The Galatians had been “moved from Him” who had called them into the grace of Christ. Though born of the Spirit, they had stepped backward, and were trying to regulate themselves by the law; the works of the flesh had crept in, and they found bondage and schisms and disruption; for they knew not the Spirit. The church constituted a pitiful nursery filled with helpless babes and peevish weaklings. The apostle through whom the Spirit first led them to Christ, yearning over their sad state, cries out: “My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you,” and then goes on in his own masterly and fatherly way to exhort them to stand free in the Spirit's work already done in them, begs them to leave off trying to regulate themselves by the law, but to walk in the Spirit, and as a natural, sweet consequence, they will not fulfill the works of the flesh. He declares that living in and walking by the Spirit will be the panacea for all their ills and their deliverance from all difficulties, and they shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting. Beloved church of God in these closing days of the nineteenth century, filled with weakness, paralyzed with fear, rent and torn by controversy, trembling with vague hope and longing desire, may I speak to you again from my hidden corner as the Spirit of God breathes upon and moves me, and say, “Receive ye the Holy Ghost”? For, “Ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.” With him in our midst as leader and guide, all nations will be discipled, and the gospel will be preached to every creature. For he comes to us with the authority and infinite resources of him who said, “All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.” All power, blessed Leader! Power above the opposing forces of heathen governments and ruling spirits. Power above the force of deadly climatic influences. Power above the strong forces that move on land and sea. Power to utilize the highest inventions of men, and to calm into quiet subservience the wildest forces of nature. Power to open doors that no man can shut; power to turn the hearts of kings; power to heal the sick and to triumph over death; power to be imprisoned, to suffer and die, if need be, that the gospel may be preached; power to be willingly maligned and willfully misrepresented; power to suffer the loss of all things if only Christ may be preached and the Comforter may be received. Power to carry eternal light into Africa's densest darkness, and everlasting life into her deadliest abodes. Power to break the chains of sin and eternal death, and set captive souls free. Power to turn fiendish abodes into homes of peace and delight; power to bring men from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God. Power triumphantly to watch and wait for Christ's return while we work; and power to meet him in the air at his appearing. The world awaits our action, and the Holy Ghost awaits reception, to this end; and he who gave the marching orders from Olivet said, “Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world.”