Tongues Of Fire (Newspaper) - August 1, 1902, London, Middlesex 11 Bb filled with thb v. 18 Tongues of Fire OFFICIAL ORGAN of thi PENTECOSTAL A JOURNAL FOR THE PROMOTION AND EXTENSION OF Spiritual Purity and EDITED BY 11. No. 140 1902. ONE by S. w. Partridge & 8, Paternoster CONTENTS Hot A Message in The The Changed The Secret of Mr. J. D. The Voice of God Mrs. Reader The Mr. H. Settled in Mrs Questions Worth Children's Bishop Sermon The Notes of the Mr. H. Exeter League Centres and Special Requests for Forthcoming Missions and Daily John League Centre Advertisements All reports of missions and and prayer requests must reach us by the 12th of each month of the 15th) to ensure insertion in the following issue of this Will all Members of the Pentecostal as their year renew their subscriptions to the 51, Clapham North or if they belong to a to the Local When you see an X on the wrapper kindly take notice that vour Annual Subscription for of has Covet the despise the superficial God repented that He made but He never repented that He redeemed If your religion does not keep you from sin it is not more of it you but another right Purer than the purest W ider than the widest Sweeter than the sweetest Is God's love in Christ to me. Why love me so I do not know I only That nothing less than love Could save this sinful soul of The tree must be shaken before the fruit is Few things will make a wise man nothing will content a The chief fault some men find with the Creator is that the rainbow was painted on a A greater zeal for reformation than for our own rectification obscures the 3-5.) What makes men sick and nervous is not the noise which accompanies but the noise which is made as a substitute for If the time we spend in wishing we had other people's advantages were spent in using our we should soon have as many advantages as we could Man's life surely means more than tender teachable tireless fiery forcible serious sacred aching shortened the God Zaccheus began a godly life while up a tree the prodigal in the midst of the swine Paul in the highway Jonah in the whale's and Matthew in his private It makes no difference where you you can start right from that place for heaven if you A girl at a penitent asked God to forgive her guilty and to keep her in the past which is to A profound prayer from simple Her past she At the old temptations and the old tempter she come back and God must keep Would that all young converts were equally aware of their danger How is the Running along in the same old rut A little tame talk by the a few spiritless and two or three cold prayers that the people have learned by heart Is that your Man of wake up Get a fresh fire in your let God take hold of then take hold of the and lift them out of that living death Heaven is never deaf but when man's heart is It is better to be blamed for doing right than praised for doing A Church with a poor foundation is not made safer by having a tall The attitude of one's own will determines our capacity for taking in the mind of 17.) Prayer is a sincere pouring out of the soul to through by the for such things as God has A hypocrite is one who neither is what he nor seems what he is. He is hated of the world for seeming a and hated of God for not being All denominations profess to believe we must be holy before we enter But it is considered fanatical to become holy very It is thought wiser by many to hold off from being holy as long as possible Most Church members do not get blessed often There is great danger in the modern Church of being blessed only and this often leads to the place where there is no blessing at No man has a right to live a single hour without the blessing of God upon his Temporary enthusiasm may be but it is the men who hold refusing to be turned from their that accomplish things in this It does not require many men but determined to achieve great things for This is the reason that holiness can never be put down by numbers as long as God can have a Gideon's Any knowledge that does not help us in obtaining and using the experience of full salvation to the best advantage is But when a man has a right all knowledge that is not positively wicked can be made a blessing to ourselves and Therefore let us not seek to know less but to love God more and know the heights and depths of His great The darkest ignorance is ignorance of God's u Thou shalt be enthusiastic over everything except thy is the devil's It is a blessed thing to have a goodly store of holy memories on which to draw in seasons of grief and Temperance consists in a moderate use of all things calculated to and a total abstinence from all things calculated to injure the eighth month of the received its name in honour of the Roman Emperor some of the most important events of his life occurred during this month among an end was put to civil and Egypt was completely Let this month be to each of us who need it a time of deliverance from all internal as well as of victory over the world and its A MESSAGE IN Notes of the Editor's Address at the Intercession Meeting in Exeter on what was to have been the Coronation June 26th, 1902. thou hast been our dwelling place in ail gen en Psa. The word LORD is here printed in which means that in the the word is Let us remember that the Jehovah of the Old is the Jesus of the that the Jesus of the New Testament is our the Christ of glory and baptized by one Spirit into one we Christians may enjoy our place in the very Body of the Church of Our text is a suitable one for such an occasion as the It acknowledges God as Lord testifies to blessing in the admits a present and cries for immediate Why has God so Let us face the facts of A great national ceremony has been countermanded by the act of A ceremony so so and so so blessed and glorious