The Newtown bee., 1901-05-31

all things.
 It cannot be hard to understand that the Spirit of God stands in the most vital relations to all knowledge, wisdom and goodness. The Spirit of
 Truth is the very essence of truth in all its forms, and in all it's ap- plication to our spiritual life. "He shall teach you all things and bring to your re emembrance all that I said unto
 you."
 The Spirit not only teaches us con- corning the things of eternal life; not only inspires us with new divine ideals of life; not only helps us by strength
 in the inner man, to overcome evil
 with good; not only aids us as to right
 conduct and the forming of true char
 acter; but it quickens and imparts
 power to all our faculties, and helps
 us to make the highest spiritual use of all our possessions, knowledge and at- l tainmentS.
 WE ARE APT TO ASSUME that as a matter of course we have ex-
 hausted old familiar truths, and need therefore not expect to get any more
 out of them, when as matter of fact
 they still contain unfathomed depths
 of interest, and are full of hidden
 power. And all we need, perhaps, is
 that the Spirit of Truth should take
 of these things and show them to us
 in new lights, and in other relations,
 and we shall then know their secret,
 mighty power to bless.
 It is remarkable that all the great characters of the Bible were filled with
 the Spirit of God. The men and
 woman who were conspicuous for their
 wisdom and right judgement in all
 things were moved and directed by
 the Spirit. Joseph, Moses, Joshua,
 Samuel, Elijah, Daniel and all the
 worthies of Holy Writ were men of courage, wisdom and skill in the serv-
 ice of God because of the power of the Spirit that was in them.
 And so the spiritual life and charac-
 
 with the outpouring of the Holy Ghost
 with it's various gifts and graces for
 the edifying and perfecting of all who | believe.
 It was the energy of the Spirit that empowered the Apostles to go forth, as at this time, with their lives in their hands, to convert the world to Christ. And even so it is by the same spirit that the Lord of life is ever present in the midst of His people, to lead and keep them in the fellowship of His love.
 And, when we come to the Bishop for the laying on of hands in confrma- tiOn, the Church puts into his mouth the sum of all these thoughts and more, in the words of that wonderful prayer: Strengthen them, we beseech thee, o Lord, with the Holy Ghost, the Comforter and daily increase in them thy manifold gifts of grace: the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and ghostly strength, the spirit of knowledge and l true godliness; and fill them, o Lord, with the spirit of thy holy fear, now and forever"
 "Peace leave with you; my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful"
 The highest attainment in spiritual things that we can expect to make here, in the flesh, is "the peace of God which passeth all understanding, which is divinely adapted to "keep our hearts and minds in the knowledge and love of God, and of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord." The great end of the Gospel is to reconcile us to all the ; and relations of, this present $ world in the hope of the glorious life ( % come. We can best understand ( ourselves, and most easily and effect I lally endure the hard things of our t; experiences here, when we rest assur- d in the promise of the great reward 2 which is in store for us in the end. 4
 There can be nothing more comfort S ng to the human heart than the con- c ascension and perfect adaptation of he divine love to our mortal weakness | nd fearfulneSs of heart. Our Father c