The work of the Holy Spirit - pagina 573

LOVE AND THE COMFORTER And

533

says the apostle, must the fruit of His work be in our

so,

Very well

hearts.

men know

;

if

such

is

the glorious fruit of His work and

the tree by its fruit,

may we

not conclude that this

is

own work of Love? The means employed by the Holy Spirit in the shedding abroad By loving us He of the Love of God in our hearts is simply Love. love upon us. expending teaches love. By applying love to us, by Spirit whereby Holy of the Love He inculcates love on us. It is the possible. become As, hearts has our the shedding abroad of love in but the description of His

Love ought to manifest itself in our lives, With endless longso has the Holy Spirit wrought it in our hearts. win us. Of the love sought to He kindness suffering and touching never envious, He was Son the Father and the which we gave to leading by display of us made a never Love rejoiced in it. His but according to

Cor.

i

xiii..

us into unendurable temptations. It never impressed us as being It ever accommodated self-seeking, but always as minister irig love. the needs and conditions of our hearts.

itself to

However much

never misunderstood or suspected us, but ever stimulated us to new hope. Wherefore it rejoiced not in iniquity to sanctify it, but when the truth prevailed in us. And when we had strayed and done wrong, it covered the grieved,

it

was never provoked.

wrong whispering good things of us.

in our ear that

Wherefore

we enjoy

The Love

here

all

only hereafter

it

it

it

still

believed and hoped

endured in us

all evil, all

all

unlove-

us not as a lamp that goes out Holy Spirit 7iever faileth. And while its sweetness and tenderness, it prophesies that will manifest the fulness of its brightness and

liness, all contradictions.

in the dark.

It

It failed

of the

it is only known in part. Its perfect bliss shall appear only when, looking no more by means of the glass at the phenomenal, we shall behold the eternal verities. For whatever

glory, for on earth

may

fail,

richest,

being

among

In this

our spiritual blessings the highest, the

all

and therefore the

greatest.

way we begin

to

Love

shall abide forever.

understand something of Comfort.

Christ calls the Holy Spirit the "Comforter."

He

says:

" I

will

send you another Comforter, and He will abide with you forever." This does not refer to the " only comfort in life and death," for that consists in " that I am not my own, but belong unto my faithful Savior Jesus Christ" (Heid. Cat., q.

comfort, but of the Comforter.

Not a

i).

Christ speaks, not of

thing, an event, or a fact,

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