_g_--Whitsun Day, or Pentecost, is the last of the four _great_ festivals in the ecclesiastical year, held in commemoration of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit on the infant church ten days after the Ascension. Among the last words of our Saviour to the apostles on the very day that He was taken up, were "Behold I send the promise of my Father upon you, but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem until ye be endowed with power from on high." After ten days of earnest, believing prayer, and expectation, suddenly, but not unexpectedly, there came a sound from heaven as a rushing, mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting, and there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them; and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance; and the multitude came together, and were amazed, saying one to the other what meaneth this? Others mocking said, these men are full of new wine. But Peter lifted up his voice and said, these are not drunken as ye suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of the day, (nine o'clock in the morning,) men are not usually drunk so early in the morning; but this is that which the prophet Joel eight hundred years ago said should come to pass in these last days; the promise of the Father, the baptism of the Holy Ghost for which they had been waiting for the past ten days; something of that _glory_ that should follow the crucifixion, death, resurrection and ascension of the Lord Jesus into Heaven, the glory of the Christian church, of the Christian dispensation, and which is destined to fill the whole earth. "Waft, Waft, ye winds his story, And you, ye waters, roll, Till like a sea of glory, It spreads from pole to pole."