Sound from Heaven and the Celestial Fire - the sound of true Christianity
Holy Ghost (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Early, then, on the second Lord’s day after the Ascension, is the entire company met, with one heart, to renew their oft-repeated prayer. We cannot go to the house where was that upper room; nor to the site where it stood. These points are left unnoticed, after the mode of Christianity, which is in nothing a religion of circumstances, in everything a religion of principles. We know not how long they had that morning urged their prayer, nor whose voice was then crying to Him who had promised, nor what word of the Master he was pleading, nor what feelings of closer expectation and more vivid faith were warming the breasts of the disciples. But “suddenly there came a sound from heaven, as of a rushing mighty wind.” Not, mark you, a wind; no gale sweeping over the city struck the sides of the house and rustled round it. But “from heaven,” directly downward, fell “a sound,” without shape, or step, or movement to account for it—a sound as if a