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Now, when the Holy Spirit finds His way into the heart of a man,
the Spirit of Jesus has come to that man, and leads him to the
same meekness of heart and lowly service that were seen in the
Master.
Ambition for place and power and money and fame vanishes, and in
its place is a consuming desire to be good and do good, to
accomplish in full the blessed, the beneficent will of God.
Some time ago I met a woman who, as a trained nurse in Paris,
nursing rich, English-speaking foreigners, received pay that in a
few years would have made her independently wealthy; but the
spirit of Jesus came into her heart, and she is now nursing the
poor, and giving her life to them, and doing for them service the
most loathsome and exacting, and doing it with a smiling face,
for her food and clothes.
Some able men in one of our largest American cities lost their
spiritual balance, cut themselves loose from all other Christians,
and made for a time quite a religious stir among many good people.
They were very clear and powerful in their presentation of certain
phases of truth, but they were also very strong, if not bitter,
in their denunciations of all existing religious organisations.
They attacked the churches and The Salvation Army, pointing out
what they considered wrong so skilfully, and with such professions
of sanctity, that many people were made most dissatisfied with the
churches and with The Army.
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