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These facts, and they are remarkable facts, 

 show that personal contact with Christ, and 

 direct earthly and personal knowledge of the 

 mind and will of Christ, were not the only sources 

 of, nor the only forces forming, the Apostolic 

 conception of the Church from the missionary 

 standpoint. The additional elements were the 

 Person, the teaching, the force, of the &quot;Illumina- The 

 tor&quot; of Whom the Saviour said: &quot;I will pray the 

 Father, and He shall give you another Comforter, 

 that He may be with you for ever, even the 

 Spirit of truth.&quot; &quot;He shall glorify Me: for He 

 shall take of Mine, and shall declare it unto you.&quot; 

 This, be it remembered, is the self -same Spirit, 

 who divideth to each one, individually, &quot;even as 

 He will.&quot; 



We thus se e that, while general divisions into use of Gen- 

 sources and spheres are useful for purposes of in- eral Divi81on * 

 vestigation, they are only general divisions, and 

 to some extent artificial. The Spirit like the 

 wind, &quot;bloweth where it listeth, and thou 

 hearest the voice thereof, but knowest not whence 

 it cometh, and whither it goeth.&quot; We are deal 

 ing, in other words, with principles of life, not 

 with methods of mechanics. 



From the Gospels we must read forward 

 through Acts and Epistles into Revelation; from 

 Revelation we must pass backward through 

 Epistles and Acts to the Gospels. It is the same 

 Lord who speaketh in Gospels, Acts, Epistles, or 

 Revelation; and it is the same Spirit who inter 

 prets, energise th, and ordereth, in Gospels the 



