Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II. THE HOLY SPIRIT. The disciples at Ephesus believed in Christ, but " had not so much as heard whether there be any Holy Ghost"; and there are many in the Church to-day who know little, if anything, of the Holy Spirit. We, who are baptized into the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, cannot know too much of, nor too well, the persons and offices of the divine Trinity, in their being and character, and in their relations to ourselves. And, although it is true that less is said in the Bible of the Holy Spirit than of the other persons of the Godhead, for He speaks not of Himself, yet as much may be known of Him. He it is who reveals the Father and the Son, and thereby also reveals Himself, while His works clearly and continually manifest Him. There is no more interesting, or profitable, or practical knowledge than that which concerns the person and character and work of the Holy Spirit. If there be any person in the universe whom we need to know, with whom we ought to be well 18 THE SPIRIT A PERSON. and personally acquainted, to whom we want to be devotedly attached, and with whom we want to be in constant communion, that person is the Holy Spirit. In order to do this we must first realize that He is a Person. Christ manifested God in the flesh so that the divine personality might be known, through the flesh, as that of any other person is known. He said: " Ye believe in God, believe also in me "; " I and my Father are one "; and " He that hath seen me hath seen the Father." Christ is now none the less a person because ascended and glorified. Nor is the Holy Spirit any the less a person because a spirit. Man is body, soul, and spirit, but the body and soul are not the person. When the body perishes the person still lives. ...