glorified." This is
beautiful. Oh, what a privilege

To be a vessel transparent,
Clear as the crystal sea,
Letting the glorious light of heaven
Brilliantly shine through thee.

Beloved saints, take heed that there be not one spot in thee to obstruct
the light of God. "Let it shine." Submissively place thyself in the
crucible and there be polished and refined and purged and cleansed until
thou art "purer than snow, and whiter than milk, and more ruddy than
rubies."

How can the Lord now, since his ascension, shine through his church? The
Scriptures make this very plain. Jesus told his own that he would not long
be with them, but said, "I will pray the Father, and he shall give you
another Comforter, that he may abide with you forever; even the Spirit of
truth; whom the world can not receive, because it seeth him not, neither
knoweth him: but ye know him for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in
you. I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you." John 14:16-18.

In verse twenty-six he tells us the Comforter is the Holy Ghost. In the
second chapter of Acts we have the account of the Holy Spirit's coming. If
you will again look over the quotation from John 14:16-18 you will notice
he uses "Comforter" and "I" interchangeably. He will give you another
Comforter. "I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you." The
Holy Spirit's coming on Pentecost was Christ in another personage. Christ
in the Spirit has now come to dwell in the midst of his people, and to be
a light in them. Jesus was here in the body on a mission of mercy. He
tasted death for every man. He comes again in the Spirit to "reprove the
world of righteousness, of sin, and of judgment." In Heb. 10:5 Jesus says,
"A body hast thou prepared me." A body in which to offer a sacrifice for
the sins of the world. He now has a body in which he dwells in the Spirit.
Christians are "a holy temple in the Lord, in whom they are builded
together for a habitation of God through the Spirit." Thus God inhabits
his people, "dwells in them, and walks in them." The church of God is now
the body of Christ. He is the "head over all things to the church, which
is his body." Eph. 1:22, 23; see also Col. 1:18.

In speaking of saints in 1 Cor. 12:27 the apostle says, "Now ye are the
body of Christ and members in particular." He was the light of the world
in his incarnation, and now the church, his body, is the light of the
world. Incarnate he wa