When the Holy Ghost is Come

When the Holy Ghost is Come

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WHEN THE HOLY GHOST IS COME.
BY
COLONEL S. L. BRENGLE,
Edited by BRAMWELL BOOTH.

FOREWORD.
The Salvation Army, contrary to what has often been thought by
surface observers, has owed its existence, its strength, and its success
chiefly to our careful attention to the profoundest questions of the soul.
And still, as always, we wish to urge upon all the study of those great
practical truths, without the proclamation of which our work for men
would cease to have any abiding value. We glory in the knowledge of
Christ as a perfect Saviour just as much for this, our own time, as for
any past generation, or for any generation yet to come. The pretence
that this age has reached some superior development, whether mental
or moral, for which a new kind of Saviour is needed, seems to us
absurd. And we do not believe it can long endure where Christ is really
known.
To the most thoughtful, therefore, as well as to those who have the least
time for thought, I earnestly commend the words of devout and
practical men upon those great questions, which I hope to see
reproduced in the series of which the present volume is the first.
Prayerful reading of their messages cannot but lead to immediate action,
to a complete self-abandonment to God, and to a realizing faith in His
power to use every one of His sons and daughters for the healing of the
world's open sores and the triumph of His Rule.
BRAMWELL BOOTH. LONDON, January, 1909.

CONTENTS.
PREFACE
I. WHO IS HE? II. PREPARING HIS HOUSE III. IS THE BAPTISM
WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT A THIRD BLESSING? IV. THE
WITNESS OF THE SPIRIT V. PURITY VI. POWER VII. TRYING
THE SPIRITS VIII. GUIDANCE IX. THE MEEK AND LOWLY
HEART X. HOPE XI. THE HOLY SPIRIT'S SUBSTITUTE FOR
GOSSIP AND EVIL-SPEAKING XII. THE SIN AGAINST THE
HOLY GHOST XIII. OFFENCES AGAINST THE HOLY GHOST
XIV. THE HOLY SPIRIT AND SOUND DOCTRINE XV. PRAYING
IN THE SPIRIT XVI. CHARACTERISTICS OF THE ANOINTED
PREACHER XVII. PREACHING XIX. THE SHEATHED SWORD:
A LAW OF THE SPIRIT XX. VICTORY THROUGH THE HOLY
SPIRIT OVER SUFFERING XXI. THE OVERFLOWING
BLESSING XXII. IMPORTANCE OF THE DOCTRINE AND
EXPERIENCE OF HOLINESS TO SPIRITUAL LEADERS XXIII.
VICTORY OVER EVIL TEMPER BY THE POWER OF THE HOLY
SPIRIT

PREFACE.
It is no small pleasure to me to commend this book to all who love God,
and in particular to those who are labouring to serve Him in the ranks
of The Salvation Army. I believe that it will prove useful in the most
important ways--in its bearing, that is, upon many of the practical
difficulties and problems of daily life.
The writer, Colonel Brengle, gives us not only of the fruit of an orderly
and well-stored mind on the great subject before us, but-- and this is the
more important--he tells us of the actual work of the Holy Spirit in the
lives of ordinary men and women, as he has witnessed the results of
that work amidst his many labours for the Salvation and Holiness of the
people. It is for them he writes. It is to them, living the common life,
bound to others by the obligations of ordinary social intercourse, toiling
at their secular occupations, and rubbing shoulders with the multitude
in the market-place, that his message comes. I venture