st. If they see a man, perhaps a near relative, just going
right down to ruin, going rapidly, they never think of speaking to him
about his sinful course and of seeking to win him to Christ. Now
certainly there must be something wrong. And yet when you talk with
them you find they have faith, and you can not say they are not
children of God; but they have not the power, they have not the
liberty, they have not the love that real disciples of Christ should
have. A great many people are thinking that we need new measures, that
we need new churches, that we need new organs, and that we need new
choirs, and all these new things. That is not what the Church of God
needs to-day. It is the old power that the Apostles had; that is what
we want, and if we have that in our churches, there will be new life.
Then we will have new ministers--the same old ministers renewed with
power; filled with the Spirit. I remember when in Chicago many were
toiling in the work, and it seemed as though the car of salvation
didn't move on, when a minister began to cry out from the very depths
of his heart, "Oh, God, put new ministers in every pulpit." On next
Monday I heard two or three men stand up and say, "We had a new
minister last Sunday--the same old minister, but he had got new
power," and I firmly believe that is what we want to-day all over
America. We want new ministers in the pulpit and new people in the
pews. We want people quickened by the Spirit of God, and the Spirit
coming down and taking possession of the children of God and giving
them power.

Then a man filled with the Spirit will know how to use "the sword of
the Spirit." If a man is not filled with the Spirit, he will never
know now to use the Book. We are told that this is the sword of the
Spirit; and what is an army good for that does not know how to use its
weapons? Suppose a battle going on, and I were a general and had a
hundred thousand men, great, able-bodied men, full of life, but they
could not one of them handle a sword, and not one of them knew how to
use his rifle, what would that army be good for? Why, one thousand
well-drilled men, with good weapons, would rout the whole of them. The
reason why the Church can not overcome the enemy is, because she don't
know how to use the sword of the Spirit. People will get up and try to
fight the devil with their experiences, but he don't care for that, he
will overcome them every time. People are trying to fight the devil
wit