December 10
Companions of the Way (Morning)If I go not away, the Comforter will not come to you.
SAINT-WORSHIP is a far sadder thing than hero-worship, inasmuch as the saint-worshipper's ideal is so much higher than the hero-worshipper's. "Call no man your father upon earth" has been going in my ears these last days. "Call no man your Master or your Lord." The Speaker knew how very hard it was not to do that; so He said it over to us these three times. He said something harder and more wonderful still—to sense harder, more wonderful to faith. "It is expedient for you that I, even I, go away."
Yes, dear Absenter of Thyself, it is true! For what follows?
I am not a theologian, nor the son of a theologian, but I am beginning to be able to adore the Spirit equally with the Father and the Son. It is a wonderful and a blessed thing to do that. We must not speak much of it; but we must try to do it, and do it more.
ROBERT BARBOUR
THE WORK OF THE SPIRIT
Master, what of the Night?
Child, Night is not at all.