ABSTRACT
There are many phases of the Holy Spirit’s operation, but none of them will permit you to claim the Baptism of the Holy Spirit; it does not follow, however, that no one has the Holy Spirit unless he speaks in tongues. We have reached a fanatical state where we make the speaking in tongues a basis, or test, of fellowship, or of spiritual activity. We must go to people kindly, and sweetly, and say: “Thus far you have had the Holy Spirit in contending with oppressions in your lives; you have had occasional anointings, and there is also the anointing that abideth; but no one of these is the Baptism of the Holy Spirit”. In all other religious movements the people could reach the acme of Christian experience and stop there; but this Pentecostal movement brings one into an experience where the heights, lengths, and breadths of God’s love are always before him, unfathomable, he can never cease in his growth and development.
