The work of the Holy Spirit - pagina 563

LOVE WHICH DWELLS moments when

recall the blessed

this

IN

THE HEART

Love

523

upon the soul as

fell

mild dew drops upon the thirsty leaf, filling him with a felicity unknown heretofore? This blessed experience was heavenly and supernatural. The soul actually felt the everlasting arms underneath, and acknowledged that God is good and essentially Love. It is true the divine Majesty as it were consumed the soul, but at the same time it uplifted and glorified it. The soul realized that it was surrounded by Love, iiplifted above the low plain of vanity, and, more blessed still, that it had received power to embrace God with the arms of its own love. It is true this does not last. The evening star of hope is followed again and again by the dawn of the common, every-day life but by that experience we have seen the heavens opened, the sign of Eternal Love descending, and heard the music of its voice saying: Behold your God" ;

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Hence these two must always go together (i) Love shed abroad by the Holy Ghost, and (2) the glad tidings that our God has come to us. And these are one and the same, for, as we have seen before, when the Eternal One comes to dwell with man, it is not the Father, nor the Son, but the Holy Spirit whose office is to enter into man's spirit and to establish the most intimate relation between him and God. The Father and the Son will also come to dwell with him the Son is even said to stand at the door and knock waiting to be admitted but both Father and Son do this through the Holy Spirit. These three are One the Holy Spirit is :

in our hearts

;

;

:

in the creation, but only through

His essential union with the Father and the Son. He is also in the redemptive work, for He is bound to the pleasure of the Father and the Incarnation of the Son. In like manner both the Father and the Son dwell in the saints, but only through the Holy Spirit. If

came

witnessing of the Holy Spirit were only momentary, to tarry only for a night, the blessed

work

of

if

He

Love could not

be wrought. And if He had to leave the saints in one part of the world to visit others in other parts, it would be altogether out of

But He

the question.

with the

me

same time

sense in lem.

is

God, unlimited: in

my

closet

He

abides

just as really as with thousands in all parts of the earth at ;

and not only with the saints below, but in a higher

the redeemed already arrived in the heavenly Jerusathe sun shines brightly into your chamber, while it radi-

all

As

ates light

and heat upon millions

in distant lands, so is the oper-

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