Frankfort Pilgrim College - Pilgrim Yearbook (Frankfort, IN)

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How Can I Know Whether It Is My Spirit Or The Holy Spirit? O the truly honest heart, open before God, there often arise conditions and circumstances that' are very hard to undersand and it is quite difficult to know whether it is the Holy Spirit speaking or not. But we can know when He is speaking. In reviewing the case of Elijah, we find that he went through a very se- vere trial. He had just finished winning two remarkable victories. One was when he prayed down fire from heaven afterward slaying the prophets of Baal, thus incurring the wrath of Jezebel who worshipped the heathen gods. Because of this, she sent out an edict that he should be slain. Immediately, Elijah fled to Beersheba where he left his servant and went to the wilderness. Humanity asserted itself and he asked the Lord to take his life, but there was something better for him. He had been very sorely tested, therefore his Heavenly Father sent an angel with food to refresh and restore him physically. The angel came a second time and supplied his temporal needs after which he went to Mount Horeb. He went into a cave and when the Lord tried to speak to him, his own ideas were so in the foreground that he could not hear the message. His own idea was that he was jealous for the Lord's work and that he was the only one left who was true to the living God. When the Lord speaks to humanity, it is necessary at times that He use very unusual methods. He told Elijah to get out where he could see, but Elijah did not yet move. He at once began to show things to him through His own peculiar providenees. The first manifesta- tion was a great and strong wind , so mighty that it broke the rocks of the mountains. The enemy of the soul often comes to us with the idea. that we should do great and peculiar things and we do them and feel the Lord is lead- ing us. That is the 'tstrong wind . CIt does not help us any and may prove very destructive to others.J When the wind had passed by, he was able to sense that it was not the Lord. We may feel that we are shaking things around but many times we find it is only an earthquake. Things around may shake and be shaken, but the soul that relies on God will remain unshaken by things in the physical realm. The third manifestation was a fire. VVe may try to burn our way through but that is very destructive, if God be not in the tire . But, praise the Lord, when He had sent all of these and Elijah was not where he could listen, He sent the still small voice. Elijah began listening and what the Lord said to him so stirred his heart that he wrapped his cloak around his face and moved out where the Lord could give him the message he needed. The message was so clear that he knew definitely what his next step should be. There was no misunderstanding it. The evil spirit often leaves us the impression that we must take the whirl- wind route and blow things to pieces: to take the earthquake route and shake things to piecesg or the fire route and burn and hurt and stir, but after all this is passed, when we get quiet before the Lord, He speaks very unmistak- ably in a still small voice. His sheep can know His voice. -Clara Buntain. . -94,... ' EQ' ix?

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Grades SEVENTH GRADE They are the idols of hearts and of house- holdsg Thoy are angels of God in disguiseg His sunlight still sleeps in their tressos, His glory still grlvznns in thoir eyosg Thosv truants from home and from Hvaven Thoy haw niado nic more manly and mildg And I know now how Josus Could liken The kingdom of God to a child. If God has loved me to this day, Is it not true I should obey? I'll work for Him all that I can, Just like other little women. -Lois Anderson Qage eight Q ,-93..

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