. The Anglican pulpit library, [sermons, outlines and illustrations for Sundays and Holy Days]. be seen of the eye of faith alone. And, as we so contemplate it, the beauty and the significance ofeach symbol reveals itself to us—the tongues of fire, that tell of thefiery baptism that is to cleanse the Church of God, enlightening everas it cleanses; the mighty rushing wind, mysterious in its origin andits direction, the wind of which we cannot tell whence it cometh norwhither it goeth, yet so mighty in its all-pervading power, symbolicalof the force, the mighty, irresistible, spiritual force tha
. The Anglican pulpit library, [sermons, outlines and illustrations for Sundays and Holy Days]. be seen of the eye of faith alone. And, as we so contemplate it, the beauty and the significance ofeach symbol reveals itself to us—the tongues of fire, that tell of thefiery baptism that is to cleanse the Church of God, enlightening everas it cleanses; the mighty rushing wind, mysterious in its origin andits direction, the wind of which we cannot tell whence it cometh norwhither it goeth, yet so mighty in its all-pervading power, symbolicalof the force, the mighty, irresistible, spiritual force that is one dayto fill the whole world, as its symbols filled the room that day; andthen this inspired speech, this many-voiced utterance of the Spirit,proclaiming in every language the wonderful works of God, symbolicof the gathering together of the scattered sons of men around thetrue and only centre of humanity, the stilling of the strifes of speech,the healing of the disunion of men, the attuning of all earths manyvoices in the great song of praise, that, like the roar of many waters, 25. WHITSUNDAY is to sing the praise of the wondrous works of God. All these arehere. All these together make the scene the type, and, for an instant,the foretaste of that Kingdom of God which in that hour the Spiritwas descending upon earth to found. I. Observe the peculiar manner in which we are told this mira-culous effect upon the multitude was brought about. The effect wasthat the words of the Apostles were intelligible to them. Before this day of Pentecost every one of these hearers, beforethey entered the Kingdom of God, must first become Jews, must beadopted into the nation of those whose creed they would accept andwhose privileges they would share. They actually had done proselytes had become Jews that they might have the God ofthe Jews for their God. Their Gospel, their good news, was a strictlyJewish Gospel; their faith, a Jewish faith; their hope, a Jewishhope. By accepting
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