Sermon Preached in Holy Trinity Cathedral By Rev. F. W. Weaver at Mattins on May 28
Txxr:—Zech. 4: 6. This is the word of the Lord unto Zerubbabel, saying. Not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit, saith the Lord of Hosts. of f the Holy Si come once more through the Church's season to the Festival or as we often call it the Birthday of the Church. It is so called because we associate the descent of the Holy Spirit in the form of the cloven tongues of fire on the followers of Christ as they were assembled in the upper room at Jerusalem waiting, as they had been commanded by Our Lord Himself, for: he promised gift of the Holy Spirit, and after which event the disciples went forth filled with a mighty power and proclaimed the teachings of their Master and so formed the first Christian Church.
But in the midst of our joy and thankfulness for this special outpouring of the Holy Spirit we must never lose sight of the fact that it is the same Spirit that has been working throughout all ages, the Third person of the Holy Trinity, God the Holy Ghost whom we acknowledge in cur Creed,
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