The work of the Holy Spirit - pagina 560

LOVE

520

and it is God the Holy Spirit who accomby His descent into the heart of man. expedient for you that I go away for if I go not away,

follow the Incarnation

;

plishes this third work " It is

;

the Comforter will not

come unto you."

This implies that the Holy Ghost would a higher good than the not independently Son could give them. This is of the Son for the Scripture teaches emphatically that He neither will nor can do give the disciples

still

;

He receives of the Son only to However, the difference remains that, altho Jesus suffers and dies and rises again for us, nevertheless the actual work in the souls of men awaits the gracious operation of the Holy Spirit. It is, as St. Paul writes to the Romans, that " the Love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost." And this is the proper work of the Holy Spirit, that shall remain His forevermore. When there remains no more sin to be atoned for, nor any unholiness to be sanctified, when all the elect shall jubilate before the throne, even then the Holy Spirit shall perform this divine work of keeping the Love of God actively anything without the Son, and that give unto us.

How, we can not tell but this we underHoly Spirit who, being the same in all, unites all souls in blessed union. "When at the same moment spiritual life is wrought in your soul and mine and in the souls of others, the muFor, altho men and things tual bond of Love must be the result. are grounded in the Father, and the souls of the redeemed are united in the Son, yet personally to enter into every soul, making it His temple and dwelling-place, is the work of the Holy Spirit. Hence it is the same Spirit who as God enters the heart of every one of the redeemed, and as God performs and perfects His work in every heart irresistibly. And, tho different circumstances and dwelling in their hearts.

stand, that

it

is

;

the

manifold sins have caused differences of opinion among the persons in whom the same Holy Spirit has been at work, so that at times they have held strongly opposite views, yet the fact of their inward

union remains, which by the working and indwelling of the Holy Spirit in their hearts is

This

may

made

a real and even indissoluble union.

not always come to the surface, but inwardly the

matter is all the more real and glorious. Moreover, the Holy Spirit And is always actively at work to remove every outward obstacle. if this is not altogether a success before we die, there is no need of fear so long as in death the scales shall, as eyes,

and Love

shall conquer.

Compared

it

were,

fall

to eternity, life

from our on earth

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