The work of the Holy Spirit - pagina 39

BY PROFESSOR WARFIELD place to give a history of that

We

movement.

have

xxxix all

watched

it

with the intensest interest, from the rise of the Free Churches to the union with them of the new element from the Doleantie. We

have lacked no proof that it was a movement of exceptional spirdepth; but had there lacked any such proof, it would be supplied by the appearance of this book out of its heart. Wherever men are busying themselves with holy and happy meditations on the Holy Ghost and His work, it is safe to say the foundations of a true spiritual life are laid, and the structure of a rich spiritual The mere fact that a book of this character offers itlife is rising. self as one of the products of this movement attracts us to it and the nature of the work itself its solidity of thought and its depth of spiritual apprehension brightens our hopes for the future of the churches in which it has had its birth. Only a spiritually minded Church provides a soil in which a literature of the Spirit can grow. There are some who will miss in the book what they are accustomed to call "scientific" character;* it has no lack certainly of scientific exactitude of conception, and if it seems to any to lack " scientific " form, it assuredly has a quality which is better than anything that even a "scientific" form could give it it is a It is the product of a religious heart, and it leads religious book. itual

;

—

—

—

the reader to a religious contemplation of the great facts of the Spirit's working.

way

May

bring to

it

in this fresh vehicle of

God

sense of rest on and in of all

life,

to

whom

a

new

all,

into

whose hands

it

finds its

language, an abiding and happy

the Holy Ghost, the Author and

in our heart of hearts

Lord

we may pray:

" Veni, Creator Spiritus^

Spiritus recreator,

Tu deus, tu datus ccelitus, Tu donutn, tu donator." Princeton Theological Seminary, April 23, 1900.

*Thus

Beversluis, op.

which "has

no

cit.,

scientific

treats the subject in a

speaks of

value," the

many-sided way.

it

it

as Dr. Kuyper's bulky book, of fine passages auO

is full

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