t, and pour out to him their gold and frankincense and myrrh.
Just as the people of Bethlehem, who had turned the unborn Savior from
their door were soon made to wail by the king's order of assassination, so
the thousands of nominal churches which now reject the work of the Holy
Spirit from their doors will soon wail under the awful tribulation that is
rapidly coming on all the earth. Oh, if the Protestant churches could only
see the day of their visitation, and that the history of the way the Jews
treated Jesus is being exactly repeated over and over again in the way the
modern churches treat the Holy Spirit, and that the same doom that
overtook the Jewish church for rejecting Christ, will speedily overtake
the modern churches for rejecting the Holy Spirit!

"Another feature of the present crisis is, God is working mainly through
individuals, and not so much through machinery. Thousands of individuals
in Europe and America have been called of the Spirit to launch out into
soul-saving work along lines of personal enterprise more than ever in past
ages.

"There never was a time in the world's history when Christian men and
women felt so led of God not to wait for committees nor the red tape of
ecclesiastical authority, but to hurry forth under a personal call from
God and do what they could with their individual means and talents for the
saving of souls, the sanctifying of believers, and preparing the chosen
few to meet Jesus. There never seemed a time when anything like church
machinery would run to seed so quick as now. Even if an enterprise that is
started definitely as a holiness work gets a few officers and committees
in it, in a few days or months it gets just as churchly and high-headed
and dictatorial as an old popish institution. For this reason God is
utilizing individuality in his kingdom as never before.

"Another feature of the present crisis is, that God will test the faith of
his waiting ones, and all those persons who are making almanacs for the
Lord, and fixing dates for the fulfilling of certain prophecies, are going
to be disappointed. We are living a life of faith in every particular,
clear down to the last moment of his appearing in the sky. The Scriptures
are very clear in setting forth two facts concerning Christ's coming. On
the one hand we are told of the signs that would precede his coming, and
we are told to watch those things, and they will indicate his coming as
near; on the other hand we ar