Two Young Men 7/28 Monday Meditation

I spoke to two young men in a meeting one day.  They were preachers.  They had received their degrees.  I said to them, "Young men, what about it?""Oh," they said, "we do not believe in receiving the Holy Ghost in the same way as you people do."
I said to them, "You are dressed up like preachers, and it is a pity having to have the dress without the presence."
"Well, we do not believe it the way you do," they said.
"But look," I said, "the apostles believed it that way.  Wouldn't you like to be like the apostles? You have read how they received [the Holy Ghost] at the beginning, haven't you?"
Always remember this, that the baptism [of the Holy Ghost] will always be as at the beginning.  It has not changed.  If you want a real baptism, expect it just the same way as they had it at the beginning.
Those preachers asked, "What had they at the beginning?"
I quoted from the tenth chapter of Acts where it says,
...on the Gentiles also was poured out the gift of the Holy Ghost.  For they heard them speak with tongues, and magnify God....  Acts 19:45,46. 

-- Smith Wigglesworth