the Spirit that we must still demand of ourselves. One is
loyal obedience to Jesus: "No man can say, Jesus is Lord, but in the
Holy Spirit." A second is filial trust in God: "Because ye are sons, God
sent forth the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying, Abba, Father."
A third is self-devoting love akin to that shown on Calvary: "The fruit
of the Spirit is love;" "By this shall all men know that ye are My
disciples, if ye have love one to another." And if the Spirit is within
us, He is eager to work through us. We may be quenching Him by laziness,
by timidity, by preoccupation. We are of the Body of Christ only as we
are "members each in his part."

Above all we must constantly remind ourselves of the Church's adequacy
in God for its work. When we speak of the Church we are apt to think
first of its limitations; when Paul spoke of the Church its divine
resources were uppermost in his mind--"the Church which is His Body, the
fulness of Him that filleth all in all." Perhaps the Church's greatest
weakness is unbelief in its own divine sufficiency. We confront the
indifference, the worldliness, the wickedness of men; we face an earth
hideous with war and hateful with selfishness. We think of the Church's
often absurdly needless divisions, the backwardness of its thought, the
coldness of its devotion, the inefficiency of many of its methods, the
want of consecration in a host of its members, the imperfections and
limitations of the best and most earnest of them; and we do not really
expect any marked advance; we hardly anticipate that the Church will
hold its own. Would not our Lord chide us, "O ye of little faith! all
power is given unto Me in heaven and in earth, go ye therefore and make
disciples of all nations"? "There are diversities of workings, but the
same God who worketh all in all."

The Church exists to make the world the Kingdom of God. In the holy city
of John's vision there is no temple, for its whole life is radiant with
the presence of God and of the Lamb. In the final order there will be no
Church, for its task is finished when God is all in all. Meanwhile the
Church has no excuse for being except as it continually renders itself
less and less necessary. It has to lose itself in sacrificial service in
order to save itself. It must never ask itself, "Will the community
support me?" but "Can I inspire the community?" As it seeks to do God's
will, it can count on Him for daily bread; a more luxurious diet wo