The work of the Holy Spirit - pagina 564

"

LOVE

524 ation of

Holy Spirit not local and limited, but divinely you and me, tho neither knows the other's face nor

the

omnipresent

in

yet has heard his name.

For the Holy Spirit does not dwell in our hearts as we dwell in it, walking through it, shortly to leave it but He so inheres in and cleaves to us that, tho we were thrown into the hottest crucible, He and we could not be separated. The our house, independent of ;

fiercest fire

least in part, to bring

In that sense

He

;

and tho

the body

He may

at death

is

called

leave

it

at

again in greater glory in the resurrection,

it

man

yet as far as our inward us.

Even

could not dissolve the union.

the temple of the Holy Spirit

is

concerned,

He

never departs from

abides with us forever.

Distressed and overwhelmed by the sense of guilt and shame,

we may

cry with David

Take not Thy Holy

"

:

Spirit

from

me

!

but His indwelling in our souls can not be destroyed. An ancient temple was remarkable for the fact that, altho visitors came and went, and successive generations brought their sacrifices' to the yet the same idol remained for ages standing behind that altar immovable and stedfast. St. Paul wrote about the temple of the Holy Spirit, not to the people of Jerusalem, but to the Corinthians wherefore it is evident that he borrowed his image from the idol-temple in their city, and not from that of Jerusalem. He meant to say that, as the image of Diana dwelt in the temple of Corinth permanently and without being removed, so does the Holy Spirit dwell permanently and stedfastly in the souls of the called altar,

;

of God.

Love " It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, that went down to the skirts of David says

his

of

:

garments " (Psalm

who

cxxxiii. 2),

— a figure not very attractive for us

are unfamiliar with perfumed

oils.

But when you remember

that the oil used for the anointing of the high priest

and

volatile, so that

when

the whole house with

its

when

the precious bottle

was fragrant was opened it filled

fragrance, you will appreciate the beauty

is poured out upon the head and runs down the flowing robe of the high priest, its all-pervading fragrance is found the next morning in the trailing hem of the garment. The high priest, in his robes of office, is the image of the Church of the living God, and his head the image of Christ. The anointing oil represents the Holy Spirit, who, being poured out

of the figure

;

for

the golden oil

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