certain extent, as I have said before ; if the truth reveals error, and if trying to get into a I \ . ■Ml" -V * THE HOLY GHOST. better track necessarily in some measure reflects on ihe old track— we cocnot help it. and we must not eschew the former for the latter. It inust be n'.anifest, I thick, it every spiritual and thoughtful Christian that there is a great want somewhere in connection with the preachirg of the Gospel, and the instrumentalities of the church ai large. That there are many blessed exceptions I joyfully and gladly admit. No one hails them with greater g'adness than I do. That there are blessed green spots here and there in the wilderness is quite true, and when these are gathered together and descanted on in articles, they look very nice, and we are apt to take the flattering unction to our souls that things are not so bad after all ; but, when we come to travel the country over and find how few and far between these green spots are, and hear what a tide of lamentation and mourning reaches us all lound the land as to the deadness, coldnes*;, and dearth of Christian churches, we cruinot help feeling that there is a great want somewhere! This is not only my opinion, but it is almost universally admitted, that, with the enormous expenditure of means, the great amcunt of hum n effort, the multiplication of instrument- alities during the past century, there has not been a cotrespondhif^ result* People say tome, on every hand, "we have meet- ings without number, services, societies, conven- tions, conferences, but what becomes of them all, comparatively ?** And I may just say here that numbers of ministers and clergymen, in private conversation, admit the same thing. In fact none ft '^ are more ready to admit this compare. tive lack of results than many dear spiritual ministers. They say. when talking with us behind the scenes — "Yes, it IS a sad fact. I think I preach the truth. I pray about it. I am anxious for results, but alas ! alas ! the conversions are but few and far between." And then, not only are those convt^r- sions few, but in the mass of instances superficial — w& should expect from such a putting rf the truth as that we have been reading abou*. numerous and continual turnings to the Lord as in those days — we should expect men coming out openly Irom sin and from God-dishonoring courses, businesses, and professions— coming out from fashionable and worldly c rcles, abjuring the world, and literally and absolutely following the Christ as in those days. That is what we have a right to expect, and yet how comparatively rare they are, so that when people do thi«, there is quite a commotion, and it is talked about all over the land. Now I say this is universally admitted, and it behooves us to ask before God and with an earnest heart-yearning, desiring to improve this state of things. Where is the lack, what is the want ? Now note, secondly, thU want is nnt the truth. Oh ! whit a great deal of talk vve have about the truth, and not any too much. I would not yield to any man or woman in this audience in my love for this Bible. I love this Word, and regard it as the standard of all faith and practice, and out f^uide to live by ; but it is not enough ot itself. The great want is not the truth, for you see facts •«• I THE HOLY GHOST. would contradict this theory. If it were the truth, then there would be no lack at this day, compared with other times, because we never had so much of the truth. There never was so much preat hing of the truth, or such a wide d ssemination of the Word of God, yets comparatively, where are the results ? — Further, not only as to quantity, but as to quality am I discouraged. Not only are there comparatively few conversions, but a great many of these are of a questionable kind, We should not only ask— are people converted, but what ire they converted to ? What sort of saints are they ? because, I contend, you had far better let a man alone in sin than give bim a sham conversion and make him believe he is a Christian when he is nothing of the kind. So ycu see we must look after the quality as well as the quantity, and I fear we have an awtul amount of spurious pro* duction, and it behooves us— and I wi-1, for one, if I were to be crucified for it lo-morrow — be true to what the Spirit of God has taught roe on this point, I will never pander to things as they are for tear of the persecut on which follows trying to put them right. God forbid ! Then, I say, tbe lack is not the truth. . There will be thousands of sermons preached to-day — the truth, the nothing but the truth. Nobody will pretend to say they were not in perfect keeping with the Word of God ; and yet they will be perfect failures, and nobody will know it better than they who preach them ! These are facts. I was talking on this point, a while ago, with a good man, who said; " Ah ! yes, I have not seen a f I A '" .4, r W^WI^OhJ»»^< THE HOLY GHOST. . !> » V ^i* conversion in my church for these two years." Now what was the reason ? There was a reasf n. .-ind I am afraid many might say the same. Yet there are the unconverted. Tbey come to be operated upon. Take a church where there is a congregation of. say 8co or 1,000, suppose with a membership of 200 or 300. What becomes ot the 500 or 70. unbelievers, who come and go, Sunday after Sunday, like a door on its hicges, neither belter nor worse ? — nay, God grant it might be so, but they are worse. They get enough light to light them down to damnation, but they do not g«t enough p >wer to lift them into salvation. What IS THE MATTER. There must be son-etbing wrong. Will you account for it ? It ought to be accounted f • r ! It ought not so to be. God is not changed. Sure'y He is as anxious for the salvat'onof menas He ever was Human hearts are nt*t changed ; they are neither better nor worse ; they are depraved, vile, devilish — just the same. The Gospel is exactly the same power it ever was, rightly experienced, lived, and preached, It is still the power of Cod unto salvation. Then what is the matter ? The truth ispreachad. The people bear it, and yet they remain bs they were. Where is is the lack ? Now, I say, and I must unhesitatingly assert, that the great want is Power — this power of which we have been reading. And I want to remark, thirdly, that this jower is as distinct, and definite, and separate a gift of God as was this Book, as was the Son, or any other gift which He has given us I \ ■¥ iJS!KSttKtKSStt:^sm^ri !1 T«H HOLY GHOST. ^ It is distinctly recoisjnize 1, not onlv in our text-;, but, as we r^ad to you again and a^a n, as a iistinctand definite gift accompanying! the eff )rts of those who live on the conditions on whirh God can Rive it to them We cannot explain 'his gift, *jut it IS the power of the Holy Spirit of God in th-^ soul of the speaker accompanyinfi; His word, mak- ing it cat and pierce to the dividing asunder of soul and spirir. " You shall receive power after that the Holy Ghost is come upon ycu." " You shal! be endued with." — not the tru'h,not faith (thev had faith before that), but, •• Ye shall be endued with power;" and He says in another place, " which all your adverseries shall not be able to gainsay or resist." Though they may stone you, as they did Stephen, they shall be cut in their hearts, and made to feel the power of your testi* mony. Now. I find people who go to work, which is all right, because the power cames to us in obedient faith ; but they go trusting in their own efforts. They are without this endowment of power, and they see no result. The work is a comparative failure. Oh ! what numbers of people have come to me who have been at work in different direc- tions, in churches, as ministers, elders, deacons, leaders, Sabbath-school teachers, tract distribute ors, and the like, confessing that they bad been working for more or less lengthened periods, and had seen comparativedly little result. Thev Fay. "Do you think this is right? Do you think I ought to go on ?" Go on, assuredly, but not in the same track. Go on, most decidedly, but seek ' ^ y THE HOLY GHOST. a fresh inspiration. There is something wrong, or you would have seen some IriPt of your labor — not ail the frui . God does not pive to any of us 10 see it all ; bat wc do see enough to assure us that the Holy Ghost is accompanying our testimony. G'^d's people have always done that when they worked in conformity with the condi- tions on which the power can be given. Now, this is hov I account for the want of results— the want o^ the direct, pungent, enlight- ening, convicting, restoring, transforming power of the Holy Ghost ; and 1 care not how gigantic the intellect of the agent, or how equipped from the school of human learning, I would rather h-ive a Hallelujah Lass, a little child, with the power of the Holy Ghost hard y able to put tAO santences of the Queen's English together, to come to help, bless, and benefit my soul, than I w^uld have the most learned divine m th^ kingdom without it, for "it is not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit." Oh ! that you would learn it. When you have learnt that, you will be made ; when you experience it, you will lay hold on God. It is not by might, any kind of might — might of intellect, or learning, or eloquence, or position, or influence; it is not by might, nor by power— man's power— of any sort, but by My Spirit. That is as true as it ever was. Here is the secret of the church's FAILURE ! She is like Israel of old : •* She hath multiplied her defenced cities and patac9s, but she hath forgotton the God of Israel, in whom her strength is " If you will read the history of the church from the beginning, you will find it is true am 8 THE HOLY GHOST. what I say, that just to the degree that the church has increased in the material she has decreased in the spiritual. J do not say i( ought to be so ; I do not say that it is a necessity. I only give you a tigni6cant fact that it has been so. You say — " How do you account for it ?" 1 account for it because we poor, wretched, tiny, helpless creatures, cannot get anything good in the creatun; but we begin to trust in it. But when God teaches us that we have nothing to trust in, when He makes us realize our own nothingness and utter helplessness, and gives us hold of Him with the grasp of despair, then we will begin to be of some use— acd never till then. It is God worketh in us and by us. The Apostle Ubors all the way through to show and convince everybody that it was God in him and not of himself at al'. Though he cotfld hare preached with enticing words of man's wisdom, and. no doubt, bad many a temptation to do it, as everybody has who has dipped into the flowery paths of human rhetoric and learning, but he eschewed this as he would the devil. He said, " no — this one thing 1 do " — putting aside absolutely all else, he went on straight to that work till they cut his head off. 1 believe you do percieve, if you do not, take tl e Book and examine it yourself. Be at t^e trcuble. You will not get at the mmd of the Lord without ^ great deal of trouble on these matters of power, spiritual union, and the like. Take the Bible with you on your knees before the Lord, and say, *' Now. Lord, show me the meaning of this." Wait, and there wiil come a voice from the excel- ^l i m aMi H — l .lfc— ! — *.» THE HOLY GHOST. lent glory. There will come a light as from the Shekinah, which will reveril it in 3 our spiritual consciousness, and you will thns know that thing for ever Yon will be wiser than your teachers with respect to that particular point. F'Tther, you sny, '• Can ww have this power equally with the early disciples ?" I say, reason- ing by anology, assuming that what God has done in the past He will continue to do in the future, is it not likely that He will give it to us because we equally need it ? we poor things, in our day, as they did in theirs, we equally need it : Jirst, be- cause the charactear of the agents is the same. We are very much like them, and they were much like us. Thank God. It has often encouraged me. If they had been men of gigantic intellects and ex- traordinary education, training and position ; if they had possessed all human equipment and qualifications, we might have looked back through the ages in despair, and said ' I can never be such as they were." Look what they were, naturally, apart from this gift of power. The Holy Ghost has taken care to give them their true characters. They were men of like passions, weaknesses, ten- dencies, liability to fall, with ourselves — ^just such poor, frail, weak easily tripped-up creatures, and, in many instances, unbelieving and disobedient, before Pentecost. Now, I say this is encouraging tor us all. You remember what Jesus said to Marv— " Go and tell my disciples and Peter." Mary, per- haps, would have left Peter out after his shameful denial of the Lord ; for fear of this, Jesus said. laWlfcJWTm^fci rr ""• -^— * JO THE HOLY GHOST. I " Go and tell my disciples and Peter " Ah 1 there are some here saying, " But Peter was not so bad as I am. Well, we don't know snyihing about that, but, whether you are worse or not, the Holy Ghost is equal to the emergency. He can cure you. He can baptize you with His power. You may have denied Him, if not as Peter did, yet practically as bad. It makes no difference to God whether you have been a little bad or very bad ; whether you have denied Him once or thrice, or whether you have denied Him with oaths and curses. If you will only come and coviply 7vith the conditions. He will look on you, heal >ou, and baptize you with power. Did they not all forsake Him and flee, except a few poor faithful women ? All the world forsook Him and lied in the hour of His extremity. " Ah I" you say, "well, I have done the same myself. I would not watch with Him one hour. I have be- trayed him before my friends and acquaintances in ihe world, where I have been brought into cir- cuas stances that tested my fidelity My courage has failed, and I have failed to witness for Him.'* Yes, I know and agree with you that it was base ingratitude. You were a traitor, indeed, but still, if you vvill come back, " Peter," and rtpent, and do your first works, He will receive you — baptize you with power, Oh ! what they were before IVntecost. and what they were after. Poor Peter, who could not stand the questionings of a servant maid, who could not dare to have it said that he was one of the despised Nazarines, what a valiant soldier he afterwards beccame for the Lord Jesus m.-fi^avsjrr.ar-r. THE HOLY GHOST. 1 I Christ, and how tradition says he was crucified for his Master at last. Anyway, we know he was faithful an valiant soldier to the end of his jour- ney. Now, this baptism will transform you as it did them ; it will make >ou all prophets and prophet- esses, according to your measure. Will you come and let Him baptize you ? Will you learn once arid forever, that it is not a ijuestion of human went ^treuj^th, or deserving at all, but simply a question of submission., obedi' ence, faith. Then we need it because not only are the agents the same, but cur work is essentially the same It may differ in its outward mauiiestaticns be- cause we live in an age of greater toleration, but it is the same in essence, and I do not know as to the manifestation, when you come to do it in Apostolic fashion, w'th the Apostolic spirit, whether you do not get very much the same Apos- tolic treatment. They gnash upon >ou with their teeth, and do as much as the law will let them, and sometimes a liifle more, in the way of ston- ine and per ecuting you. The great thing to be done by this power of God is to subdue the naturally evil, wicked, and rebellious heart of man. Now God alone is able to do that, That is a superhuman work. You may enlighten a man's intellect, civilize his man- ners, reform his habits, make him a respectable, honest, industrious member of society, without the power of God, but you cannot transform his SOUL, That is too much for any human reformer. 12 TUB HOLY GHOST. This is the prerogative of the Holy Ghost, and I have not a shadow of a doubt that the eternal day will reveal other kind of work to be wood, hay, stubble. All the sham conversions, all the persons whose lives and opinions have been changed by anything short of this power will be wood, hay, stubble. It is the prerogative of the Spirit of God. Therefore, we want this Spirit to do this work What ! you set yourself to enlight- en a darkened human soul, to convince a hardened rebellious sinner, to convert a rebel in arms against God, with an inveterate hatred in the very core of his soul against God and all about God. You aet yourself to bring down that — to transform that evil, wicked heart, to subdue that soul to sub- mission and obedience !— you try it, try it without the Spirit of God. Oh I no, you want that Spirit, You want the same measure oi that Spirit, just the same, which Paul had. And what is our work? To go and subjugate the world to Jesus ; everybody we can reach, everybody we caa influence, and bring them to the feet of Jesus, and make them realize that He is their lawful King and lawgiver ; that the devil is a usurper, and that they are to come and serve Christ all the davs ot their lives. Dare any of us think of it without this equipment of power ? Talk about •• Can we have it ?" — we are of no use without it. What can we do without it ? This is the reason of the cffeteness of so much professed Christianity ; there is no Holy Ghost in it I It is all rotten. It is like a very pretty corpse — you cannot say there is this wanting, or the other t K? f t- r. • i-iariM^fc^nili ^ ' Srt^ v\i)p" wanting, it is a perfect form, but iftUil. It is like a good e; tlvanic battary. It is all right — perfect in all its parts — but when you touch it there is no effect — there is no fire or shock. What is the matter ? It only wants the fire —the power, Oh 1 friends we want the power that we may be ah e to go and stretch ourselves upon the dead in trespissas aad sins, and breathe into him the breath of spiritual life. Wg want to be able to go and touch his eyes thBt he may see, and speak to the dead and deaf with the voice of God and make them hear. This is what we want — power. If we equally need it. is it likely that God will 7vithold it ? Why the Book, rightly read and un- derstood, if full of promise and exhortation to get it. Is it likely, that if we are as frail as they were, it the work is the same, is it likely that the God of all grace, and our Father as much as theirs, and as much in sympathy with the souls of men will withold it from us ? No, no. But our Saviour distinctly told us that He bought it for us — that it was more expedient that His people should have it than that He should remain with them. It is promised to all believers to the end of time. Tha conditions you know— simply putting away every- thing that hinders, casting aside every doubtful thing trampling it in the dust ; then a full, whole- hearted surrender to Him. embracing the Cross, embracing His will at all costs and sacrifices, and then a determined march to the upper room at Jerusalem and a determinsd abiding there until you get it — these are jfiie conditions. Anybody can have it on these terms. mm ~ THE HOLY GHOST. Then, in conclusion, let ma remind you — and it makes my own soul almost reel when I think of it— that God holds us responsible. He holds you responsiMe for all the good you might df' if you had it. Do not deceive yourself. Ha will fcHve the five talents with their increase. He V ill not have an ex^iuse for one, and you vvill not dare to go up to the throne, and say, •' Thou wast a hard Master, reaping where Thou dost not sow, and gathering where Thou hadst not strewn. Thou biddest rae to save souls when Thou knewest I had not the power." What will He say to you ? •• Wicked an ' slothful servant, out of thine own mouth will I judge thee. You knew where you could have got the power. You knew the conditiDns. You might have had it. Where are the sou^s you might have saved ? Where are are the children that I wou^d have given you ? Where is the fruit ?" Oh ! friends, these are solemn and awful realities. If I did not believe them I would not stand here. I Oh I what you might do I Who can tell ? Who would ever have thought, twenty years ago when I first raised my voice, a feeble, trembling woman, one of the most timid and bashful the Lord ever saved, the hundreds of precious souls would be iven me ? I only refer to myself because I know my own case better than that of another ; but let ■ne ask you — supposing I had held back and been i^isobediekit to the Heavenly vision, what would od have said to me for the loss of all this fruit ? Fhank God much of it is gathered in Heaven, eople ha 'e sent me word from their dying beds, hat they blessed God they had ever heard my Dice, saying that they should wait for me on the *. k mmmm ^ » i « other side, prfipared to le^d me to the throne — what would have become of the fruit ? / should not have had it anyway. They would never have become tny crown of rejoicing in the day of the Lord Oh, who can tell what God can do by any man or woman, however timid, however faint, if ouly lully given up to Him. My brother, my sister, He holds you responsible. He holds you responsible, my sis»er — you, who wrote me about your difficulties and temptations in testifying of Jesus — He holds you responsible. What are you going to do ? Ask yourself. It is coming You believe it. You say you do Unless you are a confirmed hypocrite, you do— that you are going to stand before the throne ot His glory. You be- lieve you are going to stand befcre Him bye-aod- bye, wtien you shall receive accordmg to the things you have done in your bony. What shall you say ? The world is dying — souls are being damn-e'd at an awf j1 rate every day. Men are running to destruction. Torrents of iniquity are roiling down our streets and through our world. God is almost tired of the cry of our sins and ini- qui.ies going up into His ears. What are you going to do, brother ? What are you going to do? Will you set to work ? Will you get this power ? Will you put away everything that hinders ? Will you have it at all costs ? vVe had a letter only on Friday, about a gentle- man who h^d been reconverted in the services of the Salvation Army, telling us that he had relin- quished an income of ;f 800 a year, in order to keep a conscience void of offence — this is the re- sult of the power of the Holy Ghost. I heard of g e aUcuiau if hu was llivii e a lU U pSFty. ' *' After dinner the card-table was got out, as usual, and when the cards were all spread and everybody was ready to btgin, this gentleman jumped up and pushed it away, and said, •• I have done with this for ever," The lady who told me said, " He was down on bis knees before we bad time to turn round, and was praying for us and for all the house. Oh !" she added, •♦ you should have seen »hem." Yes, of course, every man felt like the people round the Saviour. Every man's own con- science condemned him. "They went off home, without any moie card-playing, or dancing, or wine-drinking that night." Come cut from amongst the ungod y, Testify against them. Re- prove them, entreat them with tears; but be de- termined to deliver your soul of their blood, God will give you the power, and He holds you respon- sible for doing this — you people who have been coming here -you have received the light. Will YOU DO IT ? If ycu will, we shall meet again, and rejoice with joy unspeakable If you do, we shall praise God for ever that He brought us inside the walls of this building Jong after it has mouldered into dust. There shall be children and grand- children, and great-grandchildren from you spixit- ually, if you will only be faithful. ? I IM u •v^ f k ["f