BOOK III.

THE HOLY SPIRIT.

SECTION I.

(p. 231.)

WHITSUNDAY, OR THE DESCENT OF THE SPIRIT

SECTION II.
(p. 235.)

THE SCRIPTURES, THE INSPIRED WORD.

SECTION III.
p. 247.)

DIVINE INFLUENCES AND AIDS DESCRIBED,

SOUGHT, AND CELEBRATED.

SECTION IV.

(p. 268)

"THE FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT."

SECTION I.

THE DESCENT OF THE SPIRIT.

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Whitsunday.

KEBLE.

1 WHEN God, of old, came down from heaven,
In power and wrath he came;
Before his feet the clouds were riven,
Half darkness and half flame.

2 But when he came the second time,
He came in power and love;
Softer than gale at morning prime,
Hovered his holy Dove.

3 The fires that rushed on Sinai down
In sudden torrents dread,

Now gently light, a glorious crown,
On every sainted head.

4 Like arrows went those lightnings forth,
Winged with the sinner's doom;
But these like tongues, o'er all the earth
Proclaiming life to come.

5 And as on Israel's awe-struck ear
The voice, exceeding loud,

The trump, that angels quake to hear,
Thrilled from the deep, dark cloud,—

6 So, when the Spirit of our God
Came down his flock to find,

A voice from heaven was heard abroad,
A rushing, mighty wind.

7 Nor doth the outward ear alone
At that high warning start;
Conscience gives back the appalling tone;
"Tis echoed in the heart.

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BISHOP HEBER.

Whitsunday.

1 SPIRIT of truth, on this thy day
To thee for help we cry,

To guide us through the dreary way
Of dark mortality.

2 We ask not, Lord, thy cloven flame,
Or tongues of various tone,
But long thy praises to proclaim
With fervor in our own.

3 We mourn not that prophetic skill
Is found on earth no more;
Enough for us to trace thy will
In Scripture's sacred lore.

4 We neither have nor seek the power
Ill demons to control;

But thou, in dark temptation's hour,
Shalt chase them from the soul.

5 No heavenly harpings soothe our ear,
No mystic dreams we share;
Yet hope to feel thy comfort near,
And bless thee in our prayer.