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the Father appointed by his own Authority. But you shall receive Power by the Holy Spirit coming upon you; and you shall be My Witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in All JUDEA, and in Samaria, and even to the remotest parts of the EARTH. And having said These things, as they were looking on he was lifted up; and a Cloud carried him away from their SIGHT (Acts, 1:1-9).”

June 22, 1857-June 22, 1903. I am forty-six years old to-day. For twenty-five years I have been a student and proclaimer of the Holy Scriptures by tongue and pen. present this work on the Holy Spirit to my friends throughout the world, in the hope that the Lord will open their understandings that they may more fully understand that which is written.

THE AUTHOR.

The School of the Evangelists, Kimberlin Heights, Tennessee, June the 22nd, and the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and three.

THE HOLY SPIRIT AND THE

HUMAN MIND.

CHAPTER I.

The Holy Spirit in Old Testament Times-A General

View.

I approach the investigation of this great subject with profound reverence and fear, and trust that I shall have the reader's prayerful co-operation.

We know nothing of the Holy Spirit in Old Testament times except through the Scriptures of Moses and the prophets. To them we shall turn for light.

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Mark well the subject. It is definite. "The " indeed, there can be but one. This one is "holy." God is a spirit (John 4:24)." Uncover your head, and humble your heart before Him!

In the Old Testament the references to the Holy Spirit, the Spirit, or the Spirit of God are not numerous. We must then begin with the Scriptures the word - and work our way to their source and thus learn the identity of the power in them to mould, control and guide the characters, lives, and destinies of men.

Isaiah the prophet opens a gateway of light to which I shall invite investigation; not because it is first in order of revelation, but because it fits into my plan and purpose: "For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: so shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void,

but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it (Isa., 55: 10, 11)."

The word goes forth out of the mouth of the Almighty -the Holy Spirit.

The word comes down from heaven and abides in results like the snow and the rain.

It can not return void of results, to God. He has ordained that it shall prosper in the work whereunto He has sent it.

In it are God's great thoughts in relation to us concerning our origin, duty and destiny -thoughts as far above our thoughts as the heavens are above the earth: "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord; for as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts (Isa., 55:8, 9).”

God is. I am. God is in heaven. I am on earth. The chasm between God's mind and my mind is bridged, safely, securely, eternally, by His thoughts, designated "voice of God," "word of God," "law of God," "statutes of God," "will of God," " scriptures."

Let us consider these in their order. Voice: "And they heard the voice of the Lord God, walking in the garden in the cool of the day (Gen., 3:8)." Again, Pharaoh's plea to Moses: "Entreat the Lord (for it is enough) that there be no more mighty thunderings "literally, voices of God (Ex., 9:28). Again, at Sinai: "Moses spake, and God answered him by a voice (Ex., 19:19)." Again, Moses' warning: "Beware of him, and obey his voice (Ex., 23: 21)." Again: "If thou turn to the Lord thy God, and shalt be obedient to his voice (Deut., 4: 30)." Again: So shall ye perish, because ye would not be obedient to the voice of the Lord your God (Deut., 8: 20)." Again, the testimony of David: "The Lord thundered from heaven, and the most high uttered his voice (II. Sam., 22: 14)." Again: "The Lord also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his voice (Ps., 18: 13)." Again: "The heathen raged, the king

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doms were moved: he uttered his voice, the earth melted (Ps., 46:6)." Again: "He doth send out his voice, and that a mighty voice (Ps., 68:33)." Again, Job grows sublime: "Hear attentively to the noise of his voice, and the sound that goeth out of his mouth; he directeth it under the whole heaven, and his lightning unto the ends of the earth; after it a voice roareth; he thundereth with the voice of his excellency, and he will not stay them when his voice is heard; God thundereth marvellously with his voice, great things doeth he, which we can not comprehend (Job, 37:2-5)." Again, Ezekiel testifies: "I heard the voice of the Almighty, the voice of speech (Ezek., 1: 24)." Again: "The voice of the Almighty God when he speaketh (Ezek., 10:5)." Again, we have the words of Joel: "And the Lord shall utter his voice before his army (Joel, 2:11)." Again: "The Lord shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem (Joel, 3: 16)."

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The attitude of the human being to the voice of God should be to hear humbly, hearken diligently, and to obey unreservedly. Jehovah made Abram great promises and assigned as a reason: "Because thou hast obeyed my voice (Gen., 22: 15-18)." Again, in renewing these promises to Isaac He assigned the reason: "Because that Abraham

obeyed my voice (Gen., 26: 1-5)." Again, Moses, interrogatively: "Did ever people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, and live (Deut., 4:33)?" Again: "Out of heaven he made thee to hear his voice, that he might instruct thee: and upon earth he showed thee his great fire; and thou heardest his voice out of the midst of the fire (Deut., 4: 36)." Again, Israel feared the voice of God and said: If we hear the voice of the Lord our God any more, then we shall die (Deut., 5:25).” David testifies: "To-day if ye will hear his voice harden not your heart (Ps., 95: 7, 8)." Again, Moses speaks the message of God to Israel: "If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the

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