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"The baptism in the Holy Ghost was given once for all on day of Pentecost, when the Paraclete came in person to make His abode in the Church.  It does not follow therefore that every believer has received this baptism. God's gift is one thing; our appropriation of that gift is quite another thing.  Our relation to the second and to the third persons of the Godhead is exactly parallel in this respect.  ‘God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten Son' (John iii. 16).  ‘But as many as received Him to them gave He the right to become the children of God, even to them that believe on His Name' (John 1. 12).  ‘Here are the two sides of salvation, the Divine and the human, which are absolutely co-essential.' . . . . . ‘It seems clear from the Scriptures that it is still the duty and privilege of believers to receive the Holy Spirit by a conscious, definite act of appropriating faith, just as they received Jesus Christ' "-(The Ministry of the Spirit, by A. J. Gordon, D. D. ).

"It seems to me beyond question, as a matter of experience both of Christians in the present day and of the early Church, as recorded by inspiration, that in addition to the gift of the Spirit received at conversion, there is another blessing corresponding in its signs and effects to the blessing received by the Apostles at Pentecost-a blessing to be asked for and expected by Christians still, and to be described in language similar to that employed in the Book of Acts.  Whatever that blessing may be, it is in immediate connection with the Holy Ghost.  . . . . It is only when He is consciously accepted in all His power that we can be said to be wither ‘baptized' or ‘filled' with the Holy Ghost"-(Through the Eternal Spirit, by James Elder Cumming, D. D.).