The ministry of Christianity is the ministry of the Spirit. It is the Spirit of God that inhabits the words, that speaks to the spirit of another and reveals Christ in and through him.

Think of Jonathan Edwards who thundered the terrors of God and what Hell was like until men grasped their seats and hung on to them, fearing they were falling into Hell itself. Men were moved by fear to escape damnation. That was believed to be Christianity. Why any coward wanted to keep out of Hell. He might not have had one idea in his soul of what was the real true earmark of Christianity.

There were days when the Church could club men into obedience by preaching Hell to them, but that day has long passed. The world has outgrown it.

The Spirit of God is as destructive of evil as it is creative of good.

The secret of Christianity is in being. It is in being a possessor of the nature of Jesus Christ.

A holy mind cannot repeat a vile thing, let alone be the creator of a vile suggestion.

There is a baptism that belongs to Jesus. It is in His supreme control. No angel or man can bestow it. It comes from Him alone. He it is which baptizeth with the Holy Ghost. So the individual who wants the Holy Spirit must come into definite, conscious contact with Jesus Christ Himself.