Ghost.

HIS PERSONALITY.

I was a Christian a long time before I found out that the Holy Ghost
was a person. Now this is something a great many don't seem to
understand, but if you will just take up the Bible and see what Christ
had to say about the Holy Spirit, you will find that He always spoke
of Him as a person--never spoke of Him as an influence. Some people
have an idea that the Holy Spirit is an attribute of God, just like
mercy--just an influence coming from God. But we find in the
fourteenth chapter of John, sixteenth verse, these words: "And I will
pray the Father, and He shall give you another Comforter that He may
abide with you forever." That _He_ may abide with you forever. And,
again, in the same chapter, seventeenth verse: "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." Again, in the twenty-sixth verse of the same
chapter: "But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father
will send in my name, He shall teach you all things, and bring all
things to your remembrance whatsoever I have said unto you."

Observe the pronouns "He" and "Him." I want to call attention to this
fact that whenever Christ spoke of the Holy Ghost He spoke of Him as a
person, not a mere influence; and if we want to honor the Holy Ghost,
let us bear in mind that He is one of the Trinity, a personality of
the Godhead.

THE RESERVOIR OF LOVE.

We read that the fruit of the Spirit is love. God is love, Christ is
love, and we should not be surprised to read about the love of the
Spirit. What a blessed attribute is this. May I call it the dome of
the temple of the graces. Better still, it is the crown of crowns worn
by the Triune God. Human love is a natural emotion which flows forth
towards the object of our affections. But Divine love is as high above
human love as the heaven is above the earth. The natural man is of the
earth, earthy, and however pure his love may be, it is weak and
imperfect at best. But the love of God is perfect and entire, wanting
nothing. It is as a mighty ocean in its greatness, dwelling with and
flowing from the Eternal Spirit.

In Romans v, 5, we read: "And hope maketh not ashamed, because the
love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is
given to us." Now if we are co-workers with God, there is one thing we
must possess, and that is love. A man