afraid to declare the Gospel truth in all its simplicity and drive it right home, even if he drives a man out of doors. We need boldness. In the thirty-third verse of that same chapter, it says, "Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost." Now I believe the gift of the Holy Ghost that is spoken of there is a gift for certain, but one that we have mislaid, overlooked, and forgotten to seek for. If a man is only converted, and we get him into the Church, we think the work is done, and we let him go right off to sleep. Instead of urging him to seek the gift of the Holy Ghost, that he may be anointed for work, let him sleep and slumber. This world would soon be converted, if all such were baptized with the Holy Ghost. We find Philip, a deacon, going down to Samaria to preach. We find that Stephen, the first martyr, was a layman. The Spirit of the Word of God came down upon him, and he could not help preaching. When a man is full of the Holy Ghost, he cannot help working for the Lord. We would indeed have a stir in the Church if we were baptized with the Holy Ghost. The cry would be, "Here am I, Lord; use me, send me!"

We would all be anxious to be used in God's service. Some people say if you are once sealed by the Holy Ghost you need never to seek for it again, that it is with you from that time, and if you are once full of the Holy Ghost you remain so. I heard of a man in the last half-hour who said that it is the teaching of Scripture and of our experience. Do you not all know of some men who were full of the Holy Ghost a year ago, and were anointed, and there was a mighty power upon them, and that have already lost their strength, as Sampson lost his? But Sampson regained his strength, and those who have so lost it may regain theirs a second time, and many times. Let us not be trying to live on the old story. We cannot work now on grace that we had years ago. What we want

is further baptism. The 4th chapter of Acts, 31st verse, says: "And when they had prayed, the place was shaken where they had assembled together; and they were filled with the Holy Ghost, and they spake the word of God with boldness. There were Peter and James and John and the rest of them there, those very men that were filled with the Holy Ghost at Pentecost. There the Holy Ghost came a second time to them. They must have been converted by the power of the Holy Ghost away back where it is said the Holy Ghost breathed upon them." They must have been brought under its influence a second time then, and a third time in the 2d chapter of Acts, and in the 4th chapter of Acts a fourth time.

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Some one asked a minister if he had second blessing since he was converted.

ever received a "What do you

mean? was the reply. "I have received ten thousand since the first." A great many think because they have been filled once, they are going to be full for all time after ; but O, my friends, we are leaky vessels, and have to be kept right under the fountain all the time in order to keep full. If we are going to be used by God we have to be very humble. A man that lives close to God will be the humblest of men. I heard a man say that God always chooses the vessel that is close at hand. Let us keep near Him. But we will have to keep down in the dust; God won't choose a man that is conceited. The moment we lift up our head and think that we are something and somebody He lays us aside. If we want this power we have to give God all the glory. I believe the reason we do not get this power more than we do is because we do not know how to use it. We would be taking all the credit to ourselves and saying, "Don't I do a great work!" and begin and boast about it. There are hundreds of thousands, I believe, that God would take up and use and give us a great baptism if we would only give Him the glory.

We have not learned the lesson of humility yet, that we are nothing and God is everything.

The true idea of preaching is to cry down yourself and the devil and to preach up no one but God. That is the kind of preaching that He wants. If a man only wants to preach Christ and keep himself behind the Cross, the Holy Ghost will use him, and he will be anointed for service. In the 19th chapter of Acts, they went down there at Ephesus, and they found twelve men, and said to them, “Have you received the Holy Ghost since you believed?" The early Christians looked for that; but what would our converts do now if that question were put to them? They would rub their eyes and say they never heard of such a thing, and, What do you mean by receiving the Holy Ghost for service? That is the reason men dare not speak to their neighbors about Christ, and the reason why every night so many go away from here that are anxious about their souls, and yet the man, the Christian who sits next them has not the moral courage to speak to them about Christ and salvation.

THE DEATH OF CHRIST.

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You will find my text this afternoon in the 53d chapter of Isaiah, 4th and 5th verses: Surely He has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we did esteem Him stricken, smitten of God and afflicted. But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was upon Him, and with His stripes we are healed."

Five times that little word "our" is used-our sorrows, our griefs, our iniquities, our transgressions, and the chastisement of our peace-there is a substitute for you! I would like, if I could, to make that 53d chapter of Isaiah real. I would like, if I could this afternoon, to bring before this congregation, or to bring out this truth—what Christ has suffered for each one of us. We take up the Bible, we read the account of His crucifixion and death, how He suffered in agony, and we go away, lay the Bible down and think nothing more about it. I remember when the war was going on I would read about a great battle having been fought, where probably ten thousand men had been killed and wounded, and after reading the article I would lay the paper aside and forget all about it. At last I went into the army myself; I saw the dying men, I heard the groans of the wounded, I helped to comfort the dying and bury the dead, I saw the scene in all its terrible realities. After I had been on the battlefield I could not read

an account of a battle without it making a profound impression upon me. I wish I could bring before you in living colors the sufferings and death of Christ. I do not believe there would be a dry eye here. I want to speak of His physical sufferings, for that I think we can get hold of. No man knows all that Christ suffered. Now, when a great man dies we are all anxious to get his last words, and if it is a friend, how we treasure up that last word, how we tell it to his friends, and we never tire talking to our loved ones of how he made his departure from the world.

Now, let us visit Calvary; let us bring the scene down to this present age; let us bring it right down here into this world this afternoon; or let us go back in our imagination to the time of Christ's crucifixion; let us imagine we are living in the City of Jerusalem instead of New York; let us take just the last Thursday He was there before He was crucified. Let us just imagine we are walking up one of the streets of Jerusalem. You see a small body of men walking down the street; every one is running to see what the excitement is. As we get nearer we find that it is Jesus with His Apostles. We just walk down the street with them and we see them stop and enter a very common looking house. They go in and we enter also, and there we find Jesus sitting with the Apostles. You can see sorrow depicted upon His brow. His disciples see it but do not know what has caused His grief. We are told that He was sorrowful unto death. As He was sitting there He said to the twelve, "One of you shall this night betray me." Then each of them wondered if he were the one of whom the Master spoke, and they said, “Is it I?” Then Judas the traitor, said, “Is it I?" Jesus said it was. Christ said, "Judas, what thou doest do quickly." Then Judas got up and left the room. For three years he had been associated with the Son of God. For three years he