Power from on High Rev. B. Fay ^ills < 1 ^ot»er from on DO WE NEED IT? WHAT IS IT? CAN WE GET IT? REV. B. FAY MILLS, A.n address delivered at the Ninth International Christian Endeavor Convention. NEW YORK AND CHICAGO. jflemlng t). IRevell Com»ans, Publishers of Evangelical Literature, Sa'ered according to Act of Congress in the year iSgo "try FLEMING H. REVELL in the office of the Librarian of Congress, Washington, D. C. POWER FROM ON HIGH. DO WE NEED IT? WHAT IS IT? CAN WE GET IT? Our topic as it will be divided, will have reference, first, to the necessity for the Power from on high; second, to its character; and third, to the conditions of its attainment. In other words. Why do we need it? What is it? and. How may we get it? There are three classes of people, and only three, who are Christians, in the church of Christ. The first class are in the church because they want to be saved; and what they mean by being saved is to get some sort of an entrance into what they call heaven. They are not at all con¬ cerned about the salvation of other peo¬ ple. There is another class of’people who are concerned about their fellow men, but they believe that the way to bring them to God is by using such means as may lie in themselves, with wisdom 4 POWER FROM ON HIGH. and discretion, for this purpose. These people have a good deal to say about the latent power that exists in the church of God. There is no such thing. There is no power, latent or expressed, in the church of God. Power is just as distinct from the church of God as steam is dis¬ tinct from the engine that it moves, or as life is distinct from the earth that seems to bring it forth. The third class of peopie are those who realize this and have learned that "Power belongeth unto God,” and that it is only as we have power from on high that we have spiritual power at all. In the early days of the church’s his¬ tory, all the disciples belonged to the third class. The promise that the Spirit of God should be given to these disciples meant a definite thing to them. It meant nothing less than this: that the impossi¬ ble should become possible, and that they should have power for whatever they were given to do. They knew what the Holy Ghost and power of the Holy Ghost meant. It meant "The power that had POWER FROM ON HIGi^. 5 made psalmists and prophets and law givers;” it meant the power that had caused Moses to break the chains that bound the enslaved people of God; it meant the power that had enabled Joshua to lead them in triumph into the promised land, and had stayed the sun and moon at his word of command until God had giv¬ en the victory to Israel; it meant that which had been as a coal of fire from off God’s altar to Isaiah; it meant that which made the sword of Gideon the sword of Almighty God; it meant that which made the word of Daniel mightier than the word of a king and a thousand of his lords. And they had need of some such power as this. The task that had been given them was a hard one—nay, it was an impossible one. As Arthur has said in his Tongue of Fire, it was a new re¬ ligion and a poverty-stricken one, without a history, without a priesthood, without a college, without a patron. It had no presses; it had no literature; it had none of our modern means of influencing mass¬ es of men. It was cast solely on the one 6 POWER FROM ON HIGH. instrument of the tongue, and in that re¬ spect it was destitute of the wisdom of the Greek and of the skill of the scribe. It was seldom favored with an opportun¬ ity of addressing the same congregations or the same individuals. It was destitute of prestige; it was contemptible in num¬ bers; it was rustic in manners and thwarted by circumstances. With only its two sacraments and its tongue of fire, on it went, and on, overturning its enemies and advancing the name of the Lord, from the day when, in the upper chamber, that little band heard the sound as of a mighty rushing wind, and down from heaven, through the roof, came tongues of fire that rested upon them. Their em¬ blem was a tongue of fire—man’s voice, God’s truth; man’s speech, God’s inspira¬ tion; a human agent and the divine pow¬ er. And this power was adequate for their impossible task. It was able to trans¬ form these disciples, who, before they received it, were as timid as sheep, until they were as brave as lions. “It had pow¬ er to make the man who trembled at the POWER FROM ON HIGH. •j word of a maid-servant until he had de¬ nied his Master, charge home upon the rulers of the Jews, the murder of Jesus, until they cried in deep concern: ‘Men and Brethren, What shall we do?^” I do not think I ever realized the mean¬ ing of this emblem of fire until I thought of it in connection with the great fire which I witnessed in the city of Boston. I remember on that awful night, standing on one of the busiest corners of the whole city. A boy at school, I had come into the city and had passed under the ropes which held the crowd back from the fire, and I stood near the place where the flames were rapidly destroying one of those great buildings. I remember how the fire came to the corner of the street, and How it seemed as if it had no power to go far¬ ther. There it was, playing with the building, while it burned out the wood¬ work that was in it. But on the other side of the street all was dark and dead- - There seemed to be no ray of light and no spark of fire. Then suddenly, almost without warning, this mighty force 8 POWEK PkuM on high. overleaped the street and the building on the other side burst into flames; and then, just as when a match is touched to the shavings that fill the stove, with a great roar the fire swept through the block of stone and brick and iron until it melted at its touch. It seemed as though in a few short moments the heart of that city had vanished at the touch of this awful element. This is the emblem that is given to the church of God—the tongue of fire. Was this power needed only for primary conquest? Was it a special gift designed for the founders and the founding of Chris¬ tianity? Can God’s work now be suc¬ cessfully prosecuted without it, and are we now to depend on human wisdom, hu¬ man learning, human experience and hu¬ man energy? Has the day of miraculous spiritual power passed by? Can any in¬ fluence in this day of our great advance¬ ment reach men—can it penetrate minds, can it search hearts, can it burn dross, can it melt prejudice, can it consume sin, can it refine character—save the touch of the fire that fell on Pentecost? Do we POWER FROM ON HIGH. 9 not say, "No, there is no other influence,” with our lips, while we say, "Yes” with our lives? Do we not pray as though we were dependent upon the Holy Ghost, and then live and plan and work as though we were dependent only on ourselves? i am an optimist of the optimists. I believe mere has never dawned upon the church of God a brighter day than this upon which we are here assembled; but I believe that when a church door swings open, when a prayer is offered or a song is sung or a sermon is preached, and these things are not inspired by the Spirit of God, they are useless. Nay, more, I be¬ lieve that they are a curse. Churches mul¬ tiply and ministers increase, but the shin¬ ing face and the burning tongue are far to seek and hard to find. Some one has well said that on the day of the Pente¬ cost one sermon converted three thou¬ sand souls, but that today it seems as though it took three thousand sermons to convert one soul. We have our ca¬ thedrals and temples and tabernacles and churches and chapels; we build our sem- lo POWER FROM ON HIGH. inaries and colleges and schools and asy¬ lums and hospitals, all in the name of Je¬ sus Christ. We have the wisdom of the ancients with the genius and the energy of the nineteenth century. No people ever sat better clothed, with better brains, and listened in their churches to words of more profound wisdom than we of today. We have our pray nights and our play nights, and a society for almost every pur¬ pose under heaven. We found our Young Men’s Christian Associations; and then in a few short years it seems in many a place as if they had turned to the purpose of culturing men’s bodies, rather than saving their souls. The great Christian Endeavor movement springs up in a night; and yet there are many spiritual souls that thank God for all that has been done and is being done by this great move¬ ment, that are tonight in deep spiritual travail that the work which God gives you to do as a society may be made and kept spiritual in all its aims and methods and developments. We have our vast mission¬ ary equipment, so that today six thousand POWER FROM ON HIGH. II missionaries of Jesus Christ have been telling the story of the cross; but still Ethiopia stretches out her hands in vain unto God, and the heathen in his blind¬ ness bows down to wood and stone. The church of God needs something, the church of God must have something more than she has today, with all her prestige and all her energy. She needs the upper chamber, she needs the tarrying at Jerusa¬ lem, she needs the power of the Holy Ghost, she needs a continued Pentecost; and nothing less than this can bring to her the slightest possible particle of power. If Christianity today is independent of the Holy Ghost, let us state it plainly. Nay, let us state the contrary, "If there were a religion today that had the doc¬ trines and all the ordinances of the New Testament and yet without the baptism of the Holy Ghost, it would not be Christianity;" it would be something else. What is needed is the power that came at Pentecost to speak to men in their own tongues, until you can touch the proud man and the sensual man, the 12 POWER FROM ON HIGH. weak man and the avaricious man, as you speak to him in the words of the tongue that came at Pentecost. There is no more fallacious saying than that “Truth is mighty and must prevail.” Truth is not mighty. Men crucified the One who justly said: “I am the Truth.” No word of our own poet was ever truer than when he said that truth was— “—forever on the scaffold, Vvrong forever on the throne. Vet that scaffold sways the future. And behind the dim unknown Standeth God within the shadow. Keeping watch above His own.” The power is not in the truth. The power is not in the Bible. The power is in God, as manifested to us by the Holy Ghost.—“The sword of the Spirit” is the sword of the Spirit^ and without the Spir¬ it’s hand it is as useless as any other handless sword. Nay, more, it will be turned against the impious hand that touches it save in the power and mission of the Holy Ghost. And yet God has not left Himself with¬ out witness. “The eyes of the Lord ru7j POWER FROM ON HIGH. 13 to and fro throughout the whole earth to show Himself strong in behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward Him,” and He has found such people. He found that man, Luther—Oh, how He looked through those dark centuries until He found him; and when He found him, He took this man and hurled him like a thunderbolt until He had brought to noth¬ ing the might and the wisdom of the impious blasphemers and hypocrites of that day. God looked for such a man in England until he found John Wesley, and gave him his half a million—nay, his tens of millions, of souls for his spiritual con¬ fidence in Jesus Christ. God looked for such a man until he found Whitefield—a man destitute of much, but having a voice that was used as God’s voice, and the tongue of fire touched and burned and melted men until, by the tens of thousands, they turned unto God. He looked for such a man until he found Finney. There was a time when Mr. Finney came into one of the factories at New York Mills, near Utica. As he came near the place where 14 POWER FROM ON HIGH. two girls were employed trying to mend a thread they began to laugh. As he came nearer, they began to cry and could not go on with their work, their hands trembled so. This man of God came nearer to them and they sank down upon the seats before them, while the tears rained down their faces, so mightily were they convicted of their sin by the power of the Holy Ghost. Others were touched by the sight. The proprietor of the mill, who was present, though an unconverted man, said to the superintendent; “Stop the mill; it is more important that our souls shall be saved than this factory should run.” The gate was immediately shut down, and the work stopped. A great and powerful meeting was held in the place at once and there that day, by the spiritual contact of the presence of that man of God, there were three or four hundred souls crying out: “God be merciful to us sinners.” When I was a pastor, one of my parish¬ ioners was the venerable Dr. Labaree, who was for many years president of Mid- POWER FROM ON HIGH. 15 dlebury college. He told me that fifty years ago, when he was a boy in Phillips academy, at Andover, there was a young man there who was so stupid that he could not pass the examinations. He staid there until some of his fellow-students had gone out and taken the college course and come back to the theological seminary across the way. And yet that young man, so stupid that he could not be admitted to any college in the land, had more spiritual power than all the rest of the students that were in the academy with him. He had no thought but of God, and he was filled with Almighty God. After a while the professors thought that, as he seemed so consecrated, they would put a parenthesis around the college and take him into the theological seminary. They thought that perhaps he would have a natural taste for systematic theology, church his¬ tory, Hebrew and all the rest of it; but, poor fellow, it was all Hebrew to him. And yet that man in the theological sem¬ inary was used to do more for God than all the theological students and all the f6 POWER FROM ON HIGH. professors and all the ministers and all the church people in all the town of An¬ dover. He went down to a little factory village and started a Sunday School, and there thirty or forty people turned to God. He started another, and there a score or more of people came to Christ. He went over to Lawrence and founded a Sunday School in that city that I believe to-day has grown to be a flourishing and powerful church. When the time came for the students to leave Andover for their summer vacation, there came a sum¬ mons from a place in New Hampshire— no; it was not from a place; it was from one woman. She said. *'I am the only person in this town that believes in God. We have no Bible; we have no Sabbath, and we have no God. Can you not send some one to us from your seminary who will preach to us the word of life?” No one of the students wanted to go, except this man, and he thought it was just the thing for which he had been waiting. The professors did not know whether to license him or not; but they finally concluded POWER FROM ON HIGH. 17 that he could not do a great deal of harm in six months, and so he was licensed for six months and sent into that town. He died soon after; but—and I give you this on the word of President Labaree—he did not die until he had won to Jesus Christ every man and woman and child in that township with the exception of one man, and he moved away soon after. The question that concerns us in this connection is this: Are these exception¬ al cases, or are they given to us as examples? Here is what ;\he greatest preacher said: “I am the least of the apostles; I am not meet to be called an apostle because I persecuted the church of God; but by the grace of God I am what I am, and that grace which was be¬ stowed upon me was not in vain, for I la¬ bored more abundantly than they all; and yet not I, but the grace of God, which was with me.” And this apostle says to us to-day: “God is able to make all grace abound toward you, that ye always, hav¬ ing all sufficiency in all things, may abound unto every good work.” 1 8 POWER FROM ON HIGH. The next question concerns the charac' teristics of spiritual power. What is it? It is nothing less than the life of God manifested through human character. There is no power that can create life ex¬ cept life; and this power finds its great¬ est exemplification in the life and words of Jesus Christ. He spoke those words two thousand years ago, and they have been sown and re-sown a million times, and yet they are vital for the production of life to-day. His power consisted in His consecration. It consisted in the fact that He came not to do His own will but the will of Him who sent Him, and so it pleased the Father to be glorified in the Son. This is the One who has said to us: "Greater works than I have done shall ye do," and "Whatsoever ye shall ask in My name that will I do.” "Without Me ye can do nothing,”—not something, not little; "Ye can do nothing." Paul says: "I can do all things, through Christ, which strengtheneth me.” "As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself ex¬ cept it abide in the vine, no more can ye POWER FROM ON HIGH. 19 except ye abide in Me.” The Holy Spirit is not a freak of the Divine nature. He is the Divine nature itself manifested in power, in proportion as God is manifest¬ ed in character and in life. Andrew Mur¬ ray, one of the most spiritual writers of our time, has well said; "We want to get possession of the power and use it. God wants the power to get possession or us and use us. If we give ourselves to the power to rule in us, the power will give itself to us to rule through us.*' The soldier joins the army not to get power but that the nation’s power may be man¬ ifested in him and through him. There is no more distressing sign at this day than that so many people are ready to stand up in their places—consecrated peo¬ ple in a measure—and say : 'T want to be used.” It may be just as cursed an ambition to want to be used as to want to have money or to want to have one’s pride fulfilled. What you and I need to have as an ambition is not to be used, buij to hs filled. The highest place is not that of the busy servant; it is that of the waiting 20 POWER FROM ON HIGH. servant; it is that of the standing servant Elijah used to call himself the standing servant of God. “As the Lord God liv- eth,” he would say, “before whom I stand.” In the Oriental countries to-day, princes or men of wealth, will have at least one servant who always stands erect in his master’s presence, in order that when he speaks the servant need not even arise in order to be ready to do his bidding” Elijah meant that he never sat down in God’s presence, in order that when God spoke he might run with the greater celerity. If I were a merchant with such a business that I had to employ S'bVferal errand boys, I should not regard that boy as the most helpful or effective, who was continually leaving his place and running to me with the request that I should use him. The thing that I would want from those boys would be that they should be ready to do what I told them to do—noth¬ ing more and nothing less. If they tried to do more, or even wanted to do more, they would be as harmful as though they wanted or tried to do less. POWER FROM ON HIGH. 21 “The strong man’s strength to toil for Christ, The fervent preacher’s skill, i sometimes wish; but better far To be just what God will. No service in itself is small. None great, through earth it fill; But that is small that seeks its own, And great that seeks God’s will.” You may remember the story of the blowing up of the rocks that were in the channel called Hell Gate, in the East Riv¬ er, that separates Long Island sound from the ocean. General Newton worked for years and years until at last he had the cavern made and stored with explosives, and the line, the magic wire, run from the explosives to the bank. Then, sitting upon the bank, he called to him his daughter Mary, a little child two years of age, and taking her upon his lap he told her to press that magic button. The lit¬ tle girl put forth her hand and pressed upon the button at her father^ s word, and instantly there came the mighty sound, the upheaval of the earth, and rocks and water, and the channel was par¬ tially free. Helplessness itself was that 22 POWER FROM ON HIGH. little maiden, but power itself was the father on whose knee she rested. Oh, child of utter weakness, if thou wouldst but place thyself within the Father’s love, the Father’s thought, the Father’s plan, then indeed would the Father’s power flow through thy weakness until thou shouldst rend the rocks of pride and prejudice and passion; and even the gates of hell should not prevail against thee. We come now to the very last question, and I beg of you to listen to it: How can we get spiritual power? We cannot GET IT. No man ever possessed it; no man ever owned it; no man ever used it. It is a question, not of our getting power, but of God getting us; not of our us¬ ing God, but of God using us. The dis¬ ciples were not told to pray for power nor to seek for power. They were told to wait for the Holy Ghost. We know that they waited for ten days and then the Holy Ghost came. What did they do in those ten days? What does “waiting" mean? I wish you could have seen us as we waited at Gardner, Massachusetts, for POWER FROM ON HIGH. 23 our train—the excursion train, that was half an hour late. We stood upon the track, a score or more, and looked down the iron rail to see if the train was not coming. If you had asked some of us to go across the street to get a hundred dol¬ lars, I do not believe that we would have done it. We would not move; we must stay there; we were doing just one thing, and it is the one thing with which we cannot do anything else—we were wait" ing. The most intense occupation in the universe is to wait. To wait for the Holy Ghost is, not to do nothing, but it is to wait ,—not having the possibility of anything else touching the mind with any allurement; it is to wait for God. Some one has said that the disciples had to wait ten days, and that there were ten days in which they were being filled with the Holy Ghost. That is a mistake. They were not waiting ten days to be filled; they were waiting to be emptied. Dr. Gordon has reminded us that the wind always blows toward a vacuum. If you could exhaust the air from this great tab* 24 POWER FROM ON HIGH. ernacle to-night, and then could make a crevice in it, you would hear the wind come whistling in. And so, in that upper chamber, the disciples were being emp¬ tied and a vacuum was being made. The son of thunder was emptied of the thun¬ der, that he might be filled with love. The doubting Thomas was emptied of his doubt that he might be filled with light. The presumptuous and vacillating Peter was emptied of his presumption and his fickleness that he might be filled with all the power of God. And then there came the sound as of a mighty rushing wind, and God came upon them and used them. A great mesmerist told me one day that the one qualification under which he could mesmerize people was that they should have vacant minds. If a man might pour his mind into the vacant mind of another creature until he should think his thought and do his will, what might not God do if only He could have vacant spirits into which He could pour Himself. The great condition of power is to be emptied of self and to be filled POWER FROM ON HIGH. 25 with God; to renounce self and to appro¬ priate God; to be dead unto self but to be alive unto God by the power of the Holy Ghost. “God has chosen the foolish things of this world to confound the things that are wise, and God has chosen the weak things of this world to con¬ found the things that are mighty, and the base things of this world and things that are despised hath God chosen, yea, and things that are not, to bring to naught things that are." "Things that are not,*' hath God chosen. That was why He chose Jesus Christ, who "made himself of no reputation," and became obedient un¬ to death, as he humbled himself; there¬ fore, hath God highly exalted Him, and that is the only way that God will ever exalt any one of us. It was only when Luther could say: "Martin Luther does not live here: Jesus Christ lives here," that God could use Luther. And it was only as Paul could say: "I am crucified with Christ, nevertheless I live, and yet no longer I, but Christ liveth in me" that Paul could be used of God. It is 26 POWER FROM ON HlOfi. only as you and I can say the same that he can use us, even in the faintest degree. I used to pray for power. I thank God that I never pray for power now. I used to pray for power alone, and then, I prayed for power with humility, and then, for power through humilit}^; but I thank God that I came to learn at last this one thing, that the only prayer that touch¬ es power will be the prayer that says: "Thy will be done in me, even as it is done in heaven." The place of privilege where we can say: "God is mine,” is only where we can say: "I am His;" and we cannot truly say: "Whom I serve," until we have said: "Whose I am." Let God take us; let us be willing to do the will of God, and He will lead us to a mighty faith. And when you shall come to that place where you seek not your own, but where your heart is set on God and where the eyes of God as they run to and fro throughout all the earth shall see you, then there shall come to you the mighty power of an appropriating faith until you shall reach np and take hold on all POWER FROM ON HIGH. 27 the fullness of God. You will be God’s; God will be yours; all that there is of God will be poured into you—nothing held back—nothing of wisdom, nothing of love, nothing of tenderness, nothing of power — all will be yours—all things, whether Paul or Apollos or Peter or the world or life or death or things present or things to come, all will be yours; and you may go forth without one particle of hesitation to do as the one of old did in the power of the Holy Ghost, “to be set over kingdoms, to root out, to pull down, to destroy, to overthrow, and to build and to plant. ’’ Some of you have seen the great picture that was painted by Muncakszy of the Christ. That picture was being exhibit¬ ed in Canada, at Toronto, I think, and there came a rude, rough, wicked sailor to see it. He entered the room at the time of day when there were no others there; and paying his money to the wom¬ an who sat inside the door, he came in and stood for a moment, looking at the canvas as though he would glance at it 28 POWER FROM ON HIGH. and go away. But as he looked, he could not turn. He stood there with his eyes fixed on that central figure of majesty and love. In a few moments, he took off his hat and let it fall upon the floor. After a few moments more he sat down upon a seat, and then he reached down and picked up a booxi chat described the picture, and began to read; and every few seconds his eyes would turn toward the canvas and toward the figure of Christ. The lady who sat by the door saw him lift up his hand and wipe away some tears. Still he sat; five, ten, fifteen, sixty minutes went by, and still the man sat there as though he could not stir. At last he rose, and coming softly and reverently toward the door, he hesitated, to take one last look, and said to the woman who sat there: “Madam; I am a rough, wicked sailor; I have never believed in Christ; I have never used His name except in an oath; but I have a Christian mother, and my old mother begged me today before I went to sea, to go and look at the picture of the Christ. To oblige her I said I POWER FROM ON HIGH. 29 would come and I have come. I did not believe that anybody believed in Christ; but as I have looked at that form and that face I have thought that some man must have believed in Him, and it has touched me, and I have come to believe in Him, too. I am going out from this time to be a believer in Jesus Christ and a fo. .owei of His.” Oh, beloved, as I heard that story, the tears came unbidden to my eyes, and my heart glowed with a mighty longing. I thought if a poor, weak man, living himself in a godless land, could take his brush and preach on canvas, and cause our Christ to glow upon it, until a rough, rude, wicked, licentious man should be won to believe in Him, what might not my God do if he might paint Christ in me—nay, if he might reproduce Christ in a human life, that the life might be Christas and that men might come to believe on Him. Dr. Field has given us a picture which has been oft repeated, of the lighting of the torches in the holy sepulchre at Eas¬ ter time. The building is crowded; I sup- 30 POWER FROM ON HIGH. pose, by a thousand or more of the mem¬ bers of the Greek church. The patriarch comes. All is darkness; but they make wa}^ in the throng as he passes through. He goes through the curtain, into the place where the body of Jesus is sup¬ posed to have lain, and waits. Not a word, not a sound, scarcely a breath; a full hour passes by, and the breath¬ less throng wait there in the great dark¬ ness. Suddenly there is a movement. Suddenly they see a spark, and out comes the patriarch from the sepulchre, out from the darkness, bringing with him light, a torch that is lighted. Instantly there are a hundred hands stretched out for it, and they take the torch and pass it from hand to hand; torches are stretched out until they reach it and are kindled from it, un¬ til a thousand torches burn with the light that comes from the tomb of Christ. Out into the streets of Jerusalem, out into the highways and byways they go, and other torches are lighted from theirs until the whole land glows with the fire that comes from the tomb of the Savior. In these POWER FROM ON HIGH. 31 closing moments let me ask you to come with me into the place of the death of Jesus Christ. May God kill the ambition in us, the selfishness, the pride, the world in us, until we shall be crucified with Christ. May the very One that laid in that sepul¬ chre light our torches to-night and hold His torch out to this great throng until the light of God and the tongue of fire shall touch you, and you, and you, and you, that we may go out into the streets of this city and into this great state and along these rivers and the iron highways, to the north, the south, the east, the west, to Maine, to California; to Texas, to Can¬ ada—nay, until we go across the sea to In¬ dia, to Africa, to the isles of the sea, and the whole world shall be touched with the light of God and the fire of Pentecost from the grave of our Lord Jesus Christ. 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