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THE HOLY SPIRIT T h e H o l y Spirit. Who He Is and What He Docs and How to Know Him in All the Fulness of His Gracious and Glorious Ministry By R. A. TORREY, D.D. Author of “SouLWinning Sermon: ; ” “The Person and Work of the Holy Spirit,” etc. NEW YORK Fleming H. Rcvcll Company LONDON AND EDINBURGH Copyright, mcuxxvn, by FLEMING H. REVELL COMPANY New Yo‘rlh i58' Fifth Avenue London:,99 Anerley Road PREFACE HE chapters in this book are really addresses on the Holy Spirit that I have given in the various cities in which I have held meetings during the last twenty-five years. Of course, the addresses have grown and been modified as I have gone from city to city. They have been greatly blessed of God in bringing multi- tudes of believers into a larger Christian experience and life, in stirring up and equipping many for intelligent service and directly or indirectly, in the conversion, I presume, of a very goodly company in Japan, China, Australia, India, England, Scotland, Ireland, Germany, and in various states of the Union. After Mr. Moody had heard the addresses in the earlier form in which they were given, he insisted that I should give them in every place I visited, and the demand for their publication has increased as the years have gone by. Nearly two years ago, I brought out a volume entitled Soul—Wz'nning Sermons, containing all the sermons that I ordinarily preached in the night meetings wherever I con- ducted a series of meetings covering four weeks. I in- tended to bring out also a companion volume, containing the morning or afternoon addresses that I give to Chris- tlans in a four-weeks series, but these addresses are for the most part devoted to two lines of teaching—teaching concerning prayer and teaching concerning the Holy Spirit and His Work. When this latter book was well under way, it seemed wise to divide it into two volumes: 5 6 PREFACE one devoted entirely to the subject of Prayer, and the other devoted entirely to the related subject of the Holy Spirit and His Work. The volume on Prayer, entitled The Power of Prayer and the Prayer of Power, came out almost simultaneously with the volume, Soul-Winning Sermons. Since then I have been so almost incessantly engaged, both winter and summer, in conducting evangelistic meetings and Bible conferences, and in writing other books for which the publishers could not wait, that I have been un- able to bring out the volume on the Holy Spirit until now. The substance of these addresses may be found in books of mine already published, and when people have asked me if they could not get the addresses in printed form I have replied: “You can find the substance of them in my book, The Person and Work of the Holy Spirit, or in my other book, What the Bible Teaches.” But many who have secured those books have said: “ We want the addresses in the form that you give them in your meetings, with the illustrations that you use and the ap- plications and personal appeals that you make.” So here they are, and it is hoped that God may use them in the printed form even as He has so wonderfully used them when spoken from the platform. In the present book there is no attempt to treat this great subject in a thorough and comprehensive way and in all its manifold bearings. If one desires to find such treatment of the subject he is referred to my book, The Person and Work of the Holy Spirit, in which it is at- tempted to give an exhaustive treatment of this important subject. The aim of this book is altogether practical; viz., to produce immediate results of definite personal blessing in the heart and life and service of every one who reads it. PREFACE 7 Anyone who has this volume and the books, Soul-Win- ning Sermons and The Power of Prayer and the Prayer of Power, and my smaller book, Getting the Gold Out of the Word of God, has practically all the sermons and addresses that I give in any evangelistic campaign of ordi- nary length. However, not all the sermons that I preach in my longer series of meetings—covering, for example, three continuous months each (as in Liverpool and in Philadelphia), or covering five continuous months (as in London),——are in print, nor even in manuscript form. R. A. ’1'.