II. I come now, dear friends, in the second place to notice THE MANNER IN WHICH THE SPIRIT WAS GIVEN. Each word here is suggestive. “Suddenly.” No herald sounded his trumpet, but as they were expecting, in a moment the celestial tempest came. If the Lord is about to do any great work in the world we must not be astonished if we hear of its coming like a thunder-clap. Man sits down, and plans, and arranges, and works, and everybody knows what he is aiming at. God also plans, and arranges, and forestalls