HERESY IN AN UNEXPECTED QUARTER.
By Editor
The Western Recorder takes the Cumberland Presbyterian to task for saying, "Workers will be enlisted, the hearts and purses of givers will be opened, when all of our ministers and congregations and members shall be baptized anew with the reviving power of the Holy Ghost." It says:— I have heard persons frequently pray for the "baptism of the Holy Ghost," and I suppose that the above writer refers to that idea in the language quoted; but I have never seen any proof that such a prayer had been answered. In fact, as I understand the subject, there is no such thing as the "baptism of the Holy Ghost," in this age of the world, and no promise of it. Is it not then wrong to preach it or pray for it? We are sorry to see a journal of such standing for theological soundness as the Recorder thus lapsing into dangerous heresy. To make void the promise that Christ will baptize believers with the Holy Ghost, thus denying the present and abiding power of the Spirit, and limiting the promise of the Divine Comforter to a favored few in the apostolic days,870is to take the most blessed meaning out of the gospel. It is a heresy hardly less deadly than to deny the inspiration of the Scriptures. —Cumberland Presbyterian.