of whom He had cast seven devils, and others whose names we may yet know in that home which for us and them He is gone to prepare. Delightful will it be there to rehearse the deeds, the wondrous, tender deeds of solace and salvation, strewn so plentifully along the earthly pathway of our incarnate Lord. It is by the truth the Holy Ghost comforts; by the truth He furnishes His dwelling in the believing soul with peace and rest, with assurance and joy, with holiness and hope. He reveals the blood, and we have peace; He reveals the blood as having been taken into the holiest for us, and we have boldness to enter; He reveals the promise of the coming of the Lord, of resurrection and life, and we have a hope full of glory.

Many other things does the Spirit of God who is in us. He leads us—" As many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God;" He helps us " The Spirit also helpeth our infirmities, for we know not what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit maketh intercession for us with groanings that cannot be uttered." Hence, it is He who leads us from sin and self into Christ; it is He who leads us into all the fulness there is for us in Christ. It is He who helps us in our walk with God-gives knowledge, fellowship, rest, peace. It is He who gives us to groan. We groan for God, for more and more of God Himself. We groan for Christ, for holiness, for heaven. We We groan against sin. We groan in our utter loathing of our own downfalls into sin, and loss of life, and power, and grace, in our fellowship and walk with God. Álas! what else is our life, some of but a us, 66 groan "? For who knows God as we might? or the Lord? or holiness? or love?-His own love-blessed ONE!

Oh! I am weary of my love,

That doth so little towards Thee move,

Yet do I constant, inly groan,

To know the depth of all Thine own.

That groan, sweet Spirit, is from Thee,
Nor self-begotten ere can be;

No natural heart, dear Lord, of mine,
Could long to lose itself in Thine.

We have thus seen the need there was for the promise of the Father. Let us again inquire as to the scene of His operations. Speaking generally, the Spirit is in the Church, which is Christ's body; but more particularly, He is in every believer, whether that believer knows it or not. Jesus said, "He shall be in you;" that is, God the Holy Ghost shall be in you-in you as an actual living presence, which He has been for the last eighteen centuries, dwelling in all the redeemed members which compose the body, of which the Lord Jesus is the Head. Oh! let us think of this, and say, what manner of persons ought we to be, since the Holy Spirit of God has indeed taken up His abode in us. What a wonderful indwelling! and yet how little valued or even thought of. Many, as we have said, are praying that the Holy Ghost may come down. Why, beloved, He has come down; and ever since Pentecost He has been in the Church, quickening, purifying and comforting, or, alas, hindered and grieved.

Know ye not that your bodies are the temples of the Holy Ghost ?" Oh! did the saints but really know it, really believe it—what a practical Christianity it would give. Could I do a disgraceful act, having within me the Spirit of God? Could I defile the temple of God? Ah! beloved, we have spoken of being one with Jesus-of our association with Jesus-and that is a wondrous truth; but I now speak of a truth scarcely less wondrous-namely, that we are dwelt in by the Holy Spirit of God. Oh, to have Him in us an ungrieved Spirit! For how indulge in evil? how take pleasure in sin? or how yield to pride or levity? Beloved, "Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption." Ah, how

do you know but that your present darkness of soul comes of the fact, that you have been grieving the Holy Ghost. Is it not for a grief that the Holy Ghost has been sent by Jesus as a substitute for Himself, and that some of you are living without even knowing that He is in you-without even acknowledging His presence and power? What a loss do such suffer! For it is "where the Spirit of the Lord is," (not where He is in fact, for He dwells in every believer, but where He is in felt presence,) "there is liberty"-liberty of soul, liberty of entrance before God, liberty of utterance, liberty in the affections, liberty in prayer, liberty in labour-" where the Spirit of the Lord is"-dwells, and works unhindered"there is liberty."

But there is one thing more, said Jesus. "He will abide with you FOR EVER"-not subject to an end or departure. The present age is one of separation from the Lord, and is to have an end, at which end, when the Lord comes, which may be soon, the saints are to be taken away, to be for ever with Him. Meanwhile, the Spirit is with them here, and will remain here, until, the desert past, they are brought, by Him, into the presence of their descended Lord.

But some one may say, Will there be no Holy Ghost in the millennium? Was there no Holy Ghost in the olden time; that is, before this time of indwelling ? Surely yes. He was with Noah, Enoch, Moses, and David. 66 Holy men of old spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost."

The Holy Ghost will be with the Jews and the converted nations in the millennium as He was in the old dispensation, only, doubtless, much more constantly and mightily, also universally. There is no difficulty to the mind that understands dispensational truth. The Holy Ghost now dwells in the Church here on earth. He abides to effect good and to hinder

evil. Hence this evil age cannot head up into its greatest manifestation whilst He is here! The man of sin cannot head up in his iniquity while the Holy Ghost is here, who, in the Church, acts as salt and as light-as salt, purifying and keeping alive, and as light, revealing and making manifest. While the Church is on earth the Holy Ghost abides in it, but when the Church, as in 1 Thess. iv., is caught up, then "He that now letteth will be taken out of the way, and then shall that wicked be revealed," and destroyed. But after his revelation and destruction, the world, as in Zech. xiv., will have its millennium; meanwhile, its condition will be one of deepening evil, as described in Matt. xxiv. But I need not enlarge. I have given you what I have been feeling deeply, that many believers are living in practical ignorance of this truth, so that in this sense of it they might say, "We have not so much as heard whether there be any Holy Ghost;" and I feel it is because the Spirit is so little known by us that there is so little life or power in us, and that so many are going on from day to day in anxiety, perplexity, and doubt, waiting-yes, waiting-for the Spirit to come down!

And now, mark, the Holy Ghost came not to the world. He came to the Disciples, to the Church; and when He came, they went forth preaching the Gospel to the world in the power of the Spirit; and every soul that believed was saved. The disciples never told the people they must wait for the Spirit; albeit, on believing, He did come into their dark, dead souls. Their cry was, "BELIEVE." Not that I mean to say a soul is ever converted until quickened by the Spirit. No; the first act in the salvation of a sinner is of and by God. But as to our duty to the sinner himself, this is the Gospel "He that believeth, hath everlasting life"-which duty we have seen in these days to be so wondrously blessed. Wherever the grand truth is preached-salvation on believing there souls are saved.

This was the Gospel Peter preached at Pentecost when three thousand souls were converted. He said"This Jesus, whom ye have taken and, by wicked hands, have crucified and slain, hath God raised up to give remission of sins; and [believing] they were pricked to the heart, and as many as heard the word believed, and there were added to the Church about three thousand souls."

If the anxious sinner wants to know what is there for him to do, we tell him there are three things for him to do. First, let him own that his sins were laid on Jesus; second, let him own that they were atoned for and expiated on the cross; and, thirdly, let him own (God so declaring it) that they were completely put away. There is no peace, no rest, no assurance, until the sinner believes that; and he may believe it all now. I can never get peace by looking in here. Oh, the nest of evil, life more and more discloses to be there; but I look at the cross, and there seeing sin, not merely borne but put away, I have peace. If a soul feels a longing and yearning for the Spirit, and prays for the Spirit, that soul is not a dead soul, but a divinely quickened soul; and God will give the desire of the heart; but the first duty of an enemy whose life has been forfeited, and to whom salvation is freely offered, is not so much to weep, or promise, or ask even, but to receive.

And now, beloved, how practical are all these truths. If the Holy Ghost be another Comforter, is He so to you? If a Sanctifier, is He such to you? His work, on entering His temple, is to subdue it-that is, to keep under the evils which are found in us. Hence, if we walk in the Spirit, we shall mortify the deeds of the body in proportion as this is done, is our growth in a personal holiness, a practical sanctification, which however, because of the flesh in us, is never complete. Our only completeness is in Christ, who of God is made