Baptism in the Spirit

Allan Holmes writes about his experience

'...you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit. | Photo: Act 1:4

These are the details of the most important days of my life, as I remember them, after fifty years. The memories were prompted by a letter from my close spiritual friend Dawson Price, dated 16 January 2014. They were also prompted by words from Quaker faith & practice:  ‘…the Quaker position is really summed up in the words “John indeed baptised with water, but Ye shall be baptised with the Holy Spirit”. It is the inward change, the inward purification, the spiritual fact and not the outward symbol, that belongs in truth to the Kingdom of God…’  John Wilhelm Rowntree, 1902 Quaker faith & practice 27.37

You need to login to read subscriber-only content and/or comment on articles.