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 him, and We will come unto him and make Our abode with him." For all the pains their Lord had taken to make them understand that He was but the manifestation of the Father's will in their human degree of life, they could not realize that when He had laid down the human form taken from the mother Mary, He would thereafter be with them and all who would love Him—not in limited bodily form, but as the Father's will in the Divinely human form of thought and feeling, which is the Word in essence and which He had revealed to them in the flesh.

This Divine Human presence manifesting itself by the Holy Spirit, calling all things to our remembrance whatsoever He has said unto us in all the Scriptures, the Church has been slow to apprehend. Only in love can it be apprehended. An age must pass of faulty apprehension in which the love of the many will wax cold. But John should endure to the end. There should yet be gleanings of the olive, a few berries in the topmost boughs of the Church, some of the love represented by John, when the time should be fulfilled for the new recognition of their Lord in His Word.