428 THE K I N G ’ S B U S I N E S S Very often these strange experiences in meetings follow the repetition by the leaders of certain words and phrases. Persons of nervous tempera ment are worked up to a high pitch. , Before they know it their own lips have taken up the phrases, entirely apart from the deliberate volition of the person. Not. many people can say, “ Hallelujah” three times in succes sion with real heart meaning back of each utterance. It is very easy for Satan to detach the tongue from the heart and set people going entirely in the energy of the flesh. This opens the body to the influences of Satan, a'nd bodily sensations may be easily felt. To receive the fullness of the Holy Spirit for service it is not necessary to .employ the very laws by which evifspirits are invited, as in Spiritism. The Holy Spirit may produce sensa tions in the physical frame, but almost invariably it is the result of the yielding up of some sin or of some definite service that has been done. It is never the result of agonizing for physical manifestations. Another great danger is in lotting the mind become a blank. True Christianity requires the use of the reason. The mind is the vehicle of the Holy Spirit. Evil spirits are ever looking for an empty house to enter. The body that is detached from the person’s volitional control is ready for the counterfeiting work of Satan’s emissaries. Let God’s children seek the fullness of the Holy Spirit, but let them do it in the way prescribed so clearly in the Word. Be sure that when God sees fit to answer with manifestations of power, it will immediately impel the Christian to go into the highways and byways and bring in the lost. A n y other “ power” is a fake and a counterfeit. K. L. B.
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PresidentHarding on the Bible
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