The Work of the Holy Spirit

Yet this does not alter the fact that the organic union really exists. The Word of God is to us its undeniable witness. Organic ...

the Holy Ghost in Samaria (Acts viii.), and of another in Ephesus (Acts xix. 6). This descent took place in both instances after ...

Church persons that come from a part of the world not yet connected with the Church, they 127 extend to them by the laying on of ...

128 XXVII. The Signs of Pentecost “Signs in the earth beneath.” —Actsii. 19. Let us now consider the signs that accompanied the ...

If it be certain that the signs attending the Lord’s return—blood, fire, and vapor of smoke—shall not be symbolic, but constitue ...

which they caused in the hearts of those present. But this we maintain, that even in the ab- sence of the multitude and their co ...

Both views have much in their favor. There is no darkness in heaven; and the heavenly light must be of a higher nature than ours ...

133 XXVIII. The Miracle of Tongues “If any man speak in an (unknown) tongue,... let one interpret. But if there be no in- terpre ...

There was, moreover, a marked difference between the men thus endowed: some under- stood what they were saying; others did not. ...

view, this ought to have been: “I wish to speak in one language, so that the Church may understand me, rather than in ten or twe ...

137 of an entirely different operation. That this is possible, we see, first, in delirious persons, who say things outside of th ...

But the difference is not intended to remain. Sin will disappear. What sin destroyed will be restored. In the day of the Lord, a ...

139 Eighth Chapter. The Apostolate Eighth Chapter. The Apostolate Eighth Chapter. The Apostolate ...

XXIX. The Apostolate “That ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with His Son Je ...

so the conviction will be lost that the apostles are men different in kind from all other men; lost the realization that in them ...

and emphatically connects the fellowship of the apostolate with men who have seen and heard and handled that which was manifeste ...

And this fellowship becomes manifest as a fellowship with the very body of which the apostles are the leaders, in whose persons ...

of the New Jerusalem shall be revealed, even then, in its heavenly bliss, the Church shall rest upon the very foundation on whic ...

146 XXX. The Apostolic Scriptures “And I think that I also have the Spirit of God.”—1 Cor.vii. 40. Wehave seen that the apostola ...

Paul judged that he should be delivered to Satan; the execution of which sentence he left to the elders of that church, but upon ...