The work of the Holy Spirit - pagina 583

XXIV. Love

in the

Blessed Ones. *•

That God may be I

all in

all."—

Cor. XV. 38.

Sanctification and the shedding abroad of love are not the Before the fall Adam could not have been the subject of a single act of sanctification, for he was holy but Love could have been shed abroad in his heart ever more richly, fully, and abunsame.

;

dantly.

And

this

would have been the work of the Holy

The unholy alone need

is

Spirit.

but to suppose that Love exhausted in the victory over selfishness is a great mistake. Of sanctification

;

course, selfishness is utterly inconsistent with

not the mere absence of selfishness, as in

blood-bought

victory in the saint;

and develop only after the

Adam

in fact.

Love ;

nor

but Love

;

its

Love begins

last traces of selfishness are

is

rebuke and to unfold

wholly

ef-

true of health, which is not merely the throwing

ofiE

faced.

The same of disease

is

and

its

subtle poison

;

for then convalescents alone could

be called healthy, and real healthful life and the life of health would be out of the question. On the contrary, health exists inde-

pendent of sickness, antedates it, and drives it out when it invades the system for this is one of its essential operations. And after its fight with sickness it goes on more richly and exuberantly, as tho there had been no sickness at all, developing powers and offering enjoyments that are ever new and glorious. So does Love ;

antedate selfishness.

And when

diately prepared to drive

was not ended, but life of

it

out.

selfishness appeared.

And having

as tho nothing

Love immeits work

succeeded,

had happened

it

continued

its

Love.

enemy does not end the national exdevelopment and prosperity quietly and gratefully continue. Satan invaded Paradise, Love's dwelling-place. Victory over an invading

istence, but the nation's

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