The promise, the provision, the need of the hour, is the power of the Holy Spirit coming upon consecrated men and women. The church needs power to take and maintain her stand for righteousness.
This is a day of compromise and lowered moral and spiritual standards, and the church must lift up her voice to rebuke sin, and present Christ as the only and all-sufficient Savior and to call the nations back to God ere they die by their own hand upon the grave of collapsed civilization. She must hold aloft the torch of God’s Word in the midst of the gathering darkness of atheism and increasing wickedness.
The nations of the earth are trembling under the tread of gathering armies, the dark clouds of uncertainty and apprehension are lowering, men’s hearts are clutched by a nameless, senseless, fear; our boasted modern civilization teeters upon its crumbling throne.
Oh, church of the living God, arise, shine in all thy glorious light, nor fail to warn the perishing sons of men that their only hope, their only safety is in the coming King, Jesus. Shall the church fail God in this crucial hour, or shall she manifest a sweet, kind, Christlike spirit all the while, “the whole world is in the midst of a vast revolution in economics, in politics, in morals, in the home and family, in the status of woman, in the relation of the sexes, in the fundamental thoughts of men.” Every fundamental institution of human society is feeling the onslaught of a changing, anti-Christian age.
How refreshing to find a Christian who is baptized with the Holy Ghost and is living in the thirteenth chapter of First Corinthians, earnestly seeking to represent Jesus!
-H.J. Felter, (Pilgrim Holiness Advocate, 1939)
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