Again, when the messengers of Cornelius, the Roman centurion,
were seeking Peter, "the Spirit said unto him, Behold, three men
seek thee. Arise, therefore, and get thee down, and go with them,
doubting nothing: for I have sent them" (Acts x. 19, 20).

These are but a few of the passages of Scripture that might be
quoted to establish the fact of His personality--His power to
think, to will, to act, to speak; and if His personality is not
made plain in these Scriptures, then it is impossible for human
language to make it so.

Indeed, I am persuaded that if an intelligent heathen, who had
never seen the Bible, should for the first time read the four
Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles, he would say that the
personality of the Holy Spirit is as clearly revealed in the Acts
as is the personality of Jesus Christ in the Gospels. In truth,
the Acts of the Apostles are in a large measure the acts of the
Holy Spirit, and the disciples were not more certainly under the
immediate direction of Jesus during the three years of His
earthly ministry than they were under the direct leadership of
the Spirit after Pentecost.

But, while there are those that admit His personality, yet in
their loyalty to the Divine Unity they deny the Trinity, and
maintain that the Holy Spirit is only the Father manifesting
Himself as Spirit, without any distinction in personality. But
this view cannot be harmonised with certain Scriptures. While the
Bible and reason plainly declare that there is but one God, yet
the Scriptures as clearly reveal that there are three Persons in