Article November 9, 1899 Issue

Filled with the Holy Ghost

BY ELINOR F. EDWARDS.

The New Testament makes frequent use of the expression, "filled with the Holy Ghost." What does it mean? The question is answered by Jesus himself in the fourteenth chapter of John, where he refers to the Holy Ghost as the Spirit of Truth. Therefore, to be filled with the Holy Ghost is to be filled with the Spirit of Truth. The impenetrable clouds of mysticism have always enveloped the words, Holy Ghost; but Christ's Christianity dispels the mists of a false theology, not only revealing what the Holy Ghost is, but what it does.

John, "the prophet of the highest," was filled with the Holy Ghost ; so were his father, Zacharias, and his mother, Elizabeth, before his birth. Jesus, filled with the Holy Ghost, met and overcame the threefold temptation. Then he "returned in the power of the Spirit to Galilee," and immediately the works followed,—casting out of devils and healing the sick.

In one place the record tells us that the apostles were all filled with the Holy Ghost, "and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance." Then followed many miracles, and many believers were added to the Church,—three thousand souls in a single day.

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