It is not without significance that Jonathan Ranken Anderson concluded his ministry expounding Peter’s sermon, preached on the auspicious Day of Pentecost. These eight discourses on the Acts of the Apostles 1 & 2, were preached in the last three months of 1858, and Anderson died on 10th January 1859.
Throughout his minstry he saw clearly the vital necessity of the Spirit’s work in salvation. In his early days Anderson experienced a remarkable unction of the Holy Ghost upon his preaching, in a spiritual awakening in his congregation at Kirkfield Chapel of Ease, Gorbals, Glasgow. Subsequently, it might be said, that one of his major differences with many of his fellow presbyters in the Free Church of Scotland, centred on his earnest contending for the sovereign operations of the Spirit in all true conversions. May his discriminating ministry prove to be fruitful in the lives of those who read this book.