In Jesus Christ, God's Treasury, our share of Pentecost's blessing has
been deposited for each of us by our Father God. Have we claimed and
received our share? Not likely, if we are not aware that there _is_ such
a blessing for us; but once we recognize the fact that it is there, we
surely will not rest till we have made it our own. The Scottish bankers
have published the fact that they have lying in their vaults a sum of
L40,000,000 in unclaimed deposits. Some of those who owned a share of
this money may have died in the workhouse; some of them may be living to
this moment in direst need, and they might have their money for the
claiming; but they do not know that it is theirs. What vast unclaimed
deposits are lying in God's Treasury, Christ! Some of His people have
died spiritually poor; some are living to-day in spiritual penury, a
hand-to-mouth existence, with such "untrackable riches" lying "at call,"
at deposit in their name. What have we done with _our_ deposit? We are
responsible for its use and disuse. Remember! the reckoning day is coming
(Matt. xxv. 19).

CHAPTER V.

_EVERYBODY'S NEED._

Some have the idea that this blessing of the Fullness is only for a
favored few, for such as have some special work to do for God, but not
for ordinary folk, "for auld wives and wabsters" in their homespun. Surely
this is one of the devil's champion lies! Alas! alas! that it has found
such credence! The Infilling is what makes this promise true, "He that is
feeble among them at that day shall be as David; and the house of David
shall be as God" (Zech. xii. 8), so that "one man of you shall chase a
thousand" (Josh. xxiii. 10). This means defeat for the devil, so no
wonder that he strives to keep us back from the "Fullness"! We are here
on earth that through us Christ may be glorified; but there is only One
Person that can glorify Christ, and that is the Holy Ghost. "He shall
glorify Me" (John xvi. 14). To the glorifying of Christ as He ought to be
and might be glorified, the filling with the Spirit is necessary. Mothers
in the home, "with thronging duties pressed," need the "Fullness" to
enable them to glorify Christ as surely as the apostles needed it; the
washerwoman needs it as well as the pastor; the tradesman as well as the
evangelist. To live the Christ-glorifying life in the station in which
God has placed us, we individually need to be filled with the Spirit.
"They were _all_ filled" (Acts ii. 4), men and wom