that the Churches have lost their way to that "upper room." Let a Church
only find her way back there and obtain her Pentecost; let pulpit and pew
be baptized with the Holy Ghost _and with fire_, and the people will come
running in to see the burning. That Church will not need to cater for
amusements as a bait to catch the masses, but the people will come
crowding into her pews, climbing into them as Zacchaeus climbed into the
branches of that sycamore tree when he wanted to see the Lord; for the
people still want "to see Jesus," and they have heard that He is "to pass
that way." We cannot improve on Pentecost's methods for reaching the
masses.

_4. Persecution._

Yet another effect of the Fullness of the Spirit must be mentioned, viz.,
_Persecution_.

"Others _mocking_ said, They are filled with new wine." Acts ii. 13.

"They laid hands on them and put them in ward." Acts iv. 3.

"Let us threaten them." Acts iv. 17.

"They laid hands on the apostles and put them in public ward." Acts
v. 18.

"And were minded to slay them." Acts v. 33.

"They beat them and charged them not to speak." Acts v. 40.

"And seized him and brought him into the council." Acts vi. 12.

"And they stoned Stephen." Acts vii. 59.

"And there arose on that day a great persecution." Acts viii. 1.

"Haling men and women committed them to prison." Acts viii. 3.

"Saul, yet breathing threatening and slaughter against the disciples
of the Lord." Acts ix. 1.

"Took counsel together to kill him." Acts ix. 23.

"They went about to kill him." Acts ix. 29.

"Killed James the brother of John with the sword." Acts xii. 2.

"He put him (Peter) in prison." Acts xii. 4.

"Stirred up a persecution against Paul and Barnabas." Acts xiii. 50.

"Made them evil affected against the brethren." Acts xiv. 2.

"To treat them shamefully and to stone them." Acts xiv. 5.

"They stoned Paul." Acts xiv. 19.

"Commanded to beat them (Paul and Silas) with rods." Acts xvi. 22.

"Cast them into prison, ... and made their feet fast in the stocks."
Acts xvi. 23, 24.

"Set the city on an uproar." Acts xvii. 5.

"Stirring up and troubling the multitudes." Acts xvii. 13.

"Opposed themselves and blasphemed." Acts xviii. 6.

"Rose up against Paul, and brought him before the judgment seat." Acts
xviii. 12.

"Speaking evil of the way." Acts xix. 9.

"Filled with wrath." Acts xix