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Title: The Christian Foundation, June, 1880

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***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION, JUNE, 1880***

The Christian Foundation,

Or,

Scientific and Religious Journal

Vol. 1. No 6.

June, 1880.

CONTENTS

The Work of the Holy Spirit. What Is It? What Are Its Relations And Uses?
Credibility Of The Evidence Of The Resurrection Of Christ.
"Broad-Gauge Religion."--Shall The Conflict Cease?
Papal Authority In The Bygone.--The Infidel's Amusing Attitude.
"Even Now Are There Many Anti-Christs."
What Is To Be The Religion Of The Future.
Bill Of Indictments Against Protestants.
A Summary Of Truth.
Ethan Allen, The Infidel, And His Daughter.
Truth Is Immortal.

THE WORK OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. WHAT IS IT? WHAT ARE ITS RELATIONS AND USES?

I know of no religious people who intentionally deny his agency in
creation, providence or redemption. But men differ widely in their
opinions concerning it and its relations and uses. Many honest-hearted
persons have been educated in the theory of an immediate and direct
operation of the Spirit upon the hearts of sinners in order to their
conversion, which they often call the baptism of the Holy Spirit. On this
account thousands of prayers are offered up continually to induce the Lord
to pour the Spirit upon sinners and convert and save them. And happy
meetings are attributed to wonderful outpourings of the Spirit. What is
his work? It is said that he moved upon the face of the great deep, and
that God said, Let there be light, and there was light. This operation
upon physical nature gave to our planet cosmic light, and the darkness,
which had shut out the light of the heavenly bodies through the long lapse
of time extending back from Moses' first day to the beginning in which
creation took place, was removed. Activity having begun in matter, periods