The baptism of Fire
By Dr. F rench E . O liver {Copyright 1917)
Address delivered by Dr. French E. Oliver, in : the Bible In stitu te Auditorium, on Sunday, May 6, the occasion being the celebration of the ninth anniversary of the Bible In stitu te of Los Angeles.
text this afternoon is found in Isaiah, the sixth Wj) chapter and the eighth verse: “Also I heard the voice of. the Lord saying,
would call him to a great work. He must therefore have 'preparation commensurate to the greatness of the Work to which he
Whom shall I send and who will go for us. -Then said I, Here am I, send me.” The sixth chapter of Isaiah is an in tensely interesting story. The historical date of this wonderful chapter takes us back to about ten years before the birth of Romulus, the founder of the Roman Empire. The first verse deals with a dead king and a live prophet. The story of the live prophet will give us inspiration. The story of the dead king gives us a warning. In 2 Chronicles, the 26th chapter we are told that .“he was marvelously helped till he was strong” but when he was strong his heart was lifted up to his destruction. For in his vanity he tried to usurp the place of the priest "and burn incense unto the Lord in the temple: God smote him with the leprosy and he died thereof. “Let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.” The preparation of Isaiah for service pre sents, to our consideration this'-faot: God
DR. OLIVER was called. It is a well known truth that success in any great undertaking is to a large degree dependent upon the prepara tion for that work. MUST HAVE VISION - | If: a man is to speak God’s message he must have a vision of the Lord. “Where there is no visioA, the people perish.” The prophet says: “In the year that king
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