lect confused.

In addition to the teaching of God's Word, the Holy Spirit in His
gracious work in the soul declares His own presence. Through His
agency we are "born again," and through His indwelling we possess
superhuman power. Science, falsely so called, when arrayed against the
existence and presence of the Spirit of God with His people, only
exposes its own folly to the contempt of those who have become "new
creatures in Christ Jesus." The Holy Spirit who inspired prophets, and
qualified apostles, continues to animate, guide and comfort all true
believers. To the actual Christian, the personality of the Holy Spirit
is more real than any theory science has to offer, for so-called
science is but calculation based on human observation, and is
constantly changing its inferences. But the existence of the Holy
Spirit is to the child of God a matter of Scripture revelation and of
actual experience.

Some skeptics assert that there is no other vital energy in the world
but physical force, while contrary to their assertions, thousands and
tens of thousands who can not possibly be deceived have been quickened
into spiritual life by a power neither physical or mental. Men who
were dead in sins--drunkards who lost their will, blasphemers who lost
their purity, libertines sunk in beastliness, infidels who published
their shame to the world, have in numberless instances become the
subjects of the Spirit's power, and are now walking in the true
nobility of Christian manhood, separated by an infinite distance from
their former life. Let others reject, if they will, at their own
peril, this imperishable truth. I believe, and am growing more into
this belief, that divine, miraculous creative power resides in the
Holy Ghost. Above and beyond all natural law, yet in harmony with it,
creation, providence, the Divine government, and the upbuilding of the
Church of God are presided over by the Spirit of God. His ministration
is the ministration of life more glorious than the ministration of
law, (2 Cor. iii, 6-10). And like the Eternal Son, the Eternal Spirit
having life in Himself, is working out all things after the counsel of
His own will, and for the everlasting glory of the Triune Godhead.

The Holy Spirit has all the qualities belonging to a person; the power
to understand, to will, to do, to call, to feel, to love. This can not
be said of a mere influence. He possesses attributes and qualities
which can only be ascribed to a p