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The Double Portion ....................... 2

G n b ' ~Birrrfiue unb $Irrmiaainr llUi11 ........7

Lessons from the Cl~aracterof Balaanr . . . . . . . . 7

%!tit4tlle Blitnrn of Eggpt ...................11

Wotrs ......................................12
Pastor Boddy's Visit .......................12
Notices ...................................12
lirarles uf @ruling in Ballus ............ 13
"lhd3s ahat to nllee? ~ o l l u ma l p u i r " .14
Lessons in the Lord's School ................14
Bile %nbm~ralrlrnt.........................18
Our Lord's Return . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Antong fllr 'Kraals of Bouth Afrira .......19

Bn tile @anbe of ttlr &tfer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20
"1)iversities of Operations" ................ 20
 An Address Given in The Stone Church, September 81, 1918, by Pastor A. A. Uoddy, Vicar of All Saints,
Sunderlund, England
W A S glatl to hear a sister in your
morning meeting emphasize the
study of the W o r d of God. There
is a New Testament 1,eaguc
lwown to man and every one who
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belongs to it undertakes to carry
with him everywhere a New
Testament. I heard a young man
in one of our l'entecostal meetings say he never
felt properly dressed if he hadn't his Bible with
him. (I'erhaps some of you t l m afternoon feel
you a r c not properly dressed.) One of the proofs
that the Pentecostal Movement is from above is
its use of the 1:iblc. When the S3aptism of the
Iloly Spirit has come into a place many 13ibles
have been bought. 111 my town of Sunderland
it has been so. Let 115 love the W o r d of God
with all our hearts. I f you traveled in Spain
you would find that it is a dangerous thing in
some places for a Inall to possess a Uiblc o r to
read it. Sometimes it is as I ~ L I C ~asI hi5 life is
w o r t h ; in other placcs he is 1)oycottecl hy every
one. I11 this free lam1 you have the great priv-
ilege of reading unmolested the W o r d of ( h l .
If any of qou have grown slack in reading, de-
termine from this afternoon, Cot1 helping you,
that you will faithiully read God's Word and
take every olq~ortunityo f encouraging others to
read it. When you get a blessing from the Word
1 ~ ~ it5 son.
W h e n 1 was in the IIoly Idand the first titnc,
yeats ago, I stood Ijy the Dead Sea. I t looked
11ke a Scotch loch, lying thcre in the bright sun-
light surrounded by the hills of Moab which
turned to wontlcrf~il hills of glory as the sun
went down. St was all beautiful, Ilut it was dead.
Not a fish can live in its waters for a moment
and it is even more saturated with salt than it
was in the (lays of the Lord Jesus. T h a t is be-
catlsc there is no outlet; always receiving but
never giving out, it is "deadH-the Dead Sea.
You jouriicy sixty miles north and you come to
the beautiful Sea of Galilee. It might be called
the Sea of the lAortlJesus; it might also be called
the Sea o l 1,ifc 1)ccausc at the south end there is
an ot~tlct,the 1)cautiful clear water is always run-
ning o ~ i tas ~t 1s r ~ u i n i n gin. If there was a bar-
rier acroi5 thi5 s o t ~ t hend it wo~ildI m o m c like
the Dead Sea, salt antl dead. Oh, let us deter-
nine, wc w110 have the privilege of rccciving
I)lessit~g,str;~iglltwayto pass on the blessing, or
'!lie'
we will I)ccomc a stench, as it were, in the nostrils
of (;otl. W e will become dead antl putrid a n d
corrupt; insteacl of being a blessing we will be-
come a curse. God wants those who receive the
\Wort1 to pass it on. Let us talk about holy
things one to another when we have a chance, '
talk about them in a con~forting,helpful way.
'I'here is such a different way of tallcing to people.
I think it is such a good thing each morning to
say, "I~orcl,bring me in contact today with those
to whom I can be a blessing." T h e Lord does it.
Perhaps not many ~ninutesafter a prayer of that
l h t l you are amazed how some one is brought
to you ill tllc right frame of mind, antl you a r c
both talking naturally about the blessed Savior,
and then insteatl of 1)ecoming putrid and corrupt,
you beconle a blessing. Tn some Pentecostal cir-
cles thci-e is too much gathering together "to
have a good time." 'I'hank (;od for the good
times, we all experience tlmn, I)ut the Lord wants
us to go out and cva~~gelizc.l'hc only way to
Iwcl) fresh and I~rightis to pass on the blessing.
I f we reach the (;oslwl in lovc, (;od will I)lcss
t l ~ cmessage to olir ow11 souls also, hut if we shut
up O L I ~ S ~ ~ V and
CS don't give out the blessing,
some lives may be wrecked by strange things
not of God. W e nu st pass on the blessing and
live on the Word. Never turn to anything else.
1t is the only safe guide. I f I had charge of a
meeting, 1 woultl silcnce any one who said, "I
have had such a wontlerful experience in the
lloly Spirit, God gives me all I need without
going to His Wortl." I would simply say, "Sit
down. This Rook is the final message. W e will
not listen to anything unless it is completely in
accord with the W o r d of God."
1 was talking to a I ~ r a k e ~ n aonn one of your
l'ullnlan cars, antl he said, "Well, sir, I believe
there is a God, but I do not believe the Riblc."
I said, "My dear brother, if yo11 had in your
heart the Spirit that is in the liible, then you
woultl believe the Ijible, you would lovc it and
you wotdtl find it satisfied you. W h a t you need
is to have the same Spirit in your heart that is
in the I:ible, then your heart will rcspontl to the
Ijilde, antl yo11 will find it such a I h o k as you
l ~ a v e110 idea of." It solcmnizetl this young inan,
an(1 he saitl Ilc 1)elicvctl what I saitl was right
and w o ~ ~ lthinkd ahout it. W e (lo not lovc the
Ilihlc u ~ ~ l e swe
s have (;otl's Spirit, I ~ u twhen we
I ~ a v etllc I)lcssc(l Spirit. in us, it rcsl)oixls to the
 Fame I-loly (;host that has written this l;ook and
speaks t h r o ~ ~ g it.
li
1 will read from the sccontl chapter of the
Second Iiook of Kings, verses one to fifteen.
W e have here two types: Elijah, a type of
the hlessecl Losd Jesus, although it differs in
some things. W e have Elijah ascending u p to
heaven. T h e Lord Jesus ascended up to heaven,
where H e was before. I ~ u tElijah had never lxcn
in heaven. T h e Lord Jesus came forth from tlic
Father and went back to the Father. H e was
with the Father before the fomndation of the
world. "In the beginning was the W o r d (the
Lorcl Jesus) and the W o r d was with God and
the W o r d was God. T h e same was in the be-
ginning with God. All things were made by
H i m ; and without H i m was not anything made
that was made." H e was Cod from all eternity.
T h e Father, Son and Holy Ghost in holy council
said, "Let us make man in o u r own image," and
when Satan tried to wreck that image, they said
again, "Let us make man in our own image."
T h e Lord Jesus came down from heaven and was
incarnated in t h e Virgin M a r y and hecame nlan,
lived out the holy, perfect life, and above all, far
above all, paid the price of our redemption.
Bethlehem's white walls should never over-
shadow the Green Hill outside tlic city wall. 1t
is Calvary from beginning to end which wins our
redemption and brings us the precious gift of
Pentecost.
T h e I,ord Jesus went hack to H i s Father.
Elijah could never g o back, but h e was one of
those whom God saw fit to translate. TTe walked
with God, like Bnoch, and one (lay h e "was not."
H e went across Jordan and went home.
Then if Elijah is a type of the Lorcl Jesus in a
measure, Elisha is a type of the undiscouragetl
saint of God who presses on in spite of discour-
agement. H e is determined to press on and get
God's best. Elijah said, "If you see me when I
am taken from you then you shall have the older
son's blessing." I n the East if there were five
sons there would he six portions, and the oldest
son would get two portions, a double portion,
the others each a single portion. Blisha asks for
the older son's portion, a double portion, a Pente-
costal outpouring of the blessed Holy Spirit
which worked so mightily in pre-Pentecostal
times in Elisha and others. .And Elijah said,
"Yes, if you see me when I am taken." O h , it
must be a vision, and in these davs of the out-
pouring of the "latter rain" there comes a won-
derful vision t o those who press on with the
Lord Jesus, this same Jesus who has. .gone up
into lleavell, who has sllctl fort11 this whicln we
now see ant1 Ileal-. All ! tile I loly ( ; l ~ o s tcollies
to glorify Jesus. I le tlocsii't colnc to get our
n l i ~ ~ tfixed
ls on 1 li~nsclf. 'I'he I)lcssccl I'loly Spirit
comes that we may contini~ally have a vision of
Jcsus. I l a v e we not seen rcflected in the faces
of saints upon whom the power of the I3oly
Ghost has come, the beautiful light of the in-
ti\velling Jesus? I low ordinary faces have hecn
lit u p ant1 1)cconle angelic and glorifietl ant1 like
the ldortl 1 limself as they got a vision of Jesus!
The hest type of the Ikiptism of the 1-Toly (;host
which we get totlay is a Ikq)tism which shall
make us see the T-ortl Jesus, give us a vision of
Ilim. I have seen the 1,ortl Jesus in o u r gather-
ings standing there with outstretched hands,
looking this way and that on those whom He
was going to 1)less. Others have secn FIim also
and tloubtless you, too, have secn the 1-ortl Jesus.
Some have secn Tlim going through the agony
of Calvary, and they have slnutldered when the
soldier came with a spear to pierce Tlis side, the
picture was so vivid. ~ o s 1)lcssctl t of all a r e
those who, witli the eye of faith, have really seen
the face of Jesus.
''If ye see nne wllen I am taken from you, it
shall I)e so unto yot~." S o we have IClisha press-
ing on. They saitl, "Oh, don't trouble, Elisha,
your master is going to Ix taken away." "Rut I
am going with him. 1 am going for the 1)lessing."
Group after g r o ~ t p of these people meet him,
hut with no encouragement. "Know ye not that
your master shall be taken today ?" net him
evesywlicse hc went. T h e discouraging sons of
the prophets, at Jcricho ant1 at the Jordan, said,
''Oh, he is going to lose his master ;" but Elisha
said, "Oh, Elijah, I am going with you and I
am going to receive the I~lessing." Elijah was
permitted to d i s c o ~ ~ r a ghim
e a little, 1)ut he con-
tinued to hold on. Religious people might dis-
courage him, the 1,ord ITimself might permit
discouragement to strengthen his faith, but he
went on. O h , heloved ones, do not falter when
the Im-d begins to work witli you. I used to see
pools of tears on the floor and on the seats after
the meetings, people were kneeling on the floor,
bowing before God, crying their hearts out. T h e
tears were evidences that we were in earnest in
seeking God through the winter of 1906, and
Cod knew it. W e held little prayer meetings
nearly every night, continuing from eight and
nine o'clock until midnight, someti~ues in the
(lark and cold. W e cried out to God for 1)lessing
ant1 could not tear ourselves away. W e heard of
the way I_Te was I)lessing over here on this side,
antl oh, how glad wc were! W e praise God that
IIc met us in the same way, 1)ut it wa\ hecause
we wcrc in earnest. Some of the old sailors down
1)y the sea, old rctiretl mariners, talking ainong
then~selvcscould not understand all this. One
said t o anotllcr, "Why, they tell nle that up at his
church yoi~tlcr they actually pray for hours."
r ,
1 hcy had never licarcl of such a thing and it im-
pressed them. Of course, we prayed for hours,
we were glad to pray all night at times, and
where there is a praying and a tarrying people
God will incet thcm, and so he met us.
S o 1Slisha pressed on, and you notice when the
mantle of Rlijah came down upon him he rolled
it up and made it into a wonder-working staff.
Tt camc down upon him and clothed him with
power from on high. 'There is a difference be-
tween having the FIoly Ghost and the Holy Ghost
falling on you. W e find this distinction in the
New Testament. You can have the Holy Spirit
in a grcat measure. T h e people of Samaria were
converted under the preaching of Philip, as told
in thc eighth of Acts. No tloul~tthey were born
gain of the Spirit, and had a gootl mcasure of
the Spirit in thcir hearts. They could never have
hecn born again ;IS they were unless the Holy
Ghost had conic in power, but it says, "as yct
T3c was fallen upon none of them." T h e expres-
sion the 1,ord used was, "'l'arry yc at Jerusalem
i~ntilye be clothed upon"-coming down like a
mantle-or, in othcr words, the Lord says, "Ye
shall be baptized in the Tfoly Ghost not many
days hence." T h e I~cat~tiful figurc of ini~nersion
in water is a type of the Raptism in the Spirit.
W e need inmersion in the Holy Ghost. You fill
a vessel with water and place it in a stream; the
water is in the vessel and the vessel is in the
water. W e havc the expression "filled with the
Spirit." immersed o r baptized in the Holy Ghost,
endued or clothed upon with power from on
high. This is the greater manifestation of the
blessed Holy Spirit, the intensive work of God
the I-Toly Ghost. T-Ie is with us all the time.
When we are horn of the Spirit we begin to
know a grcat deal of His power, and probably
T3e is in us in a measure, but when there comes
this mighty Raptism we are immersed in Him.
T h e falling of Elijali's mantle upon Elisha was
a picture of t l ~ ecoming of the Holy Spirit, the
l'entecostal baptism.
Now notice what a change came into Elisha's
lifc. T h e very first thing that met him was
Jordan. Tle wouldn't have received his baptism
if hc hadn't ~ o n cthrough Jordan. H e went
through Jordan with Elijah, and that is surely
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a type of what God means all of us to do, to g o
through Jordan, the River of Death. "If one
died for all then all died." W e must ask the IIoly
Spirit to teach us what that means and make it a
tre~nendous rcality ; to 1)e done with the old
things, wllich l ~ a v cpassed away. Whcn the Lord
Jesus said, "It is finished," it was finishcd for us
if we trust ITim. W e l ~ a v edied to thc power of
Satan, we have dicd to the power of self and
sin; we have been to our Jordan, the stream of
death, the place where we died to the old things.
W e have gone through with our 1,ord Christ.
17lisha went through with Elijah. It is very im-
portant. If we are to have a pure Baptism of
the Holy Ghost there must be the true death; the
real act of faith in Calvary, the crisis, and then
the continuation; continual death union and life
rrnion.
Tt is the secret of the Pentecostal work, the
true death to self. God can trust us then, when
wc stand in that place.
llut now see what a change comes. rClisha is
able to drive back the waters of Jordan; Rlisha
is able to make the bitter watcrs sweet; to make
thc iron axe to float, when it was the only axe
the sons of the ~)rophetshad, a d it was lmr-
rowed. Wonderfr~l tniraclcs! 'I'hc King of
Isracl, the King of Judah antl the King of Edom
were fighting against the King of Moab. T h e
armies were in the wilderness and they were in
danger of being destroyed because there was no
water there. They sent for Elisha, the prophet
of the Lord. H c called for a minstrel and as the
minstrel played the Spirit of God came upon
him, and he said, "JXg ditches, dig decp ditches,
troughs for the water; in this tlcsert cvery one
may drink," and as the minstrel playcd and Elisha
prophesied, the Imrd sent water in that l~arren,
awful desert, and they drank, and as the sun
shone upon the water it looked red, and the King
of Moah thought it was the blood of his enemies
and that the kings were surely slain. S o they
went forth to take the spoil and wcre smitten,
and God got glory.
Look again at Elisha, coming to the Shunam-
mite's son and lying upon that dead body, eve to
eye, mouth to mouth, hands to hands; walking
to and fro and going back and lying on the body.
The boy sneezed seven times and Elisha gave him
hack to his mother.
T.ook at Elisha saying to the mighty man,
Naaman, "Go and wash in the Jordan seven times
and thou shalt 11e clean." H e could say it in
power because the Holy Ghost filled him. Won-
derful miracle! H e filled the widow's vessels
 with oil and she llad plenty to sell and pay her
debts. T h e r e is not another character in the
Bible that could work more miracles, when he
had received his baptism.
h t l notice one thing: When God took his
spirit home, H e didn't take his body up. H e had
some t ~ s cfor it on earth. I t was bt~rietlin a cer-
tain grave. I n the thirteenth chapter of Kings
we read that in after years the land was being
disturbed by bands of PIoabites, and as they
came over the hills they met a funeral proces-
sion. They were carrying a man of Israel to his
burial; the solemn processian on its way to the
graveyard was sutldenly startled by the Arabs.
I t meant death to meet them, antl what should
they do with the body of the dead m a n ? They
spied Elisha's sepulchre, and through a n open-
ing they pushed the dead body. As it fell down
on the hones o i Elisha, notice what a wonderful
thing happened. This man who received the
double portion, even his bones still retained the
wonder-working power, for as soon as the body
of the deatl man touched I<lisha's bones he re-
vived antl stootl u1)on his feet. W h a t a wonder-
ful man God made of ZSlisha! Ah, if we could
be something like t h a t ! God wants dead people
who shall quicken others. I'aul saitl, "lleath
worketh in us, but life in you." l i v e often talk
about being dead, but we neetl every day to ask
the Lord to keep us in sucli a place of tlcath that
we may be used mightilx to quicken others. I
do not think people neetl to get up in meetings
very much antl testify about Ixing deatl. They
hatl better say it when they a r e tempted to ill-
temper, when they a r e tempted to unholy
thoughts, when they a r e tempted to answer back,
to be snappish in their homes. Then is the time
for us to show the grace of ( h l , the wonderful
power of the I lc~ly(;host. T h e Ixml can keep
H i s people in the place of death. and as death
works in any of us, it will meall life to others.
The sort of testimony T would like to suggest in
some of our meetings is that the wife might get
up and testify what a loving husband she has
since Pentecost came, that the husband get
up and say what a blessed wife he has since
the Holy Ghost came and changed their home.
I have heard husbands praying about their wives
and their tlat~ghters when they were not there
and I could have gotten u p and shaken them. Iiy
their manner they were congratulating t h e n -
selves they were so good and their wives ant1
daughters needed so much. I t is a shocking
spirit to pray about your relatives openly o r to
pray at one another. W h e n the Holy Spirit
really comes I le doesn't m e I)l-aj,er as a vehicle of
our instilting one anotller. It seems awful and al-
most like I)l;~splic~ny, ant1 it is vcry tlifficult for
those controlling meetings to deal with 511ch
things. I ic careft11 in p r a y i ~ ~al)out g others. It
is better to (lo it in silence. You should pray
vcry earnestly almut them in private I I I I ~ not ill
p111)Iic.
Iilisha \\;as a tra~lsformctl man I ) e c a ~ ~ sofe the
power of thc lioly (;host. W e turn away for a
moment from lilijah antl 13lislia and \ve look 1111
at the rmrtl j e s m coming out of the Eastern (;ate
with T~Tis I)elovctl disciples. l'assing tlo\vn
(;ethsemane ovcr the stumniit towards B e t h a ~ ~toy
a hollow some of us know so well, 1 Ic liftetl up I~Iis
hands and I~lessetlthem, and as TIe blessetl them
the laws of gravitation ceased to have an!- claim
on T~Jim. T h e laws of the heavenly k i n g t l o ~are ~~
H i s now. T h e earthly life was over. l'hcy
looketl up adoringly, and as I-Te passed ul), the
cloud received ITim out of thcir sight. I'lle!,
werc not disappointed. I t was all o\.cr. yo11
would think t!~ey would slied I~ittcrtears. 'l'hcy
had lost thcir 1)est I;rientl, that ivontlerh~l1:ric11tl
with whom they hatl walked I~antlin h a r d : thcy
had sat ljeside Tlim in the h a t on (;alike's wa-
ters ;they llad supl)etl withTTinl at the snlall tal~les
in tlic white cottages. Now that I lc Iiatl gone,
why tlitln't tlicy weep? 'L'hey returned to Jeru-
salem with great joy and were continuallj- in the
temple. praising and l~lcssing ( h l . The!. had
seen ITim as I l e was being taken fro111them, and
they knew what 1~Tehad said was t r ~ w ,"Tarry
ye at ] e r ~ ~ s a l c iml ~t i l ye he c n t l ~ ~ c witli
tl power
fro111on I~igh." ']'hose wontlcrful ten t1;ij.s went
by ; tliey were s o ~ n e t i ~ n eins the beautiful tcnq)le
worship with its magnificent rit11a1, m t l oftimes
at thc !ittlc ~)ra!~cr meeting with the nwnen,
Mary tlic noth her of Jesus a ~ l t lothers, am1 o n ,
the 1,ortl's Ilay the 1 [oly (;host came to them as
Jesus saitl .I le wotiltl. l ' l ~ e y werc full o f joy
:low. Peter hatl run away from a ~naitlscrvant.
Imt he was a I m v c man now. Tllcy 111archet1
throng11 the streets of Jcrusalc~n \vith a ncw
courage and new light. T h c chief priests \\.anted
to know what it meant and sumnio~lcd them.
'L'hey were filled with a new light ant1 new poiver.
(;otl gave them a wonderful sign, spoke through
them and t!iey magnified ITim, ant1 now the! werc
going to walk with thc T*ord Jcsus hand in hand
until 1-1, should take them home.
".And they two went on." "They two stootl
hcsitle Jordan." Tt is to he a life of wonderful
fellowship with the 1.ord Jesus, this l'entecostal
life.
 "Wl1e11we walk will1 the L o r d ,
111 the 11ght of llis Word
Wl~at:L :lory I lc shctls on o u r W:\J
Wl1c.11w c do [lis good will,
I l c ;hides with us still,
Alld \\ iII1 all who will trust a n d ol)cy."
'I'rust ant1 obcy, two things. Don't trust with-
out ol~cying,don't obey without trusting. "Thcy
two went on." I t is to be a walk. I n 1iphcsian:j
it says, "Walk in lovc;" in the epistle of John
we read, "Walk in the light." W e a r c to walk in
lovc, and this is a point we ought t o pray about
a great deal. I d o not know that you a r e very
much troubled with it here in this place (God
grant it may not be s o ) , but when Satan could
not hinder the outpouring of the blessed Holy
Comforter in our midst, which he attempted to
do, he then tried to turn the children of Gotl
against each other, by one emphasizing one phase
of tloct~.inc and another emphasizing another,
going under different leaders who insistetl on
trying to stir up strife. I t reminds nic o'f wlint
happaieed in Jerusalctn after the I,ord Jesus was
taken home. There came a terrible sicgc, about
the year 70, and around J c r ~ ~ s a l c t tlic n Ibnlan
armies gatlicrctl. Inside the city walls tlic poor
Jews wcre starving to death, antl as they ran out,
tlic Romans caught them and nailed thcm to
crosses of wood. Thcse they placctl all around
tlie city antl on the h.li)tnit of Olivcs. 'l'liousantls
o i that nation which crucified thc I,ortl met death
in the same way antl place where I l c was crlrci-
fictl. 'l'licy saitl, "Iris blood be 1 1 p 1 1 m , " ant1 it
was a tcrrihlc time of retribution. I i t ~ tnotice
this: A s the Romatis were around the walls you
would have expccted God's own ~)eoplc,if tlicy
werc going lo figlit to thc death, woultl I)c unitctl,
I)ut instc;d o f that thcrc were two parties in
Jcrusalcm, the High l'riest's part!. an(! thc
Zealot's party, antl they f o t ~ g h tonc another ant1
lic\vcd one anotlier with the sword rclent!essIy:
wonicn were ripped up, ~ n c nant1 \vowen ltilletl
1y the swortl, and jcrt~salcm was fllctl with
I)lootl. so that the Rotnans coultl get in ant1 con-
qucr it casil!,. 'The holy a ~ i t lI : e a ~ ~ t i f ttcmple
~l
was torn tlo\vn and not one stone left t ~ p o ~an- i
other, l~ccausct l ~ c r cwas tlivision in thc camp.
Is i11c1-cany division i l l tlie I'cntccostal camp
totlay ? VVitl~ the devil ;mtI the world :uid the
Resh ag:liust us, Idovctl nncs, ought we not to
stantl firm? "1,ittlc chiltlren, love o ~ i canotlier."
Tf from totlay the dear ones liere woultl tletcr-
m i w , Got1 helping thcm, to ~iiinimizetliffcrcnccs
instcat1 of nlagnifying them, :111d w o ~ ~ try l d t o see
t l ~ i n g sfro111 tlic o t l ~ c r ' spoint of vicw atit1 not
tlicir own, to forgive ;my hard things that a r e
saitl I)y tlic other side, and to reme~nbcr they
havc sometimes saitl Iiartl things-if cach side
would I ~ c a rthe I~iggcr1)urtlen of blame in this
nlattcr of tlivision and controversy, and close
thcir luouths, insteatl of Ictting the devil use
them-then thc past might I x put untlcr the
I)lootl, antl (;od might again sniile upon H i s
people.
W h e n I was out on the l'acific Coast, 1 found
tlie Pentecostal people in 1'0s Angelcs werc just
about tired of shaking fists a t one another, and *
beginning to want to shake hands instead; they
were getting very much tlisgustctl at all this
division and wontlcretl how it had ever come
about. T h e gathering to which 1 was invited
gladly entlorsetl this resolution which I now wish
to rcad to you. Jt was given to me onc Sunday
morning at the Holy Communinn ; I was kneeling
in an l~piscopalchurch in IAS ilngclcs, and God
seemed to give nie these words antl Icd me t o
write tlicni d o w i . I \vent I ~ c kto my hotel,
wrote tlicnl tlnwn antl sttl)mitted thcm at once t o
thc gathering at which I was speaking, and they
gladly antl tllankfully rndorsed thcm. T h e y
\aid, "Oh, we t l i a ~ ~(;otl
k that I l c has sent you
with that message to Southerti Calilornia." I
wonltl vcnturc this afternoon to rcad it antl we
will scc if you like to cntlorsc i t :
l ~ oK I ; I I o 1 I in
tlic Ik)tl! of the T,ord (see Cor. 12 2 5 and 11 :30,
31 ) , ant1 tinting the ol)port~~nitics Satan is get-
ting through s ; ~ ldivisions, WI: I)!, tlic hclp a n d
xracc of our 1,ortl (lo undcrtakc intlividually aml
collcctivcl!l to rcfr;~ili 11-0111cim(le~mningotie an-
other or? the mattrr of tlic question known on
the o11c !1:1l~tl :Is
:~ntl0 1 1 tlic other as
\,+re also t~udertaltcto clo all we can, in lovc, to
tlissuatlc o l ~ r1)clovetl 1:rcthren antl Sisters in
1~'cntccost Fro111 giving way to a spirit of harsh-
ness in those matters, allowing each cne t o be
Fully pers~radctlin his own nlintl.
('l'lle I<csolutioti was passctl cc:rtlially by a
I:l~-gc congrcjiation assc~iihletl at the Stone
('liurch.)
'"1'l:ey two went on." I'etitccoital people must
go on 01- they will lose nirtch I~lcssing. T h e r e
should I:c no sta~itlingstill ; that leads to retro-
gression : ~ n ddownfall. \\'c \vill g o o n , w c f ~ o ,
tlic 1 ~ r t antl
l 1.
IJnion with our i\l~iii;hty Savior, who savcc
to the uttermost ! C'nion with I 1 in1 in 1 Iis J>cath
unto sin! Union with Him in IIis r i f e unto
(;otl! IJnion with the Gi\:cr, rather than the
craving for gifts apart from Him ! 'I'he I~lessctl
1 loly Gllost has comc to glorify JTim-our Christ.
Fat!ler, we I)cseecli Thce ever to strengthen us
Olinh'~lirerti~pnnb @ermiesiue e ill
Lessons frorn the Character of Ualaam
An Address by Ira E. David, in Chicago, July 28, 1912
F T E R i-eacling the twenty-second
chapter of Numbers the speaker
said: W e find here that this
prophet, I:alaani, living ill hea-
thendom, using divination, went
with K i n g Halak to the places
where Eaal was worshiped and
God came in supernatural power
antl spoke four times tlsrough him. You will
notice in the revised version these messages
through the lips of Balaam are all poetic in form
antl prophetic in character. Some have been ful-
fillctl already, while others yet remain to I)e ful-
filled.
111 the beginning of this talk I would like to
give ~ O L aI little outline that has been upon my
heart, containing four scriptural expressions :
1. T h e way of Calaam, 11. Peter 2 :IS, Nt1m.22.
I I. T h e error of Ealaans, Jude 11.
111. T h e teaching o r doctrine of l:alaam, Rcv.
3 :14, NLIIU.31 :16.
TV. T h e end of l:alaam, Num. 31 :8.
.\ person reading the account of 1:alak's call
ior IMaatn and the visit of I M a a m to the
Yloabites would naturally conclude that the whole
story ended with the twenty-fourth chapter of
N t ~ ~ n h e r and
s , that IMaani went 1)ack llomc and
I)ehaved liimself tlic remainder of his life. H c
llad had marvelous meetings with God as re-
corded in the twenty-third and twenty-fourtl~
chapters of N~~inbci-s, antl while he sprung from
Iseathenilom and had lived all his lifetime sur-
rounded by heathen people and itlolatrous wor-
ship, and while he had been using divination and
enchantments to get supernatural information,
\,ct there came a time of great crisis in his life
\vl~enGoel's people \vei-e made thc sul~jectof corl-
sideration and when God Himself four times ovcr
met 1:alaani and wontlerfully spolw through him.
Now, a t the close of the twenty-fourth chap-
tcr of Numbers Ilalaam goes to his own place
xnc! King 1T:alak wcnt his way, I)ut that is not all
T V C know of T:alaanl, for there arc side lights on
his story. 'The New Testament tells us in l'eter
2 :15 o f "the way of Baltrnw." I t tclls us in Jude
c f "the error of I ~ a l a a ~ ~ land , - " in the Cook of
Revelation of " t h e tenchirlg of Balaam," and back
in the Imok of Numbers we read of "the ertd of
lltrlnanz."
Now, the way of Bnlirirlri was a love of the
wages of unrighteousness-"forsalci~~g the right
?my, they wcnt astraj-, following the way o f
I h l a a m the son of I k o r , who loved the wages of
~lnrigilteousncss," or, as the revised version has
it, " n ~ h oloved the hire of wrong-doing."
Jsracl had come out of JCgjyt through the
\vilclcrncss a n d llacl gone south of tlle Dead Sea
and was now al)otit to enter tlic I'romisetl Land
f r o ~ nthe cast, insteatl of from the west as ~ r o u l d
11at~1rallyhave I~eenexpected. O g , thc king of
Ilashan, had I~ccn col~luerctl, the s~~rrountlin,rr
trilxs had hccn conqucrctl, Israel was encampetl
on the I~ordcrsof the 3loal)itcs and the Mitliani-
tish king, lkdak, Ilad I)econlc tlesperately fright-
cnecl antl sent for Ihlaam wit11 the itlc;t that en-
c l ~ a ~ ~ t m cmight
nt I)c used to pre\,enL thc defeat
of tllc R,loal,itcs. Iktlaanl \vantetl to go I ~ u t
\vaitctI for a mcFsagc fsoni (;otl during thc night.
!;od said, "Thou shalt not go \\.it11 t l w n ; thou
shalt 11ot curse thc people : i11r tile!. are 1)lessed."
.\ccorrlingly J!alaam sta!.e(l wllcrc he was, hut
~)rese~~tl!. morc mcssengcr.; a n d no re lionoral~le
~ ~ r i n c c those
s, higher in authorit!- i l l thc Noa11-
itish Icingtlom, came to him with intl~!ce~nents of
Inrgc honors if Ihlaam woultl colnc. I l e should
11;tve answered :it once that (;od hat1 given him a
message not to g-o I ~ u t insteatl,
, he tojwl with the
temptation ; he lingered over thc opporttuiity to
get. rich tlisho~loral~l!~ and so Ilc. saitl to this sec-
ontl co~nllanyof ulessc~~gcrs. "'l'arq- J.C also h e w
t!li:< ~ ~ i x l ithat
t, r 111ayI,III\\. \ v l ~ thc
~ t Ix~rclwill
S:LJ.u ~ l t ome ~norc."
I lcrc is a11 inipostan( lesson fos every child of
(;od to learn. T;irst oi all, not Io love the hirc
o f wrong-doing, the \\,;~gc>oi ~ ~ n r i g h t c o ~ ~ s n e s
Imt i l l atldiiion to tllis. Ilerc is a11 exceedingly im-
portant lesson: Don't tease God for things H e
has said you ought not to have. l ' l ~ cIiilde coii-
tains sixty-six books and several thousand rich
and precious promises. I t hoiiors C h t l for us to
stand on these promises antl claim the things that
Gotl wants us to have, and whencver a soul makes
bold to reach up the hand of faith autl take that
which is promised in the W o r d of God I I c is
plcased, H c is honored. l<ut, on the other hand,
when Gotl has said, "Thou shalt not," to tease
Him, to be determined to havc one's ow11 way, is
self-will and it is obnoxious in the sight oE ( h d .
T h e worst thing that can happen to a inan o r
woman is to be able t o have his o r her own way.
H u m a n nature likes to have its ow11 way. .I;rom
the cradle to the gravc wc see it. T h e mere in-
fant in the cradle wants to have its own way.
I sce it in my own chiltlren over and ovcr. \iVhen
we have had little babies I put them in the ham-
111ock o r in t l ~ ccril), and a child ninc or ten
months old will stick its hcatl up at onc end and
its fcet up at the other and 11owl to havc its ow11
way, antl u ~ ~ l c the s s fathcr ant1 ~ n o t l ~ carc
r pretty
strong cchai-aclcrs it zuill have its own way. Well,
that is I I U I I I ~ I I nature and you can see it a t any
stage; aiitl wliilc prul)aldy the \vorst t h i ~ ~that
can happen to a man is for Ilim to h;~vchis ow11
way, thc I ~ s thing t for him is to I)ow the neck
antl take thc yoke of Jesus Christ, \vhicli is the
will of God, and learn m e e k ~ ~ c s steadfastly
s,
fusing to have his own way.
Some one has defined sanctification as "a stead-
fast determination never to havc your own way,"
and that is a mighty good I)rand of sanctification.
'That is the I<ind of people you like to live with.
T h c pcoplc that ncver give up their wills arc, of
all pcoplc, the hardest to get along with, but it is
heaven to live with pcople who arc sanctifictl in
this, that thcy have a steadfast tlcterniitiation
tievcs to havc their own way.
Ihlaam wanted his own way. I le s o ~ i g l richcs
and h n o r and alltliority, and fellowship of kings
and in-inccs and Ilo11oral)le peo1)le. If he could
only go this way ! l i u t God had saitl, "'l'hou shalt
not." I h l a a m teased thc 1,ord antl the 1,ortl said,
"(hahead." If yon d o the same H e will say the
same to you. H e will say first, "No, that is not
in My will; that is not My plan for you, My
child;" lmt you kecp on asking and ( h d will say,
"All right, go ahead."
M a a m startctl and hc camc straight against
the angel of the I ~ r with d a drawn sword in his
hand. ( h l hat1 saitl, "Go," 1)ut as he went tlic
angel of the 1,ortl inct Ilinl. T h e ass he rode
turncd aside into a n open field and he whipped
her back. 'I'hc angel of thc T,ortl moved on antl
slood in thc path whcrc therc was a wall 011
either sidc and when the ass saw the angel she
crept up close to the wall a i d crushccl 1:alnani's
foot against the wall. Hy and by the road passed
through a narrow tlefilc antl there was no chance
to move to the right o r to the left; then thc ass
lay down untler her master and lie whipped her
again. 'I'his 1mn, I ~ n on t having his own wa!-,
bccarne so bli11d he could not see even as ~iiuclia s
a n ass could see, and so over and ovcr it is with
thosc who will g o their own way. They becomc
spiritually blind, stupidly insensible, until they
cannot see as well as the beasts that perish.
Ualaam said, "I will g o back," but God said,
"No, vou are boui~tlt o go, so go ahcad, but never-
theless, only the word that 1: shall speak unto thee
shalt thou spcak." A n d so it was, for as Ralaani
went on God took such ~)osscssioilof him in this
crisis in thc history of God's people, Israel, that
he had to speak what (;od said. I t is a marvelous
casc. TTour marvelous messages! A t the time
of thc first one IGng Ilalak and I.'rophet Balaani
cliiii1)cd to the top of the hill. Seven altars were
I ~ t ~ i lvictims
t, werc offercd on cach of thcsc altars
g ;md 1:alak withtlrew a little, hut 1:alaam saitl.
"1 low shall J cursc, who111 God hath not cursed ?"
Another sitc was choscn, scvcn other altars wei-e
built, scvcn oi'lci-ings wcrc inade, and this time
re- I3alaam had to speak the message, "The people
a r c blessetl." Again another site was chosen.
seven altars built, and Ualaam got a message
from the T,ord that Israel wcre to be ~ilnrvcloztsly
blessed, blessing poured out as water pourc(l
from buckets that were ovcrturnetl; everybod!.
that blessecl Israel was to bc blcssed and ever!,-
1)otly that cursed Israel was to be cursed, for
(;od had taken chargc of the situation antl I [is
people were savctl.
7 .
I hat is a sw ect l c s s o ~for
~ 11s to learn. If Gotl's
~t pcople walk with the T.ortl, then the world, the
flcsh and the tlcvil tiny try to withstand them,
may trv to curse t l ~ e n ~ but, nevertheless, thcy a r e
blessed. If you arc steadfastly bcnt 011 going
God's way, on choosing God's will, nobody can
~ucccssfullycross you.
Now Jude tells us of the e r r o r of 13alaani;
about wicked men that privily got into the church
and wcrc turninx the grace of God into lascivi-
ousness and that were a dishonor and a contiilual
trouble, and he says that these people run in the
way of Cain ant1 run greedily o r riotously in the
e r r o r of 1:alaam. As you study the chaptcr
closely you will sec that the e r r o r of Ealaam is
that of judginx, only Ralaam was judging Israel
 without knowledge a n d understanding of the
atonement. H e saw the failure of Israel and
judged Israel could be cursed, but God was judg-
ing o r dealing with Israel under atonenient. l i e
had dealt with them concerning sins antl they
manifested contrition ; the morning and evening
sacrifices were being continually offered and
once a year the great day of atonenient was cele-
brated when confession was made of the sins of
the people and when blood offerings were made
for all the people; a n d because of this God was
,dealing with Israel entirely from the standpoint
of the vicarious atonement, the vicarious sacrifice.
Ralaam didn't understand this. H e considered
them only from a standpoint of natural morality
and this was his error. I n one of these messages
that God gave him we find these words: "Hc
hat11 not beheld iniquity in Jacob, neither hath
H e seen perverseness in Israel." You have said.
perhaps, when you have read it, "What a strange
statement to make! I thought God was always
dealing with Israel f o r her sins, and here we have
an inspired message which says, ' H e hath not be-
held iniquity in Jacob, neither hath H e seen per-
verseness in Israel.' " I t is a strange but blessedlv
true message, and when you understand it your
heart bounds for joy. H e had dealt with Israel
for sin, they came in contrition, they had ac-
cepted blood atonenient and now they were cov-
ered so that n o longer were their sins visible.
God was looking forward to the suffering of H i s
Son, H e was looking forward to the day when
Christ their passover should be sacrificed for
them and those who came under blood atonement
were covered, they were free. T h u s God deals
with Tsrael and deals with individual believers in
private for sin. You may have had a session' this
morning with the IJoly Ghost for some sad fail-
ure ancl you may have come to the place of con-
trition where you have cried o u t :
"Jesus, T h y l ~ l o o dantl riglitcousness
My beauty are, my glorious dress,"
and God would say, "Yes, M y child, I cover the
contrite heart with the atonement of Jesus Christ.
I no longer see iniquity in thee." W h e n it comes
to God's public dealings before the world and
the devil concerning contrite hearts, H e says, "I
see n o iniquity in them." Oh, praise God, though
you may have been a deep-down vile sinner, roll-
ing in the gutter, groveling in the slums ; you may
have been a self-rigliteot~smoralist, obnoxious in
the sight of heaven, but oh, a t last having come
to the place of contrition and having accepted the
sacrifice of Jesus in your stead, God announces
9
to the worltl a11d the devil, " I see n o iniquity, I
1)cIiolrl no perverseness." There will be times
when Ilc will deal with y o l ~in secret concerning
some failr~rc,but in pulAic H e says, "It's settled;
a contrite heart is covered by the blood of Jesus."
Ilalaam couldn't see that.
(;od said, "1 have not seen iniquity in Jacob,
nor beheltl perverseness in Israel." O h , how
sweet! I wonder if your heart really takes it in.
A r e you a crool<ed stick? as crooked as Jacob
w a s ? Jacob was one of the most crooked of
people. H e was as slippery as a n eel. You put
your hand on him and lie wasn't there. I-Ie
slipped around almost any way a n d every wav
to have his own way. A crooked, perverse sin-
ner was Jacob, the father of a crooked and per-
verse ~)eoplc; 1)ut God the Almighty got hold of
that perverse nation and hrought them through
heart repentance into a renunciation of thern-
selves and acceptance of the way of the Lord ancl
they were covered with I~loodatonement. T h e n
ITc says,"l d o not see any fault in them." H e says
the same to you and me. O h , how our hearts
ortght to leap for joy. l'erhaps you say, "Why,
l'astor, you call me a saint! I a m afraid to call
m~.selfa saint." If you are a contrite heart un-
tier tlle I~loodof Jesus, God calls you a saint.
Now look a t the tetrclzing of Ralannz at the
close of the twenty-fourth chapter of Numbers.
H e goes on his way, but he hungers for those
honors; he itclies for that money, and though he
has gone home he cannot stay there. Happy
\voultl it I x for him if the curtain of his
!ife had heen drawn with the twenty-fourth chap-
ter of Numbers and left him in his honie; but
all the time there was such longing for this honor
antl this fellowship of kings lie concluded t o g o
hack, antl according to the Book of Revelation,
the last 1)ook in the liible, when he got back h e
taught Midian to sin, he taught the Midianites t o
entice the Israelites to sin. H e said in effect,
"Let your 111ost beautiful women dress in their
most I~eautifulgarments and deck then~selvesin
their most lxautiful jewels and call the princes
of Israel to idolatrous banquets, a n d when t h e
idol meat is offered and the idol worship is going
on, invite Israel to feast with you." A n d so these
beautiful women invited the Israelitish men a n d
ditln't stol) their I)landishnients until they went
into awful corruption. I3y and by there came
I~oltlly antl gaily into the camp o f Israel a n
Jsraelitish prince with a beautiful princess, the
daughter of one of the foremost nien of Midian,
hanging t ~ p o nhis arm, ancl these two guilty
lovers entered into a pavilion in the sight of all
Israel, as the congregatioil were weeping at thc
tent of 111ecting, because of (iocl's jutlg~ncntsupon
tllcm, for the plague had struck Israel ant1
twenty-four thousand Israelites lay dead. And
then I'hinehas, a nlan of God, picked up a javelin
antl, in thc sorrow of his heart and anger against
sin, he followed this guilty pair into the pavilion
and thrust them both through and lcillctl them on
the spot. r l l ~ dGod said, "I'hinehas hath avengctl
Me of this sin," ancl becausc one righteous man
tlarctl to stand against sin, God stopped the
plaguc. Oh, for inen and won-ren who dare to
stand against sin, tnen that hate sin in themselves
when it appears, that judge it if it steals into the
corner of the heart or has any place in the mind !
God wants men and women that will take part
with Him against sin, and no matter whether sin
is in us or in other people we need to stantl
against it. Not to stantl against sinners, mind
you. God loves sinners while H e hates sin. God
loves sinners because H e hates sin and knows
that sin will ruin them. God's contlc~nnationis
always against the sin. A n infinite God wants
IIib people evcrywhcre to rise up and judge sin.
"Vice is ;I mollster of such frightful mien
'That to I)c hated, needs I ~ u tto Ijc scen,
13ut seen too oft, familiar with her face,
W e first endure, then pity, thcn embrace."
As I walk the streets of Chicago or ride on the
street cars and see sin in every direction, I have
a continual fear that God's people seeing it too
oft will first endure it, then pity, then embrace it.
One of the things that I cannot be reconciled to,
as I ride from the West Side to the South Side
on Sunday, is that all these stores are open-
grocery stores, dry goods stores, furnishing
goods, salooils, almost everything. I rode over
here today from the West Side and I saw only
one place of business that was closed against traf-
fic on the Lord's Day. I n just one single window
1 saw this sign, "We close all day Sunday." 13ut
I saw othcr signs, "Ope11 for I<usiness," in
abundance and the doors were wide open. Sill
is a monster, '%ut seen too oft, familiar with her
face, we first endure, tllen pity, then embrace."
'I'lic first thing you I<now you will get out of bread
or inilk and the children will be sent to the store
on the I .ortl's Day. Endure it, suffer these places
to stay ol)cn, and by and by if you do not look
out v o ~ iwill be enticed into conq~romisewith it.
'I'hc last sin of Ilalaan~ that we are talking
about is his teaching, antl he taught the Midian-
itcs this Ic5son : "I cannot curse Tsrqel bccausc
thev are with God and God blessetl them, I)ut if
you Midianitcs will gct the Israelites to COIII-
promise with you, if ~ o will u get them to co111e
to y o ~ idolatrot~s
r feasts, if !*ou will get thein to
join in the dance antl the music antl the frolic of
idol festivals, if you will get them to join in the
nudeness and fornication of Midianitish worship,
thcn Israel will I I ~dcgradecl to your level and
they will be cursetl." That is the teaching of
1:alaam and there is a mighty leveling power in
it. As long as individuals, families and churches
will work for God and choose I l i s way, they can-
not be cursed, but the moment the world, thc
flesh and the devil get in, the moment Gotl's sep-
arated people will coinpromise with worltlliness,
then their security is broken in 11po11. If you l e ~
the world into the church, into your home, into
your heart, then do not be surprised if the curse
comes. But as long as you walk with God in
separation, like Abraham, you will be blessed.
Now the thirty-first chapter of Numbers, eighth
verse, tells us of the end of Balaam. 1:alaam
ought to havc been a t I1ome. Instead of that he
came back for the money and the honors, antl
whcn he cainc back he pitched his tent among the
Midianites. God was so grieved with the sin of
the Midianitcs that H e instructed Moses to com-
mission an army to g o against them and exter-
minate thcm,and whcn this army went against the
Midianites they killed the kings of Midian, and
the eighth verse adds significantly: "I3alaam also
the son of her they slew with the sword." If
13alaam had been at home he would havc been
spared, but he was out of the will of the Lord
having his own way. I-Ic had started against the
anqel with the drawn sword and he never stopped
~ i n t i lthe drawn S W O I . ~ had taken off his head.
And 50 it will be with those who have light. I t
is possilde to g o against God until you lick the
dust and punishment is meted out. Oh, may it
not be so with us here this day! God has sent
me here today to urge you to hate sin. I t is one
thing for Gotl's people to talk ahout thc love of
God antl the grace of G o d ; it is blessed and ex-
ceedingly important, and it cannot be overdone,
but on the othcr hand, it is just as important that
God's peol)lc should hate sin, and if you do not
hate sin, t11en you arc not a proper follower of
the I,ord Jesus, for it was said of Him in the
forty-fifth i'salnl and it is saitl of IIim again in
the New 'I'cstamcnt, first chapter of Hebrews.
"lkcause 'I'hou hast loved righteousness and
h a t c ~ litlicluitv, therefore God, even T h y God,
Iiath anointetl l'hcc with the oil of glatlncss above
' ,'I'h>t fellow^." . '4 f w k 'would walk in the foot-
step> elf Jesus, it' Me would be anointed with TIis
r'l '
IIoly Spirit without measure, as was Jesus, we
must hate sin and lovc righteousness. Nothing
else will do in a child of God. This is what (rod
looks for. This is what the angels do, what (;od
I'ii~nself does. 'This is what God calls everv he-
liever to, a love of righteousness and a hatred of
iniquity. Are we there today? If not let us gct
there. for the times are hastening to the consmn-
mation. God alone knows where we will he a
week from today. This is the day of our op-
portunity. Have you ernbraced i t ?
Sarah Smith, Cairo, Egypt
of prayer. 'l'lle Lord is w o n d e r f t ~ l l with
~ us.
Some of the pcol)lc around herc arc looking to
the Lortl for healing and call 011 the missionaries
daily to pray for them. W c have also taken in
a native haby of fiftecn months from the orphan-
age a t Assiout, whilc Sister Lillian Trashcr, who
startctl thc orphanage, is in America for a few
months. T h e child is quite an attraction, both
t o thc missionaries and natives.
This is my third year in Egypt. I:rother Moll,
who is now on his way to 13ritish East Africa,
was also here about the same length of time and
ior awhile we were the only Pentecostal mis-
sionaries. H o w often, when our eyes were on
the hartlncss of the fight, our IIeaveiily Father
reminded us that the battlc was not ours, but the

P E R H A P S it is not well known to people in

America that the Latter Rain is falling in
Egypt, even in this wicked city of Cairo, although
IAordJs,and all we had to do was to obey and
praise, as in the case of Jehoshaphat in 11. Chron.
20:lS-21, God's promises never fail us when we
the mission work is new here. I t started with trust Him. ITe is with us today as when I-Ie
several missionaries on the field and excited quite spalte through Moses saying, "The Lord shall
an interest among the natives. Alexander Paul, fight for you and ye shall hold your peace," or
the intrepreter, got interested and came into the throug-11Joshua, "One of you shall chase a thou-
Mission t o live, and he and his wife now trust hand, for the Lord your God H e it is that fighteth
the Lord for their support just as the other mis- for yotl as H e hath promised you."
sionaries do. Some of the missionaries who first T h e part of Cairo where the mission is located
came to the field have left for America, but three is called Christian, but alas ! very few know Jesus
others--13rother Townsend and wife and daugh- as their Savior from sin. Dear Christians at
ter-came in their place. home,do not forget t o pray for this dark Moham-
W e do not know just the numbcr of souls medan country where even the professing Chris-
saved here, but God has been pouring out IIis tians have inany heathenish forms still clinging
Spirit and quite a number have received their to them and ceremonies that are distressing to
baptism and many more in Assiout. Ten mis- witness. W e are sure God is hearing prayer for
sionaries have recently come to Assiout where E p p t and w e praise Him for answered prayer.
Brother Brelsford and wife are, and we under- I a m happy in the work God has given me here
stand they are scattering to the villages round and prav that H e will Idess the dear ones in
about where there is a blessed field for labor. The America.
village people are hungry for God and it is very
~nterestingto see how they will follow the mis-
sionaries, inquiring the way of life and bringing
their sick for prayer. I11 losing all the gifts with all their supports, I
U'hen I was in Cairo last summer a certain found the Giver. I n losing the sense and percep-
part of the city was much on my heart. The tion of Thee in myself, I found Thee, 0 my God,
people there were hungry and when I distributed to lose Thee no more in Thyself, in T h y own im-
Arabic literature, they read it with interest. This mutability. O h poor creatures, who pass all their
summer I felt led to come back here to Cairo as time in feeding upon the gifts of God, and think
the work among these poor downtrodden women therein to be the most favored and happy! How
lav nearest my heart. It is away from the mis- T pity them if they stop there, short of the true
sion. but the Lord opened the way to rent rooms rest, and cease to go forward to God Himself,
here right among the native Coptic people and through thc loss of those cherished gifts which
the mission workers will help me all they can. they now delight in. How many pass all their
Already some of the women have called to see lives in this way, and think highly of themselves
me, a ~ l dthough our room is not ready for therein. They never enjoy ~ o -in d His fulness,
ings, vet some of the m i ~ + ~ ~ ~ @ e ~ ~ cannot
~ bef perfectly
~ $ known
@ in~ 5
several times and we have had blessed seasons t h ~ s
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blessed by the ministry of Pastor A. A. turn from Japan, after an absence of eight years,
Iiotldy of Sunderland, England. H e spoke in the and they are now living at 6313 Meridian Street,
afternoon and evening of September 2211d t o T,os Angeles. Brother Atchison is visiting the
large and appreciative audiences, and ministered Pentecostal centers and laying the needs of Japan
to a number of afflicted and needy ones a t the before his hearers. H e wishes prayer for the
close of the afternoon service. P a r t of his after- work in Japan which is in charge of a brother
noon addrcss, entitled, "They T w o Went On," missionary during his absence.
is given in this issue. \.Ve cheerfully forward money to missionaries.
Pastor I:otldy is a Rector in the Church of If you havc some money you wish to give for the
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\\it11 the L'cntecostal Movement, they having re-
 C)1> is truly working in a \vontlerfd way in ant1 forlorn he loulicd ! It says ill the Wort1 w]ien our
G Da!las, Texas, in thc meetings conducted
1)y 311-s. Woodworth-Etter and the pastor, M r .
father antl niothcr forsake us, t1ic11 the Lord will take
us up, and H e truly did that little fellow. S.ister Etter
laid her hands upon him and prayed, and lie was in-
Fred. 1:osworth. During the first week in Scp- stantly healctl. With thc a r m that had Ixen paralyzed
t e n h e r abotlt fifty were baptized ill the Holy 11e beg-an to tear off the spli~llsand hantlagcs from the
Spirit, besides many bright conversions ant1 I)rokcn a r m without any one telling liitn. I-Tc tllrew
~niraculoushealings. 110th l~alitls towartls lieavcn, raised them high and
shoutetl and prriisetl God, and I liave seen him in the
\Ve quote the following from a private letter
hervices nearly every niglit since. I l e testifies before
received from a n eye-witness under date of that large niultitutle and has two perfectly well arms
August 22nd : t o sliow what the mighty power of God can do.
"A Inan thirty-six years of age came from Oklalion~a,
"Tlicre a r c about five thousand people in attendance
I)orn tleaf antl du~ml);he was instantly healed when
ever!- ]light, and ou Sunday nights many more. T h e
prayctl with antl Ixgan t o talk, repeating what Sister
sick and afflicted a r e coming f r o m all parts of Texas,
litter would say. 'J'here liave been at least a dozen
;!nd soule have come from Oklahoma, .\labauia, Georgia
cases of tleaf and duml), many of them 11orn in that
antl Louisiana. They a r e coming o n trains, coveretl condition, I~ealctl instantly, aud they a r c learning to
\\ragon.i, and every way they cau. Oh, the pitiful sights! t ~ l kby repeating what they hear others say. They a r e
JSow tlicy make my heart ache! Sometimes it is ~ n o r c ctlucatetl in tlie dcaf and d u t n l ~ language, but don't
than I can hear when I see as many as four o r live in
lanow how words sound; they have to learn, I ~ u tthey
one service nearly eateu up with cancer o r consump- Irarn very rapidly. A little girl, deaf and dumb, was
tion aud given up by all eartlily aid, and as a last re- licaled :I few days ago and had a vision of Jcsus com-
sort the) come to the Lord. ing. Under the power of the Spirit, she exclaimed, 'I
"The first niglit I was here, there were four 1)rouglit see Jc;us coming on a white cloud.'"
iu on cots in a dying condition, several in roller chairs
atid many afflicted who were able to walk. I saw two
on cots get up antl walk when prayed with. Some who W e also give the follow in^ clipping from the
were thought to he dying have jumped right over the Jlnllos Iloily Times-Hr~nld of September 7 ,
end of their cots, leaping and walking aud shouting all 1012:
over tlie tent after tlie prayer of faith was offered. I
will ~ncntionone o r two reuiarlial~lecases:
Iltrntlretls in 1)allas and all or.er Texas and Inany
"--1woman here in Dallas, dying from a double af- other states have already I)een healed in this meeting
fliction of cancer of the stomach and t~~berculosis of o f all manner of diseases and afflictions by tlie power
the lungs, a living skeleton, given up by all tlie best of God, in answer to "the prayer of faith." Many
physicians of this city, was brought t o the meeting on have 1)ceti I l r o ~ ~ g l iover
t one thousand miles and have
a cot and thought slie would die before Sister Ettcr been wonderfully saved and healetl. T h e lame, the
could get aroutid to her. When prayed with she was I~lintl,many dcaf and d u n ~ b ,the palsied, the paralytic,
healed instantly of both afflictions, arose from the cot cotisumptives, those suffering with cancers, tumors,
and slioutetl and praised the Lord. She is coming to fistulas, pellagra, operations, Inan?- with epilepsy, and
the meeting every niglit and testifying. She is still very invalids for years a r e praising Gotl for healiug for soul
thitl, but the disease is killed and she is gaining every :1nd l>ody.
day. Perhaps never before was there such a scene as that
".A Imy, ljrougl~tfrom Beaumont, Texas, several hun- witnessed by the great audicnce AIonday' night, when
dred miles away, suffering from epileptic insanity, was three deaf and dumb mutes, fifty-four, thirty-four and
healetl instantly antl a few days afterwards a business seventeen years old, all strangers to each other, hugged,
man from that city, coming to the meetings in Dallas, kissed, wept, shouted and praised God for perhaps
testilietl that the boy was sound and well. twenty minutes, I~ecausel i e had opened all their ears,
I':\ lady irom Cleburne, Texas, came to the tneet- gave them their voices and s a \ d their souls. Sinners
ing last Sunday with a cancer on her nose. I t was look on aud weep and niakc their way to the altar. Suu-
mostly eaten away. S h e had not been free from paiu day, Chtl came in slaying power and twenty-one, like
for ten years and had not eaten anything but liquids Saul, wcre struck down 11y the power o f God and lay
for three months. Sister Etter prayed with her at the from one to eleven hours. They had wonderful visions
morning service. Instantly the pain left and she went of licaven :mtl of Jcsus and all got up with shining faces,
out and ate a hearty dinner. She came back that night tilletl w ~ t hthe love of God. T h e tent looked like a
to the meeting and testified that she was healetl, no I):~ttlelicltl for "the slain of the Lord were many." This
paiu f o r tlie first time in ten years, and oh, how slie I:ourer has continued all the week :end sinners liave 1)ecn
praisctl God ! struck clown in their homes several tiiiles from tlie tent.
''-4 little waif, a newsboy on the streets of Dallas, I~untlrctls in I>nllas have I)cen filled with the I-loly
strolled into the meeting with one a r m paralyzed and Ghost as at I'cntccost. Perl~npsin no other place in tlie
the other I~rokenfrom jmnpiug off a street car a few \vorltl is (;(XI so wontlerfully tli.-playing His power at
days previous. Oh, how deserted antl pitiful and dirty tlic ~)c.cscultime.
 Mrs. Clay li. Martin, 2124 Cal~cllstreet, Dal- A boy was taken from Wilcy, Texas, forty
las, one of the deaf mules who was hcalctl, b' ' ~ v e s miles, in a wagon. ITe had a ~)aralyzcdleg, could
a written testimony as follows : not raise 111s foot from the grouncl, but had to
"1 am now fifty-four years old. hIy father and pull it along. God instantly healed him and he
m o t l ~ c rwere first cousins . . . . Mysclf and two sisters ~valkedperfectly.
were I ~ o r ntotally tlcaf antl d u n h . T was horn at Jones- Something over a ycar ago, Rrother 110s-
ville, Lee County, Virginia, educated a t Staunton, Vir-
worth, the pastor, was twice scriously mobbed
ginia, under Prof. J. J. Covell. I was teacher in Prof.
Van Nostrand's deaf and d~1~11) ~ c l ~ o aotl Austin, Tcxa5, when preaching near 1)allas becanse he preachetl
at the time my rlnclc, Ilcn U. Martin, was state senator to a mixed congregation of white antl colorctl
under Governor Cokr. On Wednesday, July 31, 1912, people. H e was severely Ileaten and his life
1 went t o the wonderful meeting in the large tent at threatened, but God saved him. Iiecently the
the corner of P a r r y and 1;letclier streets. When Sister
two leaders of the mohs have both met violent
Etter put her finger in my mouth a t the root of my
tongue and then in my ears, cotnmanding the 'deaf and deaths. T h e leader of the first mob was rnn over
d u n ~ l j spirit' to come out, God instantly opened my bv a train and his body terribly ~tiutilated. T h c
ears and gave me my voice . . . . Oh, it seems so won- other man was thrown from an a u t o n ~ o l d eand
derful to hear everything." had his neck broken.
T h e meetings a r e increasing in interest and God's eye is over all and H e wonderfully vin-
power and being attended by people from Min- dicates H i s own. llrother Rosworth never re-
nesota, Illinois, Michigan, and even from the taliated in any way or 1)rought his persecutors
Pacific Coast. Many drive forty and fifty miles to justice. I I e only prayed for them, but JIe who
to see the wonderful works of God. said, "Vengeance is Mine, I will repay," meted
0 1 1 August 12th three men took a man dying out the punishment. O u r brother, looking back
from consumption and fistula, from Murcury, upon that time of conflict antl sorrow, coulcl we!l
Texas, two hundred miles away, in a baggage say the suffering was not in vain. 'The revival
car on a cot. After being prayed for he jumped that is now going on in Ilallas has been prececled
from the cot and ran up and down before the by days and nights of prayer, but this travail of
people. praising God. l l e returned home walk- soul and the trials and persecutions endured are
ing antl praising G o d ; has gained four pounds a not to be co~nparedto the blessings that are com-
week. ing to thousands.

Lessons in the Lord's School

Mrs. Lydia M. Piper. Chicago, Sunday, August 4. 1912
IIE third verse of the thirty-
seventh Psalm stands out more
prominently in my mind today
than any other passage of Scrip-
ture. "Oh magnify the Lord with
me, and let us exalt IIis name to-
gether." W e hear a great deal
in these days about exalting the
L o r d : there are plenty of testimonies in which
people talk irl~oztt the Lord ; but there is a vast
difference between talking trbout the Lord and
really exalti~zg 1Iim.
I have been away for five weeks antl feel as if
I had been in school. T h c Imrd has very dcf-
initely led in every place to which I went, ancl
while I wanted to go to other places for quiet-
ness and rest, I was unmistakably led in the
paths that 1 did walk in ancl I know that the 1,ord
had mc in the school of IIis choosing.
A s I trnvclcd 13ast T had a wontlerful time on
the train. I can scarcely speak of it, it is so
sacred t o me. I t seemed as if the very heavens
opened upon me and God showed me what I I c
wanted to do for us, not through the great ones,
11ut through the hmnble ones, through the united
ones. H e brought before me the life of that lit-
tle French peasant maid, Joan of Arc, antl what
that humble girl of the people was inspired to d o
for her country. She said she heard the voice
of the 1,ord whicli instructed her to do ccrtain
things thc generals of Francc could not accom-
plish: and she, feeling the power of God within
her and with patriotism for her country thrilling
her very soul, went forward and accomplished
thinys that before had bcen impossible to the
armies of l ~ r a n c c . T h e Lord brought up before
me with great emphasis the fact that she would
do thal for her country and I and others would
not do as much for IIim. H e told me I-Ie wanted
to do tnr~chthrough us I ~ u twe wanted to see the
end from the beginning. H e showed me our pos-
sibilities and privileges in I-Iim, not in oursrlves.
I said, "Lord, I am nothing." I-Ie said, "I know
you a r e nothing." 1 said, "And the people a r e
not very much." "I know they a r e n o t ; hut they
are the ones I can use--those who feel they are
nothing." Then I got another lesson from IIim.
iYlien Joan of A r c had accomplishetl the duty
the Lord had given her to do, she became self-
sufficient; she went on in her own strength,
pressed forward by men and politics, and she
failed. S h e had accomplished the work Got1 had
given her to do, but going beyond her call, she
failed; and friends, that is the reason God can-
not use us. Sometimes H e cannot get us started,
and when H e gets us started H e cannot get us
to stop. You start a person t o doing something
for the L o r d and you rejoice to see him working
for God, then along connes some one and praises
him, and says, "Mr. So-and-so is being wontler-
fully used of the Lord," and the first thing you
know that man becomes self-sufficient and down
he goes. A r e we never going t o learn by the ex-
perience of others? I t seems we ought to learn
through the failure of others, but we do not. I
saw that day on the train through this lesson the
I.orc1 gave me how H e either couldn't get us
started o r could not get us to stop. People who
begin in the Spirit of God may g o on in the flesh
and end in the most awful manifestation of the
flesh. N o one likes the pure work of the Holy
Spirit more than I do. I like t o see a person
worship and exalt the Lord in t r u e humility, but
it doesn't take any unusual degree of discer~i-
ment to see where the Spirit stops working and
the flesh begins. Ah, that the Lord might get us
to the place where we could work for H i s glory
only and not for our own.
A little incident was brought to my mind-an
experience which my oldest boy had two years
ago. I t had completely passed out of my mind,
but as the Lord was talking to me along this line
I I e brought it hack as an illustration.
My boy, William, while in the country two
;,ears ago became quite a n adept at climbing
trees. W e didn't tell him not to climb trees but
we told him to be very careful to test the limbs
before h e crawled out on them. A t first when he
climbed the trees he tested the limbs one after
another, but after awhile he became quite self-
confitlent and said to himself, "Why, I'm a good
clinilxr; there is no reason why I should test all
of these limbs." S o when he had clinibed up to
the desired height, he crawled out on a lin111 and
sat there with his feet dangling, very self-satisfied
at his ability to climl). A f t e r awhile he sa\\. a
hoy falling; he watclnetl him, but when the 110~.
struck the earth he found it was himself. Whe11
he told me ahout it I saitl, "That is very strange,
Ilitln't you Ii~nowyo11 were falling?" I I e saitl,
"No, I thought it was another boy." This made
no impression on me at the time, but the Lord
11t-ought it back to illy mind and showed me how
we a r c like little William. A t first we climb up
testing this antl that position of faith very care-
fully, "looking mnto Jesus" all the while, but by
antl bv as we surmount one tlifficulty after an-
other, antl get beyond this blessing and that, we
become self-complacent and feel important, and
when we have climlml to some tlesired eminence
we sit there dangling our feet, as it were, quite
satisfied with ourselves. Ry and by we see some
one fall; we look on with sorrow but feel secure
mitil we strike the earth antl find it was ourselves
that fell. H a v e you ever met anybody like t h a t ?
I have met a few such people. O h , how cau-
tiously they climb upward at first, with their eyes
on Jesus, but when success in climbing brings
spiritual pride they venture on some elevation
without testing their position in Jesus, then sonne-
thing I~realisantl down they go. A t first they
hardly realize they have fallen; it seems to I)e
~omehotly else that is making mistakes all the
time-until they strike the earth with a thud.
People have been greatly used in giving nies-
sages, but in these very blessings they have got-
ten their eyes off Jesus, and used H i s power for
their own self-exaltation until the Lord is left
out of it entirely. You can have the gift of
tongues, the gift of healing, the gift of prophecy
o r any other gift, and it can become a n awful
stumbling I~lock. I groan when I hear a person
say lie has this, that, or the other gift. If you
have a gift let the Lord prove it. D o not exalt
yourself. Just as soon as you begin to talk about
what you have your friends will lose sight of
Jesus : all they will see is the "1," and oh what a
big "I" it is! You ha(1 a genuine experience, but
you went on climbing the tree and not testing the
limbs. By and hy, you struck a dead limb and
you came down with a thud.
7
I he I,orcl gave me this illustration coming
.
home on the train and I~egan to talk with me
ahout taking 0111- position in Ilim, exalting IIiln
in our blessings and with every ~ ~ p w a t step
- d keep-
ing our eyes on IIim. 1 heard a brother tell of
hearing two men preach. A t the close of one
sermon lie said to himself, "What a wonderful
jcsus we !lave!" :Is he listened to the other
prcacI!er he saitl, "What a w o n t l e r f ~ ~man!"
l
 I :otll liatl talked abut Jesus, I~trtone ex;dtctl I I i ~ n \va5 sufficient. 'I'hcn I l e said, "Wlicn the strong
a n d tlle other exalted Iiimsclf. arm was taken away, what did you tlo?" "Well.
I want to tell y o t ~onc of the lessons S learned I fountl Yo11 in a deeper way than I had ever
while away. I was attending a large convention, drcamc.d of." Then I l c led me in spirit to the
;mrl one night they had what 1 considered a very timc w1ic.n I was I~aptizeclin the 1 loly Spirit, and
serious time. 1;lesli rcbul<ed flesh, and as 1 sat i lived that wllole night over again. 1 went
there my spirit revolted. 1 turned to one of the t l i r o u ~ hthat glorious experience again when the
l)rctIiren who sat near me on thc platform antl ITolv Spirit Inptized me and the heavens opened
said, " I h yo11 think this is of thc Lord?" LIc and 1 was thrilled and re-thrilled with the joy
saitl, "No, we do not think this is the I,ortl, but and c(.stasy of the Im-d surging tlirough and
1)rol)al)ly I Ie has some lesson for us in it." As I through my I~ody,and I said, "Yes, I,ortl, I had
.;a\\: the dcvil getting the victory antl r ~ ~ i n i n galmost forgotten that beautiful experience." T h e n
what wo~rltlotllerwisc liave been a 1)lcssed mect- I l c saitl, "Wasn't that from M e ? Didn't I give
inc, and outsitiers standing I)y in ht~tidrcclslook- that to yo11?" ''Oh, yes, it was a wonderful ex-
ing ( H I and scoffing, my heart was sick ant1 1 cried periencc I I ~ a dthat night, it did so much for me,
out to t l ~ cIm-tl in my distress. 1 hat1 seen sev- it transformed my music and my very lifc. I
eral meetings ruined by fanaticism antl I)y mixetl will praise You as long as I live for that revela-
spirits and God's holy cause Ixougllt into dis- tion of Yourself." ' 1 4 ~ ~ now cl you are in the
repute, antl in my anguish of spirit I left thc I'entccost:d Movement, aren't y o u ? h u d you
~ n e e t i n gand went to my room. As 1 lay on my 1-egin to look a t peoplc antl when they are not
l~ctl,harrassctl hy my own thoughts and feelings, ~:erfectyou want to throw the wl~olething over?"
I said some pretty strong things to the Lord. I I-lc sl~owctlme I would sitnply have to let the
told 1Tim 1 was going ho~iie,I didn't want any people g o and if the flesh wanted to work itself out
Inore of tliat mixture of ilcsh and Spirit, and my ~t wotlltl have to do so. A s I tossed on my bed and
Ilcart was sick antl sore within me. It took me a told the 1,ord of the things [ fountl myself out of
long timc to get "talltctl out," l ~ when t I got touch with, I I e said to mc, " ' W h a t is that to
quiet tllc T a d Ixgan to talk to me. Ile took me tliec? I;ollow thou Ale.' " O h , it was a wontler-
over every part of nly life and T shall nevcr for- ful Icsson, antl as I again said, "Ilut, I,ortl, I am
get that night as long a s 1 live. l I e took me back not in sympathy with such things," all TTe said
seventeen years to the timc when TIe so wontler- to mc was, " 'What is that to thee? 1;ollow thou
fully touched my body ant1 brought new life into Me.' "
it. I l e reminded me how H e touclml this I)ody 1 went back to that camp and things were even
in its anxlnic co~itlition,Iiow 1)y one touch from worse than lxforc, I ~ u tI was happy. There were
Ilim H e had put new life into it antl made it pos- contending spirits and people had messages that
sible for ntc t o Ix the mother oE six healthy chil- were not of the Tmrd, but the 1,ord lifted me
tlrcn, and I saitl, "Why, yes, Lord, that was won- al:ove it. T was w r r y for the people and wanted
tlerful!" l'llcn I-Ic said, "Antl you fo~untlsomc to prav for them, Imt my spirit was not distressed
people wlio 1)elievetl jnst as you tlicl, tlitln't JWLI?" as 1 cforc
"Yes. 1,ortl." "ilnd yo^^ joined yot~rselfto those 1 (lo not know whether !ou a r c acquainted o r
people?" "Yes, 1,ortl." "And after awhilc that not with the discouraging condition the churches
orga~lization cr~~ml)letlaway and you were are in t11ro11gho11tthe land. I liave talked with a
awfully humiliated ?" "Yes." "What did you n u m l w of ministers of thc tlenominations and
(lo then?" "Well, I.ortl, T hacl to fintl You in a they told mc how when they would try to launch
rlccpcr sense than 1 had known You before. 1 out in ('otl atid preach a full gospel they woulcl
h:~tlto say, 'T,ortl, it nlakcs n o difference whether I c ecclesiastically l:eheaded, as it were, and they
tliis organizatio~l falls r r tliat one falls, I know wcre facc to face with the question, "Am I going
Yorr touched my I:otly. I know You gave me to stand for the truth or am T going to take care
that l i c a l i n ~and 1 have Y o t ~to praise for 1)ivine i.f mv family?" Tt is the bread and butter ques-
Ilealing.' " tion to thcni antl their families. Some of these
'I'lic~i I lc took mc on and showed Inc that when 11-inistcrs are looking towards the Pentecostal
I 11i:rl-riul I lc hat1 1 lis hand upon Ine a t ~ dhow hloveme~i!, hut friends, i f we have as IIILIC~I of
\\,llc.n I Ic liatl so~iicti~ncs wanted Inc to (lo things ('o(l ;IS kve profcsi and cxpect to make the people
Tor l li1i1 1 1c;rnctl 11po1i the strong arm of lily I ~ u n g r y f o r I lim, wc must show them that we
11usI);11ltlau(l tlitl not always (lo the tliin[:.s the have sonlctliing worth making a sacrifice for.
I,ortl \\,;lntctl Inc t o (lo, 1)ecartsc I felt my huslnntl \Yllcn the\ qcc orlr people striving for pre-
 eminence of the flesh and exhibiting umtroversy 1Ic is far more tlesirous that we have unit! than
and strife where there ought to be tunity, they a r e that we split hairs ovcr doctrine. 1 can go to
repulsed. W e have t o find C b c l these days. T h e heaven on "the finished work of Calvar!" ant1
Lord is surely teaching us to get our eyes off "the second work of grace," too. I care less ;bout
people. I would rather see on this platform a these doctrines than I ever di(l in my life. l';icw
man or wonlan who could exalt Jesus in the things can all be Ilarmonizcd if we just have
power of tlie Spirit than one who could preach grace to let the Spirit of God harmonize them. I
the most eloquent sermon I ever heard. W e are can see how the Lord in l l i s great love wants to
in an awful crisis and the trouble isn't all in the harnionizc these two great truths, for both a r e
denominations. W e have plenty of trouble in the tnre, and you can harmonize them if yo11 have
Pentecostal Movement to pray about, but the grace enough and keep quiet long enough to let
Lord showed me I had received 111y I~lessit~gstlie Lord speak to your hearts. (;od gave me a
from Him. H e is the 13lesser and, whether the wontlerful vision about it one night on my knees
Movement is out of God's order or not, let us and I am not I)otheretl allout that any nlore, but
intlividually find God. H e is in it so~ncwllerc. when you get so narrow, as 1 lieartl a man say,
When we a r e all emptied out of wanting to show \WI can hide 1)ehintl a ten-cent piece stantling
forth what God has given us, all emptied of our edgewise, so narrow you can sce only one thing,
self-exaltation and when w e take a huml~leplace !,our condition is pitiable. W e know of peoplc
before K m , the Lord will d o something for us. today in this Rilovement who won't sit o n the
Some people a r e agitated because we a r e not platform with people who don't I~clieveas they
getting more people saved a n d baptized in the do along the litie of some minor tloctri~ie. Ah,
Spirit. I helieve the secret of success is for us little will it matter up yonder. 'I'hesc things will
to exalt Jesus in our words and in our lives. If then seem of little consequence, hut we will sing,
we get emptied of self a n d lift up Jesus we will "\4~ortliy,worthy, worthy is the l.aml>!" 1 have
have more results in our w o r k ; I)ut friends, if often wotltlcrctl what the dcar I)rethreti a r e going
you had gone around the cott~itr):as I have ant1 to d o when they xct ttp tlierc around the throne,
seen the chaotic condition of the churches, you i f licre they cannot sit on the same platform with
would thank the 1,ortl that w e have l ~ c e nheld c)nc who has a different shatlc of tloctrinc, or if
steady even though we d o not have wonderful onc has to go out :mil walk around the camp
results. I t means something even to stand still grotuntl, while another 1)reaches wit11 whom he
in these days when the devil rages all around us. is not in harmony. 'The time is short, let us hold
X o one hut the Lord knows the pressure of these itp the dying 1,aml) hefore a dying world and lay
times, hut we praise (iod we have f o ~ t n dI-Iim our Iinir-splitting thcories aside. If we believc
sufiicient. My heart is truly grateful this after- that Jesus is coming soon let us prepare om-
noon for all Tle has done for us. hearts to receive I Iim. I lc will not ask ~ O I Ior
I heard a man say a t one of the campneetings me whether we believe in olie work of grace or
that when he got clown t o worship the I m - d he two? but Tle will look down in our hearts to see
didn't think of receiving a blessing, because the what kind of a lifc we have lived. I I e won't need
worstlip in itself was enough blessing for him. to ask any questions, hut there will IIC the ;dl-
but as he \vent on worshiping the Lord in an searching eve of (;od ul~oliyour heart and mine.
unselfish wa!7, God never failed to meet him. I f T,et u s lay every tlifference down a t Jesus' feet.
he set out to worship H i m for something he 'l'here is plenty in this oltl Iiook to preach a b o t ~ t
could get out of it, he never felt so happy, but on which we are united without trying to hunt ulr
if he worshiped Hi111 for I-limself alone, he was something to bring about a division. T h e world
well repaid. May God help us to be a n unselfish is going to ruin as fast as it can and here the
people, ant1 let us not get s o self-sufficient we Christians are quibbling over tmn-essentials. You
cannot hear anything but what is important to us. cannot preach what you (lo not live. You can
Did you ever see people trying to bring out their preach it from your head, Imt it has a liollow
pet doctrine on every occasion? I have met sotuld. Jt may have a loud ring to it, but you
people who seemed to feel if they did not give realize something is lacking. 'I'he 1,ord is just
a certain message they would g o straight to hell ; yearning. ovcr this Pentecostal Movement \vhich
if they didn't preach "finished work" or "second has received s o much from ( h d , hut has s o soon
work of grace" they woulcl lose their salvation. fbrgottcn the great essentials of unity 41~1 love
H o w little the 1,ord cares about these tl~eories. of the S!)irit.
 U ~ &dm
P gmltl~mutth @ur K~i~nrh'e
I~turn
Max Wood Moorel~eatl,Uombay, India
N I h g l a i ~ d , the conflict I)ctwcen was the agilatio~i c o n c c s ~ ~ i nthe
g M'liitc Sla1.e
Capital and I A o s is I)cco~niiig 'I'raffic and proposed legislation to al)olisli that
niorc and more serious. T h e Lori- iafamous I)usiness. Tlic substatice of the lcttcr
don l'inzes aniiounccs tliat, acting was as follows:
on tlie advice of his niinisters, the " I was called professionally to visit a young
K i n g decitlctl to caiiccl his eti- woman whose illiicss sceinetl partly due to her
gagement to perform the ccre- untlcrfcd bodily conclitioil. Upon inquiry shc told
mony of the cutting of the first ~ n that e she had been einployecl in a Iargc drapery
sod of the Royal Albcrt Dock ICxtcnsiot~. O n this establislinicnt and for her services slie received
occasion I m t l llavenport would have received six shillirigs weekly ($1.44). Every day shc had
Iiim. A fortnight ago hl r. Jlen 'l'illct threatened tli~inerantl tea supplied to her in the shop where
that if Lord 1)avcnpoi-t showed his face in the shc servctl, but out o f tliis pittance slie 1;ad to pay
. f k t End on July 17th the strikers would tlrapc for two meals at 11cr home, omnibus fares and all
the route with crape and the women would bring other cxpenses. I called to see the manageress of
out their starving I)al)ies and show then1 to the this estnblishment who assured me that it was
King. A few days ago Tlze Telegraphic Press true tliat this girl reccivecl only six sliillings per
comtnunicated tlie news that in tlie preseiice of a weelc; moreover, slic said that t11c day after her
great crowd of stril<crs, Iicn Tillet, tlic popular witlitlrawal two hundred applications were made
socialist Icader, prayctl to God to strike IAortl for the vacancy. I was also told that hundreds
1)avenport dead. After tliis praycr tlic 1)ancl of girls a r e cmployed a t fivc shillings per weelc
played t l ~ e"I_)eacl March in Saul." antl hundreds at four shillings in West 1 k l
l r i thc same issue of 'I'lzc 7'i111cswllicli p u l ~ - cstablishmerits, somc of wliom are 12oyal W a r -
lislicd the canccllation of the 1Gt1g's engagement rant Iioltlei-s."
a t tlle 1Coyal A1l)crt J)ocks, ail appeal was printctl W h a t cruel injusticc and frautl inultitutlcs of
~ m t l e rthe signatures of thc 1:isliol)s of I,otitlon, young w o n ~ c n suffer a t the Iiantls of Iieartlcss
l \ ~ i ~ i c l ~ c s tSoutliwark,
er, Stcpncy, and W o o l ~ i c i i antl we;i!thy cmploycrs. I s it greatly to I)e won-
::~itl t l ~ cAi-chtlc:~con of I~cwishaiii,on I~chalf O F tlcretl at tliat hundretls of 1.ondon shopgirls eke
starviiig cliiltlrcn and \\.omen in t l ~ e I k s t and out a ~niserable sul)sistence hy lives of shainc
Southcast of I ,ondon. 'J'hcy state, "7'llesc iuno- which this lady physician declarccl in l ~ e rprinted
cent vicli~iis of thc present tmfortur~ale 1,al)ot- letter that slic lmcw to be tlic case.
tlisputc are s u f l c r i ~ ~just g now the no st awful In tllc first few verses of the ICpistlc of James
~)rivationsantl Iiclp, ~)ronipt Iiell), is urgct~tl!, \ire scc tliat the present day conflict 1)ctweeri
llcctlcc!." (3pital and Idabor is tlie f d f i l ~ n e n tof prophecy
111 a rc1)rescnt;itivc church comcil recc~ltly wsitten ~ n o r cthan nineteen hundred years a g o :
I:cltl, t l ~ ci\rclil)isliop of L'oi-k said tliat the prcs- " ( ; o to now, ye rich 111c11, weep and howl for
c i ~ ti111.est
t was due to thc actual pincli of poverty, \.our 11iiserics that sl~allcome upon you . . . . .
;111(1 i t was the duty of cliurchmcn t o tell em- \.c 1i;~vc I~eaped trcasurc together for tlie last
1)loj.crs tliat tlic invcst~ncntof capital ill I)tisiiicss tlays. I k l ~ o l d ,the hire of t l ~ claborcrs who have
t l i t l 11ot al)solvc any 111:111 f r o n ~t l ~ emoral respoil- rcapccl down your fieltls. which is of you kept
.;il)ilitv as to tllc coriclitions uildcr whicli I~usincss l ) : ~ kby fraud, crieth." Janics 5 :1, 3, 4. I11 the
\\.as cmiductcrl. "In tlic interests of tlic conl- I:cginning of this 'fifth cliaptcr of jamcs T bc-
~iiunityno Iargc scctioii of working pcople sliould lievc we can see clearly the chief causc of this
l w employed at a wage I,!. mcans of which it is conflict to be in the heaping together of treasure
i~ul)ossil)lcto livc :I tlece~itlife o r ohtain a decent so c1i;~ractcristicof thcse last days. It is an in-
ilolllc." co11t1-o\wtil,Ic fact tliat in ISngland tlie laboring
( )nIy a few wccl<s ago a Ictlcr was printctl in classes arc ~untlcrpaitland Inoncy wliich in justice
7 ~ 1 1' ~ ' ~ I Iw I cl ~
. ~i c lfully
~ 1)ear.i out t h i~nplicatio~i tlicy slicviltl I-ccc,ive goes into tlie pocl<cts of the
of tlw Archl)isliol) of York that a large section of sic11 men ; and so imt alone in E ~ ~ g l a n Id~, u tin the
\\:oi-king people a r c emplo!.etl i l l I<tlglantl at O~nitctl States and the ( h t i n e n t of T'urope,
\\.;l,qcs yisuficicnt to ciial)lc tlic~iito live (lecc~itl~..I;~l)ort-ro~il)lcsarc gsocvilig :'liore actitc ever). clay,
'l'l~is lcttcr \ V W written I)!, a Iatly pliysician atid all(! the iticvitaldc fruit o i t l ~ i sconflict is obsei-vccl
the. occasion wl~icll callctl forth its pul)licatio~i in .;tr~lccso f increasing niagnitutlc, thc spirit of
la\vlessness on the part of the unemployed, dee])
poverty, antl intense hatred nianifestecl toward the
capitalists. I n the United States, which is the
richest country in the whole world, more than
ninet!--five per cent of all the wealth is in tlie
hands of less than five per cent of the population.
"r very few years ago it was stated that the Stall-
ilartl Oil Company controlled ten per cent of the
\vedt!l of the United States. A few 111onthsago
a n X1iglo-~4merican plutocrat transferred somc
objects of art from London to New York and it
was stated that thcse articles were valued a t sixty
nlillion doliars. Just think of how colossal the
fortune of this nod ern Crcesus must be when
the vast sum of sixty millions is invested simply
in pictures and bric-a-brac!
O n the fifteenth of last April when the Steam-
s h i l ~Titanic foundered, there was a little group
of millionaires on board, nearly all of \\.horn
perished. T h e estimated fortunes of the mem-
bers of this group aggregated five hundred mil-
!ion dollars; the fortune of one individual was
reckoned to 11e one hundred and fifty millions.
I;acts like these illustrate the centralization of
wealth which is a unique characteristic of our
twentieth century civilization whose strained in-
dustrial conditions find no parallel in any other
period of the world's history.
I n Great Jh-itain, France and the United
States, Syndicalisn~is now a recognized force in
Socialism ; though all Socialists are not neces-
sarily S!mdicalists-the latter constitute a wing
of the great Socialist party. Syndicalism means
that one of the parties of the Socialistic order by
means of 'a federation of Trades Unions h a x
clecitletl that Capitalists shall no longer control
the l ~ u l kof the wealth but that inclustrics shall
change hands and that Socialisnl shall rule thc
commcrcc of tlie world, T o accomplish this
transferral o f capital t o themselves, strikes o f
great ~nagnituclc are to be put into operation ill
{~rtlerto paralyze track and even standing armies
arc t~ I;e terrorized and disbanded in order to
carrv out wicked designs.
\,\'ill legislation redress tlie working nlan's
wrongs and the umrking woman's wrongs? S o t
Antnng tlp LKrnulri nf Bnutll Afrisn
Chas. \V. Chawner, Vryl~eid,Natal, South Africa
'I'IIOUGHT gootl to show tlic signs antl
I wonders which t l ~ eITigh God hath wrought.
'1'r11ly, \Ire realize TTis I loly I'rcsence.
.\ 111-othcr and sistzr camc to us through the
Icatling of (;od and on Sunday last, in answer
19
in all!; app-ecialdc tlegrce when we consider the
sum total o f miscry. I a m convinced that tlic
condition of n~ultitudesof the very poor who a r e
employed at starvation rates will not IK amelio-
rated, I x ~ tthat as 'I'rusts ~nultiplythe rich will
grow richer and the poor will I~ecomepoorer, and
the conflict between Capital and Labor will wax
iiercer and fiercer until thrones will totter and
govcrnnlcnts will disintegrate antl monarchies
will crumble and fall.
Praise the I m d ! T h e r e is a silver lining to
this awfully black cloud which is hanging low
ovcr tlie industrial and political world today !
'I'here is something instructive and very cheering
in the sequence of events recorded in this fifth
chapter of James. Synchronous with this con-
flict in the industrial world is the Latter Rain
period, this present day outpouring of the Holy
Spirit with tlie sign of tongues. Many spiritu-
ally minded men and wromen who a r e close stu-
dents of the Prophetic W o r d believe that the Lat-
icr Rain period which I)cgan six and one quarter
)-ears ago is now rapidly drawing to a close. "Be
patient, tlicrefore, brethren, unto the coining of
tlic Lord. Tkhold, the IIusbandman waiteth for
thc precious fruit of the earth, and hath long
paticnce for it, until H e receive the early and
latter rain. lie ye also patient; stablish your
ilrarts : for the coming of thc 1,ord draweth
~ii?:li." j a ~ n e s5 :7, 8. T h u s we sce that the next
t l ~ i ~ IS~ gthe
- ~ C ~ L IofI - nour I)lessed Tmrd. "Be ye
also 1)atient; stal)lish your hearts: for the coming
of tlw 1,ord drawctll nigh." l'llen in verse nine
is tlie exhortation: "Grudge not one against an-
o t l ~ e rlcst ye 'he condemned: I)eholtl, the judge
stantleth I~eforcthe door." I n this time of con-
f~ision and industrial and political unrest, our
lxlovcrl T,ord is s o near that I l i s hand is on the
latch, for I l c stantlet11 lxforc tlic door. In a very
little \vliilc l l e will COIIIC :IS J u d g e to arbitrate
this weary worltl's wrongs.
I k l ~ v c t lI~~-et!lrc.n,
tlic 1)urning question is, Has
rhc I2,~rrlentcrcd yonr heart in the depth of H i s
..
1 riunc indwelling, and does 1 Tc abide t l ~ e r ein the
I 'erson of the Coniforter ? 1 n othcr words, A r e
\-ou ready for l l i s coming?
-4ugust 2, 1912.
to Spirit-givcn 1Jraycr at our family worship,
tlle I)lesse(l Iloly Spirit camc down upon our
%u1~1 ~ m ~ p as
l c wc gathere(1 i t 1 ollr grass-covered
cliurch antl tllcrc: was a great crying out to God
fro111 among them. Men, \ v o ~ i i eantl ~ ~ children,
hr~tltlledtogether on their knees before us, cried
out to God for forgiveness and some came
through praising God. 13allel11jah! T w o of our
native Christian w o ~ n c nwere among thc number
and one confessed to having rcceived three
chickens from a friend, knowing they had been
stolen. T showed her that she I N L I S ~make the
matter right and, blessed be God, the very next
(lay she b r o ~ ~ g ltwo
i t poles to sell to make restitu-
tion.
A t the class meeting previous to our monthly
communion service I did not feel a t rest in my
spirit regarding their spiritual condition; hut I
could neither see nor learn of any cause why they
should not sit with us at tlie T,ord's tal~lc. l l o w
T psaise the 120rtl for showing these dear, 1)rowii-
skinned cliildren of IIis their wrong-doing. There
were great searchings of heart for wliich I praise
IHis blessed name.
r .
I hank you in Jesus' clear name for the draft
sent. Just now we are l~uildiaga church of
stones from the hillside, with a roof of grass,
a n ( [ we thank our God and you for the timely
help. O u r eycs look unto JTini. When wc
steplml out some years ago in obedience to I lis
call I l e gave us I ' h ~ l . 4:19 on which to staiitl
ant1 Ile hat11 not failed to supply orlr need.
Vcril\, I l e alidetli faithful.
W c 1i:~ve a very good gathering in our chui-cli
on S ~ ~ n d a y 1s .~ 1 the
t work to wliich the Master
specially cnllctl, and today leads Inc, is visiting
the Zr~lusin their huts and preaching to tllcm
Tesus atld tlie r c s u r r e c t i o ~; ~and my ambition is,
tlirougl~ Ilis gracc, to carry l l i s precious word
of i~ivitation into cvcry ltraal that 1 can possibly
rcach. and 1ca1.e in human hearts that TIoly Seed,
tlic NTord of God.
W e arc all well, and joying in 11iin. \\7c re-
joice with you over the s ~ ~ c c e s s f ~croln v c ~ ~ t i o n
and k11ow that hi-ough the blessed Spirit we 11iay
ilieet wi!h you at the tl~roiicof gracc.

%n the q a n b ~o f the #btter

Leila M. Conway, Hurlock, Maryland
E arc h'ly witnesses, saith the the glad tears c o ~ ~ r s cdown
tl iny clicel<s. I I~vartl
1,orcl." Tn tlic summer of 1907 I Jim say, "Scck and oljtain," and then T lc as
when I licnrtl a prominent and gone. l;ro~n t l ~ a tmoment as hest I I<tic\\-I ~ o w
well known evangelist pul)licly 1 I)cg:m to welt, though zcllzat I scarcelj lanew.
denounce what he callcd the my information having been so o n e - d c t l a11t1
"tongue movement"--nip first in- prejudiced; mtl, furthermore, holy men and
telligence of its existence-I in- women had taught me tliat there was no furlher
wardly sided with him, although blessing to seek beyond "Sanctification." they
refraining from taking an open stand. 'I'his was likewise callinq that "the enduemetit for service,"
at a holiness campmeeting. Ily tlie followiilg "thc baptism in the Spirit" and " P e n t p s t "
winter, judging from what T liad learned, Rut 1 felt I must not 1)e disobcdient to the
chiefly through holiness papers, I was fully per- heavenly vision. O n the strength of that revcla-
suaded that'this "movement" was a delusion and tion alone r must press through t o what I r e had
was ready to unite with others in opposing it and called nlc to obtain. And right here 1 would
crying it down a s one of the most grievous fa- s o m d a note to Tlis praise. W h e n about to lag
naticism~of the day. l iowever, before I could get or grow weasy ITe would invarialdp draw near
my first public opportt~nity,God graciously and to cheer me and draw nie on (Cant. 1 :4),giving
tnarvelously interposed. the assurance that I would yet receive, so thal
O n e evening in January, soon after I liad rc- ofti~ncson my I<nees I fot~nclmyself rejoicing
tired for the night, TIC drew near. I knew JIim and praising TTim for what FIe was going to do.
-my Lord and my Kctlecmer: " l h not take \'Votiderful (;or1 ! "l.ilte a \ a father piticth his
part with others in pronouncing this 'new thing' children so tlic I.ortl ~ ~ i t i e tthem
li tliat fear ITim."
a delusion. F o r the place that thou dost think More than two years passed by without my
t o tread upon is holy ground." seeming eveti to get within sight of tlie goal, but
O h ! the tender enipliasis upon the "holy." It early in the spring of 1910 the I ~ r t let l me Imo\v
revealed to me that Jesus was somehow to 1)c my long wait was drawing to a close. I fc sent
found in this reproached "movement" and that to my Marjlantl home a letter fro~ma I)rotlicr
I had already to some extent been lifting up illy and sister in New 1Ianipsliirc tcllinq me of a
hand against IIim. I was dumb with astonish- 1,attcr Rain Carnp~nectii~g to 11e held that \urn-
ment. A great thankfulness began to well up mcr. 'I'his Ijrothcr and sister were entire stran-
in my heart for I l i s nierciful intcrvcntion while gers ant1 had gotten l~oltlof my nanlc ant1 atltlrcss

by the merest chance as it seemed, but I knew
it was not so. I beheld the hand of God focusing
matters for me and my heart heat high with
praise. A few weeks later an open lctter in The
W n y of 1;nitlz tlid more than any other one
thing in bringing me light on the Latter ICain
Moven~ent. I t appeared that a missionary, un-
der the pressure of adverse tlcnominational in-
fluences, was about to retract her favoralde at-
titude toward these Pentecostal manifestations
and the writer of this letter set before the waver-
ing one a tender plea of entreaty in words that
1 knew could never have originated from human
wisdom o r understanding. T h e Spirit of the
Father speaking through the lines brought me
to my knees in prayer before Him. M y soul now
came to wait upon God with almost unbroken
continuity.
When there remained but a few days before
my departure for the campmeeting the thought
of the criticism I would encounter from friends
began to come before me. Would it not be bet-
ter for me to obtain the hlessing T sought before
going from home? With strong pleading and
agonizing I pressed my suit night and clay. Pi-
nally I thought of the promise of 1. John 5 :14, 15,
through which I had often received blessing from
God. I n my secret closet I went over the words
to H i m : "If we ask anything according to TTis
will, H e heareth 11s: and if we know that TTe hear
us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have
the petitions that we desired of Him." I had
assuredlv asked according to T-Tis will, and T
knew that H e heard-therefore T had the
baptism.
Taking the stand of having received by faith
I went to the campmeeting and testified that T
had received the baptism. This, I fotmtl, did not
meet the views of the workers and indeed, as T
afterwards came to see, there was alonp with my
real receiving by faith a subtle form of self-love
and pride, an endeavor t o avoid the shame of the
cross in the reproach that the speaking in tongues
might bring. This had t o be done away with and
God used one of the workers t o bring it ahout.
During an early morning service when we wcre
bowed at the altar in prayer I, too, prayed, thank-
ing God for the baptism which I had received
through faith in His W o r d , whereupon this
brother exclaimed, "If Sister Conway persists in
saying she has the baptism she will finally be lost
and drop into hell." "No, you will not," said thc
Spirit within m e ; but a t the same time under the
power of that rebuke and while the brother was
still speaking the words 1 felt a wilting and
abe Eatter &in Enangel
shriveling up within such as you see on a flower
in the scorching rays of the noonday sun or when
licltl near the hlazc of a fire. This-not the words
-co~lvincetl mc thcre was soincthing amiss in
nit, soniething lacking. Tt took the strong re-
huke of t l ~ cI)rotlies to I m a k down my spiritual
pritlc and I fcel that (;od pcrmittetl hi111to speak
as he did in order that son~ething11101-emight be
accomplished in me. l'hc revelation w;ls like a
thunt1crl)olt out o f a clear sky, so shocked ant1
amazed was I. God had hegun to tear me down
that I l c might build me up, to slay me that H e
1nig11tmake me alive. I had fallen on Christ the
1,iving Stone to be broken in heart, in intellect,
in will antl in I~ody,until every part of my being
1)ccatne plial)le in the hands of the Potter. There
is a world of meaning in Psahn 51 :17, which says
"the wcrifice5 of (iod are a broken and contrite
i i t . Some of us have substitutctl other sacri-
fices antl failed to o1)tain what we sought from
God.
Eut, tliougl~T kncw that wilting and shriveling
up to I)c none other than the working of God,
the cilclnv was present to tempt me. "Do not
~-c~iiain hcrc a (lay longer hut pack up and leave
the camp ground at once," he whispered. "They
have not trcatcd you with coni~noilcourtesy, but
have as good as saitl you are professing a lie.
when you know you would sooner have died."
"Get thee behind me, Satan," 1 cried. "If what
these workers say is trxe, surely I ought to thank
God and them for delivering me from deception,
and if not truc why should J care what they say?
I am herc to go through with God, and here J
will stay until TTis time comes for me to go
away.:'
r .
J his was no s n ~ a l lvictory over the powers of
darkness hut 11y no means tlid it dispel the per-
plexity and mystery settling down on me as a
1)aIl. Did it mean I had been claiming some-
thing I did not have when I. John 5 :14 was so
explicit, and must 1 acknowledge it all a mistake
antl hegin to seek over again? T h e tears fell
like rain.
Some time before this the people had left the
altar and T was alone with my thoughts. Rising
from my knees I went in haste to the tent where
the workers were assembled and bursting in on
them I sohbed out, "Oh, won't you pray for me
and help me to get right with God?" Instantly
a11 wcre 011 their knees. H o w they prayed! But
1 was too absorbed with my grief to take much
~ioticeof what they said. "I don't know what
clse to do, nor what to pray," wailed T. F o r if
cvcr a h u ~ n a nbeing had "come to the end of the
ropc" 1 was that one. "You (lo not ncetl to pray
any more," said one of the workcrs, "nor do any
more than vou have done." Not to lxay ? It put
a still more puzzling aspect on the situation. "No,
just quietly wait until I-lc sentls the manifestation
of the Spirit."
I n the ttumult and distress of my mind 1 found
it well-nigh i~npossibleto cease from my pleading
cries to God; but the prayers of His saints at
last prevailed and by degrees I came into a state
of outward calm. My sufferings in spirit from
one o'clock until six r. M. of that day are inde-
scribable. It was a literal fulfiltnetlt of the latter
clause in Matt. 27 :46, a complete hiding away of
the face of God, something I had never known
before. My anguish of s o d brought forth the
cry, "Where, oh where is God?" "He is right
here," rcplicd one of the workers. This assur-
ance brought a measure of comfort, for to my
senses H e had seemed clear removed from the
earth and it was good to know T-Ie was still
present.
They had heen telling me not to do anything
save to wait ant1 praise God; Imt with the spirit
of heavi~icssupon me, rather than the spirit of
praise, onc can conceive what it cost to do this
even with the lips, and how for some time it was
no more than a form of praise.
So~newherebetween the hours o f six and seven
1 began to feel a lifting of the tcrrilde darkness
and a most vivid consciousness of the returning
presence of my 1,ord. TTope sprang up anew in
my breast, mourning was turned into joy. I had
in the nleanwllilc noted that these men and
women of God had at no time denied my claim
on 1. John 5:14, 15, to the baptism, but only in-
sisted that T tarry and wait for the ~nmzifcstntion.
T,ight began to break. About an hour later I
heard the voice of the 1,ord telling me to go out
to the evening service. I rose from the floor
where J had lain prostrate through all the long
hours of the afternoon and went into the audi-
torium where already the service was in progress.
T had tlo more than taken my seat when there
dropped into my heart the assurance, sure and
strong, that T would receive the manifest fulness
of the Spirit's presence that night. I-Tallelujah!
"Though H e tarry, yet wait; for H e will surely
come" (Hal). 2 :3).
Some one has said that there is a time to stop
praying and begin praising, t o stop asking and
begin receiving. T knew that this time had come
for me. Most eager expectation of my Lord,
who was now on the way, was enkindled within
as T lay there in the straw those hours praising
and awaiting l lis coming. 'I'heti tlw Sl~iritbe-
gan to take me through a series of cluestions:
"If your unl)elieving mother and family were
liere in the congregation looking on and thitiking
you hacl gone stark mad, could you still lie here?"
"Yes, oh yes!" cried I, shutldering at the mere
thought of missing the goal to which I had almost
attained. "The pastor and people of your
church antl neighborhood will lose their con-
fidence in you and say: 'Sister e----? Well,
of all things! She is the la5t person we would
think of to be so led astray by that fanaticism.' "
I watched the ignominy, slander, persecution, ill-
name, trials, following one after the other in
panoramic array, saw my aristocratic relatives
and Christian friends leave me till the last hacl
gone; then, turning to the Spirit, J replied: "I
will go forth therefore unto TJim without the
camp, bearing T-Tis reproacli." "Only a few
weeks ago the one whom you hold clearest was
saying he had watched you amidst the false
teachings antl deceptions aro~tndyou and had re-
joiced to see you stand true to Christ through
them all as a needle to the pole. TTe is one of
the number who, with all good conscicnce, hon-
estly believes this so-called 'tongue movement'
has originated from the pit and is the climax of
decepfion. What if he should leave you?"
It took me some time to answer thic, question.
I had counted him a friend that would never for-
sake though all others should fail. Tn a sense
more real than words can depict 1 felt myself
made as the filth and offscouring of the earth-
undergoing a stripping process-that Christ
migllt be made my "all in dl." "Naked, poor,
despised, forsaken," came to me with all of its
force through this, the last stroke, But the suf-
fering was tttrncd into joy most exquisite as I
beheld that Jesus hacl gone this way before me
and was only opening up the lone, lone path that
H e had trod and saying, oh, so tenderly, "Can
you walk therein?" The last question of the
Spirit answered, the preparation was now com-
plete as "when the day of Pentecost was fully
come" (Acts 2 : I ) . I first began to feel mv body
being taken up by a power altogether outside my
own volition o r control. A violent shaking and
waves of electricity passed over me from head
to foot making even my finger tips to tingle-a
literal fulfilment of T-Iis protnise, ('1 will pour out
of My Spirit." Then the fire fell! Under its
burning hoth within and without (which con-
tinued in a mild gentle manner for several days
afterward), I was constrained to cry out, "I
shall burn up ! I shall burn up !" "Did you not
pray for I Iim to baptize you with the Holy Ghost
antl f i ~ e ? " said some one n e a r ; then I remem-
I~ercdmy prayer and said, "TTallelujah !"
There then came what to me was the most
precious and 11iost sacred manifestation of them
all, the memory of it is in my soul to stay through
all time and eternity. I became aware of a dis-
tinct physical dealing of the Lord. T h e clutch
of a human hand could not have I~eenmore real
than was the grasp of that Divine H a n d on my
h e q r t - q ~ r o b i n g , :tightening--under the mighty
grip of which I lost my breath a time o r more,
while across niy mind there flashed the con-
sciousness of the bliss it would be to die under
that H a n d ! God, nieanwhile, letting me know it
was for the purpose of getting out the root of
unbelief far down in my heart. I was amazed
a t the revelation, for I had firmly believed myself
possessing more than a n ordinary degree of faith.
Through that searching illun~ination,laying bare
the innermost recesses of my being, I saw my
faith did not measure up to the grain of mustard
seed spoken of by Jesus in Matt. 7:20. O h , the
different way in which God looks upon things!
I was next brought to drink in of the Spirit
( I . Cor. 1 :12, 13) and to speak in other tongues,
sensing, oh, so clearly, that tlie "foolishness" and
"weakness" of God (I. Cor. 1 :25) was being
manifested through me before a scorning and ~ I I
believing world. Jesus was hid away from the
sight of men by reason of IIis lowliness, "a root
out of a dry g r o u n d ; no form nor comeliness; no
beauty that we should desire Him," in tlie light
of which I could now see how it was that "His
own received Him not" (John 1 :11). All, be-
loved, in the eternity to come it will be revealed
that the Jews were no more ignorant of their
"day of visitation" than a r e some of us. I t was
revealed to me that subtle pride antl a self-life
that does not want to be put to the death is at the
bottom of our resistance. W e do not see because
we d o not want to see; we do not know because
we d o not want to know. Those who have taken
a stand against "this niiserable tongue move-
ment," as one of our good, eminent ministers
terms it, a r e some day going to awaken to the
fact tliat the despised and lowly Jesus has been
liere in our midst and they knew H i m not. O h ,
to get humble and teacllalde hefore God so tliat
T-Ie can get us to g o "all the way" as in song
and testimony we liavc so often said that we
w o d d do, even ~ I I O L I ~ $ it terminates in o u r cruci-
fixion with Christ, being "made a spectacle unto
the world and to angels and to men ;" but oh,
hlcss JTis dear name, H e that loseth his life shall
have it niultiplicd back to him in the proportion
that results fro111 a graill of wheat falling into
the ground, "And if it die it I)rii~gctlifort11 much
fruit." II;dlelujah! 'I'llcrc was given me a
rcvclation of thc I'ather antl thc Son far trans-
scentling what I had known Ilcfore antl which it
hat1 not cntcrcd into my heart to conceive o f .
My soul was lost in wonder at the condescension
of God, yet filled with a joy unspeakable ; a little
foretaste of tlic experience that will he ours when
we are caught u p to be forever witli the Lord in
the glory of Ilis immediate presence. I t was
heaven !
This precious "latter rain" outpouring of the
Spirit by no means conflicts witli any of God's
works toward us in the past. T h e writer once
heard certain workers say that their past associa-
tion witli the Ilolincss Union was a mistake,
tliough scores of men antl women in that throng
knew of the time when these heralds of full salva-
tion went proclaiming a Saviour that saves to the
uttermost, God attending their ~ninistryin great
power. Oh, lo be wise, beloved! T h e I-Ioly
Ghost has ever been in the world since l l i s de-
scent in that "upl)er room;" hut from what we
somctin~eshear it woultl secnl as i f H e has been
away and is just returned. Neither can we over-
look the "differences of ad~iiinistrations" and
"tlivcrsities of ol)crations" by which I I e has
- worlictl in I)v-gonc years and ccnturics; "lmt all
these workcth the one antl the self-same Spirit."
And now that God is pouring out the "latter
rain" in the closing days of this (;ospel tlispensa-
tion we may know it will correspond to the
"former rain" given in the inauguration of this
present dispensation. so that tllc one who receives
the I-Toly Ghost in these "last days" may expect
to speak in other tongues-the distinguishing
evidence of the "former" and "latter" rain-as
did the disciples on the day of Pentecost. There
are exceptional instances on record but I am led
to believe the "sign" (tongues) more particularly
1:elmgs to these periods.
From the understanding that comes to me I
do not see wherein God would have us formulate
this precious "latter rain" into a doctrine o r even
to s l ~ e a kof it as a "movement." 1 see in this
recent outpouriiig of tlie Spirit an indication of
the near return of Jcsus antl an end of the pres-
ent ordcr of things, a ripcr~ingof the "first fruits"
of the llarvest for Christ at I lis coming.
0, sleeping virgin, (lo not sl11111l)erlonger ! For
only they that love I lis al)pcaring, with tlic "first
fruits" out from among the dead will be "caught
up'' to nicct the tlcscending I.ortl. "And so shall
we cvcr I)c with tlle Imrtl."
 OR some two years the Spirit has strongly in~pressetl formul;~tcany crcctl o r assume any authority over work-
F upon us tlie aclvantage of an occasional coming to-
gether o i l'cntccostnl leaders and worlccrs to .confer
ers or countenance any attempt to "organize" the Pente-
costal work.
concerning tlic things of tlie kingdom. 'J'l~rce months T h e object of the conference, so far as it can be ex-
ago tlic Spirit began to lay upon us the obligation of pressed in a word, will be to find and further such fel-
taking the initiative in this matter, by inviting all those lowship of the Spirit and to scck such a coiiperation of
engaged in "I'e~~tccostal"ministry to mcct in 13osto11, activities as was manifest in the Apostolic Church,
March 5 to 13, 1913. This proposal has been warmly whilc avoiding tlic bondage of outward organization
welcomcd by all tlie workers to whom it has heen men- and tlic nlachine ~iicthodsof the modern "church."
tioned antl has the approval of cvery asseulbly whcre it W e believe that wherever possible, assemblies would
has been presented. (lo well to arrange to scnd their pastor or leader, o r
W e believe that sncli :I council cannot fail to be of that in far distant places several small asse~nbliesmight
great spiritual profit to all who attcnd and should bring wisely fcllowsliip together in sending some worker to
blessing to every district rcpresentcd by a worker. If, 11ri11gback a report to them. 111 other lands a general
in the providence of God, it shall awake11 an intcrna- nmvcment might be sct on foot ( a t the next conven-
tioiial interest o r result in bringing together representa- tion) to send some one o r mote accredited delegates
tive workers from those lands not yet fully evangelized, to represent the Pentecostal work in that country.
we believe it will prove a great stimulus to this won- T'cntecostal people everywhere can most helpfully
derful world-wide work. Especially do we look for a cooperate with u s in extending this notice by sending
great new impulse to be given to the paramount inter- us the names of all Pentecostal leaders and mission-
ests of the foreign fields. arics who are known to them; also the names of one
Much as we would like to meet workers from every or two of the most respected, influential and .active
country, we shall not, however, presume to designate workers in each assembly.
tliis council as "international," o r even as "national," Furtlicr information desired by those who hope to
unless the immediate response shall indicate that we attend or those willing to help will be supplied mainly
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the call. I t is for the Holy Spirit to put the "glad- frcc l'cntecostal paper which the writer expects soon
ness" and the "go" (Ps. l22:l) into the hearts of tliose to pul)lisli. I t is our thought to use the first few issues
whom Fie would have come. Our thought is merely to o f tliis prospcctivc publication as tlie official organ of
provide tlie meeting place and prepare for the enter- this c o ~ n i n gconicrcnce.
tainment of the delegates, leaving the conference to 'I'. Arthur Lewis (Conference Secretary), The Trzlth
choose its own chairman o r effect such temporary or- f o r The 'l'itrzes (our paper), o r (the writer) Morton
ganization as shall then "seem good to t l ~ eIToly Ghost l'lu~umcr, t11:1y all I)c atldressetl at 54 I'oplar street,
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