It is a "full and glad surrender." "And

all this hath worked that one and the selfsame SPIRIT."

Our enquiries and meditations on the Person and the Work of the Holy Spirit here draw to a close. It is needless to spend words in owning how fragmentary, how imperfect, even on a very modest standard, the attempt has been. But I can hope and can pray that my reader may have gained here and there a suggestion, perhaps about some forgotten side of a familiar truth, and that he may have felt some stimulus to an ever-deepening search into the divine Word for more and yet more of the treasures of the truth of the Holy Spirit.

And may writer and reader both be found, through His great grace, among the happy ones who, living by the Spirit, walk by the Spirit, and by the Spirit draw continually out of the fulness of Jesus Christ, to whom by the Spirit they are conjoined in an unspeakable union.

More than thirty years ago that great man, great thinker and preacher, and great saint,

Adolphe Monod, lay on his sorely suffering and comparatively early deathbed at Paris. Led in his youth through experiences of complicated doubt and profound melancholy to the foot of the atoning Cross of a divine and personal Redeemer, and to the solemn and glad experiences of the work of the Spirit in the believer's life, and to a holy submission and repose before the whole revealed truth of our salvation by grace, he had spent his years and used all his great gifts of intellect and of heart"in the defence and confirmation of the Gospel," with the one longing, loving desire to bring others into the peace and certainty he had found, and to build them up in it.1 Now he was dying, at the age of fifty-four. His beloved ministry was over, and he was looking back on work and onward into the heavenly rest from his Pisgah-top of suffering. One day, in the midst of much physical distress, a few words escaped him, his brief

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1 An impressive word-portrait of M. Monod is given in M. Guizot's Méditations sur l'État actuel de la Réligion Chrétienne (1866), pp. 170-184.

? Vie, p. 470; Life and Letters (English translation), p. 244.

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summary of a Christian's peace, strength, aim, and all. I close by repeating them, and invite my reader with me to make them the motto not only of our death hereafter but of our life this day:

"All in Christ; by the Holy Spirit; for the Glory of God. All else is nothing."

"Du Athem aus der ew'gen Stille, Durchwehe sanft der Seelen Grund; Füll' mich mit aller Gottesfülle,

Und da wo Sünd' und Gräuel stund, Lass Glaube, Lieb', und Ehrfurcht grünen, Im Geist and Wahrheit Gott zu dienen.

"O Geist, O Strom, der uns vom Sohne
Eröffnet, und krystallenrein

Aus Gottes und des Lammes Throne
Nun quilt in stille Herzen ein,
Ich öffne meinen Mund und sinke
Hin zu der Quelle, das ich trinke."

TERSTEEGEN, 1697-1769.

INDEX OF SUBJECTS AND NAMES.