the eleven, lifted up his voice and
spake forth." No fear of servant maids now! But _can_ this be the man who
quailed before the look of the waiting-maid who charged him with being
"with the Nazarene"? Can this be the man that "began to curse and to
swear, I know not this man of whom ye speak"? The very same, and yet not
the same; for the Baptism of the Holy Ghost has changed Peter the
craven-hearted into Peter the lion-hearted, so that he can stand before
that surging multitude, their hands dyed crimson in his Master's blood,
and without a tremor charge home upon them the awful crime, "Him ye did
crucify and slay."

Ch. iv. 13: "They beheld the _boldness_ of Peter and John."

Ch. iv. 31: "They spake the word of God with _boldness_."

Ch. v. 20: "Go ye and stand and speak in the temple." Taken out of prison,
and ordered to go and do again the very thing for which they had been
imprisoned! But _they_ were Spirit-filled men, and so we read in the next
verse, "they entered into the temple."

Ch. v. 29: "We must obey God rather than men."

Ch. v. 40-42: "Beaten ... departed rejoicing ... ceased not to teach."

Ch. xxi. 13: "I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at
Jerusalem, for the name of the Lord Jesus." Courage-filled because
Spirit-filled!

_2. The fruit of the Spirit._

_The fruit of the Spirit will be manifest in the life_: Love, Joy, Peace,
etc. (Gal. v. 22, 23). How can one's life be filled with the fruit of the
Spirit, unless one's heart is first filled with the Spirit Himself? In
the primitive Church the men and women were filled with the Holy Ghost;
that was the rule; now, alas! it has come to be the exception--and as a
consequence we see how their lives were enriched by the fruit of the
Spirit.

_Love_: Acts iv. 32, "Were of one heart and soul ... had all things
common." This may be poor political economy, but it is good spiritual
economy, a simple Bible illustration of the Bible precept, "Lay up for
yourselves treasure in heaven" (Matt. vi. 20). If brotherly love were
abroad to-day, how soon the present distress would disappear! As the best
available commentary on this heavenly word "Love," study on your knees
the whole of 1 Cor. xiii.

_Joy_: Acts ii. 46, "They did take their food with gladness and singleness
of heart, praising God." Every meal was a sacrament. The same cause would
produce the same result to-day.

Ch. v. 41: "Rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer dishono