STUDY XXI.

A PERSONAL PENTECOST.

Memory Verse: "But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is
come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem,
and in all Judea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the
earth."--(Acts i, 8.)

Scripture for Meditation: Acts ii, 1-4; xix, 1-6.


But, above all, the soul-winner must have _a personal Pentecost_. Christ
does not send us alone to seek the lost. In the fifteenth and sixteenth
chapters of St. John's Gospel, he definitely promises the Comforter. And
again, on the day of his ascension, he bids his disciples tarry at
Jerusalem until the Holy Ghost is come. Then as they waited, "with one
accord in one place," "a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind
filled all the house where they were sitting, ... and they were all
filled with the Holy Ghost." Since that day the one supreme
qualification for Christ's witnesses is _the enduement with the Holy
Ghost_. He will give a better knowledge of the Scriptures; he will
re-enforce tact and earnestness and perseverance; he will give
tenderness of heart and the burden for souls.

What a marvelous change the coming of the Spirit wrought in those