Holy Spirit could not be given until that day. (Lev. xxiii. 9‒17.) But after the Spirit was once given we find no protracted period of waiting on the part of those who sought this blessing. (Acts iv. 31; viii. 15, 17; ix. 17, 20; xix. 6.) Men are obliged to wait to–day, but it is only because they have not met the conditions, or do not believe and claim the blessing simply on the Word of God. The moment we meet the conditions and claim the blessing it is ours. (Mark xi. 24 R.V.) Any child of God may lay down this book, meet the conditions, ask the blessing, claim it and have it. In a Students’ Summer School at Lake Geneva after a talk by F. B. Meyer on the Baptism of the Holy Spirit, a student remained to talk with me. He said he had heard of this before and had been seeking it for months but could not get it. I found his will was not surrendered, but that was soon settled. Then I said, “Let us kneel down and ask God for the Baptism of the Holy Spirit.” He did so. Was that petition “according to his will?” I asked. “Yes.” “Was the prayer heard?” After some hesitation, “It must have been.” “Have you what you asked of Him?” “I don’t feel it.” I read 1 Jno. v. 15 from the Bible that lay open before us: “If we know that he hears us, whatsoever we ask, we know that _we have_ the petition we desired of him.” “Was the prayer heard?” “Yes.” “Have you what you asked?” “I must have; for God says so.” We arose and soon separated. Going back to the school in a few days I met the young man again. His face was now all aglow and he knew he had received what at first he took upon the bare word of God. 4. THE REPETITION OF THE BAPTISM OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. One thing more needs to be said before we leave this subject. _The Baptism of the Holy Spirit is an experience that needs frequent repeating._ This appears from a comparison of Acts ii. 4—where Peter with others was filled with the Holy Spirit—with Acts iv. 8.—where Peter was filled again,—and with Acts iv. 31 where Peter with others was filled yet again. A new filling is needed and should be sought for each new emergency of Christian service. There are many who once knew experimentally what the Baptism of the Holy Spirit meant who are trying to work to–day in the power of that old experience and are working without God. They need and must have a new Baptism before God can use them. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ =_Rev. Frederick B. Meyer, B. A._= “_Few books of recent years are better adapted to instruct and help Christians than those of this author. He is a man ‘mighty in the Scriptures.’_”―D. L. MOODY. =_Old Testament Heroes_=, 12mo, cloth, each $1.00 =_Joshua_= and the Land of Promise. =_Moses,_= the Servant of God. =_Joseph:_= Beloved—Hated—Exalted. =_Israel:_= A Prince with God. =_Abraham;_= or, The Obedience of Faith. =_Elijah_= and the Secret of His Power.