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Excerpt from The Holy Spirit and the Prayer Book: The Trinity Season Being Viewed as a Long Whitsuntide
The question which suggests itself in connection with that chapter and to which every one is most urgently invited to give serious consideration, is not whether or no we are all making enough in the Amer ican Church to - day, - indeed in the Anglican Church the Hohfipizit which Dr. Arthur Cleveland Downer says has been strangely neglected by the Church throughout her history, -making enough' of the Blessed Spirit's part in the entire work of redemption from the moment of sin's entrance into the world on till the Second Advent of our Lord; of His essential and vital relation to the life of the individual Christian and the Church's life, to the unity of the Church, and its extension to the uttermost part of the earth. We shall all as one man reply, We are not: we speak, and especially think and act, - at least the greater number do, - as though we had scarcely heard whether there be a Holy Ghost. If we do believe, and at times re?ect upon, the first words of the third section of the Nicene Creed, - think of the Third Person as a person, and the Lord, and Giver of all life, and worship and glorify Him as we worship the Father and our Blessed Saviour Himself, - in what practical relationship to ourselves and to the Church corporately do we con template Him, and for what cause worship and glorify Him?
For example; we read in Romans 5 5, that Hope maketh not ashamed because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us; believe the assertion, in Gal. 5 22, that The fruit of the Spirit is love; but what of the Spirit's own love for us? Do we ever pray in the feeling of a prayer quoted by G. F. Holden from the Short Office of the Holy Ghost, Blessed Spirit, shed Thy purest light within us, delighting us with Thy love? More than a century ago an English devo tional writer, Ambrose Serle, expressed himself thus.
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