with the Spirit, wrote to him, saying: "I like your teaching on
the baptism with the Holy Ghost. I need it, and am seeking it;
but I do not care much for entire sanctification or heart-
cleansing. Pray for me that I may be filled with the Holy Ghost."

The brother knew him well, and immediately replied: "I am so glad
you believe in the baptism with the Holy Ghost, and are so
earnestly seeking it. I join my prayer with yours that you may
receive that gift. But let me say to you, that if you get the
gift of the Holy Ghost, you will have to take entire sanctification
with it, for the first thing the baptism with the Holy Ghost does
is to cleanse the heart from all sin."

Thank God, he humbled himself, permitted the Lord to sanctify
him, and he was filled with the Holy Spirit, and mightily
empowered to work for God.

Many have looked at the promise of power when the Holy Ghost is
come, the energy of Peter's preaching on the day of Pentecost,
and the marvellous results which followed, and they have hastily
and erroneously jumped to the conclusion that the baptism with
the Holy Ghost is for work and service only.

It does bring power--the power of God, and it does fit for
service, probably the most important service to which any created
beings are commissioned, the proclamation of salvation and the
conditions of peace to a lost world; but not that alone, nor
primarily. The primary, the basal work of the baptism, is that of
cleansing.