Excerpt from Veni Creator: Thoughts on the Person and Work of the Holy Spirit of Promise
No prefatory introduction to the Christian reader. In itself eternally and divinely im portant, it has become in the mercy Of God a special subject of our own time. Far and wide in the Christian Church, amidst too many phenomena of peril and perplexity, we hail as a phenomenon Of good and glorious omen an ever - deepening attention to the divine promises which gather round the truth of the Holy Ghost. More and ever more it is re cognized by those who name the Name of the son that, alike for individual blessing and for the work and witness of the Community, we depend with an absolute need upon the pre sence and power of the spirit.of whom they speak to stir up His saints so always to lay hold on that He evermore may lay hold on them, and graciously fill them.