o give a tantalising glimpse of what the world might be were
His power acting freely and continuously in it; but He had come to lead
us to apprehend the value of spiritual health and to trust Him for that.
And now that He had won men's trust and taught a few to love Him and to
value His Spirit, He removes Himself from their sight, and puts Himself
beyond the reach of those who merely sought for earthly benefits, that
He may through the Spirit come to all who understood how much greater
are spiritual benefits.

This crowning evidence of Christ's being with the Father and in Him the
disciples very soon enjoyed. On the day of Pentecost they found such
results following from their simple word as had never followed the word
of Christ. Thousands were renewed in heart and life. And from that day
to this these greater works have never ceased. And why? "Because I go to
the Father." And two reasons are given in these simple words. In the
first place, no such results could be accomplished by Christ because not
till He died was the Father's love fully known. It was the death and
resurrection of Christ that convinced men of the truth of what Christ
had proclaimed in His life and in His words regarding the Father. The
tender compunction which was stirred by His death gave a purchase to the
preacher of repentance which did not previously exist. It is Christ's
death and resurrection which have been the converting influence through
all the ages, and these Christ Himself could not preach. It was only
when He had gone to the Father that the greater works of His kingdom
could be done. Besides, it was only then that the greater works could be
understood and longed for. The fact is, that the death and resurrection
of Christ radically altered men's conceptions of the spiritual world,
and gave them a belief in a future life of the spirit such as they
previously had not and could not have. When men came experimentally into
contact with One who had passed through death, and who now entered the
unseen world full of plans and of vitality to execute them, a new sense
of the value of spiritual benefits was born within them. The fact of
being associated with a living Christ at God's right hand has refined
the spiritual conceptions of men, and has given a quality to holiness
which was not previously conspicuous. The spiritual world is now real
and near, and men no longer think of Christ as a worker of miracles on
physical nature, but as the King of the