We are not denying the personality of the Spirit; nor His divinity; nor a meaning in the name. We pray for the Holy Ghost. We depend upon the Holy Ghost. And without this blessed Monitor, we are lost forever. His work is a work of the new birth, sanctification and calling into life. All this we delight in. We only say, It is God thus beautifully described. When He descended in cloven tongues, of course nobody believes that God was a fire. When He dwelt as a Shekinah, He was not the luminiferous ether. When He descended on Christ, He was only in the form of a dove.
And, so, I carry what is spectacular to a still higher degree. I hold the Holy Breath to be only God (II Corinthians 3:17). When I pray that it be poured out, I pray for God. When waiting for its coming, I wait for the Almighty: and for all-abounding reason; for, as we have carefully seen, gender and number and case have all been appealed to, and every opportunity has been given for each imaginable trace, and no footstep has been seen of a divided Deity.
John Miller
