Holy Spirit: the Method of His Bestowment Unrevealed
H. W. Beecher. Acts 2:1-4 And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.… It is the doctrine of the interworking of the Spirit of God upon the souls of men. I have no philosophy about it. All I say is this: that God knows what is the secret way in which mind reaches mind. I do not — you do not. I do not know why words on my tongue wake up thoughts corresponding to those words in you. I do not know why the soul of man, like a complex instrument of wondrous scope, is played upon by my words, so that there are waked up in it notes along the whole scale of being. I do not understand why things are so, but unquestionably they are so. I do not know how the mother pours her affection on the child's heart, but she does. Two stars never shone into each other as two loving souls shine into each other. I know it is so, but I do not know why it is so. I do not know how soul touches soul, how thought touches thought, or how feeling touches feeling, but I know it does. Now that which we see in the lower departments of life — that which exists between you and your friends, and me and my friends — that I take, and by my imagination I lift it up into the Divine nature, and give it depth and scope and universality; and then I have some conception of the doctrine of God's Spirit poured upon the human soul. (H. W. Beecher.) Parallel Verses KJV: And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. WEB: Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all with one accord in one place.