and their hearts are a holy of holies in which His blessed
presence ever abides, and from that central citadel He works,
enduing the man who has received Him with power.

If you ask how the Holy Spirit can dwell within us and work
through us without destroying our personality, I cannot tell. How
can the electric fluid fill and transform a dead wire into a live
one, which you dare not touch? How can a magnetic current fill a
piece of steel, and transform it into a mighty force which by its
touch can raise tons of iron, as a child would lift a feather?
How can fire dwell in a piece of iron until its very appearance
is that of fire, and it becomes a fire-brand? I cannot tell.

Now, what fire and electricity and magnetism do in iron and
steel, the Holy Spirit does in the spirits of men who believe on
Jesus, follow Him wholly, and trust Him intelligently. He dwells
in them, and inspires them, till they are all alive with the very
life of God.

The transformation wrought in men by the baptism with the Holy
Ghost, and the power that fills them, are amazing beyond measure.
The Holy Spirit gives--

1. _Power over the world_. They become

"Dead to the world and all its toys,
Its idle pomps and fading joys."

The world masters and enslaves people who have not the Holy
Spirit. To one man it offers money, and he falls down and