Show I I CHURCHES HAVE NO POWER Learning learIng Is No Substitute for the Holy loly Spirit SpiritA A t Correspondent on 01 time Ibe of or tb Its l Ja JaI r A friend ot of tho time News Mr Moses roses Mecham writes from Hendley lim le Neb Nob NeI Fob Feb eb 11 1 About tho time middle of ot November I wrote a t letter leler of ot Inquiry relative to my kindred which you ou kindly printed It I Ihal has hal brought mo inc letters horn from numerous cousins A few tew days ngo ago 1 received a n letter front from a n cousin Mrs A M 2 ii Or Orser Orle leler Enclosed with this set ser I Jensen Utah le EphraIm letter was waR a sermon by hy Elder Eider Jensen leler delivered I sOllon In Salt Lake City D Do Dc cembor IG 16 WOO 1100 which I read and stud studied led with pleasure and profit wih ploll held I 1 have for Cor a mu I good many years hel that time the gift of ut healing was n ft perma permanent nent lent gift sit In II time the church and und that the th only reason leason for tor Its Il state of at unbelief today Is tho time generl Jesus could not do many mighty works coull in Capernaum because of oC time the unbelief Hut But I have experienced time the Divine heal benl healing benlIn lug ing In antI and more inure He Ito keeps me well wel Had Hal HadI 1 I the tho space I would like Iko to toil tell tol tho time par Idar particulars I know little hittie of at prophecy antI and nothing of at the time gift git of oC unknown tongues except time the boast of ot some lome men len that they the can weak vak so BO o many foreign languages B Hut ul how can I doubt It I I t f These signs There follow them that believe beloc Is Intimation of ot a time limit limitA no imo I A 10 saIl sad change has come over the churches Time rime was when evangelical they tide seemed clothed with wih power Even the time Apostles after atter enjoying the time per personal personal Instruction front from the Great Teach Tench it u three years had to tarry tary in the city of oC Jerusalem until endowed with wih power front from on high before they the could coul preach tIme the living hiving word Hut But ye O shall receive recIo power after that the time Holy Utmost Ghost Is jA come on ater you on Acts 1 im 8 I 1 believe In an educated ministry but bele when hen time the gift si of at the tho Holy Spirit SpirIt that was to teach toach nil all al things timings and so 10 give mouth month and utterance that when whenby by they were brought brough be before before persecutors persecutor mind councils they the fore tore kings governors Ind need necil no nu preparation for tor defense but the Holy Ghost would teach them In the time some same hour what to say 1 anti In Indeed deed the Holy Ghost was wal to speak through them When this timis I say lay Is II ex ox exchanged changed for Cor scholastic polish as a Is seen the churches have lust lost plainly their power leen with God und and men inca and ammi Instead of oC being a 1 spiritual force Is l becoming u it great world power The light fight over oer I manmade creeds and ami the scramble for tor salaries individual and denominational popularity members wealth Is II so 80 great grat that as I said old they timi i y have hlo lost their pow owr r with toO Ol and man titan manIn mann In n ISSO anti and again n In 1900 nil 11 the Methodist bishops but hut one turned po politicians p and worked for the time high In Anti And the result leisure part with wih nil all ni their Infant sprinkling anti and probationers who never neer claimed churned con cn conversIon versIon at the end of or the time year they the numbered At more enl than 20 less bess than titan they the lid did d nt at lt morl the time be beginning T To Tn say 8 the very er least leant the blessing bl of oC God Clod was WIS withheld last I portly believe that where them thee Is 18 spiritual life le It will wiil wi be mani mant manifested by visible power I 1 singled out the Methodist church but hut the other greet great denominations t and Comm rega their own are nr little more titan than holding An In Inquiry flobert Holmes nt af Spin h Fork referring to tn t n a 1 letter teter recently published in iii the News Newl w from Eiders Hyrum lum and J Hex now laboring ns us lS In Van Die mans mens Land MISI I 1 long hong been boon waiting to lo hear news by tty y our Elders from that far tar distant land because I 1 nn an In uncle who was 1810 of whom scat timers there thele about tho time year nothing has imas boon been heard for over 50 GO years erH Now Nuts sir will wili you be lie kind enough to allow alow me nl to communicate with these brethren through the time Ies eret elet News NOK and ask that thal In canvassing from fromn house to house they thoy will bo be kind enough h to watch for tor a n household by the tho name nammie Is IR name of ot Holmes This mans manA Hobort Hobert Holmes Hohn lie Io was Wil born hur In the village of Norfolk England Ho lie 10 would be lie about 30 years of at age when he lie Il was Wil went sent to the time above named amel Island News of ot him will 1 be thankfully received by me and Ind others of ut our family I would like to very ely much that the tho re ro search bo ho kept up by the tue succeeding Elders B els null as it may open doors that might be shut against them otherwise |