The work of the Holy Spirit - pagina 605

XXVIII.

The

Suffering of Love. " Greater love hath no that a

man

lay

man

down

than

this,

his life for

his friend."—_/c;/<« xv. 13.

Ijyve suffers

world antagonizes the Spirit is holy, not in the sense the world's spirit, but because He is the abso-

because the

The former

of

God.

of

mere opposition Author of all

lute

is

to

spirit of the

unholy, the Latter

holiness, being

God

Himself.

Hence the con-

flict.

no point along the whole line of the world's life which the Holy Spirit whenever He touches it. Whenever we are tempted by the world and inwardly animated by

There

is

does not antagonize

the Holy Spirit, there

member

is

a clash in the conscience.

in the Spirit of holiness, there is trouble

When

As soon

as one

breathes a worldly spirit and another testifies against

and

in state, school, church, or society a

it

strife in the family.

worldly tendency ap-

pears and a current from the divine Spirit, there strife in

one or

reconciled.

all.

is trouble and These two oppose each other and can not be

Compromise

is impossible. Either one, the worldly our hearts against the Holy Spirit, and then we are lost; or after long conflict the Holy Spirit vanquishes the world's spirit; then the prince of this world finds nothing in us, and our names are written in the gate of the New Jerusalem.

spirit, at last closes

And hearts,

this causes

owing

to the

I(rce

to suffer.

Holy

When

love increases in our

Spirit's increasing activity,

maintain

This

itself in

the soul.

evident more or less in little children. the easiest, but not the best, method of education. is

must come and seeks to

it

into conflict with all that pertains to the world's spirit

Indulgence

is

The indulgent

mother does not love her children, but sacrifices them to her weakShe finds it easier not to oppose their wrongdoing; thus

ness.

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