By Rev. Campbell Coyle, D. D. Pastor of the Highland Park First Presbyterian Church
T! i following address was delivered by Dr. Coyle on Thursday, June 29. 1916, before the graduating class of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles, from the text: re shall receive power, after that the Holy Spirit is come upon you.”—Acts 1:8.
HE disciples were about to enter upon a campaign j against the entrenched forces Mr" o f sin and wickedness, and they needed power. They
they were endued with power from on high. What this power might be, they had no clear conception, but they recalled a prom ise that their leader had made to them on the Mount o f Ascension just before, as the Great High Priest, He entered into the holy o f holies, there to remain until the long day o f atonement ends, when He will come forth again to His waiting people. Which promise is found in these w ords: “ Thus it is written, and thus it behooved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead on the third day; and that repentance and remission o f sins should be preached in His name among äll nations, beginning at Jeru salem. And ye are witnesses o f these things. And, behold, I send the promise o f My Father upon you; but tarry ye in the
were already well equipped with some things. _They had zeal and knowledge and faith, and a leader who was incomparable, but they lacked a certain kind o f power, without which their best efforts would be as vain as the dashing o f the waves against Gibraltar. Hence their leader bade them tarry in the Holy City until this power should .come upon them. However impa tient they might be to begin the conflict, and however well equipped they might imag ine themselves to be, they were not to act on their own initiative, and run ahead of God, but were to tarry in Jerusalem until
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