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The Holy Spirit Comes First

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Feb 29, 1912

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 89, No. 9.

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The Holy Spirit Comes First

IN emphasizing the importance of receiving the Holy Spirit, Elder A. G. Daniells, in one of the Sabbath services at the ministerial institute at College View, Nebr., said: “Finances and plans of administration are important, but they are not supreme. The blessing of the Spirit comes first. The pioneers in this work lacked organization, but they had the Word and the Spirit. These were the essential elements in the establishment of this work. They will prove essential elements in its finishing. We must pray, as did Dr. Chalmers, that the material things shall not secularize us. I thank God for our organization, for our conferences, our educational institutions, our publishing houses, and our sanitariums. But it will prove our ruin to look to these material agencies instead of to God. We must seek the power of the divine Spirit, and emphasize it above all else.”