At last the
Comforter came, and with Him fullness of peace and joy and soul-
rest, and that day this comrade led a number of others into the
blessing. Hallelujah! "If ye then, being evil, know how to give
good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Heavenly
Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask Him" (Luke xi. 13).
"_Ask,... seek,... knock_."
"HAVE YE RECEIVED THE HOLY GHOST SINCE YE BELIEVED?"
XXII.
IMPORTANCE OF THE DOCTRINE AND EXPERIENCE OF HOLINESS TO SPIRITUAL
LEADERS.
"Ye shall receive power after that the Holy Ghost is come upon
you."
A mighty man inspires and trains other men to be mighty. We
wonder and exclaim often at the slaughter of Goliath by David,
and we forget that David was the forerunner of a race of
fearless, invincible warriors and giant-killers.
If we would in this light but study and remember the story of
David's mighty men, it would be most instructive to us.
Moses inspired a tribe of cowering, toiling, sweat-begrimed,
spiritless slaves to lift up their heads, straighten their backs,
and throw off the yoke; and he led them forth with songs of
victory and shouts of triumph from under the mailed hand and iron
bondage of Pharaoh. He fired them with a national spirit, and
welded and organised them into a distinct and compact people that
could be hurled with resistless power against the walled cities
and trained warriors of Canaan.
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