PENTECOST REJECTED -- AND THE EFFECT ON THE CHURCHES

By Aaron Merritt Hills

CONTENTS

DEDICATION


CHAPTER 1


Pentecost Rejected; and its effect on the churches -- Success of the Early Christian Church

-- Pentecost, the Reason for it -- Early Decline from Neglect of Pentecost -- History Repeats Itself

-- Much Light Now -- Many are Hiding from it -- Holiness Bands and Campmeetings -- Papers and

Magazines -- The Holy Spirit now, Like Christ Himself, is Being Rejected -- The Sad Signs of the

Times -- Government Statistics -- Magazine Articles -- Preaching of American pulpit -- Verdict of

the Bishops -- Newspaper Articles -- Year-books -- Table of Statistics -- A Needless barrenness

-- God's Resources Still Ample -- Success of my Theological Students -- Theological Professors

Generally are Ignoring the Supernatural -- The Author a Friend of Education -- But the

Spirit-baptism is Most Important -- Words of Joseph Parker -- Greatest Preachers not

College-bred -- Let the Famine Come! -- President Finney's Verdict, and F. B. Meyer's -- The Five

Conditions of Power -- How Ought Pentecost to be Prized? -- What it Would do for the Ministry

and Churches



CHAPTER 2


          The Denial of the Heart-cleansing Work of the Holy Ghost a Partial Rejection of Pentecost

-- Review of Torrey, Meyer, and Others -- Those Who Belittle the Pentecostal Experience --

Torrey's Words -- F. B. Meyer's Assertion -- H. W. Webb-Peploe's Declaration -- Prof. Agar

Beet's Opinion -- Dr. Mudge, of Boston -- All Five Deny Heart-cleansing as a Pentecostal

Experience -- Let the Word of God Decide it -- Argument I, from Peter's Speech before the

Jerusalem Council (Acts 15:8- 9) -- Adjective Katharos and Verbs derived from it -- Brothers,

Torrey, Meyer, and Mudge Questioned -- Conclusion -- Argument II, from Adjective Hagios -- Its

Meaning and Use -- Various Texts -- Are God and Angels Carnal? -- Conclusion -- Argument III,

Meaning of Spiritual Circumcision -- Something Removed, (Col. 2:9-11) -- Ellicott and Meyer,

the German Exegetes -- Cremer and Daniel Steele -- Conclusion -- Torrey, Meyer, Webb-Peploe

Questioned Again -- Argument IV, from Rom. 6:6. -- Adam Clarke -- Meaning of Greek Word --

Cremer -- A Flat Contradiction between Jeremiah and St. Paul and Torrey, Meyer, etc. -- The

Unfortunate Substitution -- Conclusion -- Argument V, Verbs might have been chosen that would

have taught Suppression -- Highly Proper for Torrey and Meyer to Explain why They were not

Chosen -- Meyer gives away his Own Position -- Conclusion -- Argument VI, I Cor. 1:1-2, and

Eph. 4:11-13 -- Conclusion -- Argument VII, I John 1:6-10 -- Explanation of the Famous Passage

-- Meyer's Perversion of Scripture -- Hear from the Scholars, Westcott, Alford, Adam Clarke --

Argument VIII, I John 3:3, 5, 7 -- Adam Clarke's Comment -- Bishop Westcott and Dean Alford

Contradict F. B. Meyer, also Steele and Bishop Ellicott -- Repression not in the Book -- Argument

IX, from the Meaning of Baptize -- Water and Fire Purifying Elements -- Steele's View --

McLaughlin's View -- What a Clean Heart Means -- Two Remarkable Passages in Old Text, which

the Torrey-Meyer Theory could not explain -- Human Philosophy Teaches the Same -- Four

Arguments -- The Conclusion against the "Suppression Theory " is Irresistible -- Sorry to Criticize

these Brothers -- Debt of Gratitude -- Teaching in Torrey's School -- "Damnable Heresy!" -- John

Wesley, John Fletcher, Adam Clarke, Bishop William Taylor, and Catharine Booth the Sad

Victims of it! -- Effect on the Moody Institute -- Moody Himself -- An Incident in England --

Torrey cut aloof from his Brethren by His Theory



CHAPTER 3


          What this Pentecostal Blessing is which People are Rejecting, and how it may be Obtained

-- A Good Thing to "Know" -- Meaning of "the Old Man" -- Scripture Names for Him -Awful to

keep such an Enemy in the Heart -- Dangerous to Piety -- I. Holiness Defined -- II. Why we ought

to have it: Six Urgent Reasons -- III. How it is obtained -- Conditions Explained -- Quotations

from "A Clean Heart"



CHAPTER 4


          Pentecost Received Results in Walking with God and Separation from the World -- God's

Word on the Subject -- I. God wants us to walk with Him -- II. We can do it -- III. Must walk

where God walks -- IV. Must be in Harmony with God -- V. God requires Separation: I. In

Business; 2. In Marriage; 3. In Many Secret Societies. -- Moody's View -- John Quincy Adams --

4. In Amusements -- "Out and Out for Christ" -- Carnal Mind must be destroyed