Category: Religion/Spirituality
A few years ago I was making a brief tour among the colleges of Missouri. I remember one morning in a certain college village going over from the hotel to take breakfast with some of the boys, and coming back with one of the fellows whom I had just met. As we walked along, cha...
I know very well that some persons have associated that ugly word with a scene something like this: They have imagined a man standing with fist clenched, and eyes flashing fire,...
9. Chapter 9There are many passages in this old Book that answer that question. But let me turn you to one which puts the answer in very simple shape. John's gospel, seventh chapter, verses...
8. Chapter 8May I say right here plainly: there seems to be even yet in some quarters a hazy idea about the Holy Spirit being a person. It is extremely common, even among people of excellen...
2. Chapter 2Please notice, too, the _source_ of the stream--"out of his belly." Will you observe for a moment the rhetorical figure here? I used to suppose it meant "out of his _heart_." Th...
3. Chapter 3Let me repeat then with all the emphasis possible that as certainly as you need to trust Jesus Christ for your soul's salvation, you also need to receive this power of the Holy...
11. Chapter 11A Spirit-mastered man slowly comes to understand that service now is apprenticeship-service. He is in training for the time when a King shall reign, and will need tested and tru...
10. Chapter 10How many thousands of lips have lovingly lingered over those sweet strong words: "The peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall guard your heart and thought in Christ...
6. Chapter 6In his other letters Paul sometimes uses still another name, "the old man," and names the characteristics of this omnipresent self, which crop out with varying degrees of promin...
5. Chapter 5"He was not willing that any should perish; Jesus, enthroned in the glory above, Saw our poor fallen world, pitied our sorrows, Poured out His life for us, wonderful love. Peris...
7. Chapter 7Will you recall again the Master's good-bye Olivet message, and notice just what it means? Listen to the very words: "Ye shall receive power." Let me ask you--what is power? Wil...
1. Chapter 1A few years ago I was making a brief tour among the colleges of Missouri. I remember one morning in a certain college village going over from the hotel to take breakfast with so...
12. Chapter 12To run through this old Book and call the names is to bring to mind the men who have gone through just such testings and temptings; some with splendid victory, and some with sha...