THE KING’S BUSINESS THE SOURCE OF POWER
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M UCH has been said about regaining the losses of our Churches and Sun day Schools, and some of our leaders tell us we must federate. Well, if you feder ate death, it is death multiplied; if you fed erate weakness, it is weakness intensified. ..................Just one man or woman filled with the spirit that fills this Book, filled as was Paul, and Whitefield, and Wesley, and Spurgeon, and Moody, is more power ful than all the organizations you can put together. I stood some time ago beside Niagara Falls and I have often tried to pass on my impressions. Standing by that tremendous current, I looked down below, by the bank of the river, 169 feet underneath, and there I saw the power-house, wherein was a great dynamo, and from that power-house there went a system o.f wires over three hundred miles. The corporation that owns that power-house states that there is suf ficient power there to furnish electricity to all the United States and Canada, with something left over. When I went to Toronto, I found that Toronto was lighted by Niagara Falls, heated by Niagara Falls; that they cooked their dinners by the power from Niagara Falls. Near Toronto is a sanatorium, and there the patients get their health by means of electric bath from Niagara Falls. All along the way there were tram-cars getting their locomotive power from Niagara Falls. And there is one grim and gruesome place which also owes its power to Niagara Falls. In New York State they do not hang criminals, they electrocute them, and for this, too, they use Niagara Falls. Then I went back to the Falls again, and I saw the philosophy of it, Lake Ontario is 169 feet below Lake Erie, and if you were'to lift up Ontario to the level of Erie you would have no. Falls and no power. The power-house is away, below.
Dr. A. C. DIXON
“Tarry at Jerusalem until\ye be endued with power from on high.” This is what we need, to get underneath, to humble our selves before God, to come in touch with the “power from on high.” It is some thing to have power from behind, like that of a church or denomination with a prestige and history. It is something to have power from before, in the thrill of hope to inspire us to further achievement. It is something to have the power round about us—organization of wealth and cul ture, and religion and social standing. But, somehow, the power behind, and the power in front, and the power round about us is all power on the level. What we need is power from on high, and the power from on high comes from the touch of those wires that go out from the great dynamo of God in the Holy Spirit. It is just as these wires come in touch with us that we give out light. It is _ through these wires that we can give out heat—the warmth of love, and sympathy, and compassion for the multitude. It is through these wires we get our activity, our power of locomotion, our ability to go about doing good, becaues the life of Him Who went about doing good is pulsating in bur spiritual veins and arteries. And it- is through these wires there goes out health. Then it is we are made spiritually strong; here it is we get our tonic, our electric treatment. And it is through these same, wires from the power-house of God that we get our execution—our death.- I could but say, as I turned from that grue some place where criminals are electro cuted; “May my sins, my selfishness, my carnality, everything that displeases Him be put in the chair of judgment, and may the power from on high be turned on.” That is the way we get rid of the things that hurt. We get them in the electric chair of God’s judgment, and at the touch of the wire the work is done.
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