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Joel- oalled.. paraclete,—
Advocate, Helper,) Spirit of truth,
Holy’Spirit; the effects of indwell-
ing are called teaching, and perfect
ing memory, and he was to remain,
to remain forever. These things
were said just before his crucifix
ion. ’ Then after his resurrection,
just before his ascension he said to
the twelve, “ Behold, I send the
promise of my Father upon you;
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more of this further on. When upon with power from onjhigh.”
This Luke said closing his nara-
Jesus was baptized, the Spirit was
poured out, descended, and for ef tivd ; (24:49) but amplified a lit-
fect, assumed viaibiliLy, and tlm
form of a dove, and lit, remaining “ Depart not from Jerusalem, but
upon him, by which lie was anima lor the promise of the Father,
ted. After he was glorified, all which ye have heard of me; for
ate Id quo - oL. Lted... wore. -similar-te Jnhn.truly baptised in water; but
anointed. “ On the last and great ye shall be baptised in the' Holy
estdayoftneTestrval, Jesus"stood "Spi i i tnibt ii fany"dey s'"lienee?'' Here
and cried,saying, If any man thirst, Christ clearly asserts that the Holy
let him come to me and drink. Spirit baptism, promised by John,
He who believes on me, as the was the promise of the Father the
Scriptures say, shall be like a cis fulfillment of Joel’s prophesy, and
tern, whence rivers of living waters that baptism in Spirit is identical
shall flow.” This he spoke of the It is merely incidental, that this
Spirit, which they that believed;^pouring out of Spirit was called
on him were to receive for the Holy; l>ai>tism, so called from the fact
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Spirit wasootryct-grrm• -bfecatwe-
Jesus was not yet glorified. We Jesus called preaching, fishing,
are here taught that all believers when he said to Peter and Andrew,
on Christ, were to havo the Spirit who were.. fishera, - Follow me -and
giveh then ; they were to receive I will make you fishers of men.
it; and it was to dwell in them. No other speaker than John called
Jesus says the-Seri ptu res says this. the reception of the Spirit, baptism^
Hediere clearly refers to the prom- as far as the record goes. True,
ise of God, by Joel, as already quot Jesus and Peter both allude to John
ed. John in speaking of Christ so calling it.
baptizing in the Holy spirit does
A Criticism from California.
the same. From the general man
ner in which Joel and John .$peak,
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it could not be known what class,
Oct. 2, 1883.
if there was to be any discrimina Dear Bro. Floyd :
tion, would receive this gift; but
Since my return home I have
Jesus confines it to his followers. been favored with the daily
f the p«oph?rthnt thr-v wrrr* wpttr-
jpg. Who is this ? Can this be the
Messiah ?. John replied, “ I am
not the Messiah, I baptise only in
water; He. the Messiah, shall bap
tise you in the Holy Spirit
and in fire.” 1 This was a
general
proposition, applicable
to the crowd—the mixed multi
tude before him, all of whom were
to be baptized, by theKMessiah, in
fireToTpartHn the
To do this does not require the tbi»
d^Tarnt fi»r preachers w+ro arc
, workers and instructors, rather than
. drones and sCrmonizers. No good
workers are looking for fields, but
on the contrary, the fields are look
ing for the workers. Of course they
must be men of acceptable ability
and marked piety, but this is not
all by at least half. They are ex
pected to lay out the work, appoint
large measure of practical common
sense. The preacher must know
men and things. He must know
w-hat is possible to be done- and how
to accomplish it.
Let us strive to be free from the
blood of those to w hom we minister.
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MAN’S WORK IN THE
TEMPLE.
Bl M. B. I.EMEET.
NUMBEB II.
In No. 1 of this series it was
shown that each subject of the
■—k-mgdom.=of- .Christ U -4VW- ordained
priest, without sex; , simply a
human child of’God. That too we
will call preparatory, and com-
mence our work.
Eight hundred years before God
the Father sent his Son into the
world, to save the world, he made
a promise, rich and generous in its
nature, and as general, as gt^jer-
ous; for it embraced high and low,
bond and free, male and female,
Jew and Gentile. This promise
bound him to bestow a gift—one
that could not be purchased with
money—his spirit called the Holy
Spirit. This promise was made by
the mouth.. pfJoel... the prophet
(2: 28-32) as follows: “ It shall He illustrates the effect of the in
come to pass in the last days, saith dwelling of the Spirit, by the flow
God, I will pour out of my Spirit ing of rivers of water, while with
upon all flesh ; and your sons and out a figure, “They shall proph-
your daughters shall prophesy, and 1 esy,’ ’ expresses, tlie-same. J-ustbe-
your young men shall see visions, fore leaving them to return to the
and your old men shall dream Father, Jesus said to the twelve,
dreams; and on my servants—bond “ If ye love me, keep my command
servants—and on my handmaidens ments, and I will pray the Father
—bond maidens, I will pour out in and he shall give you another Par -
those days of my Spirit; and they aclete— Comforter, Advocate, Help
shall prophesy.” I will pour out er, that he may be with you for
of, or give my Spirit, is emphatic- ever; even the Spirit of truth;
ally the promise made by God the whom the world can not receive.
Father; upon all flesh, tells the ex But the comforter even the Holy
tent of the promise; while pro Spirit, whom the Father will send
phesying, dreaming, and seeing in my name, he shall teach you all
visions, are results of the reception things, and bring to* you- remem
of this promised gift.
brance of all things I have said un
John’s preaching and baptizing to you.” This, too, has reference
excited curiosity, and so aroused ' to the promise of the Father by
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Oregonian, published in Portland.
In looking over its contents I find
an article over the signature of S.
CT Adams, of Salem, and headed as
follows, “ The Creation and Fall of
Man Explained, not Denied.**
In reading what follows the
above caption I must confess to
feelings of not only surprise but of
profoundgrief, and I am compelled
to regard the whole production as a
miserable subterfuge to avoid one
of the most direct and plainest
statement of man’s history found in
the Bible. The very heading looks
suspicious. Why did he say not
denied ? It seems to me that it
was added from an inward convic
tion of his own mind that every
reader in the - absence of that
aeknowle<lgement wouW think that
S. Ç Adams had denied the Biblo
history of man’s creation. • His in-
trod action -isrfalse. ■ it is not true:—
that reformations in the Christian
religion are a breaking up of old1,
forms that new ones may take the
place of the old ones ; but it is true-,
1
that reformation in Christianity
is a return to the old forms in let
ter and spirit ; precisely the op
posite of his statement.
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cessary to his theory of evolution.
If S. C. Adams can show that
Christ only means an unfolding
from- old forms to new ones better
suited to a higher civilization then
it wouM'.wiii (fronritnrtfTtfttng of
his thought) that the way was
tapperl for the unfolding of a tad-
pole into the manly proportion of
ST
statement that man was taken from
the earth is found to be simply a
figment of a distempered mind’
laboring under a lower plane of
civilization and furthermore the
history informing us, that Eve was.
formed out of a rib taken from the
side of Adamis also false, because
Atlams-s^^Tt-rè-pTTSTTnrptively
true that we have come up “de
veloped up from the tadpole.”
If Mr. Adams has been simply
unfolded from the avum of a tad
pole, then he came out of a tadpole,
amLxonsequently does not belong
to the race that was formed out of
the dust of the ground and called
man.
I must regard his exegesis of the
Scripture touching the forbiden
fruit as the most whimsical thing
that I ever had the misfortune to
read, and still again his misrepre •
sentation of the Bible doctrine of
the Son of God as manifested in
the atonement by Christ. I look
upon as infidel in all its tendencies.
He seems to be travailing in pain
pain to give birth to a new
monstrosity.
—I have written the- above this
morning that I may go to record
in opposition to his assumption.
G. O. B urnett .
Schools and Missions.
Now is the time to inaugurate
questions pertaining to the propa-
gation and defense of the Bible,
the whole Bible and nothing but
the Bible, among the few who do
not read anything that wil|, bring
them nearer to Christ und the hope
of heaven. I am more and more
convinced of this fact, that infideli
ty is un the increase ill the world-
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