{"1": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4960", "width": "3495", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "Library of Congress.\\nUNITED STATES OF AMERICA.\\nChap\\nShelf.", "height": "4804", "width": "3212", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "V", "height": "4772", "width": "3084", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4776", "width": "3212", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4788", "width": "3100", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4780", "width": "3212", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "POWER\\nFOR\\nWITNESSING\\nBut ye shall receive power, when the Holy Ghost\\nis come upon you? and ye shall be My\\nwitnesses unto the utter-\\nmost parts of the earth.\\nActs J: 8, R. V.\\nPACIFIC PRESS PUBLISHING COMPANY\\nOakland, California\\nNew York t: Kansas City", "height": "4804", "width": "3116", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "63143\\nji-ibs^-y of Con crree e\\npl\u00c2\u00a3l tmU RECEDED\\nOCT 19 1900\\nCopyright entry\\nj ocmd copy.\\nOliver*** to\\nj QfS fcH DIVISION,\\nLoci.\\n3a7\\nEntered According to Act of Congress in the Year 1900 by\\nPACIFIC PRESS PUBLISHING COMPANY\\nIn the Office of the Librarian of Congress, Washington, D. C.\\nAll Rights Reserved\\nI", "height": "4804", "width": "3276", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "PREFACE\\nIf the reader is, like the Athenians of Paul s day,\\nsearching for some new thing in the form of a new\\ndoctrine, this little book will doubtless disappoint him,\\nfor it is put forth more as a teacher of diligent doing\\nthan as a discussion of doubtful doctrine.\\nHe will have no difficulty in knowing the doctrine, who\\nis willing to do the doctrine. If any man willeth to do\\nHis will he shall know of the teaching. John 7:17,\\nR. V.\\nSince the book is more an exhortation to doing than\\nan exposition of doctrine, no apology is offered for the\\nstyle adopted of personally addressing the reader. The\\nwriter but describes two phases of his experience in say-\\ning that he who is ashamed of his hope will find per-\\nsonal work embarrassing, and will find it more to his\\nliking to deal in glittering generalities; while he\\nwhose hope maketh not ashamed will be constrained\\nto urge it upon others by personal appeals.\\nThe message of the book is the Spirit s answer to the\\nwriter s heart-cries for power for Christian living and\\nlabor. And from direct contact with people in evangel-\\nistic work in nearly every state and territory in the\\nUnited States, he has learned that his heart s cry was\\nbut one in a chorus of cries which will be heard from\\nhonest hearts in every land by Him whose life and lips\\nproclaim the answer.\\n(3)", "height": "4776", "width": "3108", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "4\\nPREFACE\\nThe only excuse for devoting so much space to first\\nprinciples is that there is so much space for them in the\\nexperience of the people. It makes no difference how\\ntall or how talented men and women are, or how long\\nthey have preached or professed, if they have need of\\nmilk and not of strong meat, milk they must take until\\nthey are stronger; and neither the one who ministers\\nthe milk nor the one to whom it is measured, should\\nattempt to avoid the necessity of nursing.\\nIt is the plan of God that ministers as well as others\\nshall grow in grace and the knowledge of the truth.\\nAnd as one grows it is difficult to hold back that last\\ndeep soul-stirring truth, and continue to minister bottles\\nof milk to babes in Christ. But it must be done. If it\\nis not done the minister with the stronger meat may find\\nhimself marveling at the multitude which follows the\\nman who ministers the milk.\\nThis book is for the common people. When it falls\\ninto the hands of one whose experience is broader than\\nthe book, let it be handed to some more needy soul.", "height": "4804", "width": "3260", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "CONTENTS\\nPAGE\\nI. The Preparation 7\\nII. Something to Tei^t 9\\nIII. Forgiveness of Sins 12\\nIV. Ye Are My Witnesses 16\\nV. Personal Experience in Receiving Repent-\\nance and Forgiveness of Sins 21\\nVI. The Spirit Calls for Confession 26\\nVII. The Spirit Calls for Restitution 30\\nVIII. Righteousness, Then Power 34\\nIX. Sin No More t 39\\nX. Speedy Deliverance 44\\nXI. Personal Experience in Receiving Keeping\\nPower 52\\nXII. Humility, Then Glory 58\\nXIII. The Spirit in Sanctification 63\\nXIV. The Holy Spirit and the Unpardonable Sin 68\\nXV. Secret of Rejoicing in Tribulation 70\\nXVI. Another Reason for Rejoicing in Tribulation 76\\nXVII. First a Holy Church, Then the Holy Ghost 79\\nXVIII. A Spirit-filled Member Possible before a\\nSpirit-filled Church 82\\nXIX. Miracles and the Sin against the Holy Ghost 84\\nXX. Filling and Feeling 86\\n(5)", "height": "4796", "width": "3124", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "6 CONTENTS\\nPAGE\\nXXI. The Spirit Calls for Consecration 90\\nXXII. The Promise of the Spirit 93\\nXXIII. How to Find Faith 98\\nXXIV. The Holy Ghost the Vicegerent of Christ ioi\\nXXV. The Holy Ghost a Gift no\\nXXVI. Praying for the Spirit 112\\nXXVII. The Laying on of Hands 114\\nXXVIII. Believe That Ye Receive 117\\nXXIX. Faith Illustrated 122\\nXXX. Personal Experience in Receiving .126\\nXXXI. Personal Experience in Witnessing .129\\nXXXII. The Fruit before the Gifts 137\\nXXXIII. How to Seek Spiritual Gifts 140\\nXXXIV. Miracles of Healing 144\\nXXXV. The Gifts of the Spirit Withheld 150\\nXXXVI. The Gifts of Healing and God s Reputation 155\\nXXXVII. Confirming Signs 160\\nXXXVIII. The Sword of the Spirit 164\\nXXXIX. Why Marvel Ye at This? 170\\nXL. Miracles of Healing and Health Reform.\\nSalvation for the Body 176\\nXLI. Lying Wonders 180\\nXLII. Deceiving and Being Deceived 186\\nXLIII. How Apostles and Prophets Are Chosen 193\\nXLIV. What Is the Outlook? 196", "height": "4836", "width": "3288", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "Power for Witnessing\\ni\\nTHE PREPARATION\\nBut ye shall receive power, after that the Holy\\nGhost is come upon you; and ye shall be witnesses unto\\nMe both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and in Samaria,\\nand unto the uttermost part of the earth. Acts 1 8.\\nReader, have you received this power for witnessing?\\nIf not, are you seeking this power? Have you sought,\\nbut sought in vain? Are you really anxious to receive\\nthe Holy Ghost and thereby become a powerful witness\\nfor Christ?\\nWhat do you know that you are so anxious to receive\\npower to tell? Do you know that God through Christ\\nforgives sins? Do you know it from personal experi-\\nence? Are you prepared right now to witness to this\\ntruth in your home, in your neighbors homes, or in the\\nchurch? If not you need something to tell more than\\npower to tell it.\\nMultitudes of men and women are burdened with the\\nguilt of sin. Their lives hold no hope. Many in de-\\nspair are committing suicide. God wants the great\\nsinning world to hear of His willingness to forgive, to\\ngive unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for\\nmourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heavi-\\nness. He wants you to witness that He does all this.\\nAre you prepared to do it? Do you know that He\\ndoes it?", "height": "4784", "width": "3132", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "8\\nPOWER FOR WITNESSING.\\nA witness tells only what he knows. Do you become\\nimpatient when sorely tempted? If so, do you want\\npower to tell this to the uttermost parts of the earth\\nAre you proud, or envious, or jealous, or selfish, or\\nambitious, or quarrelsome, or faultfinding? Are you\\ngiven to evil surmising or evil speaking? Do you love\\nthe world? Do you love worldly pleasures? Are you\\na slave to appetite or lust? Do you think unclean\\nthoughts? Do you love this world s goods? Are you\\ncovetous? Are you given to jesting or foolish talking?\\nAre you headstrong or self-willed? Jesus Christ is the\\npower of God unto salvation from all these things. Do\\nyou know Him as such? If not, what have you to tell\\nwhich makes you so anxious that God should give you\\npower to tell it?\\nDon t you think that you have power enough already\\nto publish your weaknesses to the world? If the Lord\\nshould give you the power of the Holy Ghost for wit-\\nnessing while you know so little of His power to save,\\nyou would become a powerful witness against Him.\\nPower would bring you into prominence. And just in\\nproportion as you were brought into prominence, just\\nin that proportion would that enslaving, besetting sin of\\nyours be brought into prominence; and just in that same\\nproportion would you become a powerful false witness,\\nbearing testimony against Christ and His promise to\\nsave to the uttermost/\\nThe Lord gave Solomon great power when he was\\nhumble; and Solomon became a witness for God unto\\nthe uttermost parts of the earth. And all the earth\\nsought to Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had\\nput in his heart. i Kings 10:24. But when Solomon\\nsinned, all the earth heard of his sin, and he became the", "height": "4836", "width": "3264", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "POWER FOR WITNESSING. 9\\nmost powerful witness in all the earth against the\\nLord. There were many other idolaters in Israel in the\\ntime of Solomon, but their power for evil did not com-\\npare with that of Solomon. Should the Lord baptize\\nyou with power from on high while your character is\\nweak at any point, it would simply result in advertising\\nthat weakness to the world.\\nThe Holy Ghost came upon the disciples on the day\\nof Pentecost, not to persuade them to put away their\\nself-seeking and their differences\u00e2\u0080\u0094 this the Spirit had\\nalready accomplished in them. Peter did not spend the\\npentecostal morning in confessing his denial of Christ,\\nhis lying, and his profanity. This work of repentance\\nthe Spirit had already accomplished in Peter. The very\\nfirst thing that Peter did after the witnessing power\\ncame upon him, was to begin witnessing to what he\\nalready knew of the power of God.\\nTherefore it is plain that no one can share in the lat-\\nter rain, or the fulness of the power of the Holy Ghost\\nfor witnessing, until he knows in his own life, not only\\nthat God forgives sins, but that He gives the victory over\\nevery besetting sin. Fulness of victory, then fulness\\nof witnessing power. Something to tell, then power to\\ntell it.\\nII\\nSOMETHING TO TELL\\nWhat shall we do? said the multitude on the day of\\nPentecost. Repent, said Peter. If Peter had not\\nhimself repented, he could not have witnessed to the\\nnecessity of repentance. He who would be a witness\\nthat God gives forgiveness of sins, and the Holy Ghost,", "height": "4772", "width": "3140", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "10\\nPOWER FOR WITNESSING.\\nmust first be a witness that God gives repentance. If he\\nis weak in his repentance he will be weak in all his wit-\\nnessing. For tfiis cause many are weak and sickly\\namong us. It is humbling to repent, and many try to\\nescape this humbling as much as possible, not knowing\\nthat in so doing they are refusing the necessary quali-\\nfications for witnessing in power.\\nThat the reader may be impressed with the fact that\\nan experience necessary to witnessing to repentance,\\nmust precede witnessing to both forgiveness of sins and\\nthe gift of the Holy Spirit, let the following scripture be\\nnoted carefully:\\nThe God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye\\nslew and hanged on a tree. Him hath God exalted with\\nHis right hand to give repentance to Israel, and\\nforgiveness of sins. And we are His witnesses of these\\nthings\\nThus the apostles declare that they are witnesses that\\nGod gives repentance. Reader, are you a witness that\\nGod gives repentance? This experience lies at the\\nfoundation of all witnessing. Are you prepared to tell\\nin your own home, and in your neighbors homes, and\\nbefore the assembled congregation, that God gives re-\\npentance? If you are not, then the first thing to do is\\nto repent. If you will but receive repentance and for-\\ngiveness of sins, you may receive the Holy Ghost to en-\\nable you to witness in power to what you have received.\\nFor the Holy Ghost is given to bear witness that your\\nwitness is true.\\nNotice the way the Scripture reads: Him hath God\\nexalted with His right hand to give repentance\\nto Israel, and forgiveness of sins. And we are His\\nwitnesses of these things; and so is also the Holy Ghost,", "height": "4836", "width": "3264", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "POWER FOR WITNESSING.\\n11\\nwhom God hath given to them that obey Him/ The\\nLord, therefore, gives the Holy Ghost to them that obey\\nHim, that He may unite His witness with theirs that\\nGod gives repentance and forgiveness of sins through\\nJesus Christ.\\nOf what shall we repent? Repent of sin. What is\\nsin? Sin is the transgression of the law. Your re-\\npentance will be measured according to the measure of\\nyour sin, and your sin will appear exceeding sinful only\\nas the Holy Spirit shall flash the light of the spiritual\\nlaw upon your life.\\nThat sin by the commandment might become ex-\\nceeding sinful. Rom. 7:13. I had not known sin,\\nbut by the law T for I had not known coveting [R. V.]\\nexcept the law had said, Thou shalt not covet. Rom.\\n7:7. The law entered, that the offense might abound.\\nBut where sin abounded, grace did much more abound.\\nRom. 5:20.\\nThere will be no exceeding, abundant receiving of\\nrepentance and forgiveness of sins and of the gift of the\\nHoly Ghost where there is not a magnifying of the law\\nwhereby sin is made to abound in the life and to\\nappear exceeding sinful.\\nBut all this the Lord has pledged Himself to do.\\nThe work of the Holy Ghost is to convince the world\\nof sin, and He can be depended on to do His work.\\nThe Lord through His Spirit is giving repentance.\\nBut have you received it and repented? Only ac-\\nknowledge thy transgressions, those sins which you\\nknow to be sins, the Lord will see to it that your repent-\\nance is complete. It is useless for the Lord to reveal\\nadditional sins while ycu are refusing to acknowledge\\nand turn from those already revealed.", "height": "4788", "width": "3124", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "12\\nPOWER FOR WITNESSING.\\nSome persons complain of a lack of conviction, but if\\nthey would respond to what conviction the Lord has\\nalready given, they would receive conviction of sin as\\nfast as they were able to bear it. The Lord lighteth\\nevery man that cometh into the world. Walk while\\nye have the light, lest darkness come upon you. Walk\\nin the light, and ye shall have fellowship one with an-\\nother, and the blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth from all\\nsin.\\nIll\\nFORGIVENESS OF SINS\\nForgiveness of sins, like repentance, is something\\nwhich the Lord gives, and which we must receive.\\nHim hath God exalted with His right hand to be a\\nPrince and a Saviour, for to give repentance to Israel,\\nand forgiveness of sins.\\nBefore any one can receive the witnessing power from\\non high, he must be able to witness to the gospel truth\\nthat God forgives sins. But no one can witness to this\\ntruth unless this truth is truth in his life at the time of\\nwitnessing. The Holy Spirit will not furnish power to\\nmake a man s witness convincing when the fruit of the\\nman s life gives the lie to the fruit of his lips. If the\\nwitness is not living in the knowledge and enjoyment\\nof sins forgiven when he is trying to tell others to re-\\nceive forgiveness, the Holy Ghost will not bear witness\\nto his testimony, because the witness is not himself\\nqualified to bear witness. And this is the reason why\\nso many who occupy the witness stand, in the pulpit and\\nin the pews, are so weak in their witnessing. They do\\nnot speak as those having authority, but as the scribes.", "height": "4836", "width": "3280", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "POWER FOR WITNESSING.\\n13\\nIf they actually witnessed to the truth, they would have\\nto tell that they were still living under the condemnation\\nof sin.\\nBut why will men live under continual condemna-\\ntion when the Lord is so anxious to give them forgive-\\nness of sins?\\nSubstantially the following conversation took place\\nin the home of a middle-aged woman, where the writer\\nhad been invited to help her find the Lord:\\nWoman I want to know that my sins are forgiven.\\nMinister Have you confessed your sins?\\nW. Yes, hundreds of times.\\nM. Are you a professing Christian?\\nW. Yes, I have been a member of the church for\\nforty years.\\nM. And never knew that your sins were forgiven?\\nW. Never.\\nM. Let us kneel down here and ask God once more\\nto forgive, and let us pray in faith.\\nWe knelt and prayed. Her prayer was earnest, her\\nconfession heartfelt. When we arose the conversation\\nwas continued thus\\nMinister I am glad that the Lord has forgiven your\\nsins.\\nWoman I hope He has.\\nM. But do you not know that He has? Have you\\nnot confessed your sins?\\nW.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Yes.\\nM. And does not the Lord promise that if we con-\\nfess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our\\nsins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness?\\nW.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Yes.\\nM. And you have confessed your sins?", "height": "4796", "width": "3092", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "14\\nPOWER FOR WITNESSING.\\nW.\u00e2\u0080\u0094Yes.\\nM. Then, according to the word of the Lord, you\\nare forgiven, are you not?\\nW That is just what I have been wanting to say for\\nforty years.\\nM. Don t you believe the Bible?\\nW. Yes, certainly.\\nM. Well, does not the Bible say that if we confess\\nour sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins?\\nW.\u00e2\u0080\u0094Yes.\\nM. Do you believe that Scripture?\\nW.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Yes.\\nM. Have you confessed your sins?\\nW. Yes, over and over again.\\nM. Then, according to the word of the Lord, you\\nare forgiven, aren t you?\\nW. That is just what I am afraid to say.\\nM. But does not the Lord say that if we confess our\\nsins He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins?\\nW. That is what He says.\\nM. What do you say? Dare you say that what He\\nsays is not so? Dare you say that you are not forgiven?\\nW. No, I dare not say that.\\nM. And you are afraid to say that you are forgiven?\\nAnd you have lived in that state of mind for forty years?\\nW.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Yes.\\nM. Are you sure you have confessed all your sins?\\nW. I have confessed all I know.\\nM. Would you confess another sin if it was shown\\nyou?\\nW. Most certainly.\\nM. But do you not know that your refusal to believe\\nGod is sin? The Word says, He that believeth not", "height": "4804", "width": "3272", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "POWER FOR WITNESSING.\\n15\\nGod hath made Him a liar (i John 5:10). Now stop\\ncalling God a liar, and believe that He forgives your sins.\\nLet me help you over this Rubicon before which you\\nhave been standing in doubt for forty years. Say with\\nme, The Lord has forgiven my sins.\\nW. The Lord has I am afraid.\\nM. Let us start again. The Lord has for-\\nW. I am afraid.\\nM But you must believe God or perish. Let us back\\nup and start in again. The Lord has forgiven\\nW. I can t go any farther, let us pray.\\nAnd again we prayed, and prayed earnestly for deliv-\\nerance from sin and unbelief, for the case was a des-\\nperate one. Again we arose from prayer. And again I\\nrepeated the words in concert with her, and this time\\nshe followed me through, and then broke out in tears\\nof joy over sins forgiven, a joy that she might have ex-\\nperienced forty years before, but for unbelief.\\nOne has put it thus plainly and simply:\\nYou can not atone for your past sins, you can not\\nchange your heart, and make yourself holy. But God\\npromises to do all this for you through Christ. You\\nbelieve that promise. You confess your sins, and give\\nyourself to God. You will to serve Him. Just as surely\\nas you do this, God will fulfil His word to you. If you\\nbelieve the promise, believe that you are forgiven and\\ncleansed, God supplies the fact; you are made whole,\\njust as Christ gave the paralytic power to walk when the\\nman believed that he was healed. It is so if you believe.\\nDo not wait to feel that you are made whole, but say,\\nT believe it; it is so, not because I feel it, but because\\nGod has promised/", "height": "4792", "width": "3084", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "16\\nPOWER FOR WITNESSING.\\nIV\\nYE ARE MY WITNESSES\\nAfter the devil had been cast out of the dweller among\\nthe tombs, he wanted to get into the boat and accom-\\npany his great Deliverer, but the Master said to him,\\nReturn to thine own house, and show how great things\\nGod hath done unto thee. And he went his way, and\\npublished throughout the whole city how great things\\nJesus had done unto him. And it came to pass, that,\\nwhen Jesus was returned, the people gladly received Him;\\nfor they were all waiting for Him. Christ was leaving\\nthe neighborhood because the people asked Him to leave.\\nHowever, He left behind Him a living witness of His\\npower and compassion. He knew the people would hear\\nthis man, because they had known him before he was\\ndelivered, and could see how great things the Lord had\\ndone for him. He would prepare the way for the people\\nto receive the Lord when He returned.\\nGod has planned to save sinful men by the testimony of\\ntheir fellow-men. He has planned it this way because it\\nis the best way. One reason for this is stated by another,\\nthus:\\nMany are perplexed with doubt, burdened with in-\\nfirmities, weak in faith, and unable to grasp the unseen;\\nbut a friend whom they can see, coming to them in\\nChrist s stead, can be a connecting link to fasten their\\ntrembling faith upon God.\\nThe reason why the class or testimony meeting is\\noften so poorly attended is that there are so few who have\\nan experience worth telling. This is also the reason", "height": "4804", "width": "3256", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "POWER FOR WITNESSING.\\n17\\nwhy so many complain of their embarrassment when\\ncalled upon to witness for Christ.\\nHow many potatoes did you raise this year? asks\\none farmer of another. None to speak of, is the\\nreply. He does not speak of his potato crop because\\nhe has none to speak of. And this is the reason why\\nmany do not speak of their experience; they have no\\nexperience to speak of.\\nReader, if you do not have an experience to speak of,\\nget one. If you already have an experience worth\\nspeaking of, then speak of it. Ye are My witnesses,\\nsaith the Lord. Speak of it first in thine own house\\nand then to your neighbors. God wants to use your\\ntestimony to save them. Your testimony will reach\\nsinners when the Bible will not. Likewise, ye wives,\\nbe in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey\\nnot the Word, they also may without the Word be won by\\nthe conversation of the wives; while they behold your\\nchaste conversation coupled with fear. i Peter 3:1, 2.\\nYe are the light of the world, says Christ. It is\\nnot the written Word that is the light of the world, be-\\ncause the world does not accept it. It is the Word made\\nflesh that is the light of the world. Of Christ, who was\\nthe Word made flesh, it is written, The life was the light\\nof men. The written Word is a light to the Christian,\\nbut the Word made flesh is the light of the unbelieving\\nworld. It is the testimony of one in whom the Word is\\nmade flesh, that the Spirit confirms with power for the\\nconversion of sinners. One has stated this truth thus\\nforcibly\\nAfter healing the woman, Jesus desired her to ac-\\nknowledge the blessing she had received. The gifts\\nwhich the gospel offers are not to be secured by stealth\\n2", "height": "4780", "width": "3084", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "18\\nPOWER FOR WITNESSING.\\nor enjoyed in secret. So the Lord calls upon us for\\nconfession of His goodness. Ye are My witnesses,\\nsaith the Lord, that I am God.\\nIf we have been following Jesus step by step, we shall\\nhave something right to the point to tell concerning the\\nway which He has led us. We can tell how we have\\ntested His promises, and found the promises true. We\\ncan bear witness to what we have known of the grace of\\nChrist. This is the witness for which our Lord calls, for\\nw T ant of which the world is perishing.\\nOur confession of His goodness is Heaven s chosen\\nagency for revealing Christ to the world. We are to\\nacknowledge His grace as made known through the\\nholy men of old, but that which will be most effectual\\nis the testimony of our own experience. These\\nprecious acknowledgments to the praise and glory of\\nHis grace, when supported by a Christlike life, have an\\nirresistible power for the salvation of souls.\\nThe reason, dear reader, why your testimony will be\\nmore effectual than the written testimony of the holy\\nmen of old, is because these holy men are dead and you\\nare cfe and God s plan for reaching an unbelieving\\nworld is through the testimony of living witnesses. The\\nholy men of God lived and witnessed in their day, and\\nthe record of their lives is a light to the believer, but the\\nunbeliever must have the life-light of a living witness-\\nthe witness of the Word made flesh.\\nReader, can you not see the value and importance of\\nwitnessing for Christ? It is your testimony which the\\nLord wishes to use to save your family and friends.\\nThen tell your experience just as fast as God gives it to\\nyou.\\nYour experience is given you to tell. Tell it in your", "height": "4800", "width": "3284", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "POWER FOR WITNESSING.\\n19\\nhome and in your neighbors homes. Tell it in the con-\\ngregation. But be sure that it is backed up by a consist-\\nent life. Don t hide that comforting experience in your\\nheart and rob the world of its comfort.\\nI have not hid Thy righteousness within my heart;\\nI have declared Thy faithfulness and Thy salvation; I\\nhave not concealed Thy loving-kindness and Thy truth\\nfrom the great congregation. Ps. 40:10.\\nHe who believes God, he whose heart holds a com-\\nforting experience, will declare it. If one refuses to con-\\nfess with his mouth, he gives evidence that he does not\\nbelieve with his heart. Out of the abundance of the\\nheart the mouth speaketh. If thou shalt confess with\\nthy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine\\nheart that God hath raised Him from the dead, thou shalt\\nbe saved. For with the heart man believeth unto right-\\neousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto\\nsalvation. Rom. 10:9, 10.\\nIt is blessed to have a good experience, but it is more\\nblessed to give that experience to others. It is more\\nblessed to give than to receive. This I have found to\\nbe true in my experience. My greatest joy is found in\\ngiving to a sinning world the experiences which the\\nLord is giving me.\\nIf there is anything that the devil fears it is the testi-\\nmony of a truly converted, Spirit-filled man. It is this\\nthat overcomes the enemy of truth. And they over-\\ncame him with the blood of the Lamb, and by the word\\nof their testimony. Rev. 12:11.\\nAmong those who stood and listened in the rear of a\\ncongregation of three thousand people was a minister\\nwho was not victorious in his. life. At first, as he after-\\nwards related, he questioned the speaker s confident", "height": "4780", "width": "3084", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "20\\nPOWER FOR WITNESSING.\\nboasting in the Lord and His power to save, but as the\\nwitnessing continued, he believed, and said to himself:\\nBrother Ballenger is a man subject to like passions as\\nI am. If God can save him, He can save me. At the\\nclose of the service he sought a secluded spot in the\\ngrove, and there gave himself to God, and sought and\\nfound the victory for which his soul hungered. This is\\nbut one of a multitude of cases where the writer s humble\\nwitness has been used by the Spirit to lead the listener\\nto believe in and receive God s power to save to the ut-\\ntermost. And this personal experience is related here\\nto encourage the reader to bear faithful testimony to\\nevery experience gained through faith. As you read\\nthis little work and receive help from the Lord, tell it.\\nTell it in your home; tell it in your neighbor s home;\\ntell it at prayer-meeting; and if you have time, write it to\\nthe author, in care of the publishers. The chief joy of\\nthe Christian worker, who has turned his back on the\\njoys of the world, is to hear of some one whom his words\\nhave helped to a better life. Joy shall be in heaven\\nover one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety\\nand nine just persons, which need no repentance. This\\njoy of heaven is shared by the earth-accredited ambas-\\nsador of heaven.\\nReturn to thine own house, and show how great\\nthings God hath done unto thee. And he went his way,\\nand published throughout the whole city how 7 great\\nthings Jesus had done unto him. And it came to pass,\\nthat, when jesus was returned, the people gladly received\\nHim; for they were all waiting for Him.", "height": "4804", "width": "3296", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "POWER FOR WITNESSING.\\n21\\nV\\nPERSONAL EXPERIENCE IN RECEIVING REPENTANCE\\nAND FORGIVENESS OF SINS\\nAt this point the writer asks of the reader the blessed\\nprivilege, and it is a blessed privilege, of bearing per-\\nsonal witness to the scriptural truth taught in the pre-\\nceding pages.\\nI was a backslidden young minister. Through a\\nfailure to walk in the light I had lost the liberty that\\nthere is in Christ. I had forgotten that I was purged\\nfrom my old sins. I was a sinner, in need of salvation\\nas much as any sinner that ever lived. But still I tried\\nto preach.\\nSome poor sinning soul may think that this experi-\\nence will not help him, because it begins with the\\nexperience of a minister, when he is only just a common\\nsinner. I was speaking in a mission at one time, and\\nmade the remark that it was far more difficult for God\\nto save a backslidden preacher than to save a drunkard\\nor a harlot.\\nI don t want so much talk, I want proof/ cried out\\na man on the front seat, who was slightly intoxicated.\\nHere it is, I replied. Here is what the Saviour said\\nto the preachers of Jerusalem: Verily I say unto you,\\nThat the publicans and the harlots go into the kingdom\\nof God before you. For John came unto you in the\\nway of righteousness, and ye believed him not; but the\\npublicans and the harlots believed him; and ye, when ye\\nhad seen it, repented not afterward, that ye might be-\\nlieve him/ Matt. 21:31, 32.", "height": "4780", "width": "3076", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "22\\nPOWER FOR WITNESSING.\\nYes, it is harder to reach a backslidden preacher than\\na harlot or a publican. Because when a man has\\ndonned a preacher s coat and cravat, and is engaged in\\nthe work of calling men to repentance, it is difficult for\\nhim to humble his heart in repentance. But there is\\nonly one path out of sin for preachers and publicans,\\nand that is the path of repentance.\\nNot knowing my spiritual condition, some of my\\nbrethren in the ministry requested me to go to the help\\nof a most needy congregation in a southern state, and\\naid in conducting a series of revival services. I pro-\\ntested against going, giving every plausible reason, save\\nthe real one, which was my spiritual condition. After\\nmuch urging, I consented.\\nAs the train bore me on to my destination, the start-\\nling position in which I was placed was revealed to me.\\nI w r as going to preach repentance to others while I my-\\nself was an unrepentant sinner. In my distress of mind\\nI found temporary relief in the promise I made, that I\\nwould never preach another discourse until I knew my\\nsins were pardoned.\\nEarly in the morning after my arrival, I excused my-\\nself from partaking of breakfast, and with Bible in hand\\nsought a retired spot in an adjacent grove. And there I\\nknelt and confessed my sins to God, and read His prom-\\nises. The morning wore away and the hour for service\\neleven o clock was drawing near. Over and over\\nagain I confessed my sins and asked for pardon in the\\nname of Jesus, but saw no sign that I was heard.\\nI had come in contact with some who had laid great\\nstress on a physical demonstration in conversion, and I,\\ntoo, looked for some such sign. I had heard of some\\nwho had seen a light, when they were converted, and I", "height": "4804", "width": "3300", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "POWER FOR WITNESSING.\\n23\\nlooked up to the sun to see if there were not some\\npeculiar appearance there, that I could regard as a sign\\nthat I was heard and forgiven, but there was none.\\nSome had said that they had heard a voice saying, Thy\\nsins are forgiven/ I listened for such a voice, but\\nheard none. I had also heard some say that they\\nhad felt a great internal change when they were con-\\nverted, so I waited for this sign, but waited in vain.\\nIt was nearing the hour of service, and I had declared\\nthat I would never preach again until I was forgiven.\\nWhat should I do? Again I prayed and again I con-\\nfessed my sins, but saw no sign of forgiveness. Then\\nI turned and read this scripture If we confess our sins,\\nHe is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to\\ncleanse us from all unrighteousness. i John 1 19. In\\nmy despair I said, I have a mind to just believe that\\npromise just believe I am forgiven for I have con-\\nfessed my sins, and the Lord promises that if I will do\\nthis, He is faithful to forgive.\\nThen the devil grew frightened and suggested doubts\\nand fears to my mind in this form: Look out; if you\\nsay you are forgiven when you are not, it will be a lie,\\nand you have sins enough without adding the sin of\\nlying. But what is a poor man to do? I thought.\\nWhat more can I do? I have confessed my sins.\\nBut suppose you have forgotten one, suggested the\\ntempter; if you say you are forgiven when you have\\nomitted to confess a single sin, it will not be so, and you\\nwill add the sin of presumption to all the rest of your\\nsins. That is so, I said. Suppose I have forgotten\\none sin, and have not confessed it, and then claim for*\\ngiveness, it will be false.\\nI was about to despair, when the Lord by His Spirit", "height": "4792", "width": "3084", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "24\\nPOWER FOR WITNESSING.\\ncame to my rescue with this scripture; Him hath God\\nexalted with His right hand to be a Prince and a\\nSaviour, for to give repentance to Israel, and forgiveness\\nof sins. Acts 5:31. And then I saw that the Lord\\nhad given me my repentance and it was my place to\\ntake the repentance and repent; that it was the Lord s\\nwork to give repentance, and when I had repented of\\nall the sin revealed to me, that I was to have confidence\\nthat God had attended to His work well, and not charge\\nHim with neglect or failure. It was the Lord s business\\nto give me repentance, and it was my business to take\\nrepentance and repent. And it was the Lord s business\\nto give me forgiveness of sins, and it was my business\\nto take forgiveness of sins and be forgiven. I was will-\\ning to repent of any other sin that the Lord would re-\\nveal, and the Lord knew it. I was, therefore, to believe\\nthat He had been faithful and given me pardon for my\\nsins. At this point I said, Praise the Lord! He has\\nforgiven my sins.\\nThe tempter suggested this doubt, Well, how do you\\nfeel? Do you feel any different? It is not a ques-\\ntion of feeling, but a question of fact, I replied. The\\nLord says if I confess my sins, He is faithful and just to\\nforgive my sins, and I believe that He tells the truth;\\nand what is more, I am going up to the congregation\\nand tell them what He has done. Again the enemy\\nwas frightened. Look out, now, he suggested, don t\\nbe a fanatic. Don t act foolish. If the Lord has for-\\ngiven you, the people will find it out without your\\ntelling them. And besides, what a disgrace on the min-\\nistry and the church, for the people to learn that you\\nhad come to preach to them, and was yourself a sinner.\\nGet thee behind me, Satan, was my reply It is so,", "height": "4804", "width": "3320", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "POWER FOR WITNESSING.\\n25\\nand I am going to give the Lord the glory by telling it\\nto the people.\\nThis I did, and then I had all the feeling that I could\\ndesire, and so did the congregation, who rejoiced with\\nme that I was forgiven. But my feelings, my peace\\nand joy, came as the fruit of faith, not my faith as a\\nfruit of my feelings.\\nNow the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace\\nin believing. Rom. 15:13. Joy and peace belong to\\nthose who believe, not to unbelievers. If the Lord\\nshould give peace and joy before we believed, we would\\nbe joyful and peaceful unbelievers; but joy and peace\\nbelong to believers, not to unbelievers.\\nThis public confession was the beginning of a blessed\\nrevival. And I am persuaded that there are other\\nblessed revivals which only wait for the repentance of\\nthe pastor. If ministers are to lead the people, they\\nmust lead them in repentance and confession as truly\\nas in other things. Humble yourselves therefore\\nunder the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you\\nin due time.\\nI wish to emphasize the need of public testimony to\\nwhat the Lord has done. I have not hid Thy right-\\neousness within my heart; I have declared Thy faithful-\\nness and Thy salvation; I have not concealed Thy\\nloving-kindness and Thy truth from the great congre-\\ngation. Ps. 40:10.", "height": "4796", "width": "3084", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "26\\nPOWER FOR WITNESSING.\\nVI\\nTHE SPIRIT CALLS FOR CONFESSION\\nConfess your faults one to another. Why are we\\ncalled upon to confess our faults one to another?\\nIt is so mortifying. Mortifying to what? Mortify-\\ning to the carnal heart. Well, don t you want the\\ncarnal heart mortified? It is only by mortifying the\\nold life that the new life can appear. If there is a pro-\\ntest in your heart against confessing to your brother\\nwherein you have wronged him, or to the church\\nwherein you have reason to believe that your faults\\nhave affected the church or the public, you may depend\\nupon it that that protest comes from a carnal heart which\\nis fighting for life. Crucify it. Crucify it quickly. It is\\nyour only hope. It makes no difference who you are,\\nwhether officer or layman, prominent or obscure, crucify\\nthat carnal heart.\\nI was engaged in revival work in a certain city, and\\nscores of people were seeking the forgiveness of sins\\nand the blessings of a victorious Spirit-filled life. To\\nmy great surprise I was convicted by the Spirit of the\\nsin of self-esteem. I was loath to believe it, but having\\nlearned not to argue with the Holy Spirit, I quickly\\nsurrendered and confessed the sin to God. Then I was\\nimpressed that I ought to confess it to the congregation,\\nbut immediately the objection was raised in my mind\\nthat such a course would hurt my influence with the\\npeople. But to this I replied that self-esteem can not\\nexist in the heart without manifesting itself in the life.\\nSome discerning souls have seen it, and the only way to", "height": "4804", "width": "3308", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "POWER FOR WITNESSING.\\n27\\nescape being a stumbling-block in their paths is to con-\\nfess it, and then they will see that the Spirit has suc-\\nceeded in convincing me of it.\\nThe next evening, after a short talk on the grace of\\nhumility and the sin of self-esteem, I confessed my fault\\nto the congregation, and the Spirit so witnessed to the\\nconfession that nearly a hundred people were convicted\\nof the same fault and made confession, supplicating with\\nme for deliverance.\\nThere had been in that congregation from night to\\nnight fathers and mothers in Israel with deep experi-\\nences, who were doubtless pained at the manifestation\\nof the subtle pride in the young man, who, when that\\nconfession was made, praised the Lord that at last the\\nSpirit had succeeded in convincing him of the sin, and\\nhad given strength to confess it and put it away. Con-\\nfessing our faults one to another will not hurt our in-\\nfluence. He that humbleth himself shall be exalted.\\nHumble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of\\nGod, that He may exalt you in due time.\\nA young minister came to the writer with this sad\\ncomplaint: Whenever the Lord blesses me in my min-\\nistry, I become exalted over it, and He has to withdraw\\nHis power. What shall I do? He was urged to con-\\nfess his pride to the Lord, and ask Him to crucify it;\\nthen claim the crucifixion by faith in the promise of\\nGod; then go before the congregation and confess His\\npride there, and tell of the victory gained by faith. He\\ndid so, and obtained the victory. Why, some one will\\nask, must he confess it before the congregation? Be-\\ncause no one was ever proud without the people finding\\nit out. And when the people know that a man is proud,\\nthat man will never gain the confidence of the people", "height": "4796", "width": "3080", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "28\\nPOWER FOR WITNESSING.\\nuntil they know that he has discovered his pride and put\\nit away, and this they will know when he confesses it.\\nIf he is too proud to confess his pride, then he has not\\nyet gained the victory over his pride.\\nThat which is true of self-esteem is true also of all\\nother faults which are of a public character. There are\\nsome things of such a character that they should never\\nbe confessed in public; but there are others which are\\nmore or less of a public nature that ought to be thus\\nconfessed. Confessions should be frank. No attempt\\nshould be made to excuse or palliate the w r rong.\\nThere was associated with me in a series of meetings\\nin the west, a very earnest, conscientious, and capable\\nyoung minister. One night the Spirit convicted many\\nin the congregation of wrong-doing, and there followed\\na confessing of faults one to another that brought vic-\\ntory to many hearts. This young minister arose and\\nbegan a confession that evidently did not meet the mind\\nof the Spirit. Presently he stopped a moment, and\\nwhen he resumed his testimony he said: Brethren, I\\nam convinced that I am trying to let myself down easy.\\nI will stop and fall on the rock and be broken; which he\\nimmediately did, and the Lord witnessed by His Spirit\\nto his whole-hearted confession.\\nIt w r as at a meeting in the south. A middle-aged\\nman, with gray hair and beard, arose in the meeting, and\\nwith great earnestness said: I am a liar. I can t tell\\nthe truth. If I ever told you anything you had better\\ninvestigate it before you believe it.\\nThere were many in the audience who could have\\nsaid amen in confirmation of his statement, but they\\ndid not do it. Reader, have you not noticed that when\\na man or woman is making an honest confession of", "height": "4836", "width": "3308", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "POWER FOR WITNESSING.\\n29\\nwrong-doing, even their worst enemies refrain from re-\\nproaching them?\\nBut I believe that I shall be able to tell the truth in\\nthe future, for I am receiving the Spirit of truth, con-\\ntinued the man. And there were many aniens from\\ntender hearts. Everybody seemed to forget that he had\\nbeen a man given to exaggerating nearly everything he\\nreported. It mattered not how he had been guilty of\\nlying in the past, all had to admit that when he said he\\nwas a liar, he began to tell the truth. He began to be\\na truthful man when he confessed himself a liar, and he\\nbegan to have a reputation for truth-telling in the com-\\nmunity at the same time. By his confession he removed\\nthe reproach from himself and his church, and took his\\nstand with the Lord, whose Spirit had convinced him\\nof sin.\\nReader, if you are a candidate for the baptism of the\\nHoly Ghost, you must confess all your sins to God and\\nyour faults to your neighbor. All faults are sins; but\\nthere are sins which lie between the individual and his\\nGod, and must be confessed to Him alone; and then\\nthere are sins which involve our fellows which must be\\nconfessed to them.\\nCommence to-day. Commence with your own fam-\\nily. If you are a father or mother you may need to\\ncommence with one another or with the children. I\\ncovet, second to the confidence of the Lord, the confi-\\ndence of my wife. If I can not go before the people\\nbelieving that she believes I am a Christian, I can not\\ngo at all.\\nMy father was called to minister in word and doc-\\ntrine, but, like Jonah, he sought for a time to close his\\nears to the call and continue on the farm. Not follow-", "height": "4788", "width": "3076", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "30\\nPOWER FOR WITNESSING.\\ning his convictions, he found it hard to maintain a vic-\\ntorious life, and consequently he said and did things at\\ntimes which I could not harmonize with my conceptions\\nof Christian living. And sometimes I w T as tempted to\\ndoubt his being a Christian, but when he came to me\\nand said, Son, I did wrong in that matter and I want\\nyou to forgive me, my confidence was restored, and I\\nwent away saying to myself, There is no use in deny-\\ning it; my father is a Christian. No parent ever lost\\nthe respect of the child by the frank acknowledgment of\\nwrong-doing which involved the child. He that cover-\\neth his sins shall not prosper; but whoso confesseth and\\nforsaketh them shall have mercy.\\nVII\\nTHE SPIRIT CALLS FOR RESTITUTION\\nA pane of glass one-sixteenth of an inch in thickness,\\nif placed between the transmitter and receiver, will\\nbaffle an electric current of sufficient strength to\\noperate an entire street-car system. Behold, the\\nLord s hand is not shortened, that it can not save;\\nneither His ear heavy, that it can not hear. But your\\niniquities have separated between you and your God, and\\nyour sins have hid His face from you, that He will not\\nhear. Isa. 59:1, 2. The all-power-in-heaven-and-\\nearth can not penetrate past a single cherished sin.\\nPut away the evil of your doings from before Mine\\neyes; cease to do evil; learn to do well; seek judgment,\\nrelieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the\\nwidow. Come, now, and let us reason together, saith", "height": "4804", "width": "3304", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "POWER FOR WITNESSING.\\n31\\nthe Lord; though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be\\nas white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they\\nshall be as wool/ Isa. 1:16-18.\\nA young man had come a long distance to attend the\\nrevival services. I am glad to be here, he remarked;\\nI have heard of the good work done elsewhere, and it\\nis just what the people need; I hope you will give the\\nmessage straight. His face beamed with satisfaction;\\nhe was interested in seeing the people benefited.\\nI think I had better return home, he remarked to\\nme the next day. His face bore a look of despair.\\nYou came intending to remain throughout the meet-\\nings, I said, it seems too bad to come so far and then\\nreturn so soon. I think you had better stay. After a\\nlittle hesitation he said, I can not stay, I can not endure\\nthe presence of the Lord. What is the trouble, my\\nbrother? Is there any wrong you are cherishing?\\nAfter a moment s thought he unburdened his Heart\\nthus\\nFive years ago, my neighbor deliberately turned his\\nhogs into my corn field. It angered me, and, taking\\ndown my shotgun, I hurried out and shot one of them\\nand tried to shoot more. When that hog died, I died.\\nI have had no spirituality since; and this is no place for\\na man like me.\\nYes, it is, I replied, if you will pay for the hog and\\nmake a confession to the owner.\\nThe value of the hog, with interest, was counted out,\\nand then he said, Ask the Lord to help me write a\\nletter of confession, and I w T ill send the money to-night.\\nThe letter was written, the money inclosed and mailed.\\nSin, the non-conductor, was removed, and the electric\\ncurrent of the Comforter thrilled his heart with a peace", "height": "4792", "width": "3076", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "32\\nPOWER FOR WITNESSING.\\nand joy that shone out in his face and was voiced in his\\npublic testimony.\\nThe Spirit of God will not compromise with sin. He\\ncame to convince of sin, not to condone it. 4 Thou\\nshalt call His name Jesus; for He shall save His people\\nfrom their sins. Matt. 1:21.\\nScores remained to the after-meeting, and as a result\\nof personal work involving hard-fought, hand-to-hand\\nbattles with doubt and discouragement, nearly all found\\npeace and joy in believing.\\nOne remained still in unbelief. Our prayers seemed\\nto avail nothing. We were still kneeling and silently\\nwaiting. Presently he whispered, I would like to see\\nyou alone. A private interview revealed the fact that\\nsome years before he had been urged to prepare for\\nactive Christian work, and had received through the\\nmail a check which, while its source was not indicated,\\nhe had reasons to know, and to know that it was sent\\nfor the purpose of helping him prepare for the ministry.\\nThis he had used for other purposes.\\nI exhorted him to restore the money. He replied\\nthat it was an impossibility at present.\\nIs it in your heart to do it? I asked, and he an-\\nswered, Yes, just as soon as I can raise it. Will you\\nshow your faith by your works, and draw up a note and\\nsend it to the party with a confession of your wrong?\\nI continued. Yes, was the reply. There was a mo-\\nment of silence, and then, with a cry of joy, he threw his\\narms around me and we rejoiced together. That sin\\nhad acted as a non-conductor to the incoming of the\\nSpirit with His message of pardon and peace. All our\\nprayers were unavailing to bring the pardon until the\\nsin was put away. Not until he had decided to restore", "height": "4804", "width": "3192", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "POWER FOR WITNESSING.\\n33\\nthat which he had misappropriated, could he exercise\\nfaith for forgiveness. The work of restitution lies\\nbetween many a soul and the comfort of the Holy Ghost.\\nWhat shall I do? said an earnest inquirer. When\\na young man I robbed my employer in small sums to\\nthe amount of about a hundred dollars. I have the\\nmoney to restore, but I can not find the merchant. I\\nam afraid he is dead. I replied: If the wronged one\\nis dead, restore the money to his heirs. If there are no\\nheirs, or they can not be found, give it to the Lord.\\nThis is the teaching of the Word. This he did, and\\npeace came.\\nThere is another sin that is especially declared to be\\nin the way of the pouring out of the overflowing bless-\\ning. Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed Me.\\nBut ye say, Wherein have we robbed Thee? In tithes\\nand offerings. Bring ye all the tithes into the store-\\nhouse, that there may be meat in Mine house, and prove\\nMe now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not\\nopen you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a\\nblessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive\\nit. Mai. 3:8, 10.\\nCovetousness is the sin above all others that is keep-\\ning the power of God from many to-day. There is a\\ngrowing desire to receive all that the church received in\\nthe early days of the pouring out of the Spirit. He who\\nwould approach the receiving of those days, must ap-\\nproach the giving of those days.\\nFaith bars the door to sin, and sin bars the door to\\nfaith. If our heart condemn us not, then have we con-\\nfidence toward God. And whatsoever we ask, we re-\\nceive of Him, because we keep His commandments,\\nand do those things that are pleasing in His sight.\\n1 John 3:21, 22.\\n3", "height": "4768", "width": "3084", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "34\\nPOWER FOR WITNESSING,\\nMany wonder why they can not exercise faith, when\\nthe simple reason is the presence of the non-conductor,\\nsin, which in the plan of God can not be passed by until\\nit is put away. Faith will come like the energizing elec-\\ntric current when there shall be a hearing of the Word,\\nfree from the clogging presence of cherished sin.\\nVIII\\nRIGHTEOUSNESS, THEN POWER\\nChrist hath redeemed us from the curse of the law,\\nbeing made a curse for us; for it is written, Cursed is\\nevery one that hangeth on a tree; that the blessing of\\nAbraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus\\nChrist; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit\\nthrough faith/ Gal. 3:13, 14.\\nThe promise of the Spirit is the promise of the bap-\\ntism of the Holy Spirit in its pentecostal power. Just\\nbefore His ascension Christ commanded His disciples\\nthat they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait\\nfor the promise of the Father, which, saith He, ye have\\nheard of Me. For John truly baptized with water; but\\nye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days\\nhence. Ye shall receive power, after that the\\nHoly Ghost is come upon you. This promised bap-\\ntism of power can not be received by any one who has\\nnot received the blessing of Abraham. For the bless-\\ning of Abraham is received that we might receive the\\npromise of the Spirit.\\nThat the expression the promise of the Spirit is\\nused by inspiration to mean the promise of God to give", "height": "4804", "width": "3212", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "POWER FOR WITNESSING.\\n35\\nthe Spirit, is very plain from Acts 2:33: Therefore\\nbeing by the right hand of God exalted^ and having\\nreceived of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost,\\nHe hath shed forth this, which ye now see and hear.\\nThe expression the promise of the Spirit/ as used by\\nPaul in Gal. 3:14, is identical with Peter s expression in\\nActs 2:33, the promise of the Holy Ghost, which latter\\nexpression unmistakably points to the promise of God to\\ngive the Spirit.\\nThough the receiving of the inheritance by faith is the\\ntheme of the chapter, it is perfectly consistent to under-\\nstand the expression the promise of the Spirit 1 as con-\\nveying the promise of God to give the Spirit, since the\\ngift of the Spirit is an earnest, or first payment, on the\\ninheritance. After that ye believed, ye were sealed\\nwith that Holy Spirit of promise, which is the earnest of\\nour inheritance until the redemption of the purchased\\npossession. Eph. 1:13, 14.\\nReader, have you received the blessing of Abraham\\nIt is useless to pray for the baptism of the Holy Spirit\\nuntil you have. Do you know what the blessing of\\nAbraham is? You may know, and know as quickly as\\nAbraham knew, if you will do as Abraham did. Let us\\nnow go in search of the blessing of Abraham. The\\nblessing of Abraham is the blessing of righteousness,\\nwhich God gave Abraham because he believed God\\nwhen Pie spoke to him. Let us see that this is so. It\\nis written (Gal. 3:6), Abraham believed God, and it was\\naccounted to him for righteousness. And again (verse\\n9), So then they which be of faith [they that believe\\nGod] are blessed with faithful Abraham. Blessed with\\nwhat? Blessed with what Abraham was blessed with,\\nblessed with righteousness. The blessing of Abraham,", "height": "4776", "width": "3076", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "36\\nPOWER FOR WITNESSING.\\ntherefore, is the blessing of righteousness, which the\\nLord gave to Abraham when He told Abraham He\\nwould do something for him that seemed impossible,\\nand Abraham believed God could and would do it.\\nGem 15:6.\\nNow that you know what the blessing of Abraham is\\nfor Abraham, God wants you to share in that blessing, to\\nbe blessed with faithful Abraham, in order that you\\nmay receive the promise of the Spirit/\\nPaul, in Rom. 4:1-11, again shows that the blessing\\nof Abraham is the righteousness with which God blessed\\nAbraham when he believed what God said. Then the\\napostle makes a personal application of this truth thus:\\nHe staggered not at the promise of God through un-\\nbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God; and\\nbeing fully persuaded that what He promised, He was\\nable also to perform. And therefore it was imputed to\\nhim for righteousness. Now it was not written for his\\nsake alone, that it was imputed to him; but for us also,\\nto whom it shall be imputed, if zve believe on Him that\\nraised up Jesus our Lord from the dead; who was de-\\nlivered for our offenses, and was raised again for our\\njustification. Rom. 4:20-25.\\nIf we believe They which be of faith [they that\\nbelieve] are blessed with faithful Abraham. Believe\\nwhat? Believe that God justifies [makes righteous] the\\nungodly or unrighteous.\\nBut to him that worketh not, but believeth on Him\\nthat justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for right-\\neousness. Rom. 4:5. Are you unrighteous, or un-\\ngodly? God says He will justify you, make you right-\\neous, if you will ask Him to do it and believe that He\\ndoes it.", "height": "4792", "width": "3228", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "POWER FOR WITNESSING.\\n37\\nWhat things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe\\nthat ye receive them, and ye shall have them/ Mark\\n11:24. Ask for the blessing of Abraham; ask God to\\nforgive all the sins you ever committed from the day\\nyou knew the difference between right and wrong until\\nthis moment. Ask Him to give you the righteousness\\nHe has promised to give to the unrighteous. Then be-\\nlieve that you have received that righteousness. For\\nevery one that asketh receiveth. Luke 11:10.\\nBut, says some one, if the blessing of Abraham is\\nrighteousness by faith, then I have always believed in\\nthat; for I have always believed in righteousness by\\nfaith. Good, if it is true. But if you have received\\nrighteousness by faith, you have stopped sinning.\\nRighteousness by faith not only justifies you from your\\npast sins, but saves you from falling into those same\\nsins again. It is both a cure and preventive.\\nI am passing by my neighbor s house. He is in the\\ncow-yard milking. The cow kicks the milk over. The\\nneighbor kicks the cow; then he seizes the stool and\\nchases the cow around the yard. As he has the advan-\\ntage in the inside track, he gets near enough to the cow\\nto hurl the stool at her with telling effect. As my\\nneighbor in his chase comes near the_ fence on which I\\nam leaning, I speak thus: Neighbor, have you accepted\\nthe message on righteousness by faith?\\nHe replies: I always believed in righteousness by\\nfaith; never believed anything else. And I think it is a\\ndisgrace to even suggest that we need a special message\\non this subject. What will our neighbors of the other\\nchurches think of us if they hear it? But what made\\nyou ask me if believed in righteousness by faith?\\nBecause when a man believes in righteousness by\\nfaith, he will not get angry and club his cow.", "height": "4788", "width": "3068", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "38\\nPOWER FOR WITNESSING.\\nReader, have you accepted righteousness by faith?\\nnot the theory that men are made righteous by faith, but\\nhas it become a tact in your life? Faith without works\\nis dead. Do you still get out of patience in your home,\\nat your work, with your brethren, with your neighbors,\\nwith your stock? Do you yield to the lusts of the\\nflesh, to the lusts of the eye? Do you love the world,\\nits goods, or its pleasures? Do you love the pre-\\neminence? The precious truth that men are made\\nrighteous and kept righteous by faith, is given you to\\ngive you the victory over all your besetting sins. Then\\nyou will have received the blessing of Abraham, and\\ncan pray for the promise of the Spirit to make you a\\npowerful witness for the truth. Ask, and ye shall re-\\nceive/\\nThe following testimonies confirming the above truth\\nhave been received by letter:\\nI wish to say the Lord gave me a precious wife; but\\nsince you left, I have a new one. A marked change has\\ncome to her. She is so patient. She has had a good test\\nin moving. I hope she can see as great a change in me\\nWhen you were here, you spoke of having a new\\nreputation in your father s family. Oh, how I wished\\nI could say the same, as my father and I had trouble\\nmore than four years ago, and we were as far from a\\nreconciliation as when the trouble first came up! You\\nremember I spoke of writing some letters of confession,\\none of which was to my father. He responded, saying\\nhe freely forgave all, and that he would come to see me.\\nTrue to his promise, he did come, although he had to\\ntravel four hundred miles. Thank the Lord, I now have\\na new reputation with my father and all the family.", "height": "4836", "width": "3196", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "POWER FOR WITNESSING.\\n39\\nPraise the Lord for victory; and for His keeping\\npower! It is blessed to take God at His word; He is\\ntrue. I can say to any who do not know the Lord, and\\nto those who know Him but have not the victory over\\nevery besetting sin, Believe, have complete victory, and\\ngo on your way rejoicing.\\nIX\\n44 SIN NO MORE\\nWell, says some one, if these are the qualifications\\nnecessary for receiving the Holy Ghost, I am afraid it\\nwill be a long time before I receive the witnessing power.\\nI have been struggling for years to overcome my beset-\\nting sins, and if I get on no faster in the future, it will be\\nyears before I receive that power, if I ever do. But\\nyou can get on faster. You have been trying to gain tKe\\nvictory by the long-time process of evolution. Give up\\nthe theory of evolution, and accept the Bible doctrine of\\ncreation. He spake, and it was done; He commanded,\\nand it stood fast. Let Him speak to you, and have it\\ndone, and done so that it will stand fast. Once Christ\\nspoke to a man and said, Sin no more, lest a worse\\nthing come unto thee. He did not say, Taper off by\\nthe process of evolution through a long series of years,\\nlest a w^orse thing come unto thee, but, Sin no more.\\nHe speaks the same words to you; and He wants you to\\nbelieve His word, and thereby be miraculously delivered\\nfrom your sinning. Did you think it was necessary for\\nyou to taper off, or sin a little, in order to keep you\\nfrom becoming exalted? Did you think you would\\nhave to fall into that same old sin occasionally, in order", "height": "4768", "width": "3084", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "\u00e2\u0096\u00a040\\nr FOR VFITXESSIXG.\\nthat you might receive the grace of forgiveness Shall\\nwe continue in sin, that grace may abound? God for-\\nbid. Hew snail we. that are dead to sin, live any longer\\ntherein? Rom. 6:1. 2. Reckon ye also yourselves\\nto be dead indeed unto sin. but alive unto God through\\nTesus Christ our Lord. Let not sin therefore reign in\\nyour mental body, that ye should obey it in the lusts\\nthereof. Neither yield ye your members as instruments\\nof unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto\\nGod. as these that are alive from the dead, and your\\nmembers as instruments or righteousness unto God.\\nFor sin shall not have dominion over you. Rom.\\n6:1. 2. 11-14.\\nReader, stop right here and in faith ask God to break\\nthe dominion of sin over you. You can get the victory\\nover every sin of which the Spirit has convinced you. in\\njust the time it takes you to believe that God tells the\\ntruth when He says that sin shall not have dominion\\nover you. What things soever ye desire, when ye\\npray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have\\nthem. Mark 11 124.\\nHasten and get the victory. Hasten to get something\\nto tell, and then you can ask God for power to tell it\\nfor the baptism of the Holy Ghost.\\nReader, if a drunkard should come to your church and\\napply for membership, stating the conditions on which\\nhe would become a member, as follows, would you re-\\nceive him? Listen, now, while he speaks, and decide:\\nI hereby mane application for membership in this\\nchurch. Eut these are the conditions, and the only con-\\nditions, on which I will become a member. I am what\\nis called a drunkard. For forty years I have been a\\nslave to drink. And it isn t to be exnected that I should", "height": "4832", "width": "3212", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "POWER FOR WITNESSING.\\n41\\nquit all at once. 1 am willing to try to taper off; but,\\nof course, I want plenty of time.\\nWhen I get drunk, I generally whip my wife and\\nbreak the furniture. Now I want this matter thor-\\noughly understood, so that after I am a member and I\\nget drunk and whip my wife there must be no attention\\npaid to it. I want it understood that I expect to get\\ndrunk and whip my wife for some time yet.\\nBut I will tell you what I will agree to do. Now, I\\nget drunk every day, but after I join the church I will\\nagree to be sober half a day the next w eek, and only be\\ndrunk six days and a half. Then, after a time, I will\\nkeep sober one whole day, and only be drunk six days.\\nAfter a time I will be sober two whole days, and only\\nget drunk five. Later, I will be sober three days and\\ndrunk four; and then, after a while but I want plenty\\nof time I will be sober four days and drunk only three\\ndays. Think of it, sober more than half of the time!\\nAfter a long time I will get the advantage of. this drink\\nhabit so that I will only get drunk and whip my wife on\\nSaturday nights. And after a few years I will make\\nsuch progress that I wall only get drunk on Christmas,\\nand New Year s, and Washington s Birthday, and Labor\\nDay, and the Fourth of July, and Thanksgiving Day.\\nNow, I have been forty years in forming this habit, and\\nit will, of course, take some years to get rid of it.\\nI make these statements so that after I join the\\nchurch and get drunk and beat my wife, as I expect to\\ndo, no member of the church will have any reason to\\nmake a fuss about it. Now, that it is distinctly under-\\nstood that I expect to continue to get drunk and whip\\nmy wife for a time after I join the church, I present my\\napplication for membership, and ask for an immediate\\nanswer.", "height": "4784", "width": "3068", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "42\\nPOWER FOR WITNESSING.\\nNow, reader, what will you do with this application?\\nWill you vote to receive this man into your church?\\nSo you unhesitatingly reject his application? Why\\ndo you refuse him membership? Because you don t\\nreceive drunkards and wife-beaters into the church?\\nBut what is the poor man to do?\\nStop drinking/ do you say? Stop all of a sudden?\\nDo you mean to say that you will vote to keep that man\\nout of the church until he stops drinking and beating\\nhis wife? But he has been forty years contracting that\\nhabit. So you still insist on his stopping that terrible\\nhabit instantly? Do you mean to say that there is power\\nenough in the gospel of Jesus Christ, which you profess,\\nto give this poor man instant and permanent victory\\nover his great enslaving sin, so he need not get drunk\\nand whip his wife any more forever? Your answer,\\nthen, is, Yes, emphatically, yes.\\nYou have answered well. Your decision to exclude\\nthe drunken wife-beater until he is regenerated, and re-\\nfuse to permit him to join the church and taper off, is a\\nwise and scriptural decision. But now what are you\\ngoing to do about your own case? What are you going\\nto do with that besetting sin of yours? How long are\\nyou going to be in tapering off your impatience, your\\nevil thinking and speaking, your cruel criticizing, your\\nfault-finding, your intemperance in eating, your pride of\\ndress, your self-esteem, your love of the world, your love\\nof worldly pleasure?\\nCan t you see that when you demand that the drunk-\\nard stop his drinking instantly, and declare that there is\\npower in the gospel to thus deliver him, you condemn\\nyourself, and are left yourself without excuse in con-\\ntinuing in your besetting sin another hour? And it w r as", "height": "4804", "width": "3196", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "POWER FOR WITNESSING.\\n43\\nto bring you face to face with this solemn fact that this\\nillustration was introduced. God can and God does\\ndeliver the drunkard and wife-beater instantly and per-\\nmanently, and this is an evidence that you can be de-\\nlivered instantly and permanently from your besetting\\nsin.\\nWhen you shall come to look upon it in its true sin-\\nfulness, and become as desirous of deliverance as the\\ndrunkard, and seek God as earnestly, praying in faith,\\nyou, too, can have as immediate and permanent a de-\\nliverance. Ask, and ye shall receive. Sin shall not\\nhave dominion over you. Go, and sin no more.\\nMore confirming testimony from correspondence:\\nI take pleasure in dropping you a few lines to tell\\nyou my experience since you left. I had a hard fight\\nwith the devil during all the meeting. I did not have\\nthat freedom that I desired. I could not say, with the\\napostle Paul, There is therefore now no condemnation\\nto them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after\\nthe flesh, but after the Spirit/ But thanks be to God,\\nwhich giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus\\nChrist. I praise the Lord that I have the victory over\\nmy besetting sin that has enslaved me for years; and\\nnow I can truly say that there is therefore now no con-\\ndemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus/ I en-\\njoy such freedom as I never before had in all my Chris-\\ntian experience.\\nBlessed are they which do hunger and thirst after\\nrighteousness; for they shall be filled/ I can say that\\nI have experienced that hungering and thirsting. Oh,\\npraise the Lord for victory! This last week has been", "height": "4796", "width": "3068", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "44\\n?c: .-r for ;r:-:;zssiyc\\nthe most pleasant week of all my life; for I am gaining\\nvictories daify. I am not satisfied with anything short\\nof having the fulness the blessed Spirit. I have rive::\\nm\\\\ T selt to Him to be used to His glory. I drop yon\\nthese lines, thinking they may be of some help to some\\nother poor soul who is in bondage. Oh, praise the\\nLord for victory!\\nlife. Complete victory is still my experience. As ex-\\nin my God; for He hath clothe: me ::h the garments\\nof salvation, He hath covered me with the robe of right-\\neousness. I have daily found great light and comfort\\nin reading the books of Isaiah, Acts, and Romans. Two\\nmonths ago I would have thought it an impossibility for\\nme ever to grasp so quickly these wonderful victories,\\nand to have such uninterrupted peace/*\\nX\\nSPEEDY DELIVERANCE\\nCne of those who respond\\nwas a middle-aged man, wh\\nchurch, was a great sinner,\\nice he came to me with this\\nsay that I can gain the vict\\ncompletely that I need nev\\nThat is just what I mean, 2\\nnever been a Christian, and\\nspairing reply. Not too\\ne: to the call to repentance,\\no, though a member of the\\n.-it the close the serv-\\nqnestion, Do yon mean to\\ncry ever a besetting sin so\\ntr commit that sin again? 5\\nI replied. Then I have\\nfast, my irieni. I replied.", "height": "4836", "width": "3208", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "POWER FOR WITNESSING.\\n45\\nAs for the past of your life, I can not speak; but as for\\nwhat God can do in the future, I know if you will make\\na complete consecration, He can and will save you from\\nyour besetting sins, and so completely that you need be\\nthe slave of them no more forever.\\nAs the meetings continued, he responded to every call\\nto repentance, as one sin after another was seen m the\\nlight of the Spirit-illumined Word. During the day he\\nwent from house to house, confessing his faults and\\nmaking restitution where he had wronged his neighbors.\\nConfessions were made in his home, husband to wife,\\nand wife to husband.\\nHis progress in spiritual things was astonishing.\\nEvery evening when opportunity was offered, he would\\nmake a confession to the congregation of some wrong\\nwhich concerned the public, and which the Spirit had\\nbrought to his mind during the day, and then tell of the\\nvictory he was gaining over the powers of darkness.\\nSuch deliverance must have astonished and aroused tKe\\nenemy, who counted upon him as forever ruined. At\\nlast Satan made a desperate effort to regain his control.\\nIn the midst of the evening discourse, the deceiver\\nsuddenly threw upon him the memory of his life of sin,\\nand ridiculed the idea of such a sinner ever being saved.\\nHe was staggered, then he doubted. Then the door\\nwas open for the devil, and he quickly followed his ad-\\nvantage with the suggestion that the only thing left was\\nself-destruction: and the man immediately arose and\\nstarted to leave the church to take his life. But the\\nenemy wished to use him to divert the minds of the con-\\ngregation from the discourse, and so he was thrown\\ndown in the aisle in a way to suggest the demon-\\npossessed young man described in Luke 9:42.", "height": "4784", "width": "3068", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "46\\nPOWER FOR WITNESSING.\\nHe was carried struggling and groaning into the\\nvestibule, where his distracting cries and struggles con-\\ntinued. With the combined strength of eight men he\\nwas overpowered and carried to his home, from which\\nhe later escaped into the open fields; here he was again\\ncaptured, and by the same number of men returned to\\nhis home.\\nSo completely was he subject to Satan that at his\\nsuggestion, he, to all appearance, ceased to breathe, and\\nthe report was accordingly circulated that he was dead.\\nBut he again revived.\\nAt the close of the service tw r o ministers went to the\\nhouse, and, taking him by the hand, rebuked his un-\\nbelief, which manifested itself in expressions of despair,\\nand quoted the promises of God. They were rewarded\\nby seeing the man delivered from the devil.\\nAt a following meeting he came into the congregation\\nand related his experience and praised the Lord for his\\ndeliverance, saying that no devil-possession recorded in\\nthe Scriptures was more real than his.\\nFrom that time his help in the meetings was most\\nvaluable. Besides his ringing testimony borne every\\nevening, which was always confirmed by that of his\\nfaithful wife, his personal work in talking and praying\\nwith sinners during the day and at the after service was\\na substantial aid to the work of the meetings.\\nHis confessions and restitutions continued, and ex-\\ntended to other neighborhoods. He went to Boston,\\nand there acknowledged wherein he had wronged sev-\\neral business firms with which he had dealt, and, not\\nhaving the money to make immediate restitution, he\\ngave them a list of his personal property, and told them\\nto help themselves and satisfy their claims.", "height": "4836", "width": "3192", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "POWER FOR WITNESSING.\\n47\\nHow did they treat your offer? I asked.\\nSome took more than was their due, while others\\ntook less/ he replied.\\nTo this day this brand plucked from the burning has\\ncontinued a faithful witness to the power of God to save\\nthe chief of sinners.\\nThe purpose in relating this experience is to show\\nhow quickly God can take a great sinner who is willing,\\nand give him complete and permanent deliverance from\\nthe dominion of Satan. The time it takes the Lord to\\naccomplish a complete salvation, is measured by that\\nman s promptness in responding to the convicting and\\nconverting power of God. Behold, the Lord s hand is\\nnot shortened, that it can not save; neither his ear heavy,\\nthat it can not hear; but your iniquities have separated\\nbetween you and your God, and your sins have hid His\\nface from you, that He will not hear. Isa. 59:1, 2.\\nOnly acknowledge thine iniquity. Jer. 3:13. If we\\nconfess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our\\nsins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.\\n1 John 1 :g. If the wicked restore the pledge, give\\nagain that he had robbed, walk in the statutes of life,\\nwithout committing iniquity; he shall surely live, he\\nshall not die. Eze. 33:15.\\nAt the close of a service conducted with the students\\nof an eastern academy, the preceptress brought a young\\nlady student to me with the request that I make an ef-\\nfort to help her. The conversation was substantially as\\nfollows\\nMinister If the Lord Jesus sat where I am sitting,\\nwhat would you ask Him for?\\nStudent I would ask Him for peace.\\nM. If He should offer you peace would you take it?", "height": "4780", "width": "3076", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "48\\nPOWER FOR WITNESSING.\\nS. I would.\\nM. Are you entirely surrendered to the Lord?\\n5. So far as I know, I am.\\nM. Do you believe the Bible?\\nS. Yes, indeed.\\nM. Do you believe it is the word of the Lord to you?\\nS. Yes, sir.\\nM. Read the twenty-seventh verse of the fourteenth\\nchapter of John. Read it aloud; I want to hear it.\\nRemember it is peace you want.\\nS. Peace I leave with you, My peace I give unto\\nyou; not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not\\nyour heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.\\nM. Do you believe that scripture?\\nS. I do\\nM. Then the Lord has given you peace, hasn t He?\\n5. He has.\\nM. Then let us kneel and thank Him for it.\\nAfter the prayer of thanksgiving, the young woman\\ndeparted with joy, and time has shown a stable, stead-\\nfast Christian.\\nThe two extracts from letters which follow are from\\nthe two parties referred to in this chapter:\\nThe Lord is still working for us at and new\\nvictories are being won every day. The Lord is leading\\nme, and giving me a burden for others. I am spending\\nmost of my time with those who have not yet obtained\\nthe victory, but who have become interested and want\\nto know more of the truth. I am growing stronger in\\nthe Lord every day. Praise His name that He can take\\nsuch a poor, weak sinner as I was, and so fill him with\\nthe Holy Ghost that the Lord can use him to help poor\\nsin-sick souls to gain the victory over Satan! I am so", "height": "4836", "width": "3200", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "POWER FOR WITNESSING.\\n49\\nglad that the Lord is no respecter of persons. The\\nLord has worked a miracle for me, and I praise Him for\\nit. The anchor holds. Glory to God, it holds! It is\\ngrounded on the solid rock of His salvation. I praise\\nthe Lord for His keeping power.\\nPraise the Lord, the anchor still holds! Oh, how\\nsweet to trust in Jesus, just to take Him at His word 1\\nThere is powxr in His Word, and I see new beauties\\nin John 14:27. I also know what Rom. 8:1 means.\\nThe Bible is a new book. I can not refrain from sing-\\ning praises to God continually. The peace of God\\npasses all understanding. When auntie asked me if I\\ndid not wish to have a little talk with you, I told her it\\nwould be of no use; but I see now how great a hold\\nSatan had on me. So who has a greater right to shout\\nvictory and praise to Jesus than I?\\nA fashionable young woman appeared in the congre-\\ngation at a revival meeting. She was conspicuous be-\\ncause of her millinery, which, while in good taste viewed\\nfrom the standpoint of the world, was in contrast with\\nthe plainer attire of most of the congregation.\\nI noticed her listening closely, but thought she was\\nonly a respectful transient visitor. She came again. I\\nsaid to myself, If that young woman continues to at-\\ntend the services, she will eventually leave that hat at\\nhome. And so it was. And then came a request for\\nan interview and for prayer. And what shall I pray\\nfor? I asked. Pray that the Lord will give me\\nstrength to surrender, was the response. I will, I\\n4", "height": "4776", "width": "3060", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "50\\nPOWER FOR WITNESSING.\\nreplied. But will you not join with me in this prayer? 1\\nI can not pray, was the reply. You certainly can\\nask God to help you surrender.\\nShe did not promise to do it, but I knelt and prayed.\\nAfter some time of silence she prayed one sentence,\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\na request for strength to surrender all. And it was\\ndone. And then there was great joy in that surren-\\ndered heart.\\nWhy can not I be healed? was the next question.\\nMy health is very poor. The answer was that she\\ncould if she had faith to be healed. She was given a\\nnumber of scriptures to study with the instruction that,\\nif faith came from hearing these scriptures, to call for\\nthe elders, and they would proceed according to the in-\\nstruction found in James.\\nLater she called for anointing and prayer. After a\\ncareful questioning to ascertain if she had faith to be\\nhealed, so that we might pray the prayer of faith,\\nwe prayed over her, anointing her with oil in the name\\nof the Lord. When the prayers were ended, and we\\nhad arisen, she remarked with a calm confidence, I be-\\nlieve I am healed, but I feel no change. Presently she\\nsaid, Let us kneel and thank the Lord for my healing.\\nSuch faith from one so newly converted was refresh-\\ning. She was asked to lead in the thanksgiving, which\\nshe did with a freedom and fervor which deeply im-\\npressed all present. When we again arose she quietly\\nremarked, Now I feel the healing power.\\nHer healing and feeling had followed her faith, and\\nnow she had healing and joy and peace in believing.\\nSome one may say, Now I know the formula; now I will\\npray for the Holy Spirit or for healing, and then get up\\nand say, I am filled, or I am healed, and it will be so. No;", "height": "4800", "width": "3232", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "POWER FOR WITNESSING.\\n51\\nsaying that it is so will not make it so. If it is said in\\nfaith, it is so but if it is said in form, it is not so. Faith\\nis not created by one s will-power. Faith comes by hear-\\ning the Word of God. And unless faith comes, the form-\\nula, the prayer, the anointing and the laying on of hands,\\nwill avail nothing.\\nIf any one lack faith let him continue to hear the Word.\\nAnd when faith comes, he will know it. He will not\\nneed anyone to tell him whether he has faith; and the\\nminister who is acquainted with faith will recognize that\\nfaith.\\nWhat is your trouble? was asked of a man who had\\nremained to the after- meeting. I want to be a Chris-\\ntian, but I am afraid to start for fear I will fall, was the\\nresponse.\\nIf the Lord should speak to you with an audible\\nvoice from heaven, and tell you not to fear, that He\\nwould hold you up, would you start? Yes, was the\\nanswer.\\nDo you believe that the Lord speaks to men through\\nthe Bible? I do. Do you believe that He speaks\\nto you? Yes. Then read the tenth verse of the\\nforty-first chapter of Isaiah and hear Him speak to you.\\nHe read: Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not\\ndismayed; for I am thy God. I will strengthen thee;\\nyea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the\\nright hand of My righteousness.\\nI will start, said the man, when he had finished\\nreading, and there appeared in his face a new-born con-\\nfidence in God s willingness and ability to uphold him.", "height": "4772", "width": "3060", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "52\\nPOWER FOR WITNESSING.\\nXI\\nPERSONAL EXPERIENCE IN RECEIVING\\nKEEPING POWER\\nThe writer wishes to bear witness to the faithfulness\\nof the Lord in fulfilling the promise of His Word, not\\nonly to forgive sin, but to keep us from falling back into\\nthe same old sins again.\\nHe has learned by experience that while the gift of\\nforgiveness of sins is a blessed gift, it is not the end but\\nonly the beginning of Christian experience. Many\\nshall be purified, and made white, and tried Dan.\\n12:10. After the taking away of sin. then comes the\\ntesting. After conversion, then character-building.\\nSome seem surprised that they should meet with great\\ntrial after conversion; but this is not strange. Think\\nit not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try\\nyou, as though some strange thing happened unto you.\\nWhen, after conversion. I met with sore temptation.\\nI was surprised and repeatedly overcome. I had learned\\nthe Lord s willingness to forgive, and would hasten to\\nconfess my sin and receive forgiveness, and start again\\nwith strong determinations and bright hopes, only to fail\\nagain. This sinning and repenting continued until I\\ngrew so tired out and so humbled by it, and so hungry for\\nvictory, that I was willing to be taught by the humblest\\ninstrument whom the Lord would use.\\nIn this condition of mind I was providentially led into\\na mission in one of our large cities. It was my plan to\\nremain a spectator, to secure what good I could, and\\ndepart without disclosing my identity.", "height": "4776", "width": "3208", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "POWER FOR WITNESSING.\\n53\\nThe leader of the meeting read a short scripture, made\\na few practical comments, and then began witnessing to\\nthe faithfulness of God to fulfil His promises. Three\\nyears ago to-night, said the speaker, k I came into this\\nmission a slave to drink. I was a bankrupt physically,\\nmorally, and financially. If salvation had cost only a\\ncent, I could not have gotten it. I had heard that a\\nman would find friends in the mission when all other\\nfriends had forsaken him. 1 listened to the testimony of\\nthe other men who said they had been saved from\\ndrunkards graves through faith in Jesus Christ, and I\\nmade up my mind to give myself to the Lord and ask\\nHim to save me; and I did, and He saved me. I have\\nnot drunk a drop of liquor, nor used tobacco, nor sworn\\nan oath since that night. My wife and children, who\\nhad been scattered by my life of drunkenness and sin,\\nhave been gathered again, and we are now a united\\nfamily. Morning and evening we have our family wor-\\nship, where we join in praising the Lord for His sal-\\nvation.\\nThe witnessing of this poor publican thrilled me\\nthrough and through. Hasn t touched a drop of liquor,\\nnor used tobacco, nor sworn an oath for three years!\\nThere is something permanent* I said to myself.\\nWhy can I not be saved from my besetting sins in that\\nsame way? Why can I not be saved from my impa-\\ntience with a salvation just as permanent as that?\\nThe witnessing of this man so thrilled me that I\\nseemed full of amens, but I did not intend to allow my\\nidentity to be known, and so smothered them.\\nI was raised in the Bowery, said another man, and\\nsold papers for a living, and slept in the alley and in the\\ndry-goods boxes. When I grew older, I stole for a liv-", "height": "4792", "width": "3064", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "54\\nPOWER FOR WITNESSING.\\ning, and then I gambled for a living, and drank and\\nfought and committed all the other sins which go along\\nwith such a life, until I was a wreck without hope. In\\nmy despair I came into this mission, just five years,\\nthree months, and twenty-one days ago to-night, where\\nI sought the Lord for salvation, and He saved me. I\\nhave not stolen, nor gambled, nor fought, nor drunk\\nsince that night. Praise the Lord! And what He has\\ndone for me, He will do for any sinner here.\\nThere, that is what I want; something permanent,\\nI thought to myself. Why can I not be saved from my\\nbesetting sins in just that way? Five years, three\\nmonths, twenty-one days! Why is he so definite about\\nthe time? He must greatly appreciate every day that\\nhe is saved from his old sins. Why don t I count my\\nsalvation by the day? I wonder if these poor fellows\\nreally appreciate their salvation more than I do. But\\nthey have been saved from such terrible lives, they ought\\nto be thankful. Then the reason why I am not more\\nthankful for my salvation is because I don t think my\\nsalvation is very remarkable, and the reason why it is\\nnot very remarkable is because I was not in need of a\\nvery remarkable salvation, because I have not been a\\nvery remarkable sinner. To whom little is forgiven,\\nthe same loveth little. Luke 7:47.\\nThen I found myself arm in arm with that other\\nPharisee who was found praying with that other pub-\\nlican in the temple. The Pharisee said, God, I thank\\nThee that I am not as other men are, extortioners, un-\\njust, adulterers or even as this publican.\\nThe publican said, God be merciful to me a sinner.\\nJesus said, I tell you, this man went down to his house\\njustified rather than the other. Luke 18:11, 13, 14.", "height": "4840", "width": "3200", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0060.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "POWER FOR WITNESSING.\\nThe one went away glorifying God for his salvation,\\nthe other remained glorifying himself in his self-\\nrighteousness. When I saw the company I was in, I\\nimmediately broke with the Pharisee, and moved closer\\nto the publican. I wanted a great salvation, I wanted\\nit at any cost.\\nFive years, eleven months, and sixteen days ago to-\\nnight, I came into this mission a ragged, penniless,\\nruined man. I had decided to throw myself in the river,\\nbut thought I would stop in here first. That night the\\nLord saved me from my drink and sin, and for over two\\nyears I was a sober man. But after I had secured a\\ngood position and began to wear good clothes, I -began\\nto think I was able to walk alone, and I let go of the\\nhand that had saved me and kept me, and I fell back into\\nthe old life again. But I knew I was down, and I knew\\nhow I was saved before. The Lord saved me again,\\nand has kept me ever since; and I don t let go of His\\nhand any more.\\nI w r anted to say, Amen, but again I smothered it.\\nPresently a woman arose, She was dressed in white.\\nSome friends had brought her a large bouquet of white\\nlilies, and had come to rejoice with her, and to celebrate\\nwith her the fifth anniversary of her salvation from a\\nlife of sin and shame.\\nFive years ago to-night, the young woman began,\\nI was rescued from a life of sin and shame. The Lord\\nsaved me from the street when I was engaged in the\\nwork of destroying the sons and daughters of fond\\nmothers. But the Lord found me, and washed me\\nclean in His own blood. I have since started a rescue\\nheme, and I am now giving my life to the work of res-\\ncuing my sisters from the life from which the Lord has", "height": "4784", "width": "3076", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0061.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "56\\nPOWER FOR WITNESSING.\\nrescued me. Oh, what a change He has wrought in\\nmy heart! Yesterday, with some Christian friends I\\nspent a day of recreation in the park, and, would you\\nbelieve it? I had entrusted, to me, during the day, twelve\\nlittle sweet-faced girls. Oh, think of it; that such a\\nwoman as I have been should be so cleansed and\\nchanged that mothers would be willing to trust me with\\nthe care of their innocent little ones! Praise the Lord\\nfor His love and saving power!\\nI could smother the amens no longer, and one es-\\ncaped, with a good church prayer-meeting fervor.\\nThe people looked around. I could hide my identity\\nno longer, but arose and said\\nBrethren and sisters, I am a preacher; but I see a\\nsalvation manifested here that I have not experienced.\\nBut I purpose to have it if I must get drunk, get ar-\\nrested, and sentenced to jail, and have some missionary\\ncome and teach me through the bars. I must have it at\\nany cost. The Lord is no respecter of persons. If He\\ncan save you from your besetting sins and keep you\\nsaved, He can save me from mine.\\nI went from this meeting to my home strongly im-\\npressed with God s power to save to the uttermost. I\\nlooked myself over in the light of the Word, and de-\\ncided that I was mean enough already; that I need not\\nsin any more in order to be a great sinner and obtain a\\ngreat salvation. I found my heart described in the\\nWord as desperately wicked, 1 and that a salvation from\\nsuch a desperately wicked heart would be a glorious\\nsalvation. Some of this wickedness had worked its way\\nout, and I had seen it, and was willing to take by faith\\nthe truthfulness of the Word for all that had not been\\nseen.", "height": "4840", "width": "3212", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0062.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "POWER FOR WITNESSING.\\n57\\nThen I found myself, in my own estimation, beside\\nthe penitent publican, and I too asked to be saved like\\nany other publican. I claimed salvation from my beset-\\nting sins by faith, just as the other publicans, and just as\\nI had claimed the forgiveness of sins on a former occa-\\nsion. I based my faith on the promise of the Word,\\nthat having yielded my members as instruments of\\nrighteousness unto God/ sin shall not have dominion\\nover you. Rom. 6:13, 14. I claimed it without any\\nother evidence except the promise of God. I claimed it\\nby faith. What things soever ye desire, when ye pray,\\nbelieve that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.\\nMark 11:24.\\nThen I went to the mission meeting and related my\\nexperience, and told them that I found I did not need\\nto become a drunkard to be bad enough to be in need of\\na great salvation; that I had found I w r as mean enough\\nalready, and, seeing this, I had sought salvation from\\nmy besetting- sins just like any other great sinner, and\\nhad found the Saviour who saves to the uttermost; and\\nfrom this time on I did not propose that any converted\\ndrunkard or harlot should ever excel me in praising the\\nLord for salvation.\\nThus, dear reader, did I learn through this humbling\\nexperience the secret of a great salvation. Only those\\nwho realize that they are great sinners will receive a\\ngreat salvation; but sin as seen nailing the Son of God\\nto the cross of Calvary, becomes exceedingly sinful.\\nRemember it was such a view of sin, a complete con-\\nsecration of all to God, and faith in the naked promise\\nof God to save to the uttermost, and keep the sinner\\nfrom falling, that wrought this deliverance.", "height": "4792", "width": "3092", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0063.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "58\\nPOWER FOR WITNESSING,\\nXII\\nHUMILITY, THEN GLORY\\nWhom He justified, them He also glorified. Rom.\\n8:30. Why is it that the message of justification by\\nfaith, or the blessing of Abraham, must be received be-\\nfore the promise of the Spirit, or the baptism of the Holy\\nGhost, can be received? Gal. 3:14. One reason is, that\\nthe reception of truth that we are made righteous and\\nkept righteous by faith, is a complete and everlasting de-\\nstruction to the thing which, above every other thing, is\\nkeeping the baptism of the Spirit from the church. That\\nthing is pride. Self-pride, family pride, church pride,\\nstate pride, national pride, it matters not in what form\\nit appears, pride is a barrier to the promise of the recep-\\ntion of the Spirit. But the reception of the gospel mes-\\nsage of righteousness by faith, is instant and eternal\\ndeath to all the pride of every human heart that fully\\nreceives it.\\nIf Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof\\nto glory; but not before God. If you could justify\\nyourself by your good works, you would have whereof\\nto glory; but you can not, and when you come to really\\nbelieve this, all self-glorying, all pride, will depart from\\nthe heart. For all have sinned, and come short of the\\nglory of God; being justified freely by His grace\\nthrough the redemption that is in Christ Jesus; whom\\nGod hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith\\nin His blood, to declare His righteousness for the re-\\nmission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of\\nGod; to declare, I say, at this time His righteousness;", "height": "4832", "width": "3212", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0064.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "POWER FOR WITNESSING.\\n59\\nthat He might be just, and the justifier of him which\\nbelieveth in Jesus. Where is boasting then? It is ex-\\ncluded Rom. 3:23-27.\\nAll boasting is excluded from that heart which has\\ncome to realize that righteousness is alone by faith.\\nBut why is this so? What is the divine philosophy of\\nit? Here it is: If righteousness is of faith, not of works,\\nthen it can not be earned; it must be begged. Justifica-\\ntion by faith, therefore, makes a beggar of every sinner,\\nand as all have sinned, it makes beggars of the whole\\nhuman race, rich and poor, high and low, wise and un-\\nwise. And when men and women are brought to the\\nplace where they feel their need so keenly that they will\\nhumble themselves to beg, it is to be expected that their\\npride is crucified.\\nWhen we seek to be justified by faith, we must come\\nto the Lord and acknowledge that we are unjust, that\\nwe are sinners, that we need to have our sins forgiven.\\nThis is humbling to the natural heart. By this coming\\nwe acknowledge that we can not make ourselves right-\\neous; can not forgive our own sins. If we could, we\\nwould not have come. And this, too, is humbling.\\nAnd when we come, we have to ask forgiveness as a\\nbeggar would have to ask for food at the door.\\nKnock, and it shall be opened unto you; ask, and it\\nshall be given you. And this, also, is humbling. And\\nshould we be asked what we have to pay for it, we must\\nreply that we haven t anything to pay, but that the Lord\\nJesus told us that if we would come and ask help in His\\nname, it would be given us free. And this is humbling,\\ntoo.\\nBut all this is but a small part of the humbling. We\\nmust ask for a fresh supply every day; we can not come", "height": "4800", "width": "3072", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0065.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "60\\nPOWER\\nFOR\\nWITNESSING.\\nand get a supply that will last forever, so that we can go\\naway and be independent of the Giver, and become\\nproud and self-righteous over what has been given us.\\nYYe are compelled to acknowledge that we can not keep\\nourselves from falling into those same sins for which we\\nhave been forgiven. We have to ask the Lord for daily\\nbread, for strength to keep us from falling, and tell Him\\nagain and again that we have nothing to pay, but the\\nSaviour told us to come and ask for keeping power in\\nHis name, and it would be given free. Yes,, we have to\\ncome and ask to be fed free ail the time, to become reg-\\nular charity boarders. And if we ever get the idea that\\nwe are earning our living, that we are not any longer\\ncharity boarders,, or. in other words, that we can keep\\nourselves from failing into our old sins, there must come\\na terrible fail, which, like David s, will break our bones,\\nand bring forcibly to mind the fact of our dependence\\non Him who alone is able to keep us from falling.\\nYes, the gospel truth that men are made righteous by\\nfaith, humbles the glory of man in the dust. It teaches\\nhim that he can not forgive his own past sins, but must\\ncome to the Lord and ask forgiveness, and must take it\\nby faith. It teaches him also that he can not keep him-\\nself from falling into those old sins again, and must\\ncome and ask for keeping power, and then believe that\\nhe receives it, and be thankful for it.\\nReader,, has the gospel of righteousness by faith done\\nthis work of humbling for you: Is all your pride cruci-\\nfied? Is your own glory in the dust? Are you ready\\nto be glorified with power from on high Should you\\nbe baptized with the Holy Ghost for witnessing power,\\ncould you keep humble while the multitude looked on in\\nwonder and amazement? Should the cripple be healed.", "height": "4836", "width": "3200", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0066.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "POWER FOR WITNESSING.\\n61\\nand begin leaping and shouting, and the people flock\\naround and look at you with awe and admiration,\\nwould you say from the heart, Why look ye so earnestly\\non us, as though by our own power or holiness we had\\nmade this man to walk?\\nWould you point them to the Lamb of God, that tak-\\neth away the sin of the world? The gospel of right-\\neousness as a free gift is sent to you to humble you and\\nprepare you to be glorified.\\nThere is much being written and spoken to-day con-\\ncerning the Holy Spirit. Many prayers are offered at\\nconventions and conferences for the baptism of the Holy\\nSpirit. But God is merciful and does not grant the\\nrequest, because to do so would be to bring ruin to the\\nreceiver. Should the Lord grant apostolic power to\\none who is proud, he would thereby feed that pride. A\\nproud man with power is a foe to himself, his God, and\\nhis fellows. Satan is a startling example of the results\\nof pride with power.\\nGod is anxious to baptize men and women with the\\nHoly Ghost and power. But they must first be hum-\\nble. The apostles were men from the humble walks of\\nlife, but still they had to be humbled. Paul s converts\\nwere men who were led to turn from the foolish things\\nof the world, but he exhorted them to humility thus:\\nFor ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many\\nwise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many\\nnoble, are called; but God hath chosen the foolish\\nthings of the world to confound the wise; and God\\nhath chosen the weak things of the world to confound\\nthe things which are mighty; and base things of the\\nworld, and things which are despised, hath God chosen,\\nyea, and things which are not, to bring to naught", "height": "4796", "width": "3076", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0067.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "62\\nPOWER FOR WITNESSING.\\nthings that are; that no flesh should glory in His presence.\\nBut of Him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made\\nunto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification,\\nand redemption; that, according as it is written, he that\\nglorieth, let him glory in the Lord. I Cor. 1:26-31.\\nBut God, who is rich in mercy, for His great love\\nwherewith He loved us, even when we were dead in sins,\\nhath quickened us together with Christ (by grace ye\\nare saved) and hath raised us up together, and made us\\nsit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus; that in\\nthe ages to come He might show the exceeding riches\\nof His grace in His kindness toward us through Christ\\nJesus. For by grace are ye saved through faith; and\\nthat not of yourselves; it is the gift of God; not of works,\\nlest any man should boast. Eph. 2:4-9. For who\\nmaketh thee to differ from another? and what hast thou\\nthat thou didst not receive? now if thou didst receive it,\\nwhy dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it?\\n1 Cor. 4:7.\\nWhile pride is the sin above every other sin that is\\nkeeping the baptism of the Holy Spirit away from men\\nand women, yet it is easy for God to destroy it. Ask\\nHim to do it. Believe that He does it, and it is done.\\nAccept of righteousness by faith, and you will be hum-\\nbled. When humbled, you are ready to be exalted with\\npower from on high. 1 Peter 5:6.", "height": "4840", "width": "3196", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0068.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "POWER FOR WITNESSING.\\n63\\nXIII\\nTHE SPIRIT IN SANCTIFICATION\\nShe had prayed earnestly to the Lord to show her the\\ntrue condition of her heart. When He gave her a\\nglimpse of its real condition, though a Christian worker\\nshe immediately went into hopeless despair, and a stupor\\nwith an alarming indifference took possession of her.\\nAt this point, with other ministers I was requested\\nby her friends to visit her. Our earnest inquiry called\\nout the foregoing facts, but all efforts to get her to seek\\nthe Lord for deliverance failed for a time. A part of the\\nconversation was in substance as follows:\\nMinister So you asked the Lord to show you the\\nsinfulness of your heart?\\nWoman Yes.\\nM. And He heard your prayer and revealed your\\nsinfulness?\\nW.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Yes.\\nM. Why did you sink into this discouragement?\\nW. Because I despaired of ever being saved from my\\nsinfulness.\\nM. But did you not ask Him to show you your sin-\\nfulness?\\nW. Yes.\\nM. Is not your despair the result of your doubting\\nthe power and love of God to save you from the sins\\nyou asked Him to show you?\\nW. I presume it is.\\nM. Have you not sinned in doubting God s love and\\npower?", "height": "4792", "width": "3100", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0069.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "64\\nPOWER FOR WITNESSING.\\nW. I presume I have.\\nM. Will you repent of that sin?\\nW. I can t.\\nM. Will you kneel here, and ask the Lord to forgive\\nyou for doubting His love?\\nW. I can not pray.\\nAll these answers were made in a dazed, indifferent\\nway.\\nAfter much urging, the woman knelt. But she\\nseemed unable to pray. Though a Christian worker,\\nshe seemed powerless to pray the simplest prayer. She\\nwas asked to repeat this prayer, O Lord, forgive me\\nfor doubting Thy love.\\nBefore she had finished the sentence, the spell was\\nbroken, and she wept tears of repentance, from eyes\\nwhich before were dry and hopeless, while the minister\\nfinished the sentence with a prayer of thanksgiving.\\nA marvelous transformation followed, and hope and\\njoy returned. We may indeed thank the Lord that He\\ndoes not reveal to us all of our imperfections at once.\\nWill you not come and speak with a young woman,\\nwho, I fear, is losing her interest in the meetings? was\\na request which came to me at the close of a service in\\nthe west.\\nIn response to an inquiry, the young woman related\\nhow, the day before, she sought the Lord with others at\\nthe revival service, and had found forgiveness and peace.\\nBut while still kneeling, the Lord had revealed a sacri-\\nfice which He called upon her to make; but she was not\\nwilling to surrender her idol, and she charged God with\\na lack of love in calling upon her so quickly to make\\nthis surrender. He ought to have waited until I was\\nstronger, she boldly declared.", "height": "4836", "width": "3200", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0070.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "POWER FOR WITNESSING.\\n65\\nAll attempts to renew her interest in her salvation\\nwere futile. She had refused to permit the Lord to lead\\nher further. She had grieved the Spirit by her rebel-\\nlion, and she was left without conviction.\\nHow careful the Lord is in the work of wooing\\nthe sinner from his sins, and yet with all His love and\\nwisdom many refuse to be led in the path of self-denial.\\nBible sanctification is a progressive work. We can\\nnot bear to see all of our wrong-doing at once; and no\\nwrong-doing will ever be righted until the wrong-doer\\nis able to see the wrong-doing as wrong, and deliberately\\ndecide against it and seek God for deliverance from it.\\nGod does not arbitrarily deliver us from sin. God does\\nnot deliver us from sin without our knowledge, consent,\\nand cooperation. How could He? How could I be\\nsaved from wrong-doing while not knowing it to be\\nwrong? If I do not know a thing to be wrong, I must\\nregard it as right. How can God ever save me from a\\nwrong-doing which I consider right-doing, unless He can\\nfirst show me that the thing is wrong? Perfect sancti-\\nfication necessitates perfect knowledge of right and\\nwrong. The acquiring of this knowledge requires time.\\nIt is gained by experience, by exercise, or training. All\\nthis is taught in the following scripture:\\nFor when by reason of the time ye ought to be\\nteachers, ye have need again that some one teach you\\nthe rudiments of the first principles of the oracles of\\nGod; and are become such as have need of milk, and\\nnot of solid food. For every one that partaketh of milk\\nis without experience of the word of righteousness; for\\nhe is a babe. But solid food is for full-grown men, even\\nthose who by reason of use have their senses exercised\\nto discern good and evil/ Heb. 5:12-14, R. V.\\n5", "height": "4792", "width": "3092", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0071.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "66\\nPOWER FOR WITNESSING.\\nA full-grown man, therefore, is a man of experience;\\none who, because of having used his spiritual faculties,\\nhas them exercised, or trained, to discern good and evil.\\nAll this proves that we must be able to discern evil be-\\nfore we shall be able or willing to put it away. And this\\nperfect discernment is the fruit of experience, or spirit-\\nual exercise. It can not all be acquired in a moment.\\nOur Lord spoke the gospel to the people as they were\\nable to hear it. And to His disciples He said, I have\\nyet many things to say unto you, but ye can not bear\\nthem now. John 16:12. Just as fast as any man is\\nable to bear the truth, God will reveal it to him, and just\\nas fast as he is able to receive the truth, just so fast is\\nhe being sanctified by it. It is the office of the Holy\\nSpirit to guide men into all truth by revealing to them\\nthe word of truth. Sanctify them through Thy truth;\\nThy Word is truth. John 17:17. When He, the\\nSpirit of truth, is come, He will guide you into all truth;\\nfor He shall not speak of Himself; but whatsoever He\\nvshall hear, that shall He speak. John 16:13.\\nBut while sanctification is a progressive work, for the\\nreason that man is not able to bear the sight of all his\\nimperfections at once, yet the deliverance from an im-\\nperfection which the Lord has revealed is not a progress-\\nive but an instantaneous work. To illustrate: When\\nthe Lord convicts men that the use of tobacco is sinful,\\nHe does not want them to taper off. He does not in-\\ntend that they shall continue for a moment to do, in the\\nsmallest particular, that which they know to be sin. ^If\\nI had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had\\nsin; but now they have no excuse for their sin. John\\n15:22, R. V. Jesus said unto them, If ye were blind,\\nye should have no sin; but now ye say, We see; there-", "height": "4832", "width": "3212", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0072.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "POWER FOR WITNESSING.\\n67\\nfore your sin remaineth. John 9:41. Therefore to\\nhim that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him\\nit is sin. James 4:17.\\nThere is therefore no excuse for any one s continu-\\ning in a sin which he has been shown by the Spirit to be\\nsin. God says that he is without excuse. And the rea-\\nson that he is without excuse, is that when God gives\\na knowledge of sin, He always furnishes with that\\nknowledge the power to triumph over sin. The law\\ncame in beside, that the trespass might abound; but\\nwhere sin abounded, grace did abound more exceed-\\ningly; that, as sin reigned in death, even so might grace\\nreign through righteousness unto eternal life through\\nJesus Christ our Lord. What shall we say then?\\nShall w r e continue in sin, that grace may abound? God\\nforbid. We who died to sin, how shall we any longer\\nlive therein? Rom. 5:20, 21 6:1, 2, R. V.\\nReader, are you walking in the light? Are you gain-\\ning victories at every step, and are you stepping fast?\\nThe Spirit exhorts us thus: Wherefore let us cease to\\nspeak of the first principles of Christ, and press on unto\\nperfection; not laying again a foundation of repentance\\nfrom dead works. Heb. 6:1, R. V. God has planned\\nthat the Christian experience shall be one long series of\\nglorious victories over the world, the flesh, and the\\ndevil, from Christian birth to Christian perfection.\\nWhen, in our upward march, a hitherto undiscovered\\nsin appears in the path of progress, there is no excuse\\nfor ever being overcome by that sin again, nor for being\\nhalted by it for a moment. The God who points out the\\nsin, furnishes power, in response to faith, for instant and\\neverlasting victory over that sin. There is therefore\\nnow no condemnation to them which are in Christ", "height": "4780", "width": "3092", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0073.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "68\\nPOWER FOR WITNESSING.\\nJesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.\\nFor the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made\\nme free from the law of sin and death. Rom. 8:1, 2.\\nXIV\\nTHE HOLY SPIRIT AND THE UNPARDONABLE SIN\\nNot only is there no excuse for continuing in sin after\\nit is known to be sin, but it is a fearfully dangerous thing\\nto do. This habit of sinning and repenting, this going\\nforward and backsliding involves the committing of\\nthe unpardonable sin.\\nThe apostle, after telling the Hebrews that they\\nneeded to be taught again the first principles of Chris-\\ntian experience, when, considering the time they had\\nconfessed Christ, they ought to be teachers of others,\\nurges them to press on unto perfection. The reason\\nfor this earnest exhortation is given in these solemn\\nwords which follow: For it is impossible for those who\\nwere once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly\\ngift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, and\\nhave lasted the good word of God, and the powers of\\nthe world to come, if they fall away, to renew them again\\nunto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the\\nSon of God afresh, and put Him to an open shame.\\nFor the earth which drinketh in the rain which cometh\\noft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by\\nwhom it is dressed, receiveth blessing from God but that\\nwhich beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh\\nunto cursing; whose end is to be burned. Heb. 6:4-8.\\nGod does not arbitrarily reject any sinning soul.", "height": "4804", "width": "3220", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0074.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "POWER FOR WITNESSING.\\n69\\nWhen the oft-repeated showers of His grace produce no\\npermanent fruit, but in the place of fruit there appear\\nonly thorns and thistles, there is nothing left but rejec-\\ntion and burning. Reader, have you been enlightened\\nabout your besetting sins? Have you tasted the Word\\nof God, its cleansing and keeping power? Do you\\nknow how to be victorious through faith in His prom-\\nise? Have you experienced this victory? Then it is a\\nfearfully dangerous thing for you to backslide and bear\\nbriers and thorns. If we bear thorns when we know\\nthey are thorns, and when we know the power of God\\nto bear the fruits of the Spirit, what more can God\\ndo than He has done to save us from the thorns? What\\npossible course is left to God but rejection and destruc-\\ntion? All He has to produce the fruits is showers; but\\nafter all the showers only thorns! The whole matter is\\nsummed up in this one sentence, Press on or perish.\\nBackslidings must end. Sinning must cease. But still\\nthere is hope, yes, hope for those who by reason of\\nthe time they have been professing Christians ought to\\nbe teachers, and are still in need of being taught the first\\nprinciples of Christian experience.\\nIt was to this very class of backsliders that the Word\\nwas speaking when it urged them to press on unto per-\\nfection. To these very backsliders it expressed hope;\\nto these who were so very near to committing the un-\\npardonable sin it says, But, beloved, we are persuaded\\nbetter things of you, and things that accompany salva-\\ntion, though we thus speak. Heb. 6:9.\\nBeloved, let us press on unto perfection. We must\\npress on or perish. But how shall I press on? If you\\nare not pressing on, it is because you have come up to\\nsome test in your life, and failed to meet that test and", "height": "4784", "width": "3100", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0075.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "70\\nPOWER FOR WITNESSING.\\novercome through faith in the promise of God to give\\nyou the victory. What is that test? What is that sin\\nyou have failed to put away by the power of God? Or,\\nif it be more than one, what are those sins? Confess\\nthem to God. If they are sins that have wronged\\nothers, confess your faults one to another. Do it\\nnow. If the wronged ones can not be reached in per-\\nson, write them a letter of confession. Do it quickly.\\nThe devil says, Put it oft; the Spirit says. Do it to-\\nday. Having confessed your wrongs, ask to be for-\\ngiven. You have the promise of God that, this done, He\\nwill forgive. With the forgiveness, ask also for power\\nto overcome your besetting sins. Ask, and ye shall re-\\nceive. This is the victory that overcometh the world,\\neven our faith. What things soever ye desire, when\\nye pray, believe ye receive them, and ye shall have\\nthem. It is so if you believe it Do not wait to feel\\nthat you are made whole. But say, I believe it; not\\nbecause I feel it. but because God has promised it.\\nHaving done this, now bear testimony that it is done.\\nIf you believe the promise\u00e2\u0080\u0094 believe that you are for-\\ngiven and cleansed God supplies the fact; you are made\\nwhole.\\nXV\\nSECRET OF REJOICING IN TRIBULATION\\nWe are commanded to rejoice in tribulation. This\\ndoes not mean that we must rejoice in tribulation in the\\nsense of enjoying tribulation, for we are told in another\\nplace that all chastening seemeth for the present to be\\nnot joyous, but grievous. Heb. 12:11, R. V. It is", "height": "4804", "width": "3228", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0076.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "POWER FOR WITNESSING.\\n71\\npresented as something to be endured if ye endure\\nchastening not something to be enjoyed. We are to\\nrejoice while in tribulation, but not in tribulation itself.\\nBut why are we to rejoice while in tribulation? Be-\\ncause of what the tribulation is accomplishing for us.\\nTribulation worketh patience; and patience, experi-\\nence; and experience, hope. Rom. 5:3, 4. No one\\nhas any real enduring hope of salvation either for him-\\nself or any one else unless he has endured tribulation,\\nand thereby obtained an experience.\\nExperience is the Christian s capital. It is more\\nprecious than gold that perishes. The fiercer the\\nflame, the purer the gold; so the more testing the trial,\\nthe more precious the experience. Reader, how much\\nof this gold have you in heaven s bank? Do you not\\ngreatly rejoice over what you have? If what you have\\nmakes you so happy, ought you not to be happy over\\nthe prospect of getting more? If you really knew that\\nyou were right in the act of getting more of this gold\\nof experience, ought you not to be glad? Were you not\\nglad the last time you w r ere so sorely tempted to be\\nimpatient, selfish, or proud, or envious, or unclean in\\nthought or act, that you had a glorious opportunity to\\nstand the trial and thus add another victory to your\\nstock of experience? Then, do not ever again be sur-\\nprised that you are tested. Some think it so strange\\nthat they should be tried. It would be strange if they\\nwere not tried. A Christian without trials would be,\\nindeed, a strange Christian. Christian experience\\ngrows fat feeding on trials. You may as well try to\\nrear a child without food, as to gain an experience with-\\nout trials. Caleb and Joshua understood this when they\\ntold the children of Israel that the trials they must meet", "height": "4788", "width": "3100", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0077.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "72\\nPOWER FOR WITNESSING,\\nwere bread for them. Well, then, beloved, think it\\nnot strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you,\\nas though some strange thing happened unto you; but re-\\njoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ s suffer-\\nings; that, when His glory shall be revealed, ye may be\\nglad also with exceeding joy. i Peter 4:13.\\nAnother great reason for rejoicing in tribulation is\\nfound in the fact that the Lord has full charge of train-\\ning us through trial. Did you think the devil had con-\\ntrol of your trials? If you did. you are greatly mis-\\ntaken. All our trials come from the Lord. But does\\nnot the Bible say that God tempteth no man? Certainly\\nit does, but there is a wide difference between tempta-\\ntion and trial. Satan tempts to tear down and destroy.\\nThe Lord tries us to build us up and make us strong.\\nSome cf Satan s temptations are allowed to come to us\\nto try us. Only those temptations are allowed to come\\nto us as trials which the Lord sees are needed as\\ntrials to strengthen us. The Lord stands between us\\nand the temptations of Satan, and tests each temptation,\\nand only permits those to pass Him and come to us\\nwhich will be beneficial as trials to strengthen our faith.\\nIf we are walking in the light, no temptation will ever\\ncome to us from Satan, which has not first been care-\\nfully inspected and measured by Him who knoweth\\nour frame/ and remembereth that we are dust, and\\nwho knows whether He can strengthen us to bear it,\\nand thereby build us up.\\nAll this being true, how dare we murmur at an} trial\\nthat ever comes to us? If we murmur, against whom\\nshall we murmur? Since all our trials are permitted of\\nthe Lord, it follows that if we do any murmuring we\\nmust murmur against the Lord. But if we are unwill-", "height": "4836", "width": "3212", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0078.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "POWER FOR WITNESSING.\\n73\\ning to murmur against Him, then all murmuring must\\ncease forever. All murmuring against members of the\\nfamily, against members of the church, against neigh-\\nbors, or against any one else on earth, living or dead,\\nmust cease forever, and all our murmurings must be\\nmade at the throne of God, from whence all our trials\\ncome. Here is positive proof that all this is so. Paul,\\nwriting to the Corinthians, warns against murmuring\\nlike the Israelites, who were destroyed, and then adds:\\nThere hath no temptation taken you but such as is\\ncommon to man; but God is faithful, who will not suffer\\nyou to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with\\nthe temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may\\nbe able to bear it. I Cor. 10:13.\\nIt was the Lord who led Israel to the Red Sea, where\\nthey were walled in by the mountains. It was the Lord\\nwho permitted the Egyptian army to close up the trap,\\nand leave no human possibility of escape. God led the\\nIsraelites into this trial to strengthen their faith and\\ngive them an experience.\\nUp to the Red Sea experience they had walked by\\nsight. God had first wrought the miracle before ask-\\ning them to believe; but we walk by faith, not by\\nsight. And he who has not learned to trust God when\\nhe can not understand how he is to be delivered, has no\\nenduring experience. Israel murmured because they\\ncould not see their way clear. They thought that some\\nstrange thing happened to them, and did not understand\\nthat God was giving them a trial, to teach them to trust\\nHim, and consequently they murmured against God.\\nAfter they had failed to get the needed experience out\\nof this trial, the Lord tried them again. He led them\\ninto the wilderness, where there was no water fit to", "height": "4800", "width": "3100", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0079.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "74\\nPOWER FOR WITNESSING.\\ndrink. The Lord knew that the water was bitter. The\\nLord knew that they were thirsty. The Lord led them\\nthere because He wanted them there. The Lord led\\nthem to this place to teach them to trust Him in a trial\\nwhich they could not understand. They did not see\\nthat the Lord had led them into this trial to deepen their\\nexperience. They thought another strange thing had\\nhappened to them, hence they murmured again. The\\nLord continued to give them trials through which they\\nwere to become partakers of His holiness; but most of\\nthem continued to complain of the trials until their car-\\ncasses fell in the wilderness.\\nReader, all these things were written to save you from\\nthinking it strange concerning the fiery trials which are\\nto try you, as though some strange thing happened unto\\nyou. Now T all these things happened unto them for\\nensamples; and they are zvritten for our admonition, upon\\nwhom the ends of the world are come: I Cor. 10:11.\\nLet us therefore be admonished by the fatal mistake of\\nthe murmuring; Israelites, and expect that we shall be\\nbrought to Red Seas of difficulty and bitter waters of\\ntrial; and when there, we are not to think it strange\\nconcerning the fiery trials which are to try us, as though\\nsome strange thing happened unto us, but rejoice inas-\\nmuch as we are partakers of Christ s suffering.\\nThe Lord knew how vital to Christian life and growth\\ntrials are, and how natural it would be to regard them\\nas strange, and consequently to murmur at them; hence\\nthe Lord has plainly and positively stated that it is He\\nHimself that chastises, and that it is an experience\\nwhereof all are partakers, that we might be partakers\\nof His holiness. Heb. 12:5-13. Now, beloved, for-\\never remember that you must be tried, and forever re-", "height": "4832", "width": "3212", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0080.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "POWER FOR WITNESSING.\\n75\\nmember that the Lord Himself has complete control of\\nthe trials which are to try you, and that He will not\\nsuffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will\\nwith the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye\\nmay be able to bear it. i Cor 10:13. If you will re-\\nmember this truth, your hands will no longer hang down\\nwith discouragement, nor your knees tremble with\\nweakness, nor your path be crooked with failure.\\nIn writing this I am not writing theory; I am writing\\nlife. These things are a part of my life, a part of my\\nexperience; I write them for the salvation of others,\\nbecause they have become my salvation.\\nHere are two witnesses to the truth that one may glory\\nin tribulation, quoted from letters received:\\nChrist is all in all. I praise Him continually for\\nwhat He is doing in my heart, and not only that, but for\\nwhat He does for others. The way is not always easy\\nbut, praise the Lord, He is ever a present help in time\\nof need. My courage is good in the Lord. Praise the\\nLord for His Spirit, that keeps me at all times! Praise\\nthe Lord, the anchor still holds!\\nPraise God, the anchor holds! To-day I especially\\npraise God for His keeping power. Thus far He has\\nkept me from falling; and I know He will keep me in\\nthe future, because He has said He w r ould, and I am\\nstanding on His promises. I praise God for tempta-\\ntions; for I become stronger with every temptation.", "height": "4792", "width": "3148", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0081.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "76\\nPOWER FOR WITNESSING,\\nXVI\\nANOTHER REASON FOR REJOICING IN\\nTRIBULATION\\nThere is still another reason for rejoicing in tribula-\\ntion, which is the chief of all reasons. It is the reason\\nwhich produces the highest type of rejoicing; it is the\\njoy of heaven. Reader, would you not be satisfied with\\nthe joy that makes heaven rejoice? It is a reason for\\nrejoicing from which all selfishness is separated. Here\\nis the reason:\\nBlessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus\\nChrist, the Father of mercies, and the God of all com-\\nfort; who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we\\nmay be able to comfort them which are in any trouble,\\nby the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted\\nof God. For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us,\\nso our consolation also aboundeth by Christ. 2 Cor.\\ni:3-5.\\nThere is no joy so great as bringing comfort to the\\ncomfortless. It is the joy that brought Christ to earth.\\nIn announcing His mission He read this: The Spirit\\nof the Lord God is upon Me; because the Lord hath\\nanointed Me to preach good tidings unto the meek; He\\nhath sent Me to bind up the broken-hearted, to pro-\\nclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the\\nprison to them that are bound; to comfort all\\nthat mourn. Isa. 61:1, 2. It was this joy that en-\\ncouraged the Lord along the path of suffering. For\\nthe joy that was set before Him, He endured the\\ncross, despising the shame. Heb. 12:2.", "height": "4840", "width": "3212", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0082.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "POWER FOR WITNESSING.\\n77\\nReader, were you ever instrumental in bringing com-\\nfort to a sorrowing heart? Were you ever used of the\\nLord to lift the burden of the guilt of sin from a heart\\nthat was being crushed in despair? If so, you shared in\\nthe joy of heaven. I say unto you, that likewise joy\\nshall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more\\nthan over ninety and nine just persons, which need no\\nrepentance/ Luke 15 7. Did you ever see the shadow\\nof a great secret sorrow driven from the face of a sin-\\nning man or woman by the bright beams of the Sun of\\nRighteousness as He arose with healing in His wings?\\nHave you ever been used of the Lord to bring hope and\\nstrength and victory to a discouraged, defeated, despair-\\ning daughter of the Most High? Have you ever de-\\nlivered a bruised, beaten, backslidden brother from the\\nbondage of sin and death? If you are a stranger to all\\nthis, then there is a joy unspeakable that you may yet\\nenjoy. But you can never share it until you have gotten\\nan experience which will enable you to testify from per-\\nsonal experience that God can do all this for the chief\\nof sinners.\\nAnd now since you are able to comfort others in their\\ntrouble only so far as you have experienced the fiery\\ntrials yourself, and come forth from them more than\\nconqueror through Him that loved us, why should you\\nthink it strange concerning the fiery trials which are to\\ntry you, as though some strange thing had happened\\nunto you? Why not rejoice that you are a partaker of\\nChrist s sufferings, that you may be a partaker of His\\nglory, which is none other than to bind up the broken-\\nhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the\\ncomforting of all that mourn? Why should you mur-\\nmur when you are tried, when you know only so far as", "height": "4792", "width": "3120", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0083.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "78\\nPOWER FOR WITNESSING.\\nyou have been tried and comforted are you able to com-\\nfort them that are in any trouble?\\nI want to witness here to the power of this truth in my\\nown life. When it entered my heart, it brought a new\\njoy and a new power to endure temptation. For the\\njoy that is set before me of being better able to comfort\\nall that mourn, I endure the cross, despising the shame,\\nknowing that as the sufferings of Christ abound in me,\\nso my consolation also abounds by Christ. When\\ntempted to depart from the path of holiness, there\\npasses before me the sinning, sorrowing multitude for\\nwhich I will have no word of hope, no comforting mes-\\nsage, if I fall under sin. For unless I am kept from\\nfalling, I shall be unable to tell others of His keeping\\npower; for I am unable to tell with power any truth of\\nthe Word which is not made flesh and become a part of\\nmy life. The life is the light of men.\\nWhen I compare the enjoyment of sin for a season\\nwith the eternal, unspeakable joy of binding up the\\nbroken-hearted and comforting all that mourn, I say,\\nHow can I sell such a birthright for a mess of pottage\\nReader, can you not, and will you not from this time,\\nrejoice in tribulation, knowing that tribulation worketh\\npatience, patience experience, and experience hope, a\\nhope that you will not be ashamed of, but will tell for\\nthe comfort and salvation of a sinning, sorrowing, suf-\\nfering world? Forever remember, when you are in trial,\\nthat the trial is not alone for your good, that you may\\nbe a partaker of His holiness, but that you are suffering\\nfor the salvation of the whole sinning world; you are\\nsuffering trial that you may obtain an experience which\\nyou can tell for the salvation of sinning men.\\nTherefore look beyond your own salvation while", "height": "4832", "width": "3212", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0084.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "POWER FOR WITNESSING.\\n79\\nsuffering affliction. Look, like Jesus, to the joy set be-\\nfore you of seeing others saved through your witness\\nthat the Lord is able to save to the uttermost. Forever\\nremember that as the sufferings of Christ abound in\\nus, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ.\\n2 Cor. 1:5.\\nXVII\\nFIRST A HOLY CHURCH, THEN THE HOLY GHOST\\nThe Holy Spirit, in His office of witness, as manifested\\non the day of Pentecost, belongs to, and is given to, the\\nchurch. As lungs to breathing, so is the church to the\\nHoly Ghost. It is true that it is the globule, or lung-\\ncell, which receives the air; but God fitly joined to-\\ngether and compacted these individual cells into lungs,\\nbefore He breathed into them the breath of life; and\\nthus fitly joined together, these cells perform a function\\nwhich they could not perform separated. It is also true\\nthat the Holy Ghost is given to each one, as on the\\nday of Pentecost; but all must be of one accord, or\\nfitly joined together in one body, as was the church\\nthen, with the Achans and Judases cleansed out, before\\nthey can manifest the fulness of the witnessing power\\nwhich God has given to the church.\\nThe church is the habitation of God through the\\nSpirit; or, in other words, God inhabits the church by\\nmeans of His representative, the Holy Spirit. The in-\\ndividual members are all fitly framed together into\\nan holy temple, for an habitation of God through the\\nSpirit. Eph, 2:21, 22. And the gifts of the Spirit,\\nwhich are the demonstrations of the power of the Holy", "height": "4788", "width": "3156", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0085.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "80\\nPOWER FOR WITNESSING.\\nSpirit for service, for witnessing, are given to the\\nchurch. God hath set some in the church, first apostles,\\nsecondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that mir-\\nacles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversi-\\nties of tongues. All these are gifts of the Spirit, and\\nGod hath set them in the church, i Cor. 12:28.\\nSome will admit all this but say that it is the invisible\\nchurch, or body of Christ, to whom the fulness of the\\nHoly Spirit is given; that, therefore, a visible or organ-\\nized church is not necessary. But this is a mistake. It\\nwas a visible, organized church which received the power\\nfrom on high on the day of Pentecost. It was a church\\nwhich Christ had organized, but it w T as nevertheless\\norganized and visible. Christ said, The gates of hell\\nshall not prevail against My church; and He shows\\nthe church to be a visible, responsible body, which can\\nhear of the trespassing of obstinate members and speak\\nauthoritatively to such members. Matt. 18:15-18.\\nThe writer is positive that he is able to point out the\\nchurch that God will use to manifest forth the fulness\\nof His power. Reader, are you anxious to find that\\nchurch? Here is a description of it:\\nAnd unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans\\nwrite: These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true\\nwitness, the beginning of the creation of God; I know\\nthy works, that thou are neither cold nor hot; I would\\nthou w 7 ert cold or hot. So then because thou art luke-\\nwarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spew thee out of\\nMy mouth. Because thou sayest, I am rich, and in-\\ncreased with goods, and have need of nothing; and\\nknowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and\\npoor, and blind, and naked. Rev. 3:14-17.\\nReader, can you find the church described by this", "height": "4836", "width": "3264", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0086.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "POWER FOR WITNESSING.\\n81\\nscripture? Do you know of a church that has a form of\\ngodliness without the power? Do you know of a church\\nthat is proud and worldly while claiming to be the true\\nchurch of God? Is this church your church? Do you\\nreply that you don t know of a church that is not in\\nthat condition? It isn t enough to be able to find such\\na church that is easy. But can you find a church in\\nthat condition that will confess that they are in that con-\\ndition? not a church that has a few members in it that\\nsigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done\\nin the midst thereof/ but a whole church that will\\nacknowledge that they are in that condition? Until\\nsuch a church is found or formed, it will be impossible\\nfor God to manifest to the world the fulness of the power\\nfrom on high.\\nWhen a church can be found that will acknowledge\\nthat they are wretched, and miserable, and poor, and\\nblind, and naked, and will heed the exhortation that fol-\\nlows, then we shall have found the church through\\nwhom God will manifest all the power of the Holy\\nGhost. I counsel thee to buy of Me gold tried in the\\nfire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that\\nthou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy\\nnakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with\\neyesalve, that thou mayest see. As many as I love, I\\nrebuke and chasten; be zealous therefore, and repent.\\nBehold, I stand at the door, and knock; if any man hear\\nMy voice, and open the door, I will come in to him,\\nand will sup with him, and he with Me. Rev. 3:18-20.\\nThe church that will accept this fearful rebuke, re-\\npent, and open the door to Jesus Christ in the person of\\nthe Holy Spirit, will have all its denominational pride\\ncleansed away. And it is this pride which, as much as\\n6", "height": "4760", "width": "3124", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0087.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "82\\nPOWER FOR WITNESSING.\\nany other sin, is keeping the Holy Ghost from the\\nchurch.\\nFrom this we must deduct the solemn truth that we\\ncan not have a church of apostolic power until we have\\na church of apostolic purity. A church must be found\\nor framed out of which all the Achans and Ananiases\\nhave been cleansed.\\nIf one Achan drove the power of God from the\\nchurch in the wilderness, many Achans will surely\\nkeep the power from on high away from the church\\nof to-day. What, then, shall be done? Shall we cease\\nto seek God for the baptism of His Spirit because His\\nfulness can not be realized until the church is cleansed?\\nGod forbid. First seek the Lord for His Spirit to\\ncleanse you, and then to use you to witness against the\\nuncleanness of the church. By this means you will\\neither cleanse the church or hear a call from the Spirit,\\nsaying, Come out of her. My people, that ye be not\\npartakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her\\nplagues.\\nXVIII\\nA SPIRIT-FILLED MEMBER POSSIBLE BEFORE A\\nSPIRIT-FILLED CHURCH\\nWhile it is true that the fulness of the Spirit in the\\nmanifestation of all the gifts of the Spirit can not be\\nrealized until the body of Christ, the church, will put\\naway sin and make room for that fulness; yet you, dear\\nreader, as a Christian individual, may even now be\\nfilled with the Spirit. You need not wait until the", "height": "4804", "width": "3288", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0088.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "POWER FOR WITNESSING.\\n83\\nwhole church is clean before you can be clean, neither\\nneed you wait until the whole church is filled before you\\ncan be filled. But it is one thing to be Med with the\\nSpirit, and it is quite another thing to manifest all the\\ngifts of the Spirit, There are some of the gifts of the\\nwSpirit that can not appear while the church is filled with\\npride and unbelief; but there are other gifts that can.\\nThe first manifestation of the Holy Ghost is to con-\\nvince of sin. And if you are clean, or willing to be\\ncleansed, from all the sins which fill the church, God\\nwill fill you with His Spirit, and make you a mighty\\nwitness against sin.\\nThe gift of prophecy can be manifested in the church,\\nand sin be mightily rebuked, while the manifestation of\\nthe fulness of the Spirit in miracles of healing may be\\nwithheld. Our Saviour cites an example in the follow-\\ning words: Many lepers were in Israel in the time of\\nEliseus the prophet; and none of them was cleansed,\\nsaving Naaman the Syrian. Luke 4:27. Thus it is\\nplain that a prophet may be present in the church on\\nwhom the mantle of Elijah has fallen with a double por-\\ntion of his spirit, and that prophet, under the influence\\nof the Spirit, may mightily rebuke sin, and at the same\\ntime the manifestation of the gifts of healing may be\\nwithheld from the many lepers in the church.\\nNow these things are written to remove the impres-\\nsion, so general, that as soon as one is filled with the\\nSpirit, he will immediately speak with tongues, or open\\nthe eyes of the blind, or perform some other mighty\\nmiracle of healing. There are many who are waiting for\\nthese signs to appear before they w 7 ill believe that they\\ncan be filled with the Spirit. John the Baptist was\\nfilled with the Holy Ghost from his birth (Luke 1:15),\\nand yet it is written John did no miracle.", "height": "4744", "width": "3200", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0089.jp2"}, "90": {"fulltext": "84\\nPOWER FOR WITNESSING.\\nAnd here is manifested the mercy of God. A sin-\\nfilled church is not prepared for mighty miracles of heal-\\ning, unless a previous work can be accomplished for\\nthem; for the mighty miracles would only lead the\\nchurch to commit the unpardonable sin.\\nXIX\\nMIRACLES AND THE SIN AGAINST THE\\nHOLY GHOST\\nThe men who rejected John s message of repentance\\nwere among those who committed the unpardonable sin\\nwhen Jesus, being full of the Holy Ghost/ the same\\npower which filled John,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 revealed other manifestations\\nof the Spirit and wrought mighty miracles of healing.\\nIt was over the miracles of healing wrought by our Lord\\nthat the leaders in the church committed the unpardon-\\nable sin. By these miracles they w r ere compelled to take\\na position. They had tried to maintain a neutral posi-\\ntion in regard to John s message. They neither re-\\npented of their sins nor openly denounced him. But\\nnow that they are in the presence of the miracles of\\nChrist, and the people are deserting them to follow\\nJesus, they are compelled to take a position. But, not\\nhaving walked in the light when the Holy Ghost\\nthrough John called to repentance, they are wholly un-\\nprepared to discern the source of the miracles when the\\nHoly Ghost through Jesus opens the eyes of the blind\\nand casts out devils. Hence they declare that the mir-\\nacles are wrought by Beelzebub, the prince of the\\ndevils. Matt. 12:24.", "height": "4832", "width": "3288", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0090.jp2"}, "91": {"fulltext": "POWER FOR WITNESSING.\\n85\\nIn thus speaking against the manifestation of the Holy\\nGhost, they rejected the final and only remaining effort\\nthat God could make for their salvation, the manifesta-\\ntion of the Holy Ghost; and cut themselves off from\\nsalvation. If I refuse as poison the only remedy that\\ncan heal me, I have committed the unpardonable sin\\nagainst my life, and I must die. So when the Jews re-\\njected as devilish the full and final display of the power\\nof the Holy Spirit to save them from sin and death, they\\ncommitted the unpardonable sin, and must perish in\\ntheir sins.\\nThus it is plain that one may be filled with the\\nSpirit, and witness in the power of the Spirit against sin,\\nbefore the manifestation of the Spirit in miracles of heal-\\ning appears.\\nIs it not also clear, dear reader, that you may be filled\\nto do a work in the backslidden church before that church\\nis prepared for the miracle-working of the Spirit, if the\\nchurch is to be saved from the awful fate of committing\\nthe sin against the Holy Ghost?\\nIs it not also clear, dear reader, that you may be filled\\nwith the Spirit, and witness with power for righteous-\\nness against sin, before the other manifestations of the\\nSpirit in the gift of tongues and miracles of healing\\nshall appear? Let us therefore continue to study how\\nwe may be filled with the Spirit and become a burning\\nand shining light.\\nIt is possible for you to be so filled with the Spirit as\\nto burn so warmly and shine so brightly as to cause the\\nsinners in Zion to get right, or to get out, or to get you\\nout. In any case the result will be a blessing. There\\nwill be a separation from sin. Backslidden Israel con-\\ntinued to drive the Spirit-filled prophets out of the", "height": "4796", "width": "3148", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0091.jp2"}, "92": {"fulltext": "86\\nPOWER FOR WITNESSING.\\nchurch until they drove Christ to Calvary; and then of\\nthose who had been driven out of the synagogues He\\norganized a new church, filled with the new wine of the\\nkingdom, from which church the Holy Ghost was able\\nto drive out hypocrites and keep them out God will\\nhave a clean church, whether it be one cleansed out as\\nthe result of confession or called out as the result of\\noppression. And the Lord wants you to be filled with\\nthe Spirit and begin now to burn and shine.\\nXX\\nFILLING AND FEELING\\nNow that it is plain that the Lord wants to fill you\\nwith His Spirit, and that you need not wait for the whole\\nchurch to be filled, let us come directly to the vital ques-\\ntion of receiving.\\nBear in mind that you are now seeking the baptism of\\nthe Holy Ghost for service, not for self. When by the\\nSpirit you were born again, you received a blessing\\nprimarily for yourself, for your own needs. And when\\nthe Spirit wrought in you to continue that new life and\\nbuild up a character by mortifying the deeds of the\\nbody and giving you continual victory, this, too, was an\\noperation of the Spirit for your own needs. You needed\\nall this, first of all, for your own salvation; and second,\\nas an experience through which you have a hope of sal-\\nvation that you are not ashamed of, and not ashamed to\\ntell. For certainly he who is not born of the Spirit is not\\nprepared to witness for the Lord, nor is he who is not\\nbuilt up and upheld by the Spirit, qualified to witness for\\nHim. He has nothing to witness, nothing to tell.", "height": "4840", "width": "3312", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0092.jp2"}, "93": {"fulltext": "POWER FOR WITNESSING.\\n87\\nThus we see that the work of the Spirit in conversion\\nand in character-building is primarily for our own sal-\\nvation and secondly for the salvation of others; but the\\nbaptism of the Spirit is primarily for service for the sal-\\nvation of others.\\nOf our Saviour s baptism with the Holy Ghost it is\\nwritten, God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy\\nGhost and with power; who went about doing good\\nThis anointing was not primarily for His own needs, not\\nto enable Him to go about and be good, for He had been\\ngood all His life, but that He might go about doing\\ngood\\nWhen the disciples were baptized on the day of Pente-\\ncost, the Holy Ghost came not to convict them of sin.\\nThis the Spirit had already done. They did not spend\\nthe day in settling old grudges, for this had been accom-\\nplished, if not before, at least in the ten days during\\nwhich all continued with one accord in prayer and sup-\\nplication. Acts 1:14. So that the Holy Ghost did not\\ncome to convince them of sin, but to qualify them for\\nservice. And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost,\\nand began to speak (Acts 2:4); not to supplicate for\\nforgiveness; began to speak to the amazed multitude,\\nnot to make confession one to another.\\nNow that it is clear that you are to seek the baptism\\nof the Holy Ghost for service in the salvation of sinners,\\nwhen and where do you expect to experience that\\npower?\\nJesus was anointed with the Holy Ghost and with\\npower at the river Jordan, but there was no visible man-\\nifestation of power at that time. There was the ap-\\npearance of a dove, but a dove is not a symbol of power.\\nHe was anointed with the Holy Ghost and with power,", "height": "4796", "width": "3140", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0093.jp2"}, "94": {"fulltext": "88\\nPOWER FOR WITNESSING.\\nthat He might go about doing good, but that power was\\nnot manifest until He went about doing good/\\nThe disciples were baptized on the day of Pentecost\\nwith power, and the accompanying manifestations of\\npower were not to convince them that they w r ere baptized,\\nbut to qualify them for the zvork of that very hour. They\\ndid not spend the day in feeling; they spent the day in\\nworking.\\nSo we have not the feelings of the apostles, but the\\nacts of the apostles. We have no record of how John or\\nChrist or the disciples felt when they were baptized, but\\nwe do have a record of what they did when they were\\nbaptized. None of the disciples ever refer to how they\\nfelt or how they looked, and we believe that they were\\nas oblivious of the personal effect of the baptism as was\\nMoses after he came forth from his baptism in the flam-\\ning glory of Sinai. Of him it is written, And when\\nAaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold,\\nthe skin of his face shone; and they were afraid to come\\nnigh him. But Moses wist not that the skin of his\\nface shone. Ex. 34:29, 30.\\nAll this is written to show that the baptism of the\\nHoly Ghost is for practical service, and not for physical\\nsensation. Whatever there be of the manifestation of\\ntongues of fire or shining faces, these are not so much\\nfor the benefit of the shining saint as for the sinning\\nmultitude.\\nThere has been much noisy demonstration among a\\nclass who seem to think that the baptism of the Holy\\nGhost is primarily for the benefit of the receiver, to be\\nenjoyed amid noisy demonstrations of feeling. But the\\nthreshing-machine is not run to make the threshing-\\nmachine feel good, but to thresh out the grain. When", "height": "4804", "width": "3320", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0094.jp2"}, "95": {"fulltext": "POWER FOR WITNESSING.\\n89\\na farmer boy I noticed that the threshing-machine run-\\nning empty made more noise than when filled. I no-\\nticed that when the feeder ran out of grain, the driver\\nhastened to halt the horses. The power was for thresh-\\ning the wheat, not for shaking the machine. I noticed\\nwhen the machine w T as at work, the deafening rattle of\\nempty machinery softened into a subdued song of\\nservice.\\nThe trouble with some of the teaching and practise\\non this important theme is that its advocates seem to\\nthink that the power was intended more for the machine\\nthan for the grain; consequently there has been much of\\nwhat might be termed running empty. Power is never\\napplied to threshing-machines except for threshing pur-\\nposes, and in like manner power for service is never\\napplied by the great Master-builder to His servants ex-\\ncept when they are ready to serve and there is some one\\nto serve. Don t ask the Lord to turn on the power and\\nrattle the machinery to prove to you that the Lord will\\ndo what He has promised.\\nBut should we not wait for the sound of a mighty\\nrushing wind or the sight of cloven tongues of fire?\\nWe should no more demand a second Pentecost to prove\\nthat the Holy Spirit is ours, than we should demand a\\nsecond Calvary before believing that salvation from sin\\nis ours. Just as once in the end of the world He ap-\\npeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself, so\\nonce in the last days did the Lord fulfil His promise\\nto pour out His Spirit upon all flesh. And just as all\\nmen in all time can come and be cleansed in the blood\\nof the fountain opened for sin and uncleanness by\\nChrist crucified just so they can come and be filled with\\nthe living waters poured out on Pentecost by Christ", "height": "4788", "width": "3132", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0095.jp2"}, "96": {"fulltext": "90 POWER FOR WITNESSING.\\nglorified. In the last day, that great day of the feast,\\nJesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him\\ncome unto Me, and drink. He that believeth on Me,\\nas the Scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow\\nrivers of living water. (But this spake He of the Spirit\\nwhich they that believe on Him should receive; for the\\nHoly Ghost was not yet given, because that Jesus was\\nnot yet glorified.) John 7:37-39.\\nAnd we should no more demand a repetition of the\\nearthquake of Calvary before we would be cleansed with\\nthe blood, than we should demand a repetition of the\\nrushing wind of Pentecost before we will be filled with\\nthe Spirit.\\nXXI\\nTHE SPIRIT CALLS FOR CONSECRATION\\nShe was a young woman of prominent family, who\\nhad followed her convictions of Christian life and labor\\nthrough self-denial, suffering, and reproach. She was\\nsorely afflicted with tuberculosis and a complication of\\ndiseases; but with her little remaining strength she\\nlabored to bless a sinning world in mansion, in mission,\\nand in prison cell.\\nShe hungered for more power for holy living and\\nlabor. She heard the message, Receive ye the Holy\\nGhost, and earnestly sought the necessary cleansing.\\nFrom faith to faith she followed on to know the Lord,\\nuntil her mind became exercised concerning healing.\\nShe was instructed to continue to pray and study the\\nScripture promises concerning healing, and if faith came,\\nto call for the elders.", "height": "4832", "width": "3308", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0096.jp2"}, "97": {"fulltext": "POWER FOR WITNESSING.\\n91\\nLater she called for prayer, and an hour was appointed\\nfor the solemn service. The doctor had the .day before\\ndeclared that her lungs were badly affected with tuber-\\nculosis. When the hour arrived, and all was in readi-\\nness, one minister started to ask her the question, Now,\\nsister, if the Lord does not heal you, will the disappoint-\\nment drive you into discouragement? She stopped the\\nminister in the middle of the question, and said in calm\\nconfidence, Don t say if; the Lord will heal me.\\nThose present quickly perceived that she had faith to be\\nhealed, and without further delay they knelt to pray for\\nhealing. Only a few sentences of prayer had been of-\\nfered, when the Spirit of God came upon her, and for\\nfour hours she was under His control. During this\\ntime there was accomplished a marvelous work of heal-\\ning, pruning, and consecration. The healing power of\\nGod was remarkably perceptible as it moved from one\\ndiseased organ to another, accomplishing a most won-\\nderful work of healing, which, from my personal knowl-\\nedge, has been permanent ever since; the recipient of the\\ngreat blessing pouring out her restored life and ever-\\nspringing health in a ceaseless ministry of loving labor\\nfor the unrighteous and unlovely.\\nBut it is not for the marvelous manifestation of heal-\\ning and filling by the Holy Ghost that this witness is\\nintroduced here, but for the faith which brought it and\\nthe cleansing and consecration that accompanied it. Oh,\\nthat every reader of this could have witnessed the dis-\\npleasure manifested by the Spirit on this occasion\\nagainst all conformity to the world in the wearing of\\ngold or display in dress. When this part of the experi-\\nence was over, our sister did not possess a hat or dress\\nplain enough to meet her enlightened views on the plain-\\nness and simplicity of dress.", "height": "4796", "width": "3128", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0097.jp2"}, "98": {"fulltext": "92\\nPOWER FOR WITNESSING.\\nNow followed a most touching and impressive experi-\\nence. After lying quiet for a time, the young woman\\nwas heard to say in confiding, whispered tones, Any-\\nwhere, anywhere, everywhere. Several times these\\nwords w 7 ere repeated, each time with louder tones and\\nadded emphasis. When, later, the meaning of these\\nw r ords was explained, it was learned that after she was\\nhealed and pruned, the Lord tested her love and willing-\\nness to labor for Him anywhere and everywhere, by\\npresenting before her mind in quick succession the dark\\noutline maps of Mexico, South America, and South\\nAfrica.\\nOh, how much it means to surrender all to God, and\\npray for the healing or the baptism of the Holy Spirit!\\nMany would like to receive power from on high if only\\nthey could manage that power. But let it be understood\\nonce and forever that he who seeks to be filled by the\\nHoly Ghost, must yield unqualified obedience to the\\nteaching and directing of the Spirit.\\nHe may never be led beyond the neighborhood work\\nof a humble home, but there must be a willingness to be\\nanything or do anything or to go anywhere or nowhere\\nas the Lord may lead. Paul preferred to witness in\\nJerusalem and work for the Jews, but the Lord wanted\\nhim to go far hence unto the Gentiles/ and to the Gen-\\ntiles he went. In later years he and his company wanted\\nto preach in Asia, but were forbidden of the Holy\\nGhost to preach the Word in Asia/ and when they\\nessayed to go into Bithynia the Spirit suffered them\\nnot. And after he had seen the vision, immediately\\nwe endeavored to go into Macedonia, assuredly gather-\\ning that the Lord had called us for to preach the gos-\\npel unto them.", "height": "4840", "width": "3280", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0098.jp2"}, "99": {"fulltext": "POWER FOR WITNESSING.\\n93\\nBut the Spirit that ever leads never leaves. I will\\npray the Father, and He shall give you another Com-\\nforter, that He may abide with you forever; and there\\nis peace and joy in the Holy Ghost/ whether it be in\\npalace or prison, native land or darkest Africa. He\\nwho is walking in the fear of the Lord, and in the com-\\nfort of the Holy Ghost, can walk into prison or jungle\\namid pain and pestilence and still rejoice in the peace\\nand joy in the Holy Ghost.\\nOh, the blessedness of complete surrender! Oh, the\\nlight and joy in the leading of the Spirit! Reader, sur-\\nrender, and let Him lead you.\\nThere s a night in self-assertion\\nLike the night of Egypt s wrath,\\nBut the sunshine of surrender\\nSheds a light o er all the path.\\nThere s a strife in self-assertion\\nLike the storm-tossed breakers crest;\\nThere s a peace in consecration\\nLike a waveless ocean s rest.\\nXXII\\nTHE PROMISE OF THE SPIRIT\\nChrist hath redeemed us from the curse of the law,\\nbeing made a curse for us; jthat the blessing\\nof Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus\\nChrist, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit\\nthrough faith\\nHow, then, shall I know that I have received the\\npower from on high for witnessing, if I am not to base\\nmy belief on some physical sensation? If I am not to", "height": "4796", "width": "3148", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0099.jp2"}, "100": {"fulltext": "94\\nPOWER FOR WITNESSING.\\nfeel that I am filled before I am to believe I am filled,\\nhow am I to know that I am filled? What do you want\\nme to do? And what do you mean by receive ye the\\nHoly Ghost What constitutes receiving the Holy\\nGhost? Will there be any difference in my life and\\nlabor after I receive the Holy Ghost than before? I\\ndon t want to be presumptuous; I don t want to say that\\nI have something when I haven t. I don t want to de-\\nceive myself, These are some of the thoughts which\\ncome rushing into the mind at this point.\\nHow did you learn that your sins were forgiven?\\nDid you accept it by faith or by sight? Do you base\\nyour faith that you are forgiven on some physical sign,\\nor do you base it on the naked Word of God? If you\\nhave not learned to walk by faith, not by sight, you\\nwill have to learn it before you can receive the promise\\nof the Spirit through faith If your belief rests on\\nsigns and wonders, you are yet in the kindergarten class.\\nYou are still a babe in Christ. Christ said to doubting\\nThomas, Thomas, because thou hast seen Me, thou\\nhast believed; blessed are they that have not seen, and\\nyet have believed. John 20:29.\\nGod will receive babes into a kindergarten class, and\\nteach them with visible blocks and sticks; but He wants\\nthem to hasten to graduate out of the kindergarten class\\nof signs and sight into the first reader of faith. When\\nIsrael left Egypt, they were a great kindergarten class,\\nand the work of the Lord in teaching them for forty\\nyears was to get them to believe His Word before they\\nsaw the wonders. But few of them ever entered the\\nfirst grade of faith. So we see that they could not\\nenter in because of unbelief.\\nAn old man of eighty years, who had been recently", "height": "4804", "width": "3316", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0100.jp2"}, "101": {"fulltext": "POWER FOR WITNESSING.\\n95\\nconverted, arose in a revival meeting, and, with face\\nbeaming with joy, told how the Lord had pardoned all\\nhis sins; how he had lived a profane, wicked life for\\nseventy-nine years, and how the Lord had, at the\\neleventh hour, forgiven all his sins. And then he gave\\nhis proof. He said when he saw himself a sinner, and\\nthat he had sinned so long, it seemed impossible to be-\\nlieve that the Lord would pardon so great a sinner, and\\nso he asked the Lord to show him a sign; that if he was\\nreally forgiven, the Lord would remove a large wen\\nabove his temple. With moistened eyes he declared\\nthat the Lord had done it; and pointed to the scar as\\nproof. And with a burst of joy he declared his thank-\\nfulness to God. I did not hesitate to rejoice with him,\\nfor I said to myself, He is only a babe in Christ. He is\\nin the kindergarten class. But the time will come when\\nthe Lord will ask him to believe without a sign; when\\nHe will call on him to transfer his faith from the root of\\na wen to the rock of His Word,\\nReader, how did you gain the victory over that beset-\\nting sin? If you haven t the victory, you are not yet\\nprepared for the reception of the Spirit for witnessing,\\nfor you have nothing worth telling. If you have the\\nvictory, how did you obtain it? Did you not go to the\\nLord in your weakness, and acknowledge your sins, and\\nask Him to keep you from falling? Did you not then\\naccept His promise to keep you, before you saw any\\nsign that you were kept? Did you not accept the for-\\ngiveness of your sins because the Lord in His Word\\npromised that if we confess our sins, He is faithful and\\njust to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all\\nunrighteousness i John 1:9. Did you not base your\\nfaith on His promise rather than on your feelings?", "height": "4788", "width": "3148", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0101.jp2"}, "102": {"fulltext": "96\\nPOWER FOR WITNESSING.\\nDid you not accept the keeping power because the Lord\\nin His Word says, God is faithful, who will not suffer\\nyou to be tempted above that ye are able, but will with\\nthe temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may\\nbe able to bear it i Cor. 10:13. Did you not base\\nyour faith on His promise rather than on your feelings?\\nWas not your joy on being forgiven and kept the result\\nof believing, rather than your believing the result of your\\njoy? Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and\\npeace in believing! Rom 15:13.\\nCan you not see that peace and joy and all other\\npromised blessings come to us in believing not in our\\nunbelief? If God should grant peace and joy before we\\nbelieved, while we were still in unbelief, it would make\\nus peaceful and joyful unbelievers. But peace and joy\\nare not for those still in unbelief. They are for the be-\\nlievers. They are the fruits of the Spirit already re-\\nceived by faith, not material out of which faith for receiv-\\ning the Spirit is made.\\nAnd again, if you were filled with the Spirit before\\nyou received the promise by faith, would you not be a\\nSpirit-filled unbeliever? Can you not see that the Spirit\\nfor service must come in response to faith, just as for-\\ngiveness or victory over temptation came in response\\nto faith?\\nShould a sinner come to you to ask the way to for-\\ngiveness of sin, would you not point him to the promise,\\nand ask him to believe it, even before he felt he w r as for-\\ngiven? And if he came again under great temptation,\\nwould you not point him to the promise, and ask him to\\naccept deliverance by faith, before he felt the deliverance?\\nNow, that you are seeking to be filled with the Spirit\\nthat you may serve as a powerful witness for God, do", "height": "4804", "width": "3328", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0102.jp2"}, "103": {"fulltext": "POWER FOR WITNESSING.\\n97\\nyou not think you had better take your own treatment?\\nShould you not believe God s promise to fill you before\\nyou demand to see the signs which follow a Spirit-filled\\nlife?\\nWe walk by faith, not by sight. And that means\\nall the way. Reader, when you are called upon to walk\\na step farther in the path of faith, will you not take that\\nstep by faith?\\nWithout faith it is impossible to please Him.\\nAll eternity will not be too long, writes a corre-\\nspondent, for me to praise Him for the mighty and\\nwonderful deliverance wrought in my life since the first\\nSabbath you talked to us here. I think it was March 25,\\nand, having that day received indubitable evidence that\\nI had been born into the kingdom of God, I shall hence-\\nforth regard it as my spiritual birthday.\\nI now realize what is meant by the obedience of\\nfaith. It is not worked out by my own will-power. It\\nis the result of taking each promise of God as an actual\\nfulfilment. In the exercise of this new kind of obedi-\\nence/ new for me, at any rate, I am continually coming\\noff more than conqueror over my besetments. In these\\nconflicts I am the engine of war, but the force impelling\\nit flows from the Source of everlasting strength.\\nTruly in my case has the Lord been changing each\\nweakness into power; and in all truth and soberness, my\\nbrother, I say, know that of all professing the name of\\nChrist with whom I have ever been brought into con-\\ntact, I have been the weakest of the weak. Now, how-\\never, day by day, this condition is changing radically,\\nand I am becoming strong in the Lord, and in the\\npower of His might. The citadel of my heart is now", "height": "4780", "width": "3128", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0103.jp2"}, "104": {"fulltext": "98\\nPOWER FOR WITNESSING.\\nin the possession of the Holy Spirit, and Satan is at last\\noutside its walls. Jesus knocks no longer for admission.\\nHe is inside already. The tables are now turned, and\\nSatan stands without and knocks, but, glory to the cross\\nof Calvary, let him knock in vain forever! The lan-\\nguage of earth is inadequate to give vent to my joy and\\nsense of freedom, the glorious liberty of the children\\nof God! And being Christ s freeman, who dare make\\nme a slave again?\\nXXIII\\nHOW TO FIND FAITH\\nSince it is by faith that we receive the promise of the\\nSpirit, and since faith cometh by hearing, and hearing\\nby the Word of God, the only way to get sufficient\\nfaith to grasp the promise of the Spirit, is to hear what\\nthe Word of God promises concerning the Spirit.\\nIn the first place the Word of God says: Know ye\\nnot that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost\\nwhich is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not\\nyour own? For ye are bought with a price; therefore\\nglorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are\\nGod s. I Cor. 6:19, 20.\\nThe life which you now have is of God. And the\\nvery fact that you are kept alive by the Spirit of God is\\nevidence of God s love. Were it not for the sacrifice of\\nChrist, the wages of sin, which is death, would long\\nsince have been demanded. But the Lord desires that\\nwe shall have more than what we term natural life, and\\nmore than a new existence in the spiritual life. Says\\nChrist, I am come that they might have life, and that", "height": "4804", "width": "3284", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0104.jp2"}, "105": {"fulltext": "POWER FOR WITNESSING.\\n99\\nthey might have it more abundantly John 10:10. It\\nis the more abundant life that we are now seeking. It is\\nthe overflow of life, it is the outflow of the rivers of\\nliving water, we are searching for. John 7:37-39.\\nRemember the Word of God says that ye are bought\\nwith a price, that ye are not your own. Remember also\\nthat the same Word says that your body is the temple of\\nthe Holy Ghost. Therefore your body was bought for the\\nvery purpose of being a temple of the Holy Ghost. There-\\nfore, if you do not have that more abundant life, that\\nfilling of the Spirit, that overflowing fountain of\\nlife, the plan of God concerning you has not been met.\\nFor He bought you for a well-spring of His Spirit.\\nLet us illustrate by a conversation between the gov-\\nernor of a great state and his aristocratic neighbor.\\nNeighbor Governor, I hear you have purchased that\\nold rookery at the corner of Twenty-first Street and\\nBroadway. What are you going to do with it? Are\\nyou going to start a hennery?\\nGovernor No, neighbor. I am going to live in that\\nhouse.\\nN. What, live in that house! Don t you know that\\nthat house is swarming with vermin from cellar to\\ngarret?\\nG. Yes, I know it, but I will destroy the vermin.\\nN. But, Governor, you can not mean that you are\\nreally going to live in that old rookery. Don t you\\nknow that the walls are all disfigured with obscene\\npictures?\\nG. Yes, I looked them all over. But I will erase the\\nindecent pictures and embellish its walls with pictures\\nof virtue and beauty.\\nN. Now, Governor, I must be plain with you: that", "height": "4792", "width": "3120", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0105.jp2"}, "106": {"fulltext": "100\\nPOWER FOR WITNESSING.\\nhouse is a house of ill-fame; and if you move into it, it\\nwill cost you your reputation.\\nG.\u00e2\u0080\u0094I knew all that and more when I bought it. But\\nit will not be a house of ill-fame when I move into it.\\nBy living an honorable life in that house, I shall give it\\na new reputation. That house was the home of my\\nnoble father; but it fell into wicked hands and lost its\\ngood name; but I, his son, have purchased that old resi-\\ndence on purpose to live in it and redeem its good name.\\nI am not afraid of losing my reputation. Only its tar-\\nnished reputation will suffer. I have a sufficient reputa-\\ntion among the good people of my state, as an upright\\nman, to restore to the old homestead an honorable name.\\nReader, you will find this truth told in Titus 3:1-6.\\nIt was not because of the works of righteousness which\\nwe had done that we received the renewing of the Holy\\nGhost. The Lord purchased us after a thorough inspec-\\ntion. He purchased us and purchased us to live in us\\nby His Holy Spirit, after beholding all the ruin that sin\\nhad made. He has not been surprised at our sinfulness;\\nbut He has been pained that we would not submit to\\nthe washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy\\nGhost.\\nDo not ever again think that the baptism of the\\nSpirit is a kind of expensive extra, outside of the great\\nplan of God for our salvation. This indwelling and out-\\nflowing promise of the Spirit is as much yours accord-\\ning to the plan of salvation as the forgiveness of sins.\\nIt hangs on the same stem of faith as all the other\\nblessings He that believeth on Me. John 7:38, 39.\\nNow, dear reader, never again doubt the Lord s will-\\ningness to make you an overflowing fountain. If you\\nwant to see how anxious He is to dwell in you by His", "height": "4804", "width": "3288", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0106.jp2"}, "107": {"fulltext": "POWER FOR WITNESSING.\\n101\\nSpirit, go to Gethsemane and see your Saviour crushed\\nto earth by the sin of the world, and hear Him cry, If\\nthis cup may not pass away from Me, except I drink it,\\nThy will be done; and remember that all this was paid\\nfor you that you might be filled with the Spirit. Hear\\nHim again, as, nailed to the cross, He cries, My God,\\nMy God, why hast Thou forsaken Me? and when the\\nspear point pierces His side and He pours out the blood\\nof a broken heart, remember that this was done that\\nyou might be filled with the Spirit. Receive ye the\\nHoly Ghost.\\nXXIV\\nTHE HOLY GHOST THE VICEGERENT OF CHIRST\\nIt is night in Jerusalem, the saddest night since sin\\nseparated man from God. The city is thronged with\\nworshipers from all the world. It is the feast of the\\nPassover. The Lord and His disciples in the upper\\nroom have eaten the paschal lamb. The lamb of that\\ngreat day has met the Lamb of God. Type has touched\\nantitype. The Son of God, from the throne of the uni-\\nverse, has girded Himself as a servant, and, kneeling\\nbefore sinful men, has bathed their feet with His own\\nimmaculate hands. He has eaten of the broken bread,\\nand drunk of the poured-out wine, the symbols of His\\nsuffering- and death. Only a few minutes separate the\\nscene of the upper room from the struggle of the garden.\\nOnly a few minutes now between the blood on the door-\\npost and the blood on the brow T\\nFor a little while the Shepherd is with His sheep.", "height": "4784", "width": "3120", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0107.jp2"}, "108": {"fulltext": "102\\nPOWER FOR WITNESSING.\\nSoon they will smite the Shepherd, and the sheep will\\nbe scattered. What momentous moments! Weighty,\\nindeed, is every word spoken now.\\nHe asks the traitor to hasten and retire, and when he\\nis gone, He speaks thus:\\nLittle children, yet a little while I am with you. Ye\\nshall seek Me, and as I said unto the Jews, Whither I\\ngo, ye can not come; so now I say to you.\\nSimon Peter Lord, whither goest Thou?\\nThe Lord Whither I go, thou canst not follow Me\\nnow; but thou shalt follow Me afterwards.\\nPeter Lord, why can not I follow Thee now? I\\nwill lay down my life for Thy sake.\\nThis announcement of His departure brought sorrow\\nto the hearts of the disciples. They were troubled.\\nThey had never thought of being separated from Him.\\nThey had separated from honored Pharisees, from\\nfriends, and from family, from everything and from\\neverybody, that they might be with their Lord. Now\\nHe is going away. Their hearts are troubled.\\nLet not your hearts be troubled; ye believe in God,\\nbelieve also in Me. In My Father s house are many\\nmansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I\\ngo to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare\\na place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto\\nMyself; that where I am, there ye may be also.\\nPrecious promise! blessed hope! But this did not\\nheal the heartache. No promise of mansions to come can\\ntake the place of a present Saviour.\\nBut what will we do when He is gone? It will be\\nlonely when He is away, they thought.\\nI was in a mission in New York. It was when the\\nKlondike excitement was at its height. The leader of", "height": "4804", "width": "3304", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0108.jp2"}, "109": {"fulltext": "POWER FOR WITNESSING.\\n103\\nthe meeting made reference to it, and exhorted his\\nhearers to seek first the kingdom of God. A testimony\\nmeeting followed. One man said he had no home on\\nFifth Avenue, but that he had a home on high, and that\\nhe hoped some day to see it. Another said he could\\nnot get to the Klondike to gather gold, but that the\\nstreets before his heavenly mansion were paved with\\ngold, and he longed to behold their glittering glory.\\nAnother said his home was plainly furnished, but that\\nhis mansion on high was richly decorated, and he longed\\nto see its polished floors and pictured walls.\\nJust then a man arose with labored effort. He was\\ntwitching in every muscle; he had sown to the flesh, and\\nwas reaping a sad harvest of physical ruin. I pitied\\nhim, and thought, Why did not some one who knew\\nhim prevent him from bringing mortification to himself\\nand to his hearers I could not endure to look at him.\\nThe sight was too painful. But as he spoke his muscles\\ngrew steady. When 1 turned to look at him again, his\\nface flashed forth the light of heaven, and he said: One\\nyear ago I was a poor drunkard, staggering from saloon\\nto saloon, trading my lead-pencils for rum. I was\\nsteeped in drink and sin; but while in that condition my\\nSaviour found me, and saved me from it all. And now\\nyou may talk of wanting to see your mansions on high\\nwith their costly furnishings and streets of gold, but I\\nlong to see the face of the Son of God, who saved me,\\nand washed me clean in His own blood/\\nNo promise of mansions will supply the place of that\\nSaviour in the heart of the sinner whom He has saved\\nfrom his sins.\\nOh, the joy of those mansions is Jesus,\\nWithout Him they re barren and cold!\\nOh, the joy of those mansions is Jesus,\\nI hunger His face to behold!", "height": "4796", "width": "3132", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0109.jp2"}, "110": {"fulltext": "104\\nPOWER FOR WITNESSING.\\nThe promise of mansions did not satisfy the mourning\\ndisciples. The mansions will be grand, but. oh, how\\nlonesome while we wait! Who will take His place\\nwhile we wait? Who will be with us and comfort us\\nwhen He is gone?\\nI will pray the Father, and He shall give you another\\nComforter, that He may abide with you forever; even the\\nSpirit of Truth; whom the world can not receive, be-\\ncause it seeth Him not, neither knoweth Him; but ye\\nknow Him; for He dwelleth with you, and shall be in\\nyou. I will not leave you comfortless; I will come to\\nyou. John 14:16-18.\\nGlorious comfort! But still their hearts were trou-\\nbled. Who would meet the cunning questions of the\\nPharisees? Oh, that we might remember the words of\\ntruth with which He met their subtle errors!\\nThe Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the\\nFather will send in My name, He shall teach you all\\nthings, and bring all things to your remembrance,\\nwhatsoever I have said unto you. John 14:26.\\nBlessed promise! But what shall we do with the sick\\nand suffering? When fathers and mothers and brothers\\nand sisters come bringing their sick and suffering, and\\nask for the healing touch of the Masters hands, how\\nshall we answer their pleading cries?\\nVerily, verily, I say unto you, he that believeth on\\nMe, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater\\nworks than these shall he do, because I go unto the\\nFather. And whatsoever ye shall ask in My name, that\\nwill I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.\\nIf ye shall ask Me anything in My name, that will I do.\\nIf ye love Me, ye will keep My commandments. John\\n14:12-15, R. V.", "height": "4836", "width": "3320", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0110.jp2"}, "111": {"fulltext": "POWER FOR WITNESSING.\\n105\\nWonderful promise! But how shall we convince the\\nworld of sin in not believing on Him, when He is gone?\\nAnd how shall we convince them that He whom they\\ncan not see is able to forgive sins and grant them right-\\neousness? How shall we convince them of the final\\njudgment and vindication of His cause over the prince\\nof this world? Who will believe our testimony con-\\ncerning the life and death and triumphant ascension to\\nthe right hand of God, of one whom they never saw T and\\ncan not see?\\nIt does not seem to them expedient that He should go\\naway where He could not appear as a living witness to\\nall men, to confirm that which was taught concerning\\nHim and His salvation. They could see no light in His\\ngoing away, and their hearts were still filled with sor-\\nrow, when He said:\\nBecause I have said these things unto you, sorrow\\nhath filled your heart. Nevertheless I tell you the\\ntruth: It is expedient for you that I go away; for if I go\\nnot away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if\\nI depart, I will send Him unto you. And when He is\\ncome, He will convict [R. V.] the world of sin, and of\\nrighteousness, and of judgment; of sin, because they be-\\nlieve not on Me; of righteousness, because I go to My\\nFather, and ye see Me no more; of judgment, because\\nthe prince of this world is judged. Ye shall receive\\npower, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you; and\\nye shall be witnesses unto Me, both in Jerusalem and in\\nall Judea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part\\nof the earth/ John 16:6-11; Acts 1:8.\\nReader, do you sometimes feel like an orphan in this\\ncold world? Do you wish that He who comforted all\\nthat mourn was here as He was in the home of Mary", "height": "4796", "width": "3140", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0111.jp2"}, "112": {"fulltext": "106\\nPOWER FOR WITNESSING.\\nand Martha and Lazarus to bring comfort and joy and\\nhealing, to your life? Then receive ye the Holy Ghost,\\nthat other Comforter. I will pray the Father, and He\\nshall give you another Comforter, that He may abide\\nwith you forever. I will not leave you com-\\nfortless; I will come to you. v\\nDo you hunger for truth? Do you sometimes wish\\nyou might sit at His feet and be taught the Scriptures as\\nMary did in her home in Bethany? Receive ye the\\nHoly Ghost. When He the Spirit of Truth,, is come,\\nHe will guide ycu into all truth. For He shall not\\nspeak of Himself; but whatsoever He shall hear, that\\nshall He speak; and He will show you things to come.\\nHe shall glorify Me; for He shall receive of {fine, and\\nshall show it unto you. John 16:13, 14.\\nDo you hunger for power to convict the world of the\\nsinfulness of sin, of the gift of righteousness, and the\\nfinal and glorious vindication of the Prince of Peace\\nover the prince of this world? Then receive ye the\\npromised power from on high, that other Comforter; for\\nthe Lord has promised that He shall do all this.\\nLet us illustrate by supposing a possible scene. It is\\nthe ninth day, the day before Pentecost. Peter and\\nJohn have left the praying company for a few minutes,\\nand are walking pensively down the street to buy bread\\nfor their companions. Suddenly they confront a priest,\\nwho recognizes them and addresses them thus:\\nWell, well, if here isn t Peter and John. How glad\\nI am to see you, and to know that at last you are free\\nfrom that awful delusion.\\nPeter What delusion?\\nPriest The delusion that the Nazarene was the Mes-\\nsiah.", "height": "4836", "width": "3312", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0112.jp2"}, "113": {"fulltext": "POWER FOR WITNESSING.\\n107\\nPeter What makes you think that we are free from\\nthat so-called delusion?\\nPriest I should think you would be, now that He is\\ndead.\\nPeter Dead! no indeed, He isn t. He is resurrected,\\nand is alive forevermore.\\nPriest Nonsense. He is dead, for I saw Him die.\\nThat resurrection story is a fraud. You, His deluded\\ndisciples, came by night and stole His body, and now\\ncirculate the lying report that He rose from the dead.\\nThis I hear from the most influential people in the\\nchurch and state. Why continue the fraud? No one\\nwill believe your story.\\nPeter\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Fraud! there is no fraud. He is risen. I saw\\nHim, and ate with Him, and talked with Him, and so\\nhave we all. He is not only risen, but ascended to the\\nright hand of God, whence He came. I saw Him as-\\ncend. He is not dead. He is alive, alive forevermore.\\nPriest Delusion upon delusion! Falsehood upon\\nfalsehood! Ascended never! He is dead forevermore.\\nPeter That is false. He is\\nJohn Peter, don t tarry here; let us hasten on.\\nWhen we are alone, I will tell you what impresses me\\ndeeply. And this it is, Peter. We can make no im-\\npression upon the priest until the Holy Ghost is come.\\nRememberest thou not how He spake while He was yet\\nwith us, saying: Tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, un-\\ntil ye be endued with power from on high And, Ye\\nshall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come\\nupon you; and ye shall be witnesses unto Me. Never-\\ntheless I tell you the truth: It is expedient for you that\\nI go away; for if I go not away, the Comforter will not\\ncome unto you; but if I depart, I will send Him unto", "height": "4792", "width": "3140", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0113.jp2"}, "114": {"fulltext": "108\\nP01VER FOR WITNESSING*\\nyou. And when He is come, He will convince the world\\nof sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment; of sin, be-\\ncause they believe not on Me; of righteousness, because I go\\nto My Father, and ye see Me no more; of judgment, be-\\ncause the prince of this world is judged\\nLet us return to the upper room and wait for the\\npromise of the Spirit. Did you not see how powerless\\nyou were to convict the priest? Oh, how helpless we\\nare! Let us return,, and pray more earnestly for the\\npromised power.\\nAnd when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they\\nwere all with one accord in one place. And suddenly\\nthere came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty\\nwind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.\\nAnd there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as\\nof fire, and it sat upon each of them. And they were all\\nfilled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with\\nother tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.\\nNow when this was noised abroad, the multitude came\\ntogether, and were confounded. and they were\\nall amazed and marveled. v Acts 2:1-7.\\nI can easily think of that stubborn priest hurrying\\nwith the surging multitude to the place of power.\\ncan see him pressing his way through the eager crowd\\nuntil he finds himself at the very feet of Peter, who is\\njust saying with a strange, convincing power:\\nMen and brethren, let me freely speak unto you of\\nthe patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried,\\nand his sepulcher is with us unto this day. Therefore\\nbeing a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with\\nan oath to him. that of the fruit of his loins, according\\nto the flesh. He would raise up Christ to sit on His\\nthrone; He seeing this before spake of the resurrection", "height": "4832", "width": "3264", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0114.jp2"}, "115": {"fulltext": "POWER FOR WITNESSING.\\n109\\nof Christ, that His soul was not left in hell, neither His\\nflesh did see corruption. This Jesus hath God raised\\nup, whereof we all are witnesses. Therefore being by\\nthe right hand of God exalted, and having received of\\nthe Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, He hath shed\\nforth this, w T hich ye now see and hear. For David is\\nnot ascended into the heavens; but he saith himself, The\\nLord said unto my Lord, Sit Thou on My right hand, un-\\ntil I make Thy foes Thy footstool. Therefore let all the\\nhouse of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made that\\nsame Jesus, whom ye crucified, both Lord and Christ.\\nActs 2:29-36.\\nAnd now I see this same priest (for a great company\\nof the priests w T ere obedient to the faith listening,\\nstartled, silent, and subdued, until Peter reaches this\\npoint; and then I hear him, pricked in his heart, with\\nearnestness cry out, Men and brethren, what shall we\\ndo?\\nReader, can you not see that what is needed to-day to\\nsilence the scoffer, to convict of sin and of righteousness,\\nto prove the resurrection, and to point out Jesus at the\\nright hand of God, is the Holy Ghost from on high?\\nAnother promise to you that you may receive the gift\\nof the Holy Ghost, the same pow T er that moved the mul-\\ntitude on the morning of Pentecost, is found in Peter s\\nanswer, thus: Repent, and be baptized every one of you\\nin the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins,\\nand ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. For the\\npromise is unto you, and to your children, and to all\\nthat are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God\\nshall call. Acts 2:38, 39.", "height": "4788", "width": "3132", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0115.jp2"}, "116": {"fulltext": "110\\nPOWER FOR WITNESSING.\\nXXV\\nTHE HOLY GHOST A GIFT\\nPeter told the wicked men who had crucified Christ,\\nthat if they would repent and be baptized in the name of\\nChrist for the remission of sins, they, even they, should\\nreceive the gift of the Holy Ghost; receive that power\\nwhich so mightily moved the multitude on that pente-\\ncostal morning. But it must be received as a gift.\\nCertainly those wicked men had not earned the greatest\\ngift God can bestow. Neither could they earn the gift\\nby repentance, nor by baptism.\\nEven repentance and forgiveness of sins, yes, from\\nrepentance to regeneration and the renewal of the Holy\\nGhost, all, all are gifts from God. Him hath God ex-\\nalted with His right hand to be a Prince and a Saviour,\\nfor to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins/\\nActs 5:31. For by grace are ye saved through faith;\\nand that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God; not of\\nworks, lest any man should boast. Eph. 2:8, 9.\\nReader, how did you come to repent? The Lord\\ngave you repentance, did He? That is right. And you\\nreceived it as a gift? You did not earn it, did you?\\nNo, you received it wholly as a gift. How did you re-\\nceive forgiveness of sins? The Lord gave it to you, did\\nHe? That is right, too. And you simply asked for it,\\nand accepted it as a merciful gift from God. How did\\nyou obtain the victory over that strong temptation, that\\nbesetting sin? You received it as a gift, did you? Yes,\\nthanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through\\nour Lord Jesus Christ/", "height": "4836", "width": "3304", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0116.jp2"}, "117": {"fulltext": "POWER FOR WITNESSING.\\nIll\\nReader, don t you think that after receiving so many\\ngifts from God, you ought to be accustomed to receiv-\\ning gifts, so that you could receive the gift of the Holy\\nGhost?\\nDo not think of offering the Lord anything for this\\ngift, for this would only show how little you appreciated\\nthe gift. In the first place, you have nothing to give.\\nYou yourself belong to God. Ye are not your own;\\nfor ye are bought with a price; therefore glorify God in\\nyour body, and in your spirit, which are God s. Your\\nattempt to pay the Lord for the gift would only show\\nthat you did not recognize the truth that you and all you\\nhave are already His. This is the terrible mistake\\nwhich Simon Magus made w T hen he offered to donate\\nto the cause in payment for the gift of the Spirit. But\\nPeter said unto him, Thy money perish with thee, be-\\ncause thou hast thought that the gift of God may be\\npurchased with money. Thou hast neither part nor lot\\nin this matter; for thy heart is not right in the sight of\\nGod. Acts 8:20, 21.\\nThat one pleases the Lord who esteems the gift of the\\nHoly Ghost so highly that he never thinks of purchas-\\ning it with prayers or good works, but who simply re-\\nceives the gift, and thanks the Lord for it.\\nFor God so loved the world, that He gave His only\\nbegotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should\\nnot perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16. He\\nthat spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up for\\nus all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all\\nthings? The gift of the Spirit is one of the all things\\nwhich God gave us when He gave His Son. And this\\ngift has been on deposit for us all the time, awaiting our\\ndemand and reception. Why not with Him freely re-", "height": "4784", "width": "3136", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0117.jp2"}, "118": {"fulltext": "112\\nPOWER FOR WITNESSING.\\nceive all things/ which include the gift of the Holy\\nGhost. For the promise is unto you, and to your chil-\\ndren, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the\\nLord our God shall call. Acts 2:38, 39.\\nXXVI\\nPRAYING FOR THE SPIRIT\\nIt is not enough to recognize that there be an Holy\\nGhost, it is not enough to recognize our need of the\\nSpirit, neither is it enough to recognize that the Spirit\\nis our birthright, nor the Lord s great willingness to\\ngive us His Spirit. Not one nor all of these will bring\\nthe baptism. The Lord wants us to recognize all this,\\nand then He wants us to ask Him for the promised\\npower. It is an old saying, and true as old, that any-\\nthing that is worth having is worth asking for, and\\nespecially is it true in this connection.\\nHe who is not sufficiently acquainted with the prom-\\nise of the Spirit to desire it, is not qualified to become\\na channel for the gift, because he would not recognize\\nthe nature nor source of the pow r er. And he whose\\nknowledge of the nature and source of this great gift\\ndoes not lead him to ask for the gift, would not appre-\\nciate it if he did receive it. And our perseverance in\\nprayer for this gift will be measured by our appreciation\\nof it.\\nBut while it is clear from the nature of the case, that\\nwe should pray definitely for the promised Spirit, yet\\nwe are plainly exhorted by the Word of God to ask for\\nthe Holy Ghost, and to ask with importunity, with\\npressing urgency.", "height": "4836", "width": "3212", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0118.jp2"}, "119": {"fulltext": "POWER FOR WITNESSING. 113\\nIn Luke 11:5-13 our Saviour presents the following\\nparable, with its application, to impress the need of ear-\\nnest prayer for the Holy Spirit. That the parable is\\ngiven for this purpose is plain from the last sentence of\\nthe Lord s application of the parable, as follows And\\nHe said unto them, Which of you shall have a friend,\\nand shall go unto him at midnight, and say unto him,\\nFriend, lend me three loaves; for a friend of mine in his\\njourney is come to me, and I have nothing to set before\\nhim? And he from within shall answer and say, Trouble\\nme not; the door is now shut, and my children are with\\nme in bed; I can not rise and give thee. I say unto you,\\nThough he will not rise and give him, because he is his\\nfriend, yet because of his importunity he will rise and\\ngive him as many as he needeth. And I say unto you,\\nAsk, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find;\\nknock, and it shall be opened unto you. For every one\\nthat asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and\\nto him that knocketh it shall be opened. If a son shall\\nask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him\\na stone? or if he ask a fish, w T ill he for a fish give him a\\nserpent? or if he shall ask an egg, will he offer him a\\nscorpion? If ye then, being evil, know how to give\\ngood gifts unto your children; how much more shall\\nyour heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that\\nask Him?\\nReader, are you anxious to feed your friends spiritual\\nfood? Do you feel your poverty keenly? Does your\\nlack of bread pain you in the presence of hungry souls?\\nDo you long for bread to feed the famishing? Just in\\nproportion as you long to feed the hungry just in that\\nproportion will you plead for power from on high; just\\nin that proportion will you importune in prayer for the\\n8", "height": "4784", "width": "3140", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0119.jp2"}, "120": {"fulltext": "114\\nER FOR JVITXESSIXG.\\nHoly Spirit until you receive as many loaves as you\\nneed. Then ask Him. Ask Him with importunity.\\nIf ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts\\nunto your children: how much more shall your heavenly\\nFather give the Holy Spirit to them that ask Him!\\nXXVII\\nTHE LAYING ON OF HANDS\\nThe laying on of hands in connection with the receiv-\\ning of the Holy Spirit, is plainly taught in the Scrip-\\ntures. Paul presents it as a pan of the teaching of the\\ngospel, a teaching which follows the teaching of bap-\\ntism. It is presented as one of the first principles.\\nWherefore let us cease to speak of the first principles\\nof Christ and press on unto perfection; not laying again\\na foundation of repentance from dead works, and of\\nfaith toward God, of the teaching of baptisms, and of\\nlaying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and\\nof eternal judgment/ Heb. 6:1. 2. R. V.\\nThe laying on of hands in Paul s teaching occupies\\nthe same place as the receiving of the Holy Spirit in\\nPeters teaching. Both follow baptism.\\nThen Peter said unto them. Repent, and be baptized\\nevery one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the re-\\nmission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy\\nGhost. Acts 2:38.\\nThe practise of the apostles is in harmony with this\\nteaching.\\nBut when they [the Samaritans] believed Philip\\npreaching the things concerning the kingdom of God.", "height": "4804", "width": "3304", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0120.jp2"}, "121": {"fulltext": "POWER FOR WITNESSING.\\n115\\nand the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both\\nmen and women.\\nNow when the apostles which were at Jerusalem\\nheard that Samaria had received the Word of God, they\\nsent unto them Peter and John; who, when they were\\ncome down, prayed for them, that they might receive\\nthe Holy Ghost (for as yet He was fallen on none of\\nthem; only they were baptized in the name of the Lord\\nJesus). Then laid they their hands on them, and they\\nreceived the Holy Ghost. Acts 8:12-17.\\nIt seems strange that it is not apparent to all that the\\nLord has ordained that the Holy Ghost shall be received\\nthrough the laying on of hands. Even Simon the sor-\\ncerer saw that.\\nAnd when Simon saw that through laying on of the\\napostles hands the Holy Ghost was given, he offered\\nthem money, saying, Give me also this power, that on\\nwhomsoever I lay hands, he shall receive the Holy\\nGhost. Acts 8:18, 19.\\nAnd it came to pass, that, while Apollos was at Cor-\\ninth, Paul having passed through the upper coasts came\\nto Ephesus; and finding certain disciples, he said unto\\nthem, Have ye received the Holy Ghost since ye be-\\nlieved? And they said unto him, We have not so much\\nas heard whether there be any Holy Ghost. And he\\nsaid unto them, Unto what then were ye baptized?\\nAnd they said, Unto John s baptism. Then said Paul,\\nJohn verily baptized with the baptism of repentance,\\nsaying unto the people, that they should believe on Him\\nwhich should come after him, that is, on Christ. When\\nthey heard this, they were baptized in the name of the\\nLord Jesus. And when Paul had laid his hands upon\\nthem, the Holy Ghost came on them; and they spake\\nwith tongues, and prophesied. Acts 19:1-6.", "height": "4756", "width": "3140", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0121.jp2"}, "122": {"fulltext": "116\\nPOWER FOR WITNESSING.\\nWhile it is true that through laying on of the apos-\\ntles hands the Holy Ghost was given/ it is also true tfiat\\nwithout the laying on of hands the Holy Ghost was\\ngiven. Though Christ was baptized in water by the\\nhands of John, yet he received the baptism of the Spirit\\ndirectly from God. The apostles were all baptized with\\nthe Spirit on the day of Pentecost without the laying on\\nof human hands. Cornelius and his household were\\nbaptized with the Holy Ghost without the laying on of\\nhuman hands. Acts 10:44-48.\\nBut these are all exceptional cases, and only show\\nthat God does give His Spirit independent of the laying\\non of human hands. They do not in any way militate\\nagainst the general rule. Just as in this last case the\\nLord baptized with the Holy Ghost before water-bap-\\ntism, though His general plan, as stated through Peter,\\nwas to baptize with the Spirit after water-baptism; just\\nso the Lord did baptize with the Holy Spirit without the\\nlaying on of human hands, though the general practise\\nwas that through laying on of the apostles hands the\\nHoly Ghost was given.\\nIt is evident in the case of the Gentiles of the house\\nof Cornelius, that the Lord baptized them with the Holy\\nGhost before baptism by water and without the laying\\non of hands, simply because there was no one who was\\nprepared to do it. The astonishment manifested by those\\nof the circumcision that God should baptize the Gen-\\ntiles at all, was evidence that they would not have bap-\\ntized them with water, or laid hands on them to receive\\nthe Holy Ghost. This is further proven by the fact that\\nbefore Peter administered water-baptism, he anticipated\\nand met all protests by asking, Can any man forbid\\nwater, that these should not be baptized, which have re-\\nceived the Holy Ghost as well as we?", "height": "4804", "width": "3248", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0122.jp2"}, "123": {"fulltext": "POWER FOR WITNESSING.\\n117\\nWhile it is true that through laying on of the apostles\\nhands the Holy Ghost was given, and that this is God s\\nplan, it is also true that this most solemn service is but\\na hollow mockery where there is but the form without\\nthe power. Unless he who would lay on hands has\\napostolic power and the candidate apostolic preparation,\\nbetter trust to God to baptize w T ith His Spirit in His own\\ntime without human hands, as He certainly did and cer-\\ntainly will. John was prepared to baptize our Lord\\nwith water, but not with the Holy Ghost Philip, the\\nevangelist, was qualified to do miracles and signs and\\nto baptize with water, but it was through laying on of\\nthe apostles hands that the Holy Ghost was given.\\nGod will and does hear the cry of those who are con-\\nsecrated, and gives them His Spirit in these days of\\nunbelief in high places, without the laying on of hands,\\njust as in these days of unbelief in healing He hears the\\ncries of the afflicted and heals without the laying on of\\nhands, though the Lord declares of those that believe,\\nThey shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall re-\\ncover. Mark 16:18.\\nXXVIII\\nu BELIEVE THAT YE RECEIVE\\nIt is not enough to submit to the cleansing blood it\\nis not enough to consecrate that which is cleansed to the\\nCleanser; it is not enough to call upon Him with im-\\nportunity. All this may be done, and you may still fail\\nto receive the promise of the Spirit, because, as the\\nnext two words teach, the promise of the Spirit is re-\\nceived through faith Gal. 3:14. See also John 7:38\\nand Eph. 1:13.", "height": "4796", "width": "3156", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0123.jp2"}, "124": {"fulltext": "118\\nPOWER FOR WITNESSING,\\nLet him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that\\nwavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind\\nand tossed. For let not that man think that he shall\\nreceive anything of the Lord. James i :6, J. The\\nLord is not pleased with the man who prays, however\\nlong and earnestly, who does not believe. Without\\nfaith it is impossible to please Him; for he that cometh\\nto God must believe that He is, and that He is a re-\\nwarder of them that diligently seek Him. Heb. 11:6.\\nHe who diligently seeks God for that which He has\\npromised, and then refuses to believe His promise,\\ncharges God with unfaithfulness. He that believeth not\\nGod hath made Him a liar. Unbelief, therefore, is but\\nanother name for the sin of calling God a liar. Is it any\\nwonder, then, that the Word of the Lord declares that\\nwithout faith it is impossible to please Him\\nIs not the admonition in this text now in place:\\nWhat things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that\\nye receive them, and ye shall have them What! believe\\nthat I have received the Holy Spirit before I receive\\nHim? No, indeed! Only believe that you receive the\\nblessing before the blessing is realized or felt by some\\nphysical demonstration. If you wait for seeing or feel-\\ning before you will believe, you are not walking by faith,\\nbut by sight. But we walk by faith, not by sight.\\n2 Cor. 5:7. Like the wicked Jews, you are demanding\\na sign before you will believe. Of them Christ said, A\\nwicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign.\\nBetter separate from that company immediately.\\nBut does the Lord want me to believe that He has\\nheard my prayer and granted the witnessing power, with-\\nout any evidence on which to base that belief? No,\\nindeed! You have the strongest possible foundation for", "height": "4836", "width": "3264", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0124.jp2"}, "125": {"fulltext": "POWER FOR WITNESSING.\\n119\\nyour faith. Whosoever heareth these sayings of Mine,\\nand doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man which\\nbuilt his house upon a rock and the rain descended, and\\nthe floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that\\nhouse; and it fell not; for it was founded upon a rock/\\nMatt. 7:24, 25.\\nNow, reader, watch for something to do in the follow-\\ning sayings of Christ: What things soever ye desire,\\nwhen ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall\\nhave them. Will you do it? Will you believe that you\\nreceive the Holy Spirit? If you do believe, the Lord\\nsays you will build upon a rock which no floods or beat-\\ning winds can overthrow. Ycu want to be confident\\nabout this important move, don t you? And the Lord\\nwants you to be confident. He does not want a particle\\nof doubt to remain. Here is your confidence: This is\\nthe confidence that we have in Him, that, if we ask any-\\nthing according to His will, He heareth us. And if we\\nknow that He hear us, whatsoever we ask, w r e know that\\nwe have the petitions that we desired of Him. 1 John\\n5^4, IS-\\nYou notice that the confidence depends on asking ac-\\ncording to His will. Now let us see if it is His will to\\ngive you His Holy Spirit. He says: If ye then, be-\\ning evil, know how to give good gifts unto your chil-\\ndren; hozv much more shall your heavenly Father give the\\nHoly Spirit to them that ask Him?\\nIt was during the terrible blizzard of February, 1899.\\nThe streets of Brooklyn were blocked with snow. The\\nstreet-cars were unable to run. For days no attempt\\nwas made to clear any but the great business thorough-\\nfares. 1 was living on a side street. The snow was\\nwaist deep in places on our street, and still it stormed.", "height": "4792", "width": "3156", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0125.jp2"}, "126": {"fulltext": "120\\nPOWER FOR WITNESSING.\\nOur baby girl of eighteen months took sick with a burn-\\ning fever. All night she called for water. She was\\nweak and would not eat. but still was able to walk.\\nThe following evening she was lying in her mother s\\nlap. Presently she looked up, and said through her\\nparched lips, Mama, apple. My wife looked at me\\nwith a pained expression, and said, Papa, there isn t an\\napple in the house.\\nThe baby heard her, and, sliding down from her\\nmother s lap, toddled over to where I sat, and putting\\none little hand on each of my knees, looked up into my\\nface through her tired blue eyes, and said, Papa, ap-\\nple. She did not think of the impossibilities, she did\\nnot look at the storm or the snow. She looked only at\\npapa, and prayed for apple. A determination came over\\nme, too deep for words, which only could be expressed\\nin works. I immediately arose, and, putting on my\\nstorm-coat, threw myself into the drifts against the\\nstorm. I sometimes waded, and sometimes wallowed,\\nbut I was wonderfully happy, happy in the thought of\\nbringing back an apple to reward the faith in that up-\\nturned face. And by and by I succeeded, and with\\nadded joy hurried back to the baby. As I was working\\nmy way back, the Spirit brought to my remembrance\\nthe words, If ye then, being evil, know how to give\\ngood gifts unto your children; hozv much more shall your\\nheavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask\\nHimr\\nYes, there is no doubt of His willingness. That is\\nsettled. And this is the confidence that we have in\\nHim, that if we ask anything according to His will, He\\nheareth us; and if we know that He hear us [and we do\\nknow, for we know 7 that we have asked according to His", "height": "4836", "width": "3268", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0126.jp2"}, "127": {"fulltext": "POWER FOR WITNESSING.\\n121\\nwill], we knozv that we have the petitions that we desired\\nof Him.\\nReader, what is your petition? Is it that you may\\nreceive the Holy Ghost, power for witnessing for your\\nLord, power to tell what you know of His power to\\nsave to the uttermost? The Lord says you have your\\npetition. If any one asks you how you know, tell them\\nthat you base your confidence on the promise of God.\\nOne has put this truth thus:\\nMany do not exercise that faith which it is their\\nprivilege and duty to exercise, often waiting for that\\nfeeling which faith alone can bring. Feeling is not\\nfaith; the two are distinct. Faith is ours to exercise,\\nbut joyful feeling and the blessing are God s to give.\\nThe grace of God comes to the soul through the channel\\nof living faith, and that faith it is in our power to exer-\\ncise.\\nTrue faith lays hold of, and claims, the promised\\nblessing before it is realized and felt. We must send up\\nour petitions in faith within the second veil, and let our\\nfaith take hold of the promised blessing and claim it as\\nours. We are then to believe that we receive the bless-\\ning, because our faith has hold of it, and according to\\nthe Word it is ours. What things soever ye desire,\\nwhen ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall\\nhave them. Here is faith, naked faith, to believe that\\nwe receive the blessing, even before we realize it.\\nWhen the promised blessing is realized and enjoyed,\\nfaith is swallowed up. But many suppose they have\\nmuch faith when sharing largely of the Holy Spirit, and\\nthey can not have faith unless they feel the power of the\\nSpirit. Such confound faith with the blessing that\\ncomes through faith. The very time to exercise faith", "height": "4784", "width": "3156", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0127.jp2"}, "128": {"fulltext": "122\\nPOWER FOR WITNESSING.\\nis when we feel destitute of the Spirit. When thick\\nclouds of darkness seem to hover over the mind, then\\nis the time to let living faith pierce the darkness and\\nscatter the cloud. True faith rests on the promises con-\\ntained in the Word of God, and those only who obey\\nthat Word can claim its glorious promises. If ye\\nabide in Me, and My words abide in you, ye shall ask\\nwhat ye will, and it shall be done unto you. John 15:7.\\nWhatsoever we ask, we receive of Him, because we\\nkeep His commandments, and do those things that are\\npleasing in His sight. 1 John 3:22.\\nXXIX\\nFAITH ILLUSTRATED\\nAbraham is called in Scripture the father of the\\nfaithful. And the reason he bears this name is because\\nhe is a striking example of one who believed God would\\ndo a miracle, and acted on his belief, without any other\\nevidence than the naked word of God. Abraham\\nobeyed the Lord in a case where obedience would make\\nit necessary for God to perform a miracle to save Him-\\nself from becoming untruthful. God had promised to\\nAbraham that through Isaac with his seed He\\nwould establish His covenant to make Abraham a father\\nof many nations. He then called upon Abraham to\\noffer this same son as a sacrifice. If Abraham obeyed,\\nhis obedience would make it necessary for God to raise\\nIsaac from the dead, in order to save Himself from\\nbeing untruthful.\\nBy faith, Abraham, when he was tried, offered up\\nIsaac; and he that had received the promises offered up", "height": "4804", "width": "3232", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0128.jp2"}, "129": {"fulltext": "POWER FOR WITNESSING.\\n123\\nhis only begotten son. of whom it was said, that in\\nIsaac shall thy seed be called; accounting that God was\\nable to raise him up, even from the dead; from whence\\nalso he received him in a figure. Heb. 11:17-19.\\nIt greatly pleased the Lord to have Abraham act out\\nhis faith in the word of God, and thereby make it neces-\\nsary for God to work a miracle to prove His word true.\\nNow, don t you think that the Lord w r ould be pleased to\\nhave you exercise faith in the promise of God, or act\\nout your faith, even though that act requires that God\\nshall again work a miracle to make His promise true\\nto you?\\nBut is not this what you have already done? When\\nyou believed the promise of the Lord for cleansing from\\nsin, your faith made it necessary for the Lord to per-\\nform a miracle to sustain His Word. Again, when you\\nbelieved His promise to deliver you from that great\\ntemptation, your faith made it necessary for God to\\nwork another miracle to make His promise sure to you.\\nNow, the Lord promises to baptize you with the Holy\\nSpirit for witnessing, and He wants you to believe that\\npromise.\\nHe knows that your faith will make it necessary for\\nHim to work a miracle to keep His word, but this is just\\nwhat the Lord asks you to do, and this is just what will\\nplease Him. Without faith [without believing God\\nwhen a miracle is necessary to sustain His promise], it\\nis impossible to please Him/\\nTo the man who was palsied, the Lord said, Rise,\\ntake up thy bed, and walk. But that was just what the\\nparalytic could not do. He might have said: Master,\\nif you will heal me, then I will arise but I am paralyzed\\nI can not rise and walk. I want to be healed so I can", "height": "4796", "width": "3160", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0129.jp2"}, "130": {"fulltext": "124\\nPOWER FOR IVITXESSIXG.\\narise and walk. But then he would not be acting out\\nhis faith. And a faith that does not act is dead. Faith,\\nif it have not works, is dead. A man will say. Thou\\nhast faith, and I have works; show me thy faith apart\\nfrom thy works, and I by my works will show thee my\\nfaith. James 2:17, 18, R. V.\\nNo faith appears in its perfection until it acts. But\\nhow could a paralytic act? If there was a muscle in his\\nbody that he could use in an attempt to rise, faith would\\nlead him to use that muscle. And if every muscle were\\nparalyzed, he could manifest his faith by willingness to\\narise. Though paralyzed, he was called upon by the\\nLord to act like a man who was not paralyzed; and it\\nwas the man s part to act like a well man. and the Lord s\\npart to see that he was zvell.\\nTen lepers came to Christ to be healed. He said. Go\\nshow yourselves unto the priests. They might nave\\nanswered: Cleanse us. Lord, and then we will go. It\\nis unlawful for us to appear before the priest in our lep-\\nrosy; only those who are cleansed show themselves to\\nthe priest, But Christ had said, Go.\\nFaith said: The Master said, Go. It is true that\\nonly cleansed men show themselves to the priest, and in\\ngoing we have to act like cleansed men. when these\\nloathsome bodies bear testimony that we are not\\ncleansed. But let us go. and leave appearances and re-\\nsults with Him. Let us go. And they went. And\\nas they went, they were cleansed. Luke 17:14.\\nThus from both precept and practise it is plain that\\ntrue faith claims the promise, and acts upon it before\\nthat promise is realized and felt. This is the faith which\\nour Lord taught and commended. It is the faith that\\npleases Him. Should we, then, fear to do that which", "height": "4832", "width": "3264", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0130.jp2"}, "131": {"fulltext": "POWER FOR WITNESSING.\\n125\\npleases Him? It is not presumption to do what the\\nLord commands. It is presumption to refuse to do it.\\nYou believe the promise of God to give you His Holy\\nSpirit. You yield yourself wholly to the Lord, ask for\\nthe promise of the Spirit, accept it by faith. Just as\\nsure as you do this, God will fulfil His word to you. If\\nyou believe the promise, if you believe that you have\\nreceived the promise of the Spirit, God supplies the fact;\\nyou have the power from on high as truly as the par-\\nalytic was healed when he believed he was healed. It\\nis so if you believe it. Do not wait to feel you are filled\\nwith the Spirit, but say: I believe it. It is so, not be-\\ncause I feel it, but because God has promised it.\\nWhat things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe\\nthat ye receive them, and ye shall have them.\\nMore witnessing by letter:\\nPraise the Lord, the anchor still holds! I thank\\nHim for the victories I have gained. I praise His holy\\nname for the power to keep me from sinning, and for\\nthe Holy Spirit for service. With His help, I will go\\nthrough to the end.\\nI am rejoicing in the conscious presence of the Holy\\nSpirit, and at times the Spirit of the Lord comes mightily\\nupon me. I find that the only hope for victory over self\\nand sin is in the Holy Spirit s coming mightily upon\\nme. I bless the Lord that in the crises of my soul, the\\nSpirit of God comes in to set up a standard against the\\nenemy.\\nI have much to praise the Lord for this afternoon,\\nfor the change He has wrought in my heart. I know\\nHe has given me His Holy Spirit, which will keep me", "height": "4796", "width": "3180", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0131.jp2"}, "132": {"fulltext": "126\\nPOWER FOR WITNESSING.\\nfrom falling. My Bible seems like a new book to me;\\nI understand it better now, for it is being translated into\\nmy own life.\\nYou understand me when I say there is a new song\\nin my life. The work of the Holy Spirit abides in our\\nmidst. With all the service of my life, I am sure I can\\nnot show my gratitude for His last blessing so graciously\\nbestowed upon us here. The richest of all blessings is\\nthe gift of the Holy Ghost. Oh, what a comfort! No\\nheart can express it; no tongue nor life can express the\\njoy that comes by the Spirit of Christ dwelling in our\\nhearts. Brother has a live testimony. He\\nattends meetings at the mission something new for\\nhim. He certainly rejoices in deliverance. It makes\\nour hearts glad to see and hear him. On the part ol\\nmany more in the church there is now a new interest\\nfor the mission work. The church is going forward.\\nThere is a company here who are going through in the\\nstrength of Jesus. The Lord is granting us victory\\nover sins daily. It is all in believing and trusting.\\nThere is a blessed assurance. No possibility of defeat\\nwhen trusting our Lord and Saviour.\\nXXX\\nPERSONAL EXPERIENCE IN RECEIVING\\nYe are My witnesses, saith the Lord.\\nThe writer desires at this point to bear personal wit-\\nness to the faithfulness of God in fulfiling His promise\\nto give us His Spirit for witnessing in response to faith.\\nI know that it behooves one to be modest in respect to", "height": "4840", "width": "3292", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0132.jp2"}, "133": {"fulltext": "POWER FOR WITNESSING. 127\\nthis matter. But why should it be thought egotistical\\nto confess our Lord s faithfulness in answering the cry\\nof faith for power from on high, to give force to an\\notherwise spiritless witness, any more than to confess to\\nHis faithfulness to forgive our sins or keep us from fall-\\ning?\\nI came to a point in my ministry where I hungered\\nfor power to impress the great truths of the gospel upon\\nthe hearts of the people. I saw sin flourishing on every\\nhand like a green bay tree. I saw worldliness flooding\\nthe churches. I saw ministers resorting to this and that\\nworldly method to interest the people. I saw many\\nseeking for the regeneration of society through legislative\\nenactments.\\nI became convinced that all these were but miserable\\nsubstitutes for the power from on high; that instead\\nof lobbying for human power in legislative halls, the\\nChristian should tarry at the throne of grace until en-\\ndued with power from on high. The conviction became\\noverwhelming, so much so that I cried out in anguish\\nof soul at the close of my sermon, I must have power\\nfrom on high.\\nThis conviction deepened. I commenced to talk\\nabout it, and write about it to exhort others to receive it.\\nI had finished an article for publication, on this sub-\\nject, with the words, Not by might, nor by power, but\\nby My Spirit, saith the Lord of hosts. I was sitting\\nwith my eyes riveted on these words, when the Spirit\\nof the Lord suggested to my mind the searching ques-\\ntion: Is that scripture a part of your experience. Do\\nyou know its meaning? Are you not, like a parrot, re-\\npeating it to others, while not knowing its meaning\\nyourself?", "height": "4796", "width": "3172", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0133.jp2"}, "134": {"fulltext": "128\\nPOWER FOR WITNESSING.\\nWith tears I confessed that all this was true, but then\\nand there I asked the Lord definitely to make the scrip-\\nture a part of my experience. This was in the after-\\nnoon. The night following I lay awake thinking of the\\nprayer that I had offered, and still longing for its fulfil-\\nment, when suddenly this scripture fastened itself on\\nmy mind, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray,\\nbelieve that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.\\nI had found that scripture true in seeking forgiveness\\nof sins and keeping power, but had not thought of it in\\nthis connection. In my surprise and simplicity, I said\\nto the Lord, Is it as easy as that? and immediately\\nthat other blessed scripture flashed on my mind, If ye\\nthen, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your\\nchildren; how much more shall your heavenly Father\\ngive the Holy Spirit to them that ask Him? And I\\nbelieved Him, and then and there thanked Him for the\\nHoly Spirit.\\nReader, did I do right? You answer, Yes. Then,\\ngo and do thou likewise.\\nBut some trembling soul will venture to ask, How\\ndid you feel? I didn t feel any different. Well, how\\ndid you know that it was so? Because the Word of the\\nLord said it was so. What did I need of a manifesta-\\ntion of witnessing power then, when I was all alone, with\\nno one to whom I could bear witness? I had prayed the\\nLord for the Holy Ghost to give power to my testimony\\nwhen I witnessed for Him. Why should the Lord turn\\non the power then, and rattle the empty machine before\\nthere was grain to be threshed out? I had asked for the\\nHoly Ghost for service; and when an opportunity to\\nserve came, the power would be present.\\nSo I believed, and so it was and ever has been.", "height": "4840", "width": "3268", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0134.jp2"}, "135": {"fulltext": "POWER FOR WITNESSING.\\n129\\nPraise the Lord! Have you ever experienced any feel-\\ning? some one will ask. Oh, yes, all that was good for\\nme,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 all I could stand; but it came as the result of my\\nfaith, not my faith as the result of my feeling. What\\nthings soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye\\nreceive them, and ye shall have them.\\nXXXI\\nPERSONAL EXPERIENCE IN WITNESSING\\nWe are His witnesses of these things; and so is also\\nthe Holy Ghost, whom God hath given to them that\\nobey Him. Acts 5:32.\\nAt the closing service of a series of revival meetings,\\na man past middle age arose and said:\\nI am an agnostic, but I am having more difficulty\\naccounting for the manifestation of power which I have\\nwitnessed during these meetings, than with all the diffi-\\ncult questions regarding the inspiration of the Scrip-\\ntures. Pray for me that I may find the truth.\\nPrayer was offered for him, and according to the\\nopinion of his wife, which is generally good testimony,\\nhe was converted.\\nWhat was it that softened and subdued the heart o?\\nthis unbeliever? It was none other than the power of\\nthat other Witness, the Holy Spirit, which had borne\\nwitness with the witness of the servants of God of what\\nthey had seen and heard.\\nThere are some who have come from a neighboring\\ncity, and who can not remain to the evening meeting,\\nsaid the messenger, and they have sent me to request\\na service at five o clock.\\n9", "height": "4792", "width": "3180", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0135.jp2"}, "136": {"fulltext": "130\\nPOWER FOR WITNESSING.\\nI was tired with the incessant labor of the meeting;\\nbut the thought that there were people hungry enough\\nfor the gospel to make request for an added service, was\\nrefreshing.\\nThe Lord indicated the theme, while a brother minis-\\nter opened the meeting with prayer, and then followed\\nthirty minutes of witnessing to the power of the gospel\\nto save.\\nAfter the benediction, a brother hurried to the desk,\\nand, with face beaming with joy, said: The arrow of\\ntruth has done its work. Mr. the neighborhood\\ninfidel, is under deep conviction, and sits yonder with\\nhis head resting on the chair in front of him, weeping.\\nCome and speak with him. Substantially the follow-\\ning conversation was the result of the interview:\\nInfidel I am getting old, as you see by these gray\\nhairs, and yet I am without an anchor. I am helplessly\\ndrifting. I tried to anchor in infidelity, and failed.\\nThen I tried to find an anchor in Spiritualism, but it\\ndoes not satisfy me.\\nMinister What you need is the Saviour; receive Him,\\nand you will have an anchor.\\n/.\u00e2\u0080\u0094How?\\nM. Confess your sins and ask the Lord to forgive as\\nHe promises to do. Believe that He forgives and re-\\nceives you. Him that cometh to Me I will in nowise\\ncast out/ is the promise.\\nI can not believe. I have been accustomed to ex-\\nplain away all the phenomena of what you call faith, on\\npsychological grounds, and I can not believe.\\nM. I can. Once I was a helpless, hopeless wreck;\\nbut the Lord has wrought a miracle in my life, and is\\ngiving me the victory over these things which once en-", "height": "4836", "width": "3272", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0136.jp2"}, "137": {"fulltext": "POWER FOR WITNESSING.\\n131\\nslaved me. I know He can save you because He is sav-\\ning me.\\nThat is what impressed me. I see you have\\nsomething in your life that I don t have. You are an-\\nchored, while I am drifting.\\nM. Now, my brother, you acknowledge that you are\\nin need of salvation; and you believe I have the salva-\\ntion you want. Hadn t you better accept it, too? If\\nyou should consult a trusted physician, and he should\\naccurately describe your affliction and then prescribe a\\ntreatment which had resulted in his cure, would you not\\nbe acting wisely to faithfully follow it?\\n/.\u00e2\u0080\u0094Yes.\\nM. Will you not take the treatment which I pre-\\nscribe, and which has healed me?\\nI.\u00e2\u0080\u0094l will try.\\nThen we found a retired spot, and kneeling he ac-\\nknowledged his transgressions and pleaded for pardon.\\nKneeling by his side, I watched the struggle with in-\\ntense interest, answering each despairing cry of doubt,\\nwith a promise of the Word. Presently he prayed: I\\nwill act on the promise; I accept forgiveness. I am\\nforgiven. But, Lord, what did you forgive me for?\\nWill I fall back again into my old sins? Will I get\\nangry again? Will I again be profane, as I have been?\\nI am afraid I will bring disgrace on Christianity. O\\nLord, I am afraid!\\nAt this crisis I placed my Bible, open at Isa. 41:10,\\nbefore his face, which he read aloud slowly:\\nFear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed;\\nfor I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will\\nhelp thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of\\nMy righteousness.", "height": "4788", "width": "3180", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0137.jp2"}, "138": {"fulltext": "132 POWER FOR WITNESSING.\\nThis scripture completed the victory, and we returned\\ntriumphant, to find many of his Christian neighbors\\nanxiously waiting the outcome of the struggle. And\\nministers and people, without regard to denomination,\\ngathered around him to rejoice with him over his new-\\nfound hope. After thanking the Lord for the victory, I\\nsat alone, meditating over the meeting and its results.\\nWhat did I say that moved him? I queried. All\\nI did was to witness to the power of God to save. The\\nwitness was neither deep nor eloquent. It was but the\\nsimple story, simply told.\\nIt was none other than the Holy Spirit that had done\\nthe work. He had taken the witness I bore, and given\\nit power to convince and convict.\\nYe shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is\\ncome upon you; and ye shall be witnesses unto Me.\\nWhat is this? said a burly man, gruffly, to a com-\\npanion, as we sat in front of a mission in a southern city.\\nIt is a mission/ replied the brother meekly.\\nWhat is a mission? was the next question, which\\nquickly followed with caustic contempt in the tone.\\nIt is where they preach\\nPreach what? broke in the man.\\nPreach the gospel, was the response.\\nWhat is the gospel?\\nThe brother hesitated a moment at this point under\\nthe man s rough, rapid questioning. This was my op-\\nportunity, and with firm confidence and a faith based on\\nthe knowledge of the presence of the heavenly Witness,\\nI said:\\nThe gospel is the power of God to save a man from\\ndoing those things which he would like to stop doing\\nand can t At this he turned and looked at me with", "height": "4804", "width": "3272", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0138.jp2"}, "139": {"fulltext": "POWER FOR WITNESSING.\\n133\\nan awakened interest. Looking him straight in the\\neyes, I repeated the definition, with a personal witness to\\nits truthfulness.\\nPartner, that s what I need. I am a good workman,\\nand have no trouble to find a job. I have just struck\\nthe town. I ve money; I don t want your money. I\\nshall scon get a job; but when I have worked a couple\\nof weeks and receive my wages, then I shall get drunk\\nand lose my job, and I shall have to move on to another\\ncity. I have been doing this for twenty-five years.\\nAt this his voice trembled, and his giant form shook\\nwith emotion.\\nYou can be saved from all that/ I said with increas-\\ning confidence. And the reason I know is because the\\nLord has saved me from a slavery as bad as yours. I\\nbelieve the Lord never undertook a harder case than\\nwhen He undertook to save me; and I know He can\\nsave you.\\nTell me how, said the man, as he took my hand be-\\ntween the calloused palms of his giant hands, and all\\nsubdued, and gentle as a lamb, listened while I told him\\nthe way of salvation. And when it was told, he de-\\nparted with a new-born hope.\\nWhat transformed the lion into a lamb? What was it\\nthat changed this burly, brutish man into a tearful,\\ntrembling, teachable child? It was that other Witness\\nthat had taken the witness of a mortal man, and with\\nHis own promised power, driven it through the calloused\\nheart of this home-born heathen. Praise the Lord for\\nthe power from on high!\\nMay I have a talk with you, Brother Ballenger?\\nasked a nine-year-old girl at the close of the meeting.\\nA time was set, and the youthful seeker came and told", "height": "4796", "width": "3180", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0139.jp2"}, "140": {"fulltext": "134\\nPOWER FOR WITNESSING.\\nher troubles, and asked that prayer might be offered for\\nher. There was great earnestness in her conversation,\\nand tears and sobs broke into her intelligent prayer.\\nFrom others it was learned that her adoptive mother,\\nwho had taken her when two years old, had thought it\\nabsolutely necessary to separate this child from her fam-\\nily, because she dreaded the results of certain sinful hab-\\nits upon the younger adopted children. This decision\\nbrought great suffering to both adoptive parents; for\\nthey loved the child.\\nThe situation, summed up, was this: A nine-year-old\\nchild confessing her sins and weeping before God in\\nprayer for deliverance from sinning; a loving mother\\nweeping and praying for her deliverance; and the life\\nof the Lord Jesus Christ given for her salvation, and\\npleading in her behalf at the Father s throne. And yet\\nthe child continues to sin, and so seriously that she\\nis deemed dangerous, and is sent forth from the home\\nas incorrigible.\\nNo encouraging results followed our prayer season.\\nThe help must come through the cooperation of the\\nadoptive mother, for her own salvation.\\nMonths later I met the adoptive mother, and heard\\nfrom her the sad story again. Her heart yearned for the\\nchild; but she feared to let the little outcast come home.\\nThe little sinner wanted to go home and be good; the\\nmother wanted her to come home and be good; and the\\nLord wanted her to come home and be good; and yet\\nshe was bad, and was banished from home.\\nWhen these facts were laid before the mother in this\\nlight, it was decided that the devil was not strong enough\\nto keep the little one from home and deliverance, in\\nopposition to the desire of the child, her mother, and", "height": "4832", "width": "3272", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0140.jp2"}, "141": {"fulltext": "POWER FOR WITNESSING.\\n135\\nher God. We, therefore, knelt and presented the child\\nat the throne of grace with holy boldness. We told the\\nLord that we did not believe the enemy had power\\nenough to ruin the child in the face of such a combina-\\ntion of cries for deliverance. We claimed deliverance\\nby faith. The mother arose from her knees with faith\\nto call the little wanderer home. The result of her\\nfaith is here told in her own words:\\nFor some time I have been impressed to write to\\nyou to the glory of God; but have felt that it would be\\nwrong unnecessarily to take a moment of your time,\\nwhich otherwise would be spent to the glory of God.\\nBut my heart is so full this morning that I can not for-\\nbear writing. Doubtless you will not remember me un-\\nless I refer to the case of the little girl, whom\\nyou talked with at and who seemed such an\\nextraordinary case. I am who was helped\\nspiritually and physically through your efforts at the\\ncamp-meeting. My heart is full of praise and\\ngratitutde for the goodness of the Lord to me. I\\nclaimed the victory over sin in all its phases at that time,\\nand claim it still. Be untiring in your efforts to inspire\\nothers with the same faith that your preached at our\\ncamp-meeting. I had been groping for help. It was\\ndark, but I held on, and my prayer was more than an-\\nswered at the camp-meeting. My faith has grown an\\nhundred-fold. Since then live by faith. Many and\\nvaried have been my experiences, but they have all been\\npermitted for my good, as they have tended to\\nstrengthen my faith. And the Lord has permitted my\\nexperiences to be a help to others, for which I praise\\nHim.\\nI asked for your prayers in behalf of little", "height": "4796", "width": "3188", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0141.jp2"}, "142": {"fulltext": "136\\nPOWER FOR\\nWITNESSING.\\nand I have fell that I had them. I have taken her back\\ninto my heart and home. I have claimed the keeping\\npower with and for her, and I thank God that now I\\nsee a change for the better. ^Ye seek the Lord earnestly\\nand untiringly: and the very Eact that she, over whom\\nSatan seemed to have almost entire control, is being\\nmoulded into the likeness of Christ, demonstrates the\\npower of God. and the truthfulness of the scripture\\nwhich says, What things soever ye desire, when ye\\npray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have\\nthem. Oh, I am so glad I have learned to trust in\\nJesus! He gives me strength to do more than I have\\nbeen able to do in thirteen years. I live by faith, and\\nI praise the dear Lord for the privilege of so doing/\\nMore extracts from letters received:\\nW hen you were here, I thought that if I could only\\nbe with you all the time, in meetings, we could feel the\\nSpirit s power continually, though you said we would\\nnot miss you. I have not missed you, as the Comforter\\nhas made His abode with us. Praise the Lord! Yes,\\nthe anchor holds.\\nI can say, with more assurance than ever, that the\\ntime you spent in the church was a refreshing\\nshower of the Spirit of God. It continues, praise the\\nLord! Among the good testimonies of the brethren\\nand sisters we hear many of the expressions you used\\nto strengthen our faith. To the testimony you bore, we\\ncan daily say, Amen. The same good Spirit that\\nwrought in your heart to bring you to this blessed ex-\\nperience in Christ, is now manifest in our church.\\nOthers are coming, and finding a home where", "height": "4832", "width": "3256", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0142.jp2"}, "143": {"fulltext": "POWER FOR WITNESSING.\\n137\\nJesus has prepared a place for Himself to dwell. Who\\nwould not dwell in this home? I praise the Lord I can\\nsay, without a doubt, We are onward; no falling back.\\nXXXII\\nTHE FRUIT BEFORE THE GIFTS\\nReader, are you seeking the fulness of the Holy Spirit\\nfor service in the work of the Lord? If so, you are\\nseeking for the gifts of the Spirit. For every one who\\nis baptized with the Spirit for service in the cause of\\nChrist is thereby given one or more of the gifts of the\\nSpirit. But before you can have one of the gifts of the\\nSpirit in its fulness, you must have every one of the mani-\\nfestations of the fruit of the Spirit. It is the plan of God\\nto divide the gifts of the Spirit, dividing to every man\\nseverally as He will; but He never divides the fruit.\\nThe fruit of the Spirit can not be separated and divided\\namong the members of the church, giving to one love/\\nand to another long-suffering. One can not say, I\\nhave love, and you have long-suffering and kindness\\n(R. V.); for he that has love has long-suffering and kind-\\nness, and he that has long-suffering and kindness has\\nlove, because love, and love only, is long-suffering and\\nkind; love suffereth long, and is kind. I Cor. 13:4,\\nR. V, Neither can one say, I have love and you have\\nmeekness; for love is meek; love is not puffed up.\\nVerse 4.\\nHe that offendeth in one point of the royal law is\\nguilty of all. James 2:10. So he who lacks one of the\\nmanifestations of the fruit of the Spirit lacks every one.\\nIt is impossible for one to possess the love and joy", "height": "4796", "width": "3240", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0143.jp2"}, "144": {"fulltext": "iss Fc:riR for 7, I7:;essixg.\\nof the Spirit, and in the place of the peace of the Spirit\\nmanifest strife, the fruit of the flesh. Neither can one\\npossess the kindness and meekness of the Spirit and\\nmanifest emulation, hatred, and wrath, which are\\nworks of the flesh. As well claim to have the Son with-\\nout the Father or the Holy Ghost without the Father and\\nSon. as to claim to have one manifestation of the fruit of\\nthe Spirit and not the others.\\nReader, you either possess every om of the manifes-\\ntations of the fruit of the Spirit, or you possess none.\\nThis is a terribly solemn truth, but there is no denying\\nit. Now read the description of the fruit of the Spirit\\nslowly, and meditate seriously, and see if it is the fruit\\nThe fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-\\nsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, meekness,\\ntemperance against such there is no law. Gal. 5^22, 23,\\nR. V.\\nDo not despair if the torch of truth discovers only\\nleaves. The first step toward fruit-bearing is the dis-\\ncovery of the lack of fruit. Have you discovered a lack?\\nDo you want to bear the fruit of the Spirit? The Lord\\nwants you to bear the fruit of the Spirit; and He knows\\nyou can not bear this fruit alone. Hear Him speak:\\nAs the branch can not bear fruit of itself, except it\\nabide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in\\nMe. I am the vine, ye are the branches. He that\\nabideth in Me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth\\nmuch fruit; for without Me ye can do noliing/\\nHerein is My Father glorified, that ye bear much\\nfruit; so shall ye be My disciples. As the Father hath\\nloved Me, so have I loved you: continue ye in My love.\\nI: ye keep My con;ma.i:cn:e:::5. ye shak aziae My", "height": "4836", "width": "3256", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0144.jp2"}, "145": {"fulltext": "POWER FOR WITNESSING.\\n139\\nlove; even as I have kept My Father s commandments,\\nand abide in His love. John 15:4, 5, 8-10.\\nWhy does the Lord speak these tender words to you?\\nHear Him again: These things have I spoken unto\\nyou, that My joy might remain in you, and that your\\njoy might be full. John 15:11. The Lord wants you\\nto bear much fruit both for His joy and your joy. But\\nthe Lord knows you can not bear the fruit of the Spirit\\nwithout the indwelling Spirit. Therefore, it will bring\\njoy to the Lord to give you the fruit-bearing Spirit.\\nBut/ you say, how shall I receive that which it is\\nHis joy to give? Give Him your whole body as a per-\\npetual temple for the Holy Spirit. Neither yield ye\\nyour members as instruments of unrighteousness unto\\nsin; but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are\\nalive from the dead, and your members as instruments\\nof righteousness unto God. For sin shall not have\\ndominion over you. Rom. 6:13, 14.\\nWill you do this? Will you do it now? Have you\\ndone it? Is it now done? Do you now yield every\\nfiber of your being, every faculty of your mind, every\\norgan of your body, every plan of your life, every earthly\\npossession, your occupation, home, family, and friends,\\nto the Lord, to be His now and forever?\\nNow, you have reached the crisis. Here is where the\\nrich young man failed. Here is where the proud young\\nwoman fails. If you refuse to make this entire surren-\\nder, it will be useless for you to read further.\\nHaving surrendered yourself to the Lord for the bear-\\ning of the fruit of the Spirit, throw open the door of\\nyour heart and ask the Lord to come in by His Spirit.\\nHe says, Behold, I stand at the door, and knock; if any\\nman hear My voice, and open the door, I will come in to", "height": "4796", "width": "3232", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0145.jp2"}, "146": {"fulltext": "140 POWER FOR WITNESSING.\\nhim, and will sup with him, and he with Me. Rev. 3:20.\\nOpen the door and ask Him in. Ask, and it shall be\\ngiven yon. Every one that asketh receiveth.\\nIf ye then, being evil, know how to give good\\ngifts unto your children; how much more shall your\\nheavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask\\nHim? Luke 11:9-13.\\nSome one will say, Now that I have asked Him for\\nthe Spirit that I may bear fruit, what shall I do next?\\nLet the Lord answer: What things soever ye desire,\\nwhen ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall\\nhave them. Mark 11:24. Now do not wait to feel\\nthat you have the Spirit, but say, I have the Spirit; not\\nbecause I feel that I have Him, but because God has\\npromised to give the Spirit to me if I ask, and I have\\nasked, and to doubt would be to charge God with un-\\nfaithfulness. He that believeth not God hath made\\nHim a liar/\\nDo you not think that the Lord would be pleased it\\nyou believe His promise? Then believe that you re-\\nceive His Spirit, and please Him. Do it now.\\nThe reasons why the fruit of the Spirit must appear\\nin all its manifestations before one manifestation of the\\ngifts of the Spirit can appear, will be presented in the\\nnext chapter.\\nXXXIII\\nHOW TO SEEK SPIRITUAL GIFTS\\nThe fruit of the Spirit must appear in the life of the\\nChristian; the gifts of the Spirit may not. Millions will\\nbe saved who never had the gift of miracles, but not one\\nwill ever be saved who did not possess the fruit of love.", "height": "4836", "width": "3280", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0146.jp2"}, "147": {"fulltext": "POWER FOR WITNESSING.\\n141\\nMany will be saved who never spake with tongues, but\\nnone will be saved who did not have the fruit of\\ntemperance.\\nThe fruit of the Spirit is eternal. Love never fail-\\neth. The gifts of the Spirit are only temporal.\\nWhether there be prophecies, they shall be done away;\\nwhether there be tongues, they shall cease. I Cor. 13:8,\\nR. V. The fruit of the Spirit is the material which com-\\nposes the house eternal. The gifts are but the tem-\\nporary staging used for the building of the house, for\\nthe perfecting of the saints, unto the work of minister-\\ning, unto the building up of the body of Christ. 7\\nEph. 4:12, R. V.\\nBut when that which is perfect is come, then that\\nwhich is in part shall be done away. 1 Cor. 13:10.\\nWhen the building is perfected, the staging is taken\\naway; so when the body of Christ is perfected, the gifts\\nwill be taken away.\\nWhat would a man with the gift of prophecy do with\\nthis gift in heaven? What need would he have of\\nvisions of the glories of heaven when face to face with\\nits glories? What would the discerner of spirits do with\\nhis gift in heaven, where there is but one Spirit? Of what\\nuse would be the gift of tongues, or the interpretation of\\ntongues in heaven, where all speak one language?\\nWhat would the evangelist do with his gift where all\\nare eternally saved? Therefore as the tools of a build-\\ning are to a building, so are the gifts of the Spirit to\\nthe fruit of the Spirit. A builder who did not under-\\nstand and appreciate the relation of the tools and stag-\\ning to the edifice, would not be a competent builder,\\nand could not be trusted with either tools or building;\\nso he who does not understand and appreciate the rela-", "height": "4792", "width": "3236", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0147.jp2"}, "148": {"fulltext": "142\\nPOWER FOR WITNESSING.\\ntion of the gifts of the Spirit to the fruit of the Spirit,\\ncan not and will not be entrusted by the great Master-\\nbuilder with the gifts of the Spirit for the work of build-\\ning up the body of Christ.\\nHe who seeks to manifest the gifts of the Spirit before\\nhe manifests the fruit of the Spirit, thereby shows that\\nhe is not in a condition to be trusted with the gifts.\\nHe who seeks miracles before meekness will never be\\nentrusted with the gift of working miracles. He who\\nfollows after the gift of tongues more earnestly than\\nafter the grace of temperance, is not fitted to use even\\nthe one tongue he already has. He who covets the gift\\nof healing more earnestly than the grace of love, is him-\\nself in need of healing before he can be entrusted with\\nthe gift of healing.\\nHere is the story of two men who wanted the gift of\\nworking miracles, when they were not in possession of\\nthe grace of long-suffering.\\nThe Lord was on His way to Jerusalem to attend the\\nPassover feast. He was preaching in the towns through\\nwhich He passed. James and John were sent to a\\nvillage of the Samaritans, to make ready for Him. But\\nthe Samaritans did not receive Him, because His face\\nwas as though He would go to Jerusalem, and they\\nwere bitterly opposed to going to attend the feast at\\nJerusalem and to any one who would go, This dis-\\npleased James and John. They did not have that love\\nthat suffereth long. They ought to have sought it.\\nBut,, instead, they sought the gift of working miracles.\\nIf they had possessed the gift, they would have quickly\\nexercised it, and burned up the Samaritans, and reported\\nthe destruction to the Lord. But they did not have the\\ngift, and must go to Christ to obtain it. But instead of", "height": "4836", "width": "3276", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0148.jp2"}, "149": {"fulltext": "POWER FOR WITNESSING.\\n143\\nreceiving it, they received a stinging rebuke: Ye know\\nnot what manner of spirit ye are of. For the Son of\\nMan is not come to destroy men s lives, but to save\\nthem.\\nAny man possessed of power, but destitute of love, is\\na dangerous man. Power without love has made all the\\ntyrants that ever reigned. Power without love is what\\nmakes the devil what he is.\\nSo important is the subject of spiritual gifts, that Paul\\ndevotes three chapters of his first letter to the Cor-\\ninthian church to its consideration; but not one word is\\nspoken to discourage the Corinthians in their zeal after\\nspiritual gifts. On the other hand, speaking by the Holy\\nGhost, he three times exhorts them to desire earnestly\\nspiritual gifts. It is the ignorance concerning, not the\\nzeal for, spiritual gifts, that the Holy Spirit rebukes.\\nAfter proving that all the gifts are needed, the apostle\\ncommands them to desire earnestly the greater gifts.\\ni Cor. 12:31, R. V. It was not their zeal in seeking\\nspiritual gifts which was rebuked. In their ignorance\\nand carnality they had sought the gifts through pride,\\nstrife, jealousy, and envy. 1 Cor. 3:3. But Paul\\nthrough the Spirit points out a more excellent way to\\nseek them; and this way is shown, in the thirteenth\\nchapter, and in the first verse of the fourteenth, to be to\\nseek first the fruit of the Spirit, and afterwards the gifts\\nof the Spirit.\\nAfter showing the immortality and importance of\\nlove, hew that without this fruit of the Spirit, all the\\ngifts of the Spirit are sounding brass and nothing\\n(verses 1 to 3, R. V.), Paul, not wishing to quench\\ntheir zeal for spiritual gifts, sums up the whole matter\\nin this command, Follow after love: yet desire earnestly\\nspiritual gifts. 1 Cor. 14:1, R. V.", "height": "4796", "width": "3240", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0149.jp2"}, "150": {"fulltext": "144\\nPOWER FOR WITNESSING.\\nThis is the more excellent way to seek for spiritual\\ngifts. They must be sought through the love of the\\nSpirit, through the love of Christ, that love which led\\nHim to give up all for the salvation of sinning men.\\nHe who has that love will be led by it to desire earnestly\\nto share in the gifts of the Spirit Just in proportion as\\nthe builder loves the work of building, just in that same\\nproportion will he seek the necessary tools and staging.\\nSo with the workers together with Christ; just in pro-\\nportion as they love to build up the body of Christ, not\\nthemselves, just in that same proportion will they seek\\nthe gifts of the Spirit.\\nDo you long to see the unbelieving saved as a result\\nof the exercise of the gifts? The Spirit declares that the\\nunbeliever will fall down on his face and worship God,\\ndeclaring that God is among you indeed. i Cor. 14:25,\\nR. V. Do the builders need that power to-day? Then,\\nreader, let us seek it. Let us obey the commands of the\\nSpirit, and seek the gifts of the Spirit, but seek them in\\nthe more excellent way marked out. Follow after love;\\nyet desire earnestly spiritual gifts. Reader, this is a\\ncommand of God. Will you obey it?\\nXXXIV\\nMIRACLES OF HEALING\\nWhy should it be thought a thing incredible with\\nyou, that God should raise the dead? was the pointed,\\npleading question which Paul, the apostle, addressed to\\nAgrippa, the king. Agrippa believed the prophets.\\nWhy should you believe the prophets, and discredit the", "height": "4804", "width": "3236", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0150.jp2"}, "151": {"fulltext": "POWER FOR WITNESSING.\\n145\\nresurrection? was the real import of Paul s searching\\nquestion.\\nThis question was followed by Paul s testimony con-\\ncerning the miracle of his own conversion, and then the\\nmiracle of the resurrection of Christ in fulfilment of the\\npromise of the prophets.\\nWhy should it be thought a thing incredible with you\\nthat God should heal the sick? is another pointed ques-\\ntion that pleads to-day for answer from those who pro-\\nfess to accept the testimony of Scripture.\\nThe gospel of salvation is nothing h not a miracle. It\\nis the mystery of God, the working of a miraculous\\npower, the effects of which can be seen and heard, but\\nits processes are unexplained. John 3:8. It is easy for\\none who has experienced the miraculous transformation\\nof life called in Scripture the new birth, to credit the mir-\\nacle of the resurrection of the body. And he who really\\nbelieves in the resurrection of the body, can readily be-\\nlieve in the healing of the body, which is only a kind of\\nfirst-fruits, or part payment, of the promised redemption\\nof our body.\\nThe atonement embraces the whole man, spirit, soul,\\nand body. I pray God your whole spirit and soul and\\nbody be preserved blameless unto the coming of our\\nLord Jesus Christ. 1 Thess. 5:23. Notice how the\\npromises of bodily healing are united with those of soul-\\nhealing in the following Scriptures:\\nBless the Lord, O my soul, who forgiveth\\nall thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases. Ps.\\n!03-2, 3.\\nHe cast out the spirits with His word, and healed all\\nthat were sick; that it might be fulfilled which was\\nspoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, Himself took our\\n10", "height": "4784", "width": "3228", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0151.jp2"}, "152": {"fulltext": "146\\nPOWER FOR WITNESSING.\\ninfirmities, and bare our sicknesses. Matt. 8:16, 17.\\nLet us place this scripture concerning our infirmities\\nand sicknesses alongside of another concerning our\\nsins\\nWho His own self bare our sins in His own body on\\nthe tree. 1 Peter 2 .24.\\nHimself took our infirmities, and bare our sick-\\nnesses. Matt. 8:16, 17.\\nWhy did He bear our sins? Answer That we,\\nbeing dead to sins, should live unto righteousness.\\n1 Peter 2:24. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live\\nany longer therein? Rom. 6:2. He hath made Him\\nto be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be\\nmade the righteousness of God in Him. 2 Cor. 5:21.\\nThou shalt call His name Jesus; for He shall save His\\npeople from their sins. Matt. 1:21. He was mani-\\nfested to take away our sins\\nThus do the Scriptures teach that He bore our sins that\\nwe might not bear them. He bore them for us that He\\nmight bear them away from us; that we should bear\\nthem no longer. This is the blessed truth which we\\nteach the sinner when he comes to us seeking salvation\\nfrom sin.\\nWhy did He take our infirmities and bear our sick-\\nnesses? Let the Scriptures answer, while we watch for\\nthe taking away of the infirmities and s sicknesses from\\nthe infirm and sick.\\nAnd, behold, there was a woman which had a spirit\\nof infirmity eighteen years, and was bowed together,\\nand could in nowise lift up herself. And when Jesus\\nsaw her, He called her to Him, and said unto her,\\nWoman, thou art loosed from thine infirmity. And He\\nlaid His hands on her; and immediately she was made\\nstraight, and glorified God. Luke 13:11-13.", "height": "4832", "width": "3236", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0152.jp2"}, "153": {"fulltext": "POWER FOR WITNESSING. 147\\nThen they went out to see what was done; and came\\nto Jesus, and found the man, out of whom the devils\\nwere departed, sitting at the feet of Jesus, clothed, and in\\nhis right mind. Luke 8:35.\\nAnd as soon as He had spoken, immediately the lep-\\nrosy departed from him, and he was cleansed. Mark\\n1:42.\\nAnd a certain man was there, which had an infirmity\\nthirty and eight years. Jesus saith unto him,\\nRise, take up thy bed, and walk. And immediately the\\nman was made whole, and took up his bed, and walked.\\nJohn 5:5, 8, 9. Great multitudes came together to\\nhear, and to be healed by Him of their infirmities\\nLuke 5:15. And Jesus went about all the cities and\\nvillages, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching\\nthe gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness\\nand every disease among the people. Matt. 9:35.\\nAnd He touched her hand, and the fever left her;\\nand she arose, and ministered unto them. When the\\neven was come, they brought unto Him many that were\\npossessed with devils: and He cast out the spirits with\\nHis word, and healed all that were sick; that it might\\nbe fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet,\\nsaying, Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sick-\\nnesses. Matt. 8:14-17.\\nFrom all these scriptures it is clear that our Lord\\ntook our infirmities and bare our sicknesses that we\\nmight not have to bear them; that we might be loosed\\nfrom them; that they might depart from us. Jesus bore\\nthem therefore, that He might bear them away from us,\\nthat we might bear them no more.\\nAll this proves that the gospel includes salvation from\\nsickness as well as salvation from sin. At this point we", "height": "4760", "width": "3264", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0153.jp2"}, "154": {"fulltext": "148\\nPOWER FOR WITNESSING.\\nshall be tempted to measure this truth by our limited\\nexperience. We are in danger of denying the inevitable\\nconclusion to which the Scriptures have brought us, be-\\ncause we have never seen such mighty miracles of heal-\\ning as are promised in the gospel, and which appear in\\nthe preaching and practise of that gospel at the hands of\\nthe apostolic church. But, instead of cutting and trim-\\nming this tremendous truth to fit our experience, let us\\naccept it in its fulness, however impossible it may seem\\nto us, and commence immediately to enlarge our faith\\nand experience until they shall measure up to apostolic\\nprecept and practise.\\nBut why should any one who believes in the miracle\\nof conversion, ever question the miracle of healing?\\nWhether is it easier to say to the sick of the palsy, Thy\\nsins be forgiven thee; or to say, Arise, and take up thy\\nbed, and walk? Mark 2:9. Reader, answer this ques-\\ntion which the Lord asks you. Do not answer it from\\nthe standpoint of your limited experience, but from the\\nstandpoint of what the Lord promises, and from the in-\\nterpretation of these promises as they appear in the\\npractise of the apostolic church.\\nWhy is it that a reported healing creates so much\\namazement among the people? If the Lord should to-\\nday give sight to one born blind, it would cause a sensa-\\ntion throughout all Christendom. We would expect the\\nworld to wonder; but why should the church stand in\\namazement? If conversion is in reality a miracle, it is\\nthe greatest of all miracles. Why should there not be\\nas much amazement manifested in the presence of this\\nmiracle? Does not the surprise manifested over mir-\\nacles of healing show a lack of appreciation of the mir-\\nacle of the new birth, and a disposition to transfer it", "height": "4804", "width": "3248", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0154.jp2"}, "155": {"fulltext": "POWER FOR WITNESSING.\\n149\\nfrom the realm of the miraculous to the sphere of the\\nnatural?\\nNo one will ever be able to appreciate the miracle\\nwhich follows the command, Arise, and take up thy\\nbed, and walk, until that one appreciates the miracle\\nwhich follows the words, Son, thy sins be forgiven\\nthee.\\nIn this I am not penning theory, but personal experi-\\nence. The time was when I had no real faith in mir-\\nacles of healing. I had not experienced God s mirac-\\nulous saving and keeping power. But when this\\nmiracle appeared in my life, immediately there followed\\nfaith in God s power to heal the sick. I reasoned thus:\\nGod has wrought a mighty miracle in my life, in deliver-\\ning me from my besetting sins which have enslaved me\\nall my life. It will require no greater miracle to heal\\nthe sick than He is manifesting in my life in keeping me\\nfrom falling into my old sins. Thus arose my faith in\\nGod s healing power for the body. And as I received it,\\nso must I walk in it. If there comes a shadow of a fail-\\nure in my personal experience touching my salvation\\nfrom sinning, there is a corresponding failure in my\\nfaith and practise concerning the healing of the sick.\\nThere are conditions, of course, which must be met\\nin order to realize salvation both from sin and sickness,\\nwhich will be presented later; but we must not await\\nthe conditions before accepting the scriptural truth that\\nthe gospel includes health for the body as well as for the\\nsoul. To those who believe the Scriptures, I repeat the\\nquestion, Why should it be thought a thing incredible\\nwith you that God should heal the sick?", "height": "4796", "width": "3232", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0155.jp2"}, "156": {"fulltext": "150\\nPOWER FOR WITNESSING.\\nXXXV\\nTHE GIFTS OF THE SPIRIT WITHHELD\\nIt had been a long time since the manifestation of\\nmiracles. Israel was sorely pressed by the Midianites.\\nThe wonderful miracles of the Exodus were only about\\ntwo hundred years old, but those who witnessed them\\nwere dead. It looked to sinning Israel as if miracles\\nwere at an end. Some doubtless were ready to deny\\nthat there ever had been miracles. At this time an an-\\ngel appeared to Gideon, and informed him that a mir-\\nacle was about to be wrought for the deliverance of his\\npeople. Gideon himself was tempted to think miracles\\nwere confined to the fathers, and he answered, Where\\nbe all His miracles which our fathers told us of?\\nJudges 6:13. After the miracles of the fire and of the\\nfleece, he believed.\\nGideon collected an army of 32,000 men, but, when\\ntested, 22,000 of them were found to entertain the con-\\nviction that the days of miracles were past, and were\\nallowed to follow their convictions home. For good\\nreasons, 9,700 of the remaining 10,000 were sent home.\\nThe remaining 300 believed that God would perform a\\nmiracle in their day, and He did.\\nMany to-day are perplexed, as was Gideon, over the\\nabsence of miracles in the church. They do not believe\\nthat miracles ended with the lives of the apostles, much\\nless do they attempt to explain away the scriptural ac-\\ncount of these miracles. They read and believe the\\nrecord of how Jesus went about preaching the gospel\\nof the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and", "height": "4836", "width": "3212", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0156.jp2"}, "157": {"fulltext": "POWER FOR WITNESSING.\\n151\\nall manner of disease among the people and of how\\nthey brought unto Him all sick people that were taken\\nwith divers diseases and torments, and those w r hich were\\npossessed with devils, and those which were lunatic, and\\nthose that had the palsy; and He healed them/ Matt.\\n4:23, 24; 8:16, 17; 12:15; Mark 6:55, 56; Luke 4:40;\\n6:17-19; 9:10, 11.\\nAgainst the claim that these miracles of healing were\\nintended by the Lord to continue only during the life-\\ntime of the apostles, they present the promises, These\\nsigns shall follow them that believe: In My name shall\\nthey cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues;\\nthey shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly\\nthing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the\\nsick, and they shall recover. Mark 16:17, 18. Ver-\\nily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on Me, the\\nworks that I do shall he do also; and greater works\\nthan these shall he do; because I go unto My Father.\\nJohn 14:12.\\nThe Acts of the Apostles is a record of the fulfilment\\nof these promises. And by the hands of the apostles\\nwere many signs and wonders wrought among the peo-\\nple. There came also a multitude out of the\\ncities round about unto Jerusalem, bringing sick folks,\\nand them which were vexed with unclean spirits; and\\nthey were healed every one. Acts 5:12-16.\\nThe claim that these miracles were confined to the\\nministry of the apostles is refuted by the records of the\\nmiracles by Philip and Stephen, members of the seven\\nchosen to minister to the poor. Of the former it is\\nrecorded that, Philip went down to the city of Samaria,\\nand preached Christ unto them. And the people with\\none accord gave heed unto those things which Philip", "height": "4796", "width": "3212", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0157.jp2"}, "158": {"fulltext": "152\\nPOWER FOR WITNESSING.\\nspake, hearing and seeing the miracles which he did.\\nFor unclean spirits, crying with loud voice, came out of\\nmany that w T ere possessed with them; and many taken\\nwith palsies, and that were lame, were healed. And\\nthere was great joy in that city. Acts 8:5-8. Of\\nthe latter it is written that, Stephen, full of faith and\\npower, did great wonders and miracles among the peo-\\nple. Acts 6:8.\\nThus we see that the promise that these signs shall\\nfollow them that believe appears in the practise of those\\nwho were not counted among the apostles. But not\\nonly does it appear in the practise of others besides the\\napostles, but by precept it is enjoined upon others of an\\norder which, all will admit, continues as long as the\\nchurch militant continues. Here is the precept: Is any\\nsick among you? let him call for the elders of tlie\\nchurch; and let them pray over him, anointing him with\\noil in the name of the Lord and the prayer of faith shall\\nsave the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if\\nhe have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.\\nConfess your faults one to another, and pray one for\\nanother, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent\\nprayer of a righteous man availeth much. James\\n5:14-16.\\nAnd the Lord, foreseeing that the time would come\\nwhen unbelief would attempt to relegate all miracles to\\nthe time of the fathers, and to attribute to them advan-\\ntages not to be shared by other believers of a later time,\\nthe Lord, foreseeing this, calls special attention to the\\ngreat miracle-working prophet Elias as a man subject to\\nlike passions as we are\\nNotwithstanding these strong, unmistakable promises,\\nthe gift of healing is to-day practically absent from the", "height": "4836", "width": "3228", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0158.jp2"}, "159": {"fulltext": "POWER FOR WITNESSING.\\n153\\nchurch. If it were not there would be no need of the\\nadvertising which is now so common. The multitudes\\ncured would advertise so loudly that the healer would\\nbe thronged day and night, and possibly some earnest\\nsouls would tear the roof off the house, in order to bring\\nsome sufferer into his presence. There are a few sick\\npeople who are healed even in this day of unbelief, but\\nexercise of the gift of healing as witnessed in the days\\nof Christ is nowhere seen.\\nWhen one reads the promises made to the church\\nconcerning healing, and the wonderful record of mir-\\nacles which were wrought in the early days of the\\nchurch, and then contemplates the absence of these\\nmighty works in the church of to-day, unless there is a\\nclear understanding of the reason for it there will be\\nheard Gideon s cry of staggered faith, Where be all\\nHis miracles which our fathers told us of? And there\\nis danger that this will soon be followed by an attempt\\nto limit miracles to the days of the apostles, and this in\\nturn will be followed by the denial of all miracles, and\\nthis by the midnight of infidelity.\\nThere is a reason for the absence of these gifts, but it is\\ndangerous to one s reputation to give it. It used to be\\ndangerous to life. As a result of giving this reason for\\nthe absence of miracles in Nazareth, our Lord was\\ndragged down from the pulpit, out of the synagogue, to\\nthe edge of a precipice, down which the church leaders\\ntried to dash Him to death. Luke 4:16-30. And what\\nwas this reason which wrought them up to such a rage?\\nHe told them, through references to similar conditions\\nin the days of the prophets, that God could more safely\\nmanifest the gifts of healing on behalf of the heathen\\nthan He could on behalf of His church in their sinful", "height": "4800", "width": "3228", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0159.jp2"}, "160": {"fulltext": "154\\nPOWER FOR WITNESSING.\\nunbelief. And herein lies the reason for the absence of\\nthese gifts to-day.\\nThe church is backslidden. The Lord can not honor\\na backslidden church. If He did, He would disgrace\\nHis throne. The world judges God by the lives of His\\npeople, and it is not inconsistent that it should; for the\\nLord has said of His people: Ye are My witnesses/\\nYe are the light of the world/ Ye are manifestly de-\\nclared to be the epistle of Christ/ Ye are the body of\\nChrist. Isa. 43:12; Matt. 5:14; 2 Cor. 3:3; 1 Cor.\\n12:27. And the only way God has of saving His repu-\\ntation when those who are sent forth as His witnesses,\\nwitness against Him, is to withhold His witness of ap-\\nproval from them by no longer bearing them witness,\\nboth with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles,\\nand gifts of the Holy Ghost.\\nShould the Lord give the gifts of healing to some\\nmember of the church bearing His name to-day,\\nwhereby the world would be attracted to Him as it was\\nto the apostles before the church had confessed its\\nworldliuess, it would only confirm that church in its\\nworldliness and pride. The members of the church\\nthus honored, would meet the members of other com-\\nmunions with the exultant cry: We are the true\\nchurch! God has at last settled that question. Have\\nyou heard the news? God has placed in our church\\nthe gifts of healing, and the preaching of our creed is\\nnow confirmed with signs following. This proves that\\nwe are right, and you are wrong.\\nThus it is plainly seen that the withholding of the con-\\nfirming miracles from the lukewarm church of to-day\\nis the wisest thing the Lord can do. To do otherwise\\nwould be to confirm them in their opinion that they are", "height": "4836", "width": "3224", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0160.jp2"}, "161": {"fulltext": "POWER FOR WITNESSING.\\n155\\nrich, and increased with goods, and have need of noth-\\ning/ and close their ears to the message of God, on the\\nacceptation of which hangs their salvation. Thou art\\nwretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and\\nnaked.\\nI praise God as I write, that He has not compromised\\nHis holiness by giving His confirming gifts to a back-\\nslidden church. And I feel to anticipate the song of\\nvindication, sung on the sea of glass, when men shall\\ncome to see the wisdom and mercy of God in His deal-\\nings with the children of men: Great and marvelous\\nare Thy works. Lord God Almighty; just and true are\\nThy ways, Thou King of saints. Rev. 15:3.\\nXXXVI\\nTHE GIFTS OF HEALING AND GOD S REPUTATION\\nWill the Lord withhold His gifts from one who is\\nwalking in the light, and who is wholly consecrated,\\nand keep him back from manifesting the fulness of\\npower because the church is backslidden? Most cer-\\ntainly He will. For Him to do otherwise would be to\\nbring His truth and His name into disgrace. If those\\nborn blind or lame or dumb, were being healed by the\\nministers of any worldly church to-day, that church\\nwould thereby be brought into great prominence, and\\nevery act of its members would be closely scrutinized as\\nthe acts of the people of the church whom God was\\napproving by miracles and wonders and signs; and the\\nGod who gave the power for working these wonders\\nand signs would be measured and judged by the sins of", "height": "4796", "width": "3212", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0161.jp2"}, "162": {"fulltext": "156\\nPOWER FOR WITNESSING.\\nthe people of the church thus prominently pointed out\\nand honored.\\nBut did not Christ, while a member of the Jewish\\nchurch, perform His w T onderful miracles of healing?\\nYes, but in order to save the reputation of God He was\\ncompelled to denounce the sins of the Jewish church,\\nand finally to repudiate them before all the world.\\nThe Jewish church claimed to be the only representa-\\ntives on earth of the true God. They claimed this when\\nthey were more wicked than the Gentiles. When the\\nGentiles heard their claim and saw their crimes, they\\nblasphemed. Paul says they did. They not only\\ncursed the Jews, but they blasphemed the God of the\\nJews. This is not strange. The Jews claimed to be\\nlike Jehovah. The Gentiles, therefore, judged Jehovah\\nby the Jews. They knew they robbed widows, and\\ncommitted adultery. They knew they did all this when\\nthey heard them making their long, loud prayers on the\\ncorners of the streets. This made them angry, and they\\nblasphemed both the Jews and Jehovah. Paul presents\\nit thus: Thou, therefore, which teachest another, teach-\\nest thou not thyself? Thou that preachest a man should\\nnot steal, dost thou steal? Thou that sayest a man\\nshould not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery?\\nThou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege?\\nFor the name of God is blasphemed among the\\nGentiles through you. Rom. 2:21-24.\\nJesus came to save not only sinners, but the reputa-\\ntion of His Father. And in order to do this, He must\\ntell the truth about Ffis church. And He did. He\\ndeclared in the hearing of the Gentiles that the leaders\\nin the church were whited sepulchers, rotten at heart,\\nwere robbers of widows, pious hypocrites, a generation", "height": "4836", "width": "3228", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0162.jp2"}, "163": {"fulltext": "POWER FOR WITNESSING.\\n157\\nof vipers. When the Gentiles heard this, many stopped\\nswearing at Jehovah. They saw that His professed\\nchurch was misrepresenting Him. They listened to\\nChrist s gracious words. When the Jews ordered them\\nto arrest the Son of God, they refused, and said, Never\\nman spake like this man/\\nChrist s miracles followed the cleansing of the temple.\\nAnd Jesus went into the temple of God. and cast out all\\nthem that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew\\nthe tables of the money-changers, and the seats of them\\nthat sold doves, and said unto them, It is written, My\\nhouse shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have\\nmade it a den of thieves. And the blind and the lame\\ncame to Him in the temple; and He healed them.\\nMatt. 21:12-14.\\nHe could now perform His mighty cures without\\nbringing honor to a dishonorable church, and without\\nbringing dishonor to Jehovah. By calling the Jewish\\nchurch a den of thieves, Jesus was able to work miracles\\nwhile a member of that church, without bringing dis-\\ngrace upon His Father. But His faithfulness in rebuk-\\ning the sins of His church cost Him not only His mem-\\nbership in that church, but His life.\\nThe church of to-day is not free from its hypocrites\\nand whited sepulchers. It is not free from its genera-\\ntion of vipers and its robbers of widows. And, again,\\nthe Gentiles blaspheme the name of God because of\\nthem. And, again Jesus must come into the temple and\\ncleanse it before it can again be written that the blind\\nand the lame came to Him in the temple; and He healed\\nthem. Who will follow the example of Christ? Who\\nwill go into His pride-filled church, which he knows is\\nfull of unconverted men and women whose sins are a", "height": "4788", "width": "3248", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0163.jp2"}, "164": {"fulltext": "158\\nPOWER FOR WITNESSING.\\ndisgrace to the Christian name, and cry at its festivals\\nand fairs and oyster suppers, Babylon the great is fallen,\\nis fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the\\nhold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean\\nand hateful bird This is the first step for a conse-\\ncrated man to take who is seeking the gift of healing\\nwhile holding communion in a world-loving church.\\nBut this power to cast out devils may be purchased at\\nthe cost of his being cast out of his beloved synagogue,\\nand finding a home with some humble church every-\\nwhere spoken against. And, from the church which\\nwill not be cleansed, Christ, in the person of His true\\ndisciples, will depart, uttering the fearful words, Be-\\nhold, your house is left unto you desolate.\\nBut could not some one who is not a member of any\\nchurch, who is consecrated, be intrusted with the gifts\\nof healing? No; for the gifts of the Spirit are given to\\nthe church, not to a disconnected, irresponsible indi-\\nvidual. God hath set some in the church, first apostles,\\nsecondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that mir-\\nacles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversi-\\nties of tongues. i Cor. 12:28. The church of the\\nliving God is The pillar and ground of the truth.\\n1 Tim. 3:15. It is not an invisible, intangible, irrespon-\\nsible nonentity, but a real, tangible body, made on pur-\\npose to be looked at, Ye are the light of the world,\\nand to be handled and read. Ye are manifestly de-\\nclared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, writ-\\nten not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God;\\nnot in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart\\n2 Cor. 3:3. Of Christ it is written: The Word was\\nmade flesh, and dwelt among us, and we beheld His\\nglory. John 1:14. But He has returned to His", "height": "4836", "width": "3256", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0164.jp2"}, "165": {"fulltext": "POWER FOR WITNESSING.\\n159\\nFather and we see Him no more, only as we see Him\\nin the flesh of the church, which is His body, the ful-\\nness of Him that filleth all in all.\\nNo attempt was made by the glorious apostolic church\\nto hide its literal organized existence, and thereby shirk\\nthe responsibility of the influence of unworthy members.\\nIt had power to cleanse itself from its Ananias and Sap-\\nphira, and to strike such terror to the hearts of the\\nhypocrites on the outside that of the rest durst no man\\njoin himself to them. This repudiation of church or-\\nganization so common to-day is the swinging of the\\npendulum to the opposite extreme from the tyrannical\\norganization of a fallen church, and is intended to escape\\nthe responsibility of church membership, and the un-\\npleasant duty of cleansing out those who trespass, and\\nwho will not hear the church and repent of their sins.\\nMatt. 18:15-17.\\nYes, the absence of the confirming signs and wonders\\nto-day is a solemn, silent, infallible proof of the presence\\nof sin in the church. God is defending His honor from\\ndisgrace. He is withholding His witnessing wonders\\nfrom a lukewarm church to save His reputation both in\\nheaven and earth.\\nBut how long shall this disgrace continue? How long\\nshall God be compelled to testify against His church?\\nWhen the unbeliever challenges the church to show the\\nmiracles which are plainly promised, we who believe the\\npromises explain their absence on tfre ground of the\\npresence of sin. But this is a disgraceful confession.\\nIt is a confession from the church, that her relations with\\nthe world are such that her Head can not fully identify\\nHimself with her without bringing Himself into dis-\\ngrace.", "height": "4796", "width": "3228", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0165.jp2"}, "166": {"fulltext": "160\\nPOWER FOR WITNESSING.\\nWho that reads these solemn truths will sense the sad\\nsituation, and take the matter to heart? Reader, are\\nyou zealous for God s honor? Does the condition of\\nthe church concern you? Do you sigh and cry for all\\nthe abominations that be done in the midst thereof?\\nDo you weep between the porch and the altar, and\\ncry, Spare Thy people, O Lord, and give not Thine\\nheritage to reproach Who will begin to cry to God\\nfor cleansing both for himself and the church, and give\\nHim no rest, till He establish, and till He make Jeru-\\nsalem a praise in the earth To this the writer has\\ndedicated every power of body and mind. And I can\\nbear testimony from personal experience to the fact that\\nGod will respond with His witnessing power just as fast\\nas ministers and people are purged from their sins, which\\nseparate them from the power of God.\\nXXXVII\\nCONFIRMING SIGNS\\nThat ye may know that the Son of Man hath power\\non earth to forgive sins, I say unto thee, Arise,\\nand take up thy bed, and go thy way into thine house.\\nAnd immediately he arose, took up the bed, and went\\nforth before them all; insomuch that they were all\\namazed and glorified God, saying, We never saw it on\\nthis fashion. Mark 2:10-12.\\nOne important office of the gifts of the Spirit is to\\nbear witness to the truthfulness of the word preached.\\nOf the ministry of the Great Teacher, Peter spoke thus\\non the day of Pentecost: A man approved of God\\namong you by miracles and wonders and signs, which", "height": "4832", "width": "3212", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0166.jp2"}, "167": {"fulltext": "POWER FOR WITNESSING.\\n161\\nGod did by Him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves\\nalso know. Acts 2:22.\\nPaul writes thus of the witnessing office of the gifts of\\nthe Spirit: How shall we escape, if we neglect so great\\nsalvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the\\nLord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard\\nHim; God also bearing them witness, both with signs and\\nwonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy\\nGhost, according to His own will? Heb. 2:3, 4.\\nAnd they went forth, and preached everywhere, the\\nLord working with them, and confirming the Word with\\nsigns folbwing. Mark 16:20. Long time therefore\\nthey [Paul and Barnabas] tarried there [at Iconium],\\nspeaking boldly in the Lord, which bare witness unto\\nthe Word of His grace, granting signs and wonders to be\\ndone by their hands. Acts 14:3, R. V.\\nThe disciples understood the need of these confirming\\ncures and witnessing wonders; and we read how they\\nprayed definitely for them, and how the Lord just as\\ndefinitely gave them that which they asked. Here is the\\nprayer\\nAnd now, Lord, behold their threatenings; and grant\\nunto Thy servants, that with all boldness they may speak\\nThy Word, by stretching forth Thine hand to heal; and\\nthat signs and wonders may be done by the name of Thy\\nholy child Jesus. And when they had prayed, the place\\nwas shaken where they were assembled together; and\\nthey were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and they spake\\nthe Word of God with boldness. Acts 4:29, 31.\\nThus clearly do the Scriptures teach that the gifts of\\nthe Holy Ghost are given to approve, to witness to, and\\nto confirm the preaching of the Word. The signs and\\nwonders are not the things of greatest importance. The\\n11", "height": "4788", "width": "3212", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0167.jp2"}, "168": {"fulltext": "162\\nPG1VER FOR JVITXESSIXG.\\nall-important thing is the preaching\\nsigns and wonders, and divers\\nspoxen is ilie Word wliicli at tlic\\nby the Lord.\\npreaching of the Word. Preach\\nand heal the sick, is the order i\\nsion is given. It is therefore evid\\nhe Word, and the\\n.cles. and !::s of\\ntne\\nne ord\\npreaching or a I\\nthe preaching of\\na failure in the s\\nto connrm the\\n*e:ore, any railure in\\nus: inevitably follow\\nthe gc\\nPaul ii\\nwho si\\nig of the Word\\nirely blinded by\\nLCI LU 1\\nappearing and ms k\\nsound doctrine; but\\nthemselves teachers\\naway their ears from\\n2 Tim. 4:1-4. R. V.\\nWffl God confirm\\nfalling away from th\\nwhy God should reft\\nsigns following. Ba\\nare seeking the witr\\nwhich at the first be\u00c2\u00ab\\nhee in the sight of God, and of Christ Jesus\\ndge the quick and the dead, and by His\\nnot encure the\\nears, will heap to\\ns:s: and will turn\\ntc ra .es.\\ni ::en :;;:s\\nmy brother, if you\\nBack to the Word\\nrn bv the Lord, be-", "height": "4804", "width": "3260", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0168.jp2"}, "169": {"fulltext": "POWER FOR WITNESSING.\\n163\\nfore you begin to teach the fable that the witnessing\\nsigns and wonders were for the apostles only.\\nGod working with them! What a blessed association\\nin labor! The Lord working with them, and confirm-\\ning the Word with signs following/ What a glorious\\nexperience the early disciples must have had when the\\nLord worked with them confirming the Word! But\\nwhy lock back? He is the same yesterday, to-day, and\\nforever. He will work with us again, and confirm the\\nWord again, if the church will get back to that Word;\\nfor at the time He was working with them, confirming\\nthe Word with signs following, He promised His pres-\\nence to us to-day, w T hen He said: All power is given\\nunto Me in heaven and in earth. Go ye therefore, and\\nteach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the\\nFather, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost; teaching\\nthem to observe all things whatsoever I have com-\\nmanded you; and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto\\nthe end of the world. Matt. 28:18-20.\\nAnd for what will He be with us? To work with us,\\nof course. And how does He work with us? It .is by\\nconfirming the Word with signs following.\\nThe absence, therefore, of the confirming signs is a\\nsad and solemn witness to the fact that there is a failure\\nsomewhere in the preaching of the Word.\\nPveader, does this truth touch your heart? Does it\\nmake any difference to you whether the Lord works\\nwith the church and confirms the Word, or whether He\\ndoes not? I confess that it concerns me deeply, and\\nfor Zion s sake will I not hold my peace, and for\\nJerusalem s sake I will not rest, until the righteousness\\nthereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof\\nas a lamp that burneth. Isa. 62:1.", "height": "4768", "width": "3212", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0169.jp2"}, "170": {"fulltext": "164 POWER FOR WITNESSING.\\nXXXVIII\\nTHE SWORD OF THE SPIRIT\\nHe who is seeking the baptism of the Spirit, is seeking\\nto become the sword of the Spirit. Some have thought\\nthat they were to wield the Spirit as a sword is\\nwielded in the hand of a mighty man; but this is a wrong-\\nconception. On the contrary, the Spirit is to wield us\\nand use us as a sword. But do not the Scriptures say\\nthat the sword of the Spirit is the Word of God? Eph.\\n6:17. Yes, but it is the u Word made flesh that is the\\nSpirit s sword, and not the letter of the Word, which is\\nspoken by the self-righteous Pharisees who gather at the\\ncorner grocery and loaf and chew and smoke and argue\\nScripture. No, no! The sword which the Spirit seeks\\nto use is a human life upon which the Spirit has written\\nthe law of God, the Word of the Lord.\\nWhen the Lord was preparing to write His law on\\nstone; He turned to Moses and said, with intense longing,\\nO that there were such an heart in them, that they would\\nfear Me, and keep all My commandments always. Deut.\\n5:29. This was but to say, O that I might write My law\\non My people s hearts instead of on these stones!\\nThe reason why the Lord wrote the law on stone at\\nSinai was because He could not write it on the hearts\\nof His people. From the day that He wrote His law on\\nstone until this day, the Lord has been waiting for men\\nto yield their hearts to Him, to have His law written\\nthere. This is the glory of the new covenant. Behold,\\nthe days come, saith the Lord, that I will make a new\\ncovenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of", "height": "4804", "width": "3212", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0170.jp2"}, "171": {"fulltext": "POWER FOR WITNESSING,\\n165\\nJudah; not according to the covenant that I made with\\ntheir fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to\\nbring them out of the land of Egypt; which My covenant\\nthey brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith\\nthe Lord; but this shall be the covenant that I will\\nmake with the house of Israel: After those days, saith\\nthe Lord, I will put My law in their inward parts, and\\nwrite it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they\\nshall be My people. Jer. 31:31-33.\\nIt was glorious when the Lord ministered the law to\\nthe yielding stone, but this glory is eclipsed in the glory\\nwhich attends the ministering of this law to a yielded\\nheart, whereby such a life becomes the epistle of Christ\\n(a living letter of Christ addressed to sinful men), writ-\\nten not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God;\\nnot in tables of stone, but in fleshly tables of the heart.\\n2 Cor. 3:1-8.\\nFor centuries the Lord received from the great major-\\nity of His professed people, only lip service. This peo-\\nple draw near Me with their mouth, and with their lips do\\nhonor Me, but have removed their heart far from Me,\\nand their fear toward Me is taught by the precept of\\nmen/ Isa. 29:13. There was plenty of form and cere-\\nmony, plenty of sacrifice and offering, but these from\\ncarnal hearts were only a weariness to the Lord, who\\nwanted spiritual service from those upon whose hearts\\nHe had w r ritten His law. Isa. 1:14.\\nIn the midst of all this heartless service, this yielding\\nof the lips but not the life, a voice is heard saying:\\nSacrifice and offering Thou didst not desire; Mine\\nears hast Thou opened; burnt-offering and sin-offering\\nhast Thou not required. Then said I, Lo, I come; in\\nthe volume of the book it is written of Me, I delight to", "height": "4776", "width": "3212", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0171.jp2"}, "172": {"fulltext": "166\\nPOWER FOR WITNESSING.\\ndo Thy will, O My God; yea, Thy law is within My heart.\\nPs. 40:6-8.\\nThe apostle Paul quotes this scripture, in Hebrews 10,\\nand applies it to Christ, with this additional thought:\\nSacrifice and offering Thou wouldest not, but a body\\nhast Thou prepared Me/ This was the promise of\\nChrist that He would come to the world in human flesh\\nand show to the world what His Father desired in men,\\nthat He desired a body, a living man, in whom and\\nthrough whom He might display the glories of His\\nWord. In fulfilment of His promise He came, and this\\nis the record which the apostle John bears of His com-\\ning: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word\\nwas with God, and the Word was God. And the\\nWord was made flesh, and dwelt among us. In Him\\nwas life; and the life was the light of men.\\nIn Jesus, the Word made flesh, the Spirit held a perfect\\nsw r ord, and consequently there was no limiting or meas-\\nuring of the power by which the Spirit used this sword\\nfor righteousness against sin.\\nIt is not enough to say the truth, we must be the truth.\\nChrist said, I am the truth 9 Again, I am\\nthe life The words that I speak unto you,\\nthey are spirit, and they are life; and this because He\\nspake only that which He lived. His words were words\\nof truth and life, because He spake those words which\\nwere true in His life, words which were made flesh, words\\nwhich were translated into acts. And herein lay the dif-\\nference between His speaking and the speaking of the\\nPharisees. The Lord says, They say and do not. He\\nfirst did that which He said; consequently He spake as\\none having authority, and not as the scribes.\\nGod has no truth for the world that He wants given", "height": "4804", "width": "3212", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0172.jp2"}, "173": {"fulltext": "POWER FOR WITNESSING.\\n167\\nin theory. Sacrifice and offering Thou wouldest not,\\nbut a body hast Thou prepared Me. Burnt-offering\\nand sin-offering hast Thou not required. Then said I,\\nLo, I come; I delight to do Thy will, O My\\nGod, yea, Thy law is within My heart\\nReader, if you have a theory of a truth which you\\nwant your neighbors to accept, first furnish that truth\\nwith a body, with your body. Truth without a body in\\nwhich to manifest itself is dead, being alone. And this\\nis what James means when he says, So speak ye, and\\nso do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty.\\nThat he has in mind the translation of the truth into the\\nlife, the translation of the faith into flesh, is clear from\\nwhat follows: If a brother or sister be naked, and\\ndestitute oi daily food, and one of you say unto them,\\nDepart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstand-\\ning ye give them not those things which are needful to\\nthe body; what doth it profit? Even so faith, if it hath\\nnot works, is dead, being alone.\\nAgain I repeat, if you have a theory of a truth that you\\nwant your family and friends to receive, first let that\\ntruth be written on your heart by the Holy Spirit, and\\nthus become that truth made flesh, so that your family\\nand neighbors will have a chance to see the truth when\\nthey look at you, to hear the truth when they hear you,\\nand to handle the truth when they shake hands with you.\\nThis is what the apostle John means when he writes of\\nour Lord thus:\\nThat which was from the beginning, which we have\\nheard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have\\nlooked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word\\nof life (for the life was manifested, and we have seen\\nit, and bear witness, and show unto you that eternal", "height": "4784", "width": "3196", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0173.jp2"}, "174": {"fulltext": "168\\nPOWER FOR WITNESSING.\\nlife, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto\\nus). i John 2.\\nDo you believe in the blessed hope of the second\\ncoming of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ? Do you\\nwant your neighbors to believe this truth? Then\\nlet that blessed hope live in your life, yes, be that\\nblessed hope made flesh, so that your neighbors will fall\\nin love with it by falling in love with your blessed life,\\nwhich has been made blessed by the blessed hope.\\nDo you want your neighbors to love that law which by\\nthe new covenant is written upon the heart? Then let\\nit be written upon your heart. Furnish it a body. Let\\nit be made flesh in your life, and thereby become holy\\nand just and good, as the law appeared when made\\nflesh, when written within the heart of the Son of God.\\nReader, of these things here written this is the sum:\\nThe Lord wants you to bring the Word which you pro-\\nfess, into the inner sanctuary of your heart. He wants\\nyour body in which to display to the world what His\\ngospel will do for a sinful man. He wants His Word\\nmade flesh again in your life. He wants you to be a\\nwalking Bible before you are a talking Bible. He wants\\nyou to walk worthy of the high calling before you talk\\nwisely of it. The letter killeth, but the Spirit maketh\\nalive. This spiritless talking about the letter of the\\nWord, that which is contradicted by the life of the talker,\\nis w r hat is killing the cause of Christianity in the world\\nto-day. Let the reader know assuredly that the Holy\\nSpirit will not baptize with power for witnessing that man\\nor woman whose words of witness are contradicted by\\nthe walk of life. If you are seeking for the Spirit with-\\nout measure as experienced by the great Example and\\nTeacher of the new covenant, then you must be as He\\nwas, the Word of God made flesh,", "height": "4804", "width": "3212", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0174.jp2"}, "175": {"fulltext": "POWER FOR WITNESSING.\\n169\\nIt is shocking to hear men and women talk of being\\nbaptized with the Holy Ghost while their lives are any-\\nthing but the light of the world, and while they are\\nignorant of the Word, and show no real desire to study\\nit and have it built into their lives. I want to witness\\nright here, with all the earnestness of my being, to the\\ntruth that I am unable to speak with power from on high\\nany words but those of the Scriptures of truth, and no\\nwords from the Scriptures of truth except those words\\nwhich have been made flesh and dwelt in my life.\\nThe thing which is the greatest enemy of the gospel\\nof the kingdom to-day, is the preaching of a faith that is\\nnot made flesh, the teaching of a law that is not in the\\nlife, the teaching of a truth that is not traced on the\\ntablets of the heart. This is what turns the world from\\nthe truth. This is what causes the Gentiles to blaspheme\\nto-day as they did in the days of Paul. Here is God s\\nestimate of that preaching of the Word which is not in the\\nlife: Thou therefore which teachest another, teachest\\nthou not thyself? thou that preachest a man should not\\nsteal, dost thou steal? thou that say est a man should\\nnot commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou\\nthat abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege? thou\\nthat makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the\\nlaw dishonorest thou God? For the name of God is\\nblasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written.\\nRom. 2:21-24. Then search the Scriptures as you never\\nhave done before. You can have the Spirit of truth to\\nguide you into all truth. Having found the truth, then\\nlet the Spirit write it upon the tables of your heart, that\\nthe Spirit make you a sword of the Spirit; and then, and\\nnot till then, can you hope to be wielded by the Spirit\\nwith pentecostal power. Receive with meekness the", "height": "4792", "width": "3212", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0175.jp2"}, "176": {"fulltext": "170\\nPOWER FOR WITNESSING.\\nengrafted Word/ Be partakers of the divine nature.\\nReceive ye the Holy Ghost.\\nXXXIX\\nWHY MARVEL YE AT THIS?\\nBefore the Lord can restore the gifts of healing to\\nHis servants to-day, they must reach the place in their\\nexperience where they will not get excited at the mani-\\nfestation of signs and wonders wdiich are wrought to\\nconfirm the Word. And the only man or woman who\\nwill be calm in the presence of miracles of healing, is the\\nman or woman who is in possession of the power of\\nGod to save from sinning. The reason for this is that\\nhe who is kept by the power of God unto salvation is\\nperpetually in the presence of the crowning miracle of\\nthe gospel. All other miracles are inferior to this mir-\\nacle. All other miracles are servants to this miracle.\\nAll the miraculous gifts of the Spirit will fail when that\\nwhich is perfect is come/ 7 but this miracle will never\\nfail. I Cor. 13:1-10. This crowning miracle will be\\nexhibited by our Lord to be admired by all the uni-\\nverse, in all the ages to come/ as the glorious mani-\\nfestation of the exceeding riches of His grace.\\nAnd you hath He quickened, who were dead in tres-\\npasses and sins; wherein in time past ye walked accord-\\ning to the course of this world, according to the prince of\\nthe power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the\\nchildren of disobedience, among whom also we all had\\nour conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh,\\nfulfiling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were", "height": "4836", "width": "3192", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0176.jp2"}, "177": {"fulltext": "POWER FOR WITNESSING.\\n171\\nby natures the children of wrath, even as others. But\\nGod, who is rich in mercy, for His great love wherewith\\nHe loved us, even when we were dead in sins, hath\\nquickened us together with Christ (by grace are ye\\nsaved); and hath raised us up together, and made us sit\\ntogether in heavenly places in Christ Jesus; that in the\\nages to come He might show the exceeding riches of\\nHis grace in His kindness toward us through Christ\\nJesus. Eph. 2:1-7.\\nHow can that man or that woman who is in posses-\\nsion of such an experience as this, who has thus been\\nresurrected from the dead, and who is constantly kept\\nalive by the power of His resurrection, how can such\\na one, who is constantly experiencing this miracle of all\\nmiracles, get excited at beholding another miracle which\\nis only the handmaid of this one?\\nThis point is sometimes made, to evade the demand\\nfor the lesser miracles. But be assured it is not so\\nmade here. It is presented here to clear the King s\\nhighway, for the manifestation of all the miracles and\\nwonders and signs which followed to confirm the Word\\nin the apostolic days of purity and power.\\nThis running away from the gospel, which is the\\npower of God unto salvation, after the less important\\nsigns and wonders, is a sad but certain witness that all\\nwho do it have not yet been anointed with the Holy\\nGhost, whereby they are able rightly to compare spir-\\nitual things with spiritual.\\nBefore the day of Pentecost, the Lord sent out seventy\\ndisciples with the commission to heal the sick, and\\nsay unto them, The kingdom of God is come nigh unto\\nyou. From the report which they gave when they re-\\nturned, it was apparent that they were in danger of los-", "height": "4796", "width": "3212", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0177.jp2"}, "178": {"fulltext": "172\\nPOWER FOR WITNESSING.\\ning sight of the gospel of the kingdom, and running\\naway after miracles of less importance. They said\\nnothing of the progress of the gospel of the kingdom,\\nbut spoke of the miracles they were able to perform.\\nAnd the seventy returned again with joy, saying,\\nLord, even the devils are subject unto us through Thy\\nname. To which the Lord answered in gentle reproof\\nBehold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and\\nscorpions, and over all the power of the enemy; and\\nnothing shall by any means hurt you. Notwithstanding\\nin this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you;\\nbut rather rejoice, because your names are written in\\nheaven. Luke 10:17-20.\\nThe climax by which this crowning miracle is reached\\nis presented thus by Jesus in the sign to John the Bap-\\ntist, that Christ was He that should come: Go your\\nway, and tell John what things ye have seen and heard;\\nhow that the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are\\ncleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, to the poor\\nthe gospel is preached. Luke 7:22.\\nAfter Pentecost, the apostles never failed to give\\nthese miracles their proper importance. All the miracles\\nof that day but opened the way for the cry, Repent, and\\nbe baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ\\nfor the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of\\nthe Holy Ghost. Acts 2:38. And when the cripple\\nwas healed at the Beautiful Gate, and all the people\\nwere amazed and ran together unto them, greatly\\nwondering, Peter said: Ye men of Israel, why marvel\\nye at this? Repent ye therefore, and be converted.\\nActs 3:1-19. And to the rulers he said: Ye rulers of\\nthe people, and elders of Israel, if we this day be exam-\\nined of the good deed done to the impotent man, by", "height": "4836", "width": "3192", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0178.jp2"}, "179": {"fulltext": "POWER FOR WITNESSING.\\n173\\nwhat means he is made whole; be it known unto you\\nall, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of\\nJesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God\\nraised from the dead, even by Him doth this man stand\\nhere before you whole. Neither is there salva-\\ntion in any other; for there is none other name under\\nheaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.\\nActs 4:8-12.\\nNotwithstanding God wrought special miracles by\\nthe hands of Paul/ we do not find either in his epistles,\\nor sermons as recorded in the Acts of the Apostles, any\\nattempt to make prominent these miracles of healing.\\nHe did refer to them in a general way; but even then it\\nwas done largely to confirm his apostleship, which was\\nquestioned by certain false brethren; and then he did\\nit reluctantly. Christ, and Him crucified, was his\\nmessage everywhere, to which he oft added, as his per-\\nsonal testimony, the story of the miracle of his con-\\nversion.\\nFrom all this it is clear that before God can work with\\nus. confirming the Word with signs following, we must\\nexperience the miracle of all miracles, salvation from\\nsin and sinning, and hold that miracle in our hearts, and\\nin the hearing of the multitude, high above all miracles\\nwhich are granted to confirm this, the chief of miracles.\\nThen this great barrier to the coming of the confirming\\nmiracles will be cleared away.\\nTo this I wish to bear witness by relating an expe-\\nrience which came under my observation. A young\\nminister was associated with others in gospel labor at a\\nlarge religious gathering. A few sick people were\\nhealed in connection with the preaching of the Word.\\nHe had never seen it on this wise before, and he was", "height": "4776", "width": "3212", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0179.jp2"}, "180": {"fulltext": "174\\nPOWER FOR WITNESSING.\\nmuch stirred by this manifestation of God s healing\\npower. He preceded the other minisrers to the next ap-\\npointment, and immediately began to call attention to\\nthe miracles of healing which he had witnessed. Soon\\nthe congregation was all absorbed with the theme of\\nphysical healing. At this point he visited a barber shop\\nand contracted the barber s itch, which soon manifested\\nitself in large sores on his neck, so located as to be in\\nplain view. How can I preach healing, and pray with\\nthe sick, while thus afflicted myself: he reasoned.\\nWill not the people say, Physician, heal thyself? I\\nmust be healed. Prayer was offered, and although\\none person present was instantly healed, he was not.\\nThis was the situation when the other ministers arrived.\\nThe young man, with great concern, related this expe-\\nrience, and asked why he was not healed. Xot being\\nacquainted with the course he had pursued, they could\\nnot explain his disappointment. The next day he came\\nto them, his face beaming with the light of a new truth\\nwhich had dawned upon him. He said in substance:\\nNow I understand. Xow the Lord can heal. I made\\nthe mistake of calling the attention of the people to mir-\\nacles of healing, when they needed first to be healed or\\ntheir sinning/ Xot only did he make this private\\nacknowledgment of his errror, but he made a voluntary\\npublic confession to the same effect. Prayer was again\\noffered, and he was healed, and made happy with the\\ntruth thus emphasized, that the healing of the soul from\\nsin is the first great miracle, which the Lord would have\\nimpressed upon His sinning people.\\nThis grand truth, if experienced by ministers and peo-\\nple in the church of God, will not only clear the King s\\nhighway for the manifestation of the fulness of the prom-", "height": "4836", "width": "3192", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0180.jp2"}, "181": {"fulltext": "POWER FOR WITNESSING. 175\\nised power, but it will save all who believe it from being\\ndeceived by the all power and signs and lying wonders\\nwhich are predicted, and which are already appearing,\\nto deceive, if it were possible, the very elect.\\nWho that reads these lines will yield himself to the\\nmiracle of God s saving and keeping power? And then,\\nin the joyful possession of this miracle, and with it an\\nunquenchable longing to bear it to others, who will con-\\ntinue to pray for those mighty signs and wonders, by\\nthe power of the Spirit of God, which wrought in the\\nearly days of purity and power, to make the Gentiles\\nobedient to the Gospel? Rom. 15:18, 19. To this end\\nthese lines are penned.\\nAnother witness by letter:\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nI am only too glad to tell you that the anchor holds;\\nand, more than that, it is going to hold; for I have given\\nmyself and all I ever expect to be to Christ, and so I\\ncan not fail. The Bible is the most wonderful book in\\nthe world. I have just begun to learn how to study it.\\nI never expected to see any miracle performed; but I\\nthink it was a greater miracle to straighten me up than\\nit was to straighten that crooked woman spoken of in\\nLuke 13:11; and more, too, because I had been in sin\\nthree years longer than she had been under the power\\nof disease. I praise God for His keeping power.\\nPraise God for the power that can keep any one from\\nsmoking, swearing, and out of bad company!", "height": "4788", "width": "3196", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0181.jp2"}, "182": {"fulltext": "176\\nPOWER FOR WITNESSING.\\nXL\\nMIRACLES OF HEALING AND HEALTH REFORM.\\nSALVATION FOR THE BODY\\nThe gospel includes sanctification of the body. And\\nthe very God of peace sanctify you wholly says the\\nWord. xAnd the next sentence explains what is meant\\nby being wholly sanctified: And I pray God your\\nwhole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto\\nthe coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. I Thess. 5:23.\\nSanctification is complete salvation from sin. Thou\\nshaft call His name Jesus; for He shall save His people\\nfrom their sins Matt. 1:21. The salvation of Jesus,\\ntherefore, includes the salvation of the spirit, soul, and\\nbody from sin. It is possible, therefore, to sin against\\nthe body. Know ye not that your body is the temple\\nof the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of\\nGod, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with\\na price; therefore glorify God in your body which\\nis His. 1 Cor. 6:19, 20. If any man defile the tem-\\nple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of\\nGod is holy, which temple ye are. 1 Cor. 3:17. God\\nmust, therefore, save us from sinning against, or defiling\\nthe body, since our bodies must be presented blameless\\nat the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.\\nBut how is sanctification for the body accomplished?\\nHow may we present our bodies blameless at the com-\\ning of our Lord Jesus Christ? By the same process\\nand by the same power by which the soul is presented\\nblameless. Complete sanctification of the soul is accom-\\nplished by completely separating the soul from sin. But", "height": "4832", "width": "3192", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0182.jp2"}, "183": {"fulltext": "POWER FOR WITNESSING.\\n177\\nGod does not separate a soul from sin without that soul s\\nknowledge and consent. How could He? How could I\\nbe saved from committing a sin which I did not know to\\nbe a sin? If I do not know it to be wrong, I must of\\nnecessity think it right. How can God save me from\\ndoing that w T hich is sin, while I consider it to be right-\\neousness, or right doing? It is, therefore, plain that\\nGod must first show me that the thing is sin before I\\ncan be saved from it. This is Bible sanctification.\\nSanctify them through Thy truth; Thy Word is truth.\\nJohn 17:17. Perfect sanctification, therefore, necessi-\\ntates a perfect knowledge of the truth; or in other words,\\na perfect knowledge of the Word, for Thy Word is\\ntruth.\\nThus it is plain that God can not sanctify a sinner\\nwhile the sinner continues sinning. He can not sanctify\\nsin. All this applies to the sanctification of the body.\\nGod can not sanctify the body, or save the body from\\nsin, can not heal it or restore it to a blameless body, with-\\nout first pointing out those physical sins which defile or\\ndestroy the body.\\nShould the Lord heal, or sanctify, the body before the\\ncause of the sickness is pointed out and put away, He\\nwould, in the healing, supply His own strength to the\\ntransgressor to be used in further transgression. He\\nwould be saving the transgressor against the laws of\\nhealth, in his sins and not from his sins. Not only this,\\nbut He would make it impossible ever to save the sinner\\nfrom his sins. For if the transgressor was continually\\nsaved from the results of his transgressions, he would\\nnever know the seriousness of transgression, nor realize\\nthe necessity of ceasing to transgress. The health which\\nGod gave would be consumed on his appetites and\\n12", "height": "4764", "width": "3212", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0183.jp2"}, "184": {"fulltext": "178\\nPOWER FOR WITNESSING.\\npleasures, and thus God would be furnishing His mi-\\nraculous power to be used in violating the laws of life\\nand health. This would make Christ a minister of sin.\\nIs therefore Christ the minister of sin? God forbid.\\nGal. 2:17.\\nTo illustrate: One is made sick and kept sick by\\nwrong habits or sins in eating, or drinking, or dressing,\\nor working. In order to save the sinner from his sins\\nthe Lord points out the sin, and calls for a reform; but\\nthe reform calls for self-denial, which the transgressor is\\nunwilling to make, because it conflicts with his appetite,\\nor pride, or ambitions. He continues to grieve the\\nSpirit by transgression, yet asks prayer for healing,\\nasks that the Holy Spirit, which pointed out the sin, be\\nmanifested to heal, while he uses this added health to\\nadd to his transgressions. By this course he virtually\\nsays to the Lord: I want to be saved from the results of\\nsinning, but I do not want to stop sinning. I know that\\nmy sickness is the result of wrong habits of life; but I\\nwant to be healed so that I may live and continue in sin.\\nI don t want to be saved from sin; I want to be saved\\nin sin.\\nFrom all this, it is plain that for God to heal the body\\nwithout pointing out the transgressions against the\\nbody which are responsible for the sickness, would be to\\nnullify the whole plan of salvation, which is to save the\\npeople from their sins, not in their sins.\\nHe who teaches sanctification for the soul, and does\\nnot point out the sins of the soul and call for a separa-\\ntion from sin, is not working in harmony with the gos-\\npel plan of salvation. Likewise he who professes to\\nheal the body, and does not point out the sins against\\nthe body, those wrong habits of life which are responsible", "height": "4804", "width": "3212", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0184.jp2"}, "185": {"fulltext": "POWER FOR WITNESSING.\\n179\\nfor sickness, and present the gospel of salvation from\\nthese sins, is not working in harmony with Jesus Christ,\\nthe Author of our salvation; for He said to the man\\nwhom He had healed at the pool of Bethesda, Behold,\\nthou art made whole sin no more, lest a worse thing come\\nunto thee. John 5:14.\\nThis truth constitutes one of the infallible tests by\\nwhich the true and false teachers of healing are to be\\ntested. It is not the only test, but it is an important one,\\nand if applied to-day, will brand as false a multitude of\\npersons professing to possess the power to heal.\\nThere stood on the streets of one of our large cities\\na widely-advertised great healer. A multitude was\\nflocking to him to be healed. His beard was trimmed\\nto resemble the purported pictures of the Son of God.\\nI went near to hear and see. I saw him pressing his\\nfingers on the patient s spine, and looking up to heaven,\\nbut no sins were pointed out, and no gospel of salvation\\nfrom sin was proclaimed.\\nReader, be not deceived. By their fruits ye shall\\nknow them. Preach the kingdom of God, and heal\\nthe sick, is the commission from Him whom God sent\\nto bless you, in turning away every one of you from his\\niniquities. Acts 3:26.\\nThe presence of so much that is false pleads eloquently\\nfor the presence of the true. Let every soul who holds\\nthe prosperity of truth above his chief joy, cease not to\\npray until the all power in heaven and in earth shall\\nbe revealed to meet the all power and signs and lying\\nwonders which are appearing in these last days.", "height": "4764", "width": "3212", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0185.jp2"}, "186": {"fulltext": "180\\nPOWER FOR WITNESSING.\\nXLI\\nLYING WONDERS\\nIt is the plan of the enemy of all truth to counterfeit\\nevery manifestation of the power of God, and through\\nthat counterfeit to deceive the world and lead it to de-\\nstruction.\\nAccording to the Scriptures of truth, this counterfeit-\\ning of the work of God is to reach its climax of power\\nto deceive and destroy, in the closing events of the last\\ndays. That Satan through his agents will work mir-\\nacles and signs and wonders to deceive, and that this\\nwork of deception is to be especially manifest in the last\\ndays, is plainly proved by the following scriptures\\nWhose coming is after the working of Satan with all\\npower and signs and lying wonders and w ith all deceiv-\\nableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because\\nthey received not the love of the truth, that they might\\nbe saved. 2 Thess 2:9, 10. And he deceiveth them\\nthat dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles\\nwhich he had power to do. Rev. 13:14. For they\\nare the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go\\nforth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world,\\nto gather them to the battle of that great day of God\\nAlmighty. Rev. 16:13, 14. There shall arise false\\nchrists, and false prophets, and shall show great signs\\nand wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they\\nshall deceive the very elect. Behold, I have told you\\nbefore. Matt. 24:24, 25.\\nFrom these startling statements of divine truth, it is\\nclear that a correct understanding of the Scriptures con-", "height": "4804", "width": "3232", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0186.jp2"}, "187": {"fulltext": "POWER FOR WITNESSING.\\n181\\ncerning miracles is of vital importance. First of all, it is\\nall-important that he who would not be deceived, must\\nbelieve that the agents of Satan have power to show\\ngreat signs and wonders and miracles, as the above\\nScriptures plainly declare. And here is the reason:\\nWhen Satan does perform great signs and wonders and\\nmiracles, the man who does not believe the declaration\\nof our Lord that Satan has power to do so, will attribute\\nthe miracles to the power of God. How could he be\\nworse deceived than to believe that the power and work\\nof Satan is the power and work of God?\\nA correct understanding of what is meant by the term\\nmiracle in this connection is essential. From our\\nstandpoint a miracle, or sign, or wonder is any manifes-\\ntation of power which we can not explain as the working\\nof what we call natural law r It may be wrought in har-\\nmony with the laws of nature; but if it is in a field of\\nnature beyond our knowledge of the natural, it is to us\\n,?tt/ ernatural, i. e., above our knowledge of the natural.\\nSatan, under the symbol of the king of Tyrus, is\\ndescribed by the prophet as sealing up the sum, full of\\nwisdom, and as having once held the position of the\\nanointed cherub that covereth. This position accord-\\ning to Exodus 25:17-22, and Ps. 80:1, is one of two\\npositions nearest the throne of God. Is it not reason-\\nable to conclude that the one who is now called the\\ngod of this world (2 Cor. 4:4) and the prince of the\\npower of the air (Eph. 2:2), should be acquainted with\\nforces of nature not known to man? Christ and His\\napostles made use of miracles and wonders and signs\\nto show the power of God and advance His kingdom;\\nthen is it to be wondered at that Satan and his fol-\\nlowers should use their power and knowledge to do", "height": "4792", "width": "3212", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0187.jp2"}, "188": {"fulltext": "182\\nPOWER FOR WITNESSING.\\ngreat signs and wonders, to deceive the world and\\nadvance the kingdom of darkness?\\nIt is not contended that Satan is able to do the same\\nmiracles which our Lord and His disciples performed,\\nbut only that he performs similar miracles. While they\\nare not the same, they are nevertheless miracles the\\nmanifestation of supernatural power; and so fax as men\\nare able to judge, they will appear to be the same mir-\\nacles.\\nInasmuch as the Word plainly declares that Satan will\\nwork miracles to deceive, and since all miracles are, so\\nfar as men are concerned, supernatural, and therefore\\nbeyond our power to explain, it follows that it is unwise\\nto investigate miracles for the purpose of ascertaining\\ntheir author. No one who is instructed in the Scriptures\\nwill ever attempt to determine the author of a miracle by\\ninvestigating the miracle. All that the miracle shows,\\nstanding alone, is the presence of supernatural power.\\nWhile the authorship of miracles can not be deter-\\nmined by examining the miracles, yet there is a way by\\nwhich it can be determined. Our Lord, who has\\nwarned us against the miracles, has furnished an in-\\nfallible test by which their authorship may be deter-\\nmined. Here is the test:\\nBeware of false prophets, which come to you in\\nsheep s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.\\nYe shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather\\ngrapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? Even so every\\ngood tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree\\nbringeth forth evil fruit. A good tree can not bring\\nforth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good\\nfruit. Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know\\nthem. Matt. 7:15-20.", "height": "4832", "width": "3204", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0188.jp2"}, "189": {"fulltext": "POWER FOR WITNESSING.\\n183\\nIt will be noticed that the Lord does not say, Ye shall\\nknow them by their great signs and wonders/ but, Ye\\nshall know them by their fruits. We are therefore to\\ndiscern the author of miracles by the fruits, and not by\\nthe miracles. This important truth was first taught by\\nthe Lord to the Israelites, thus:\\nIf there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of\\ndreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wond^ r and the sign\\nor the wonder come to pass, whereof he spake unto thee,\\nsaying, Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not\\nknown, and let us serve them; thou shalt not harken\\nunto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of\\ndreams; for the Lord your God proveth you, to know\\nwhether ye love the Lord your God with all your heart\\nand with all your soul. Ye shall walk after the Lord\\nyour God, and fear Him, and keep His commandments,\\nand obey His voice, and ye shall serve Him, and cleave\\nunto Him. And that prophet, or that dreamer of\\ndreams, shall be put to death. Deut. 13:1-5.\\nIt will be noted again that the Lord does not instruct\\nus to investigate the miracle. He Himself admits the\\nfact that a miracle has been wrought; but He instructs\\nus to investigate the teaching and the fruits which ac-\\ncompany the miracle.\\nJust as there is a distinction in the gospel system be-\\ntween the gifts of the Spirit and the fruit of the\\nSpirit, so there is a difference in the miraculous powers\\nof the spirits of devils and the fruits of their teaching.\\nWhile the miracles are beyond our power to judge, the\\nfruits are not. While Satan will successfully counter-\\nfeit miracles, as he did at the court of Pharaoh, he can\\nnot counterfeit the fruits of the Spirit. Reader, remem-\\nber this truth, if you would be delivered from the de-", "height": "4788", "width": "3212", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0189.jp2"}, "190": {"fulltext": "184\\nPOWER FOR V/ITNESSING.\\nlusions of the last days. Don t investigate the miracle.\\nAdmit the miracle, and challenge the fruits.\\nThose who finally escape deception by those miracles\\nwhich he had power to do, will be men and women\\nwho are so fortified by what the Lord has told them be-\\nfore in the Scriptures, that they will stand unmoved in\\nthe presence of great signs and wonders, in the pres-\\nence of the working of Satan with all power and signs\\nand lying wonders/ and will refuse that teaching to sup-\\nport which the great signs and wonders are wrought.\\nLet it be here understood that the miracles of Satan\\nare but a means to an end. Just as the signs and won-\\nders of Christ were wrought to confirm the word of\\ntruth, the gospel of salvation, so the signs and wonders\\nof Satan are wrought to confirm the teaching of error,\\nthe doctrines of destruction.\\nNot only must those who escape the deceptions of\\nSatan refuse to accept error though it be supported by\\ngreat signs and wonders, but they must reject the error\\neven when the signs and wonders that appear in support\\nof it, are wrought by those professing to be Christians,\\nand whose outward appearance can not be distinguished\\nfrom that of the genuine Christian. Our Saviour says,\\nBeware of false prophets, /hich come to you in sheep s\\nclothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. The\\nterm sheep stands in the Scriptures for true Chris-\\ntians. Sheep s clothing, therefore, in this connection,\\nmust mean that the deceivers will bear the outward ap-\\npearance of genuine Christians. This the apostle Paul\\nplainly teaches in the following scripture:\\nFor such men are false apostles, deceitful workers,\\nfashioning themselves into apostles of Christ. And no\\nmarvel; for even Satan fashioneth himself into an angel", "height": "4832", "width": "3192", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0190.jp2"}, "191": {"fulltext": "POWER FOR WITNESSING.\\n185\\nof light. It is no great thing therefore if his ministers\\nalso fashion themselves as ministers of righteousness.\\n2 Cor. n :i3-i5, R. V.\\nBut not only will the ministers of Satan fashion\\nthemselves into ministers of righteousness in all\\ntheir outward appearance while working great signs\\nand wonders, but these signs and wonders will be\\nwrought in the name of Christ. For many shall\\ncome in My name, saying, I am Christ; and shall de-\\nceive many/ Matt. 24:5. Many will say to Me in\\nthat day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Thy\\nname? and in Thy name have cast out devils? and in Thy\\nname done many wonderful works? And then will I\\nprofess unto them, I never knew you; depart from Me,\\nye that work iniquity. Matt. 7:22, 23.\\nIf these workers did not believe that they had really\\ncast out devils and done many wonderful works in the\\nname of Christ, they would not presume to face Him\\nwith such self-justifying questions. The startling truth\\nis now clearly before us, that the ministers of Satan will\\nnot only work miracles, but they will perform them with\\nall the outward appearance of ministers of righteous-\\nnesc \u00e2\u0080\u0094perform them in the sincere belief that they are\\nreally casting out devils, and really doing zvonderfid works\\nwith the power and approval of Jesus Christ,\\nTherefore, he who would escape being deceived by\\nthe overmastering deceptions of the last days, must be\\nprepared to stand unmoved in the presence of one who\\nlays his hands on the sick, and, with the firm belief in\\nhimself that he is a minister of righteousness, a disciple\\nof Christ, but is not, calls on the God of heaven in the\\nname of Christ to manifest His Holy Spirit and heal.\\nHe must be unmoved by that which to all appearances", "height": "4792", "width": "3196", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0191.jp2"}, "192": {"fulltext": "186\\nPOWER FOR WITNESSING.\\nis a wonderful miracle of healing, which the professed\\nminister believes to be a miracle, and which the patient\\nbelieves to be a miracle wrought by the mighty power of\\nGod. Who shall be able to stand!\\nThere are several searching questions which arise at\\nthis point. One of them is, How is it that a man can be\\nso deceived as really to believe that he is a minister of\\nrighteousness when he is the minister of Satan? This\\nand other related questions will be answered in the next\\nchapter.\\nXLII\\nDECEIVING AND BEING DECEIVED\\nIt is sad indeed to contemplate the fact that many\\nwill come to judgment so deceived that they will really\\nbelieve that they have prophesied, cast out devils, and\\ndone many wonderful works in the name of Christ.\\nMatt. 7:22, 23. The reason for their deception is plainly\\nstated in the Scriptures. In the last days perilous times\\nshall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves,\\ncovetous, boasters, proud, lovers of pleasures\\nmore than lovers of God; having a form of godliness,\\nbut denying the power thereof. Now as Jannes\\nand Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist\\nthe truth; men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning\\nthe faith. Evil men and seducers shall wax\\nworse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.\\n2 Tim. 3:1-13.\\nIn the fourth chapter of 2 Timothy, which is but a\\ncontinuation of the thought in the third, the apostle\\nPaul explains more clearly how men reach that condi-", "height": "4804", "width": "3212", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0192.jp2"}, "193": {"fulltext": "POWER FOR WITNESSING.\\n187\\nlion where they become victims of such terrible self-\\ndeception. Here is the reason: I charge thee there-\\nfore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall\\njudge the quick and the dead at His appearing and His\\nkingdom: Preach the Word; be instant in season, out of\\nseason; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering\\nand doctrine. For the time will come when they will\\nnot endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall\\nthey heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;\\nand they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall\\nbe turned unto fables. 2 Tim. 4:1-14.\\nThe apostle completes the description of their decep-\\ntion in these words: Whose coming is after the work-\\ning of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,\\nand with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them\\nthat perish; because they received not the love of the truth,\\nthat they might be saved. And for this cause God shall\\nsend them strong delusion, that they should believe a\\nlie; that they all might be damned who believed not the\\ntruth, but had pleasure in unrighteouness. 2 Thess.\\n2:9-12.\\nThese scriptures make the matter very plain. The\\nonly means which God has for saving man from error\\nand the delusions of Satan, is by the truth u Thy Word\\nis truth by the sound doctrine of the Scriptures of\\ntruth. And when men will not receive the love of the\\ntruth, but have pleasure in unrighteousness; when they\\nwill not endure sound doctrine, but turn away their ears\\nfrom the truth, and listen to fables, there is nothing left\\nthat God can do but permit them to be deceived by\\nthe strong delusions which must result from following\\nfables. No man will come to the judgment self-\\ndeceived, who has not at some time in his experience", "height": "4796", "width": "3212", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0193.jp2"}, "194": {"fulltext": "188\\nPOWER FOR WITNESSING.\\nstood face to face with truth. And because that truth\\ncalled for self-denial, as truth always does, and because\\nthat truth was unpopular, as truth always is, he turned\\nhis ear away from the truth to the fables of false\\nprophets; and instead of believing the truth, he came to\\nbelieve a lie.\\nReader, if you have come face to face with the truth,\\nand turned away your ear from hearing it at any time in\\nyour life, I exhort you in the name of the Lord, delay\\nnot to turn your ear back to hear that truth and obey\\nit at any cost. Let no honest seeker after truth fear\\nthat God will not be able to pilot him amid the hidden\\nrocks and destructive quicksands which must be passed\\nbefore we reach the haven. The Lord has promised\\nthat if any man willeth to do His will, he shall know\\nthe doctrine.\\nA knowledge of sound doctrine is essential if the be-\\nliever would be delivered from the delusions of the last\\ndays. The signs and wonders of the ministers of Satan\\nare wrought to persuade the people to believe false doctrine.\\nThere is salvation from his doctrines in sound doctrine.\\nHere is an illustration: here is one sound doctrine of\\nScripture which, if believed, would instantly sweep away\\na multitude of deceptions. One lie which the signs and\\nwonders of Satan are wrought to confirm, is that Christ s\\nsecond coming will not occur in the manner described in\\nthe Scriptures. The Lord tells us that the workers of\\nsigns and wonders will teach false doctrine concerning\\nthe manner of His coming, and warns us not to believe\\nthem. Here is the scripture:\\nThere shall arise false christs, and false prophets,\\nand shall show great signs and wonders; insomuch that,\\nif it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.", "height": "4836", "width": "3200", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0194.jp2"}, "195": {"fulltext": "POWER FOR WITNESSING.\\n189\\nBehold, I have told you before. Wherefore if they shall\\nsay unto you, Behold, He is in the desert, go not forth;\\nbehold, He is in the secret chambers, believe it not.\\nFor as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth\\neven unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of\\nMan be. Matt. 24:24-27.\\nThis sound doctrine, if believed, would quickly un-\\nmask both the miracle-working delusions, Christian\\nScience and Spiritualism; for both of them are saying,\\nHere is Christ, and denying His literal, personal com-\\ning in the clouds of heaven as described in the Scrip-\\ntures of truth.\\nWith the plain declarations of Christ as to the manner\\nof His coming, what excuse will any man have in the\\njudgment for having believed the fables of Christian Sci-\\nence or Spiritualism, even though these fables were sup-\\nported by great signs and wonders? Do not the Scrip-\\ntures of truth warn us beforehand that great signs and\\nwonders will be wrought by those who will teach error\\nconcerning the second coming of Christ? The pres-\\nence of miracles, therefore, is no excuse for being de-\\nceived. Miracles are to be judged by their fruits as to\\nwhether these fruits are in harmony with sound doctrine.\\nThis truth is taught all through the Scriptures. The\\nprophet Isaiah^ after describing a last-day delusion under\\nwhich men leave the all-wise God and seek the dead for\\nknowledge, admonishes the people to test the teaching\\nand the miracles by sound doctrine. To the law and\\nto the testimony; if they speak not according to this\\nWord, it is because there is no light in them. Isa.\\n8:19, 20. With this explicit warning before us, what\\nexcuse will any man have for being ruined by these\\ndelusions?", "height": "4788", "width": "3212", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0195.jp2"}, "196": {"fulltext": "190\\nPOWER FOR WITNESSING.\\nIn Rev. 13:14 we read that the ministers of Satan\\ndeceive them that dwell on the earth by the means of\\nthese miracles which he had power to do. Of those\\nwho escape this deception we read, Here are they that\\nkeep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.\\nRev. 14:12. Thus it is again that the appeal of the un-\\ndeceived will be to sound doctrine, and if the fruit of the\\nteaching leads away from the commandments of God,\\nand the faith of Jesus, it will not be followed, notwith-\\nstanding the miracles which he had power to do.\\nIn Matt. 7 :22 we learn the awfully sad fact that men will\\ncome to judgment really believing that they have proph-\\nesied and cast out devils in the name of Christ. But the\\npreceding verse gives the reason, as follows: Not every\\none that saith unto Me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the\\nkingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of My\\nFather which is in heaven. Thus again the reason for\\nthe deception is found in the failure to do the will of God\\nas taught in the Scriptures. Those who obey the Word\\nhave the following precious promises: Because thou\\nhast kept the word of My patience, I also will keep thee\\nfrom the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all\\nthe world, to try them that dwell upon the earth. Rev.\\n3:10. My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and\\nthey follow Me; and I give unto them eternal life; and\\nthey shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them\\nout of My hand. John 10:27, 28. Fear not, little\\nflock; for it is your Father s good pleasure to give you\\nthe kingdom. Luke 12:32.\\nIt has been asked, Will Satan really heal? Will the\\nministers of Satan cast out devils? Does Satan cast\\nout Satan? It can be confidently affirmed from the\\nteaching of Scripture that Satan will never cast out", "height": "4840", "width": "3240", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0196.jp2"}, "197": {"fulltext": "POWER FOR WITNESSING.\\n191\\nSatan; for this would be to break his dominion over the\\nsoul, and he will never be found doing this. But that\\nhis ministers will do that which will appear to be casting\\nout devils, is evident. There are many ways by which\\nSatan exercises his control over men. The Pharisees\\nwere as really under the dominion of Satan as were\\nthose out of whom the Lord cast the devils. He said of\\nthem, Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of\\nyour father ye will do. John 8:44.\\nThe devil can change the manner of his control, and\\nstill retain power over his victim. Thereby he strength-\\nens his deceptions not only over the victim, but over\\nthose who regard the miracle as a manifestation of the\\npower of God in casting out devils. Here is an illus-\\ntration: A man was trying to convince the writer that\\nSpiritualism was a blessing. He declared in support of\\nhis contention, that he had been saved from drunken-\\nness by means of Spiritualism. As a result you are\\nnow a confirmed Spiritualist? I replied; to which he\\nanswered, Yes. Now, I added, you are harder to\\nreach with the truth than if you were a drunkard.\\nIn the same way Satan will appear to heal disease and\\ncast out devils, and so far as the manifestation itself is\\nconcerned, it will be impossible to deny that a miracle\\nhas been wrought. But there will be no real deliver-\\nance from his dominion but only a shifting of symptoms,\\na change in the manner of control, whereby he will be\\nable to deepen his deception. It is true that many of\\nthe wonders of healing can be accounted for on the\\npsychological truth that the mind has much to do with\\nthe healing of the body. But, as before stated, the\\nappeal is not to miracles, but to the fruits of the teach-\\ning in support of which the miracles are set forth. Mir-", "height": "4788", "width": "3212", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0197.jp2"}, "198": {"fulltext": "192\\nPOWER FOR WITNESSING,\\nacles which can not be denied, and which can not be\\naccounted for in harmony with the known laws of na-\\nture, will be wrought, and it is not wise to investigate\\nthe miracle. Admit the miracle and challenge the fruits.\\nBy their fruits ye shall know them.\\nBut since we are to know them by their fruits, it fol-\\nlows that we must know the fruits zvhen ive see them. If\\nwe can not recognize coveting in ourselves, we will not\\nknow it in the worker of wonders. I had not known\\ncoveting, says the apostle Paul, except the law had\\nsaid, Thou shalt not covet. Rom, 7:7, R. V. By the\\nlaw is the knowledge of sin. Rom. 3:20. That which\\nis true of this tenth commandment is true of the other\\nnine. No man would have known Sabbath-breaking\\nexcept the law had said, The seventh day is the Sab-\\nbath of the Lord thy God; in it thou shalt not do any\\nwork. Ex. 20:10. And he who does not know the\\nfruits of Sabbath-breaking in his own life, will not know\\nthe fruits of Sabbath-breaking in the teaching of the\\nworkers of wonders.\\nHe who would know the fruits of the false, must him-\\nself be delivered from the false, and he who w T ould know\\nthe fruit of the true, must have the truth written upon his\\nheart by the Spirit of Truth. He can not and need\\nnot trust to the judgment and experience of another.\\nAfter those days, saith the Lord, I will put My law in\\ntheir inward parts, and write it in their hearts.\\nAnd they shall teach no more every man his neighbor,\\nand every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord; for\\nthey shall all know Me, from the least of them unto the\\ngreatest of them, saith the Lord. Jer. 31:33, 34. They\\nwho are delivered from delusion, will be those who by\\nreason of use have their senses exercised to discern both\\ngood and evil. Heb. 5:14.", "height": "4832", "width": "3196", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0198.jp2"}, "199": {"fulltext": "POWER FOR WITNESSING,\\n193\\nNow of the things we have written, reader, this is the\\nsum: You will not be deceived by the devil by those\\nmiracles which he had power to do, if you do not grieve\\naway the Spirit which is sent to you to guide you into\\nall truth, by rejecting the truth to which the Spirit\\nguides you. And you will not escape the deceiving\\npower of the great signs and wonders unless you\\nyourself are perfectly acquainted with the fruits of the\\nSpirit, yourself being fruitful in even- good work\\n(Col. 1:10) because you are yourself filled with the\\nSpirit. Receive ye the Holy Ghost.\\nXLIII\\nHOW APOSTLES AND PROPHETS ARE CHOSEN\\nBecause the gifts of the Spirit should be present in the\\nchurch because there should be apostles, prophets,\\nevangelists, pastors, and teachers, it does not follow that\\nit is the work of the church to elect them. There are\\nthose, who, finding that the perfect, scriptural church\\nhas all these offices, have gone about to make a perfect\\nchurch by electing men to fill these positions. Having\\ndone this, they talk much of the apostolic church, and\\npoint to their apostles, prophets, and evangelists, and\\nchallenge others to point out these gifts in their\\nchurches. While it is true that all these gifts belong to\\nthe true church, and while it is sad that all these gifts\\ndo not appear in the church, yet it is sadder to see these\\npositions filled by men who were placed there by the vote\\nof their brethren, not because they were anointed by the\\nHoly Ghost to exercise the gifts, but because it is seen\\n13", "height": "4752", "width": "3212", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0199.jp2"}, "200": {"fulltext": "194\\nPOWER FOR WITNESSING.\\nthat these offices exist in the perfect church, and because\\nit is thought to be the duty of the church to keep all\\nthese offices filled.\\nBut apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and\\nteachers, with all the other instrumentalities through\\nwhom the gifts of the Spirit are manifested in the church,\\nare chosen, qualified, and sent of God to the church to\\nbe received or rejected by the church. The office does\\nnot qualify the man, the man must first be qualified for\\nthe office.\\nIsrael never elected her true prophets. She did\\nchoose some prophets, but they were all false prophets.\\nGod elected all the true prophets and sent them to warn\\nIsrael; and it was left to Israel to receive or reject them,\\nbut not to elect them.\\nAnd the Lord God of their fathers sent to them by\\nHis messengers, rising up betimes, and sending; because\\nHe had compassion on His people, and on His dwelling\\nplace; but they mocked the messengers of God, and\\ndespised His words, and misused His prophets.\\n2 Chron. 36:15, 16.\\nBehold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and\\nscribes. Matt. 23:34.\\nAnd God hath set some in the church, first apostles,\\nsecondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that mir-\\nacles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversi-\\nties of tongues. 1 Cor. 12:28.\\nApostles and prophets made by the church would\\nserve those who made them, as the false prophets which\\nbackslidden Israel made served her; but all the human\\nagents through whom God manifests the gifts of the\\nSpirit, are chosen and sent of God to serve Him, not the\\npeople.", "height": "4804", "width": "3232", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0200.jp2"}, "201": {"fulltext": "POWER FOR WITNESSING.\\n195\\nPaul is an illustration of the relative relation which\\nthe Lord and the people sustain to those who exercise\\nthe gifts of the Spirit. The Lord chose Paul to exer-\\ncise the gift of an apostle. It was left with the church\\nto recognize that God had set Paul in their midst as an\\napostle. It was several years before the church recog-\\nnized Paul s apostleship; but all this time he was recog-\\nnized by the Lord as an apostle. The story of Paul s\\nexperience in being recognized by the church as an apos-\\ntle, is found in the first and second chapters of Galatians,\\na portion of which reads thus:\\nAnd when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to\\nbe pillars, perceived the grace that was given unto me,\\nthey gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fel-\\nlowship; that we should go unto the heathen, and they\\nunto the circumcision. Gal. 2:9.\\nAll this teaches that God elects men to exercise the\\ngifts of the Spirit in the church, and that it is left with\\nthe church to recognize the grace which has been given\\nthem, or to reject them. It therefore follows that if some\\nof the gifts are lacking in the church, it is not the work of\\nthe church to go about to fill the vacant offices by elect-\\ning men to them. The work of the church is to put\\naway sin and seek the Lord to manifest the missing\\ngifts, and to ask for grace to discern them when He does\\nmanifest them.\\nBetter by far have the seats empty than to have them\\noccupied by men whom God has not seated. For when\\nthe seats are filled, the church is satisfied, and will not\\nhumble herself and seek God for the missing gifts. And\\nagain, when the seats are filled by the will of men, those\\nthus seated are sure to fight those whom God sends to\\noccupy the seats.", "height": "4776", "width": "3196", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0201.jp2"}, "202": {"fulltext": "196\\nPOWER FOR WITNESSING.\\nWhile it is humbling to see empty seats where the\\ngifts of the Spirit should appear, yet it is more humbling\\nto see them filled by those who have a form of godliness\\nwithout the power. The church which leaves the seats\\nempty, and waits and prays to God to fill them, shows\\nmore spiritual discernment, and is far more apostolic,\\nthan one which fills these seats with men whom God has\\nnot qualified and sent.\\nXLIV\\nWHAT IS THE OUTLOOK?\\nSince we must have a church with apostolic purity be-\\nfore we can have a church with apostolic power, what is\\nthe outlook for such a church? Will it ever appear?\\nWill it not require many years to cleanse the church, if,\\nindeed, it will ever be done? How and by whom will it\\nbe accomplished?\\nThe heat of the furnace was like the seven-fold heated\\nfurnace of Nebuchadnezzar. Through the great air-\\nshafts there came a mighty, rushing wind, and it fanned\\nthe flames into a fury. Tongues of fire darted through\\nthe great mass of limestone and coke and iron ore. Men\\nwere unloading into this fiery furnace a kind of rock in\\nwhich they said were gold and silver. I picked up a\\nglittering piece of ore, and thought I saw gold, but the\\nguide said it was pyrites of iron. It is not all gold that\\nglitters.\\nThen we went below, to the base of the furnace. The\\nmighy, rushing wind had fanned the furnace fires to\\nsmelting heat, and the coke, and the limestone, and the", "height": "4804", "width": "3220", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0202.jp2"}, "203": {"fulltext": "POWER FOR WITNESSING.\\n197\\niron, and the quartz, and the copper, and the gold, and\\nthe silver, were all a molten sea.\\nAnd then I saw a wonder. There were two outlets on\\ndifferent sides of the furnace. From the larger one\\nthere flowed a great fiery stream. They told me it was\\nthe limestone and coke and iron and quartz. From the\\nsmaller opening there ran forth a little stream of precious\\nmetals. Substances which had dwelt together for ages\\nin the bosom of the earth, now ran away from each other\\nwith a haste that seemed to voice a mutual hate.\\nThe little particles of precious metals that had been\\nscattered through the ore and imprisoned in their rocky\\ncells for centuries, now ran together and embraced each\\nother with a speed and sparkle that looked akin to joy.\\nThis was the miner s harvest-time.\\nAs I thought upon the fiery furnace, which men call\\na smelter, and saw how easily they could separate the\\nprecious metal from the base, I remembered the precious\\nchildren of God who are mingled with the base in the\\nchurch and the world, and I sighed and said, Oh, for a\\nDivine Smelter 1\\nThen the Lord spake through His Word and said:\\nHe shall baptize you w T ith the Holy Ghost, and with\\nfire; whose fan is in His hand, and He will thoroughly\\npurge His floor, and gather His wheat into the garner;\\nbut He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.\\nMatt. 3:11, 12. Behold, I will send My messenger,\\nand He shall prepare the way before Me; and the Lord,\\nwhom ye seek, shall suddenly come to His temple, even\\nthe messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in; be-\\nhold, He shall come, saith the Lord of hosts. But who\\nmay abide the day of His coming? and who shall stand\\nwhen He appeareth? for He is like a refiner s fire, and", "height": "4768", "width": "3192", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0203.jp2"}, "204": {"fulltext": "198 POWER FOR WITNESSING.\\nlike fullers soap; and He shall sit as a refiner and puri-\\nfier of silver; and He shall purify the sons of Levi, and\\npurge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto\\nthe Lord an offering in righteousness. Mai. 3:1-3.\\nThe Holy Spirit is the Lord s smelting furnace. In it\\nHe separates the precious from the base. It purifies\\nthe gold, and causes it to shine forth in all its heavenly\\nluster, while it burns up the hypocritical glitter of the\\ndross.\\nThese furnace fires were kindled on the day of Pente-\\ncost, when the mighty, rushing wind came to the upper\\nroom, followed by the tongues of fire. Into this furnace\\nthere was cast the new-born church of Jesus Christ; but\\nthe dross had already been burned out, and the pure\\ngold only shone the brighter amid the glare of the\\nfurnace fires. Then the Lord cast into the furnace the\\nJewish church, with its priesthood of pomp and pride,\\nand then the whole Gentile world, with its tinsel and\\nshow. The mighty, rushing wind continued to blow,\\nand the tongues of fire continued to burn, until the whole\\nwas a molten sea and the pure was separated from the\\nvile, and under God s furnace fires the world was sepa-\\nrated into but two elements, the precious and the base,\\nmartyrs and murderers.\\nThis was God s early harvest-time, the first-fruits of\\nthe great last-day harvest. Oh, that the church had kept\\nthe furnace fires burning at smelting heat! But they\\nwere allowed to cool, and the precious and the base are\\nto-day mingled in a mighty mass, awaiting the furnace\\nfires which the Holy Ghost has again begun to fan to\\nsmelting heat.\\nYes, it has begun. There is a movement toward the\\nupper room among those who sigh and cry for all the", "height": "4804", "width": "3224", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0204.jp2"}, "205": {"fulltext": "POWER FOR WITNESSING.\\n199\\nabominations which are done in the midst of a back-\\nslidden church. There is a crying to God for power\\nfrom on high.* There is a baptizing of the Holy Ghost.\\nThere is a running together of the free gold, of those\\nin whom the purging fires are burning, and from whose\\nfaces the Lord has wiped the wrinkling dross of sin. A\\nnucleus is forming, like the nucleus that formed on the\\nday of Pentecost. And soon again the whole church\\nand the world will be in the baptistry of God s burning\\npresence, in His latter-day furnace. Forth from its\\npurifying flames will come the church of God, though\\nonly a remnant, without spot or wrinkle or any such\\nthing.\\nI said the furnace fires had begun to burn. How do\\nI know? Because I have felt the flame. And many\\nmen and women in the church to which I belong\\nhave cast themselves into the purifying furnace of God s\\nHoly Spirit; and I have seen the great Refiner of\\nsilver wipe from their darkened faces the wrinkling\\ndross of sin, and leave them shining with holy consecra-\\ntion. And this holy shining is throwing its search-light\\nupon those who are base and vile within the church, and\\nthey can not endure the glory; for the separating time\\nhas come, because the Holy Ghost has come; but who\\nmay abide the day of His coming?\\nThese two elements can not long dwell together under\\nthe smelting power of the Holy Spirit. They do not\\nbelong together. One is the tried gold of faith; the\\nother is base unbelief; and under the baptismal fire of\\nthe Holy Spirit, the man of faith will flee from the Baby-\\nlon of unbelief, even as Lot fled from Sodom.\\nIt was after the service. For ten days we had been\\nin the purifying furnace. We had just prayed for the", "height": "4792", "width": "3212", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0205.jp2"}, "206": {"fulltext": "200\\nPOWER FOR WITNESSING.\\nHoly Spirit for witnessing power. I shook hands with\\na minister and his wife, members of another denomina-\\ntion, who were present at the service. After expressing\\ntheir sympathy with the work of the meeting, the wife\\nasked with earnest frankness, Do your people live\\nthis? And again, Are all your people receiving the\\nSpirit thus? When told that the work was going from\\nconference to conference like a prairie fire, she answered,\\nI am so glad. Then she explained her joy: In yoviuer\\nchurch there is a faithful mother in Israel who protests\\nagainst the woridward drift of her church. She refuses\\nto share its pride and worldly pleasure. God is blessing\\nher with His Spirit. Over in that other church there is a\\nman of God. He is a living rebuke to his backslidden\\nchurch, and God is blessing him with His Spirit. But\\nthere ought to be a whole church somewhere baptized\\nwith the Holy Ghost.\\nThese words burned into my soul. True, there ought\\nto be a whole church somewhere baptized with the Holy\\nGhost. This is one of many heart-cries from the im-\\nprisoned gold. And God will answer that cry. There\\nwill be a baptized church; yes, a visible church. The\\nLord left a visible, baptized church when He went away,\\nand He declared that the gates of hell should not prevail\\nagainst that church; and they will not. When He re-\\nturns, He will find a visible church baptized with the\\nHoly Ghost, without spot or wrinkle, awaiting His\\nreturn.\\nThere is an ever-increasing procession leading towards\\nthe upper room. Reader, are you one of them? And\\njust as the precious metals obeyed the divine law and\\nleft the lighter, baser metal, and ran together, so the\\ngold that is mixed with the base in the church and the", "height": "4836", "width": "3200", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0206.jp2"}, "207": {"fulltext": "POWER FOR WITNESSING.\\n201\\nworld, under the smelting heat of the Holy Ghost will\\nyet hear the voice of God from heaven, saying: Baby-\\nlon the great is fallen, is fallen. Come out of\\nher, My people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and\\nthat ye receive not of her plagues. For her sins have\\nreached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her\\niniquities.\\nThe furnace fires have begun to burn. God s latter-\\nday harvest will soon be gathered. Reader, are you in\\nthe furnace? Are you being ba l 4zed with the Holy\\nGhost? Are you willing to be cleansed? If so, get into\\nthe furnace. Receive ye the Holy Ghost.", "height": "4784", "width": "3212", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0207.jp2"}, "208": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4804", "width": "3192", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0208.jp2"}, "209": {"fulltext": "JUST PUBLISHED\\nChrist s Object Lessons\\nBy ELLEN G. WHITE\\nA beautiful, simple, yet powerful work. The marvelous par-\\nables of the great Teacher are clothed by the author with new\\nbeauty, and God in Christ is revealed in clearest lines as the One\\naltogether lovely. Of intense interest to all classes of readers.\\nIt is a fitting companion to the author s popular work, Desire of\\nAges. Should certainly be found in every Christian home. It is\\na banner raiser, a standard bearer, and a soul saver\\nA comprehensive scriptural and general index enables reader\\nor student to refer readily to any portion of the work.\\nClearly printed in modern style on fine special paper.\\n450 pages, ha.ndsomely illustrated with a profusion of original\\nengravings, specially prepared for the work.\\nSTYLE AND PRICE\\nBeautifully bound in antique cloth with artistic cover design in\\npleasing colors, $1.50\\nPacific Press Publishing Company\\nOAKLAND, CALIFORNIA\\n39 Bond Street, New York City 1 8 West Fifth Street, Kansas City, Mo,", "height": "4772", "width": "3196", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0209.jp2"}, "210": {"fulltext": "The Desire of Ages\\nBy ELLEN G. WHITE\\nThe Desire of Ages is a large volume of 866 jxio-inch\\npages, the keynote of which is the great truth that God was in\\nChrist reconciling the world unto Himself.\\nChrist said, And I, if I be lifted up, will draw all men unto\\nMe The working out of this purpose is traced through the life\\nof Christ o?t earth. It is shown how Christ, as man s represent-\\native, endured the temptations by which man is overcome, and\\nconquered in his behalf a7id that man, becoming partaker of the\\ndivine nature, is enabled to overcome as Christ overcame. God in\\nChrist, and Christ in His followers, can withstand all the power of\\nSatan. And as Christ came to reveal the love of God, so His\\nfollowers are to reveal the love of Christ.\\nFrom another standpoint this volume is a study of the life of\\nChrist and His disciples.\\nIt is a grand book, and can not be praised too highly. Its\\nillustrations alone cost over six thousand dollars, and are\\nstrikingly beautiful.\\nPacific Press Publishing Company\\nSTYLES AND PRICES\\nCloth, marbled edges $3.50\\nCloth, gilt edges 4.23\\nLibrary, ?narbled edges $3.00\\nFull Morocco, gilt edges 7.00\\nA descriptive circular sent on application\\nOAKLAND, CALIFORNIA\\n39 Bond Street, New York City\\nI 8 West Fifth Street, Kansas City, Mo.", "height": "4804", "width": "3192", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0210.jp2"}, "211": {"fulltext": "Mount of Blessing\\nBy ELLEN G. WHITE\\nA beautifully illustrated book of 218 pages, printed on fine\\nenameled paper, bound in cloth with handsome cover design.\\nThe attractiveness of this splendid volume is, however, not con-\\nfined to its make-up, for it is one of the most interesting and in-\\nstructive books ever written on the beatitudes. From page to page\\nit is a constant unfolding of the glory of the Unseen and His love\\nfor a race whom He died to save.\\nOn the Mountainside\\nThe Beatitudes\\nThe True Motive in Service\\nNot fudging But Doing\\nAre some of the significant chapter headings.\\nSTYLE AND PRICE\\nCloth, as above described, post-paid j$ cents\\nPacific Press Publishing Company\\nOAKLAND, CALIFORNIA\\n39 Bond Street, New York City J 8 West Fifth Street, Kansas City, Mo.", "height": "4792", "width": "3212", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0211.jp2"}, "212": {"fulltext": "Steps to Christ\\nBy ELLEN G. WHITE\\nA book which will cheer many a discouraged heart. Presents\\nin a simple and attractive manner the steps by which the sinner\\nmay be made complete hi Christ. While the book is an excellent\\nguide for inquirers and young converts, it also contai?is a wealth\\nof counsel a?id encouragement for those who are laboring with\\nthe difficulties that beset a growing experience.\\n4 1 A good book to put in the hands of an unconverted friend as\\nwell as into the hands of a doubting church-member. God s Love\\nfor Man, The Sinner s Need of Christ, Repentance t Confession,\\nConsecration j Faith and Acceptance, The Test of Discipleship,\\nGrowing up into Christ, The Work and the Life, A Knowledge\\nof God, The Privilege of Prayer, What to Do with Doubt, Rejoic-\\ning in the Lord, these are the topics, and they are well treated.\\nThe Western Recorder\\nSTYLES AND PRICES\\nBound in fine cloth 50 cents\\nPresentation Edition, fancy covers and full gilt edges 8$ cents\\nCan be had also in Danish, Swedish, German, Holland, Spanish, and Portuguese\\nlanguages at 60 cents per copy, post-paid\\nAlso French, Bohemian, Polish, Italian, Welsh, and Hungarian at 75 cents\\nper copy, post-paid\\nPacific Press Publishing Company\\nOAKLAND, CALIFORNIA\\n39 Bond Street, New York City J 8 West Fifth Street, Kansa3 City, Mo.", "height": "4804", "width": "3224", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0212.jp2"}, "213": {"fulltext": "Soul-Stirring Sheet Music\\nCRYSTAL AND CRIMSON is the title of a new illustrated song- by\\nA. F. Ballenger, in which the story of redemption by both water and blood is\\ntold with pathos and power. Price, 30 cents.\\nMY ANCHOR HOLDS is a new solo, or duet and chorus, in which the\\nkeeping power of God as taught in this book is told in inspiring song. Words\\nby A. F. Ballenger, imisic by Nellie F. Ballenger. Price, post-paid, jo cents.\\nTHE PILLAR OF CLOUD IS RISING is a solo, or quartette with\\nchorus, with a beautifully illustrated title page. The theme and spirit of the\\nsong are in striking harmony with the message of this book: Receive Ye the Holy\\nGhost. Words by A. F. Ballenger, music by Nellie F. Ballenger. Price,\\npost-paid, jo cents.\\nTHAT SWEET VOICE. A new illustrated song Written by A. F. Bal-\\nlenger as tJie result of the author s experience in city missioyi work, and based on\\nthe actual experieyice of fallen men and women who have been saved from a\\nsuicide s death by the sweet voice of pardoning love. Price, post-paid, 30 cents.\\nTHE PRISONER, or A Mansion for a Cell, written by A. F. Ballenger, is\\na touching narration of prison experience resulting from oppressive religious\\nenactments. Words are adapted to the universally loved music by Lady Carew,\\nTJie Bridge. Illustrated. Price, 23 cents.\\nWHAT HAS PAPA DONE? or The Prisoner s Daughter, is a companion\\npoem to The Prisoner, and represents a child s plaintive remonstrance on\\nhearing of the imprisonment of her father, for violating oppressive religious\\nlaws, and the mother s response. Adapted to the well-known Scotch melody,\\n1 4 We d Better Bide A wee. Illustrated. Price, 10 cents.\\nAN ANGEL PASSED BY. Original solo and chorus, written and com-\\nposed by F. E. Belden, and portraying in forcible and pathetic verse, the imag-\\ninary visit of an angel to the prison, the home, the church, and the State-house\\nin defense of the victims of religious persecution. Illustrated. Price, 10 cents.\\nAll the proceeds of the sale of these songs is faithfully devoted\\nto philanthropic work\\nAny two of the first four songs, 50 cents; any three, 70 cents; all four, 80 cents; all\\nseven of the songs, $1 ,00\\nAddress all orders to A. F. BALLENGER\\nPacific Press Publishing Company\\nOAKLAND, CALIFORNIA\\n39 Bond Street, New York City 18 West Fifth Street, Kansas City, Mo.", "height": "4776", "width": "3200", "jp2-path": "powerforwitnessi00ball_0213.jp2"}, "214": {"fulltext": "The Signs of the Times\\nIs a paper devoted to the exposition of prophecy and the presenta-\\ntion of the Gospel. The events that are passing in the world to-day\\nwere clearly and in plain language foretold by the prophets cen-\\nturies ago. The wars, the unprecedented amassing of wealth, the\\nconflicts of the laboring classes, the vices and crimes, and all the\\nrest of the marked co?iditions of these times are among the things\\npresented by the prophetic pen. It is most intensely interesting to\\nstudy these prophecies. The Lord knew in the centuries of the dis-\\ntant past that these days would be full of perplexing and fore-\\nboding problems that would fill the minds of men with inexpressible\\ndread. And so He caused His prophets to write these things out in\\nthose long-gone years, so that we might the more readily have con-\\nfidence in Him and His inspired Word. The SIGNS OF THE\\nTIMES is devoted to the presentation of these intensely interesting\\nthemes, and to the promulgation of the Gospel that reveals the\\nChrist of God,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 the Saviour that bids every one come to Him, that\\nthey may escape from all the evil and soul distress of this world of\\nsorrow and despair.\\nThe SIGNS OF THE TIMES contains sixteen pages and\\nis published weekly. 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