n flame on each meekly-bowed head.

The Lord said, "He shall remain with you to the end of the age." The
age is not closed, therefore He must be with us here and now. There
can be no waning of His grace or power. The pot of oil is in the
Church, only she has ceased to bring her empty vessels. The mine is
beneath our feet, but we do not work it as of yore. The electric
current is vibrating around, but we have lost the art of switching
ourselves on to its flow. It is not necessary then for us to pray the
Father that He should give the Holy Paraclete in the sense in which He
bestowed Him on the Day of Pentecost in answer to the request of our
Lord. That prayer has been answered: the Paraclete is here; but we
need to have the eyes of our heart opened to perceive, and the hand of
our faith strengthened that we may receive, Him.

The work of the Holy Spirit in and through us is conditioned by certain
great laws, which call for our definite and accurate obedience. Not on
emotion, nor on hysteric appeals, nor on excitement, but on obedience,
does the power of God's Spirit pass into human hearts and lives.
Therefore, let us walk in the Paracletism of the Paraclete, continually
in the current of His gracious influences, which will bear us on their
bosom ever nearer to our Lord. Oh to glorify Him; to know and love
Him; to become passionately eager that all hearts should enthrone Him
regardless of the personal cost it may involve! Glory be to the
Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost; as it was in the
beginning, is now, and shall be forevermore. Amen.

X

The Three Dispensations

"The Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth
Him not, neither knoweth Him: but ye know Him; for He dwelleth with
you, and shall be in you."--JOHN xiv. 17.

They are lofty themes which we have been discussing in the foregoing
pages; and just because they touch the highest matters of the spiritual
life, they involve us in profound responsibility. It was because
Capernaum had been exalted to heaven in privilege, that she could be
cast down to hell. Of those to whom much is given, much is required.
Better not to have known these truths of the inner life, if we are
content to know them only by an intellectual apprehension, and make no
effort to incorporate them into the texture of our character. Few
things harden more certainly than to delight in the presentation of the
mysteries of the kingdom, with