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The Voice in Speech and Song
the Church of England, who came from Tasmania in company with
Brethren Baker and Rousseau, and who has just begun to keep the
Sabbath, was present.—Lt 23a, 1893.
Prudence and Solemnity—The Lord is soon to work in greater
power among us, but there is danger of allowing our impulses to carry
us where the Lord would not want us to go. We must not make one
step that we will have to retract. We must move solemnly, prudently,
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and not make use of extravagant expressions, or allow our feelings
to become overwrought. We must think calmly, and work without
excitement; for there will be those who become easily wrought up
who will catch up unguarded expressions, and make use of extreme
utterances to create excitement, and thus counteract the very work that
God would do.
There are a class of people who are always ready to go off on
some tangent, who want to catch up something strange and wonderful
and new; but God would have all [of us] move calmly, considerately
choosing our words in harmony with the solid truth for this time,
which requires [that it] be presented to the mind as free from that
which is emotional as possible, while still bearing the intensity and
solemnity that it is proper it should bear. We must guard against
creating extremes, guard against encouraging those who would be
either in the fire or in the water.—Lt 37, 1894.
Subject From Holy Spirit for Special Occasion—On Sunday,
June 23, [1895], I spoke under the tent at Canterbury. A general
meeting had been appointed, and many of our people were present
from Ashfield, Sydney, and Petersham. Several souls were convinced
of the truth who had not fully decided to obey. As I entered the desk
I could not seem to fasten my mind upon any subject upon which to
speak, but as soon as I rose to my feet, everything was clear, and the
text given me was the question of the lawyer to Christ—“What shall I
do that I may have eternal life?”
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The power of God came upon me, and the truth of God was pre-
sented by His human agent in a most clear and powerful way. Elder
Corliss said that he had heard me speak under almost every circum-
stance for the last forty years but that this was the most powerful
discourse he had ever heard me give. I seemed to be lifted up and
away from myself. It was the Lord’s Spirit that came upon me, and