The Holy Spirit

                                                                                     A. J. GORDON

  Is there no peril that by this constant unseating of the Spirit that He may be finally driven from His sanctuary, repeating as He retires the solemn lament of the Saviour: "Behold, your house is left unto you desolate?" There can be no question that He may, and sometimes does, finally withdraw from His temple.  Do we not know of churches once fervently evangelical which are now lying under the doom of desertion by the Spirit?  The writer thinks, with all charity, that he has seen such churches upon which the Lord's sentence has gone forth, "Thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead." The body may still remain indeed, the creeds and " Confessions " may continue intact, and the forms of worship may even be multiplied and vastly "enriched " as the years go on.  But these outward forms are only memorials of a departed glory, like the death-mask which preserves the mold of features which have long since crumbled to dust. 

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