. The Anglican pulpit library, [sermons, outlines and illustrations for Sundays and Holy Days]. er of spiritual revivals. % The power of waiting. 3. How unmistakable is the gift of fire ! Pentecost and I. < Are not all these Galileans ? Babel. rpjjg W0Y[^ takes offence at the persons oi the ii. 7-i3. II. < How hear we in our own tongue ?It is arrested by the voice of conscience responding to the truth. III. < What meaneth this ? It distrusts the issue of the ways of God. IV. 1 They are full of new wine. It mistakes the source of the operations of the Spirit. 121 Scriptu
. The Anglican pulpit library, [sermons, outlines and illustrations for Sundays and Holy Days]. er of spiritual revivals. % The power of waiting. 3. How unmistakable is the gift of fire ! Pentecost and I. < Are not all these Galileans ? Babel. rpjjg W0Y[^ takes offence at the persons oi the ii. 7-i3. II. < How hear we in our own tongue ?It is arrested by the voice of conscience responding to the truth. III. < What meaneth this ? It distrusts the issue of the ways of God. IV. 1 They are full of new wine. It mistakes the source of the operations of the Spirit. 121 Scriptures Proper to the Day. epistle .... GOSPEL FIRST MORNING LESSONFIRST EVENING LESSON SECOND MORNING LESSONSECOND EVENING LESSON REV. IV. 1-11. S. JOHN III. 1-15. ISA. VI. to ver. 11. GEN. XVIII. or GEN. I. and II. TO VER I. TO VER. 9. EPH. IV. to ver. 17, or S. MATT. III. I. COMPLETE SERMONThe Apostolic Faith. To us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we unto Him; andone Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we through Him.—I Corinthians viii. PAUL deals here with one of the perplexingquestions which arose out of the first contact ofChristianity with the order of pagan society. Thesocial life of a Greek city in the first centurywas inseparable from the worship of the Greekpantheon. The temples were centres of localfestivity; the sacrifices in part supplied the which had been offered to the gods was setbefore guests at public entertainments, or consumed at the ordinarymeals of the private family. Under these circumstances what, itwas anxiously asked, was the duty of the members of the Church ?A few years before the date of this Epistle it had been ruled by theMother Church at Jerusalem that the Gentile converts of Syria andCilicia must abstain from things offered to idols. Such abstinencewas one of the 6 necessary things, the few positive rules of primitiveChristianity. But as the gospel spread farther to the West, the
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