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THE SPIRIT'S POWER,

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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 2, 1867

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 30, No. 3.

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THE SPIRIT'S POWER,

By A. B. Underwood

As Manifested in Taking away Physical Strength.

ARE we as a people to look with suspicion and distrust upon all cases where physical strength is taken away from the members of the church in their religious exercises? Our appeal as a people, is to the “Bible, and the Bible alone,” to settle all religious questions. In one of the visions of Daniel, his strength was taken from him, and there was no breath left in him. Dan. x, 8–17.
When the glory of God was revealed to Ezekiel in a vision, he fell upon his face. Eze. i, 28. At the time of Paul's conversion, his strength was taken away from him, and he fell to the earth. Acts ix, 4; 2 Cor. xii, 2, 3.
John, in his vision in the Revelation, fell to the earth as dead. Rev. i, 17. There is no question, but there has been in all ages of the church much of the counterfeit, and we should be cautious not to encourage a spirit of fanaticism among us; but is it in accordance with the spirit of charity, which Paul says “beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things,” to discard at once as the work of the enemy, all manifestations of this kind, where the individual sustains, and has for a long time, an unblemished Christian character?
A. B. UNDERWOOD. Wayne Co., O.