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Rh an adversary of the Holy Ghost, and the open-minded scholar a servant of the Holy Ghost. Knowledge is the power of appreciating Truth.

But the saint, the artist, the scholar, like the statesman or the general, represent only the highest examples of common human activity. The gifts are given to every man in his degree, and the Holy Spirit is in each one of us. Each of us has some desire for truth, for goodness, for beauty, and some appreciation of them, some instinct that they are the more excellent things which cannot be explained— because they are themselves the explanation. Each, of us in some degree has counsel, and in some measure puts forth power. Each of us is inspired.

Wisdom, understanding, and knowledge are our life, and the Spirit comes to give it us more abundantly. Counsel and might are the way in which we use this life, and godliness is the purpose for which we use it.

Are we saved? Yes, but the test is, Are we sensible? For the Holy Ghost is the Spirit of truth, and comes to guide us into all truth. He is come, not to make a few men infallible, but to make many wise.