THE FAMILY ALTAR

June 1.

"But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you

from the Father, even the Spirit of Truth, which proceedeth from

the Father, He shall testify of Me." John 15:26.

"Truth crushed to earth shall rise again: The eternal years

of God are hers." That is preeminently the case with the saving

truth of Christ's Gospel. Ever since the apostles began to preach

it from the first day of Pentecost, it has met with the fiercest

opposition and even bloody persecution. But all attacks made upon

it by foes from without or heretics within the Church have not

succeeded in destroying it. Victoriously has it withstood all the

assaults of twenty hostile centuries, and it still shines on the world

to-day in all its pristine power and beauty. Why? Because the

Spirit that testifies it to the hearts of men is God's own Spirit

of Truth. As indestructible as is God Himself, so indestructible

is the saving Gospel of Christ witnessed by the Holy Spirit. We

need not fear for it. Heaven and earth shall pass away, but the

Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ shall never pass away. He is

with it unto the end of the world. But the great question for

us is: Has the Holy Spirit come into our hearts with His saving

Gospel and made us firm believers in Christ as our personal Savior?

Everything depends for us on that question : our pardon with God,

our peace of conscience, our eternal life and happiness. We can

all find the saving truth in Christ, now that the ascended Savior

has sent the Holy Spirit into the world with the Gospel. All we

need to do is to open our ears and hearts to it, and the Holy Spirit

will begin, and continue, and finish His enlightening, sanctifying,

and saving work in us also, make and keep us believing disciples

of Christ, children of God, heirs of eternal life.