"We can only have an absolute harmony of opinion as to the Bible when there are no more new truths to be derived from it, or new questions raised concerning it, when its interpretation is perfected, and research regarding it completed. That will not be, I believe, before the day of doom.”—Robert Flint, D.D., LL.D. "The words of the Christ have not their ground in an external authority. The signature of their authority is not in the instrument in which they appear, but their verification is to the Spirit. Their justification is to the conscience and the consciousness of men."-ELISHa Mulford, LL.D. "He is Thy best servant who looks not so much to hear that from Thee which himself wills, as rather to will that which from Thee he hears."-ST. AUGUSTINE. THE HOLY SPIRIT, THE FUNDAMENTAL DOCTRINE OF CHRIS TIANITY. I. THE HOLY SPIRIT THE FUNDAMENTAL DOC TRINE. "I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now. Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth.”—John xvi. 12, 13. ST. PAUL says that when he was a child he thought as a child, but when he became a man he put away childish things. Experience brings wisdom. The proportions of things change with our years. What once was all-important becomes unimportant; what was once scarcely noticed becomes the truth that regulates thinking. I have come to believe that the most fundamental and practical of all the doctrines of Christianity, for our time and for all centuries since the Apostles, is the doctrine of the Holy Spirit. This conviction, which to some may seem exaggerated, and to others unfounded, is |