ter Jesus Christ was glorified, the Holy Spirit descended
in power. Do you think that Peter and James and John and those
apostles doubted it from that very hour? They never doubted it.
Perhaps some question the possibility of having the power of God now,
and that the Holy Spirit never came afterward in similar
manifestation, and will never come again in such power.

FRESH SUPPLIES.

Turn to Acts iv, 31, and you will find He came a second time, and at a
place where they were, so that the earth was shaken, and they were
filled with this power. The fact is, we are leaky vessels, and we have
to keep right under the fountain all the time to keep full of Christ,
and so have a fresh supply.

I believe this is a mistake a great many of us are making; we are
trying to do God's work with the grace God gave us ten years ago. We
say, if it is necessary, we will go on with the same grace. Now, what
we want is a fresh supply, a fresh anointing and fresh power, and if
we seek it, and seek it with all our hearts, we will obtain it. The
early converts were taught to look for that power. Philip went to
Samaria, and news reached Jerusalem that there was a great work being
done in Samaria, and many converts; and John and Peter went down, and
they laid their hands on them, and they received the Holy Ghost for
service. I think that is what we Christians ought to be looking for--the
Spirit of God for service--that God may use us mightily in the
building up of His Church and hastening His glory. In Acts xix we read
of twelve men at Ephesus, who, when the inquiry was made if they had
received the Holy Ghost since they believed, answered: "We have not so
much as heard whether there be any Holy Ghost." I venture to say there
are very many, who, if you were to ask them, "Have you received the
Holy Ghost since you believed?" would reply, "I don't know what you
mean by that." They would be like the twelve men down at Ephesus, who
had never understood the peculiar relation of the Spirit to the sons
of God in this dispensation. I firmly believe that the Church has just
laid this knowledge aside, mislaid it somewhere, and so Christians are
without power. Sometimes you can take one hundred members into the
Church, and they don't add to its power. Now that is all wrong. If
they were only anointed by the Spirit of God, there would be great
power if one hundred saved ones were added to the Church.

GREEN FIELDS.

When I was out in California,