higher laws than we can grasp, so in like manner the life that is
derived from it is a life which is its own law. The Christian
conscience, touched by the Spirit of God, owes allegiance to no
regulations or external commandments laid down by man. The Christian
conscience, enlightened by the Spirit of God, at its peril will take
its beliefs from any other than from that Divine Spirit. All
authority over conduct, all authority over belief is burnt up and
disappears in the presence of the grand democracy of the true
Christian principle: 'Ye are all the children of God by faith in
Jesus Christ'; and every one of you possesses the Spirit which
teaches, the Spirit which inspires, the Spirit which enlightens, the
Spirit which is the guide to all truth. So 'the wind bloweth where it
listeth,' and the voice of that Divine Quickener is,

'Myself shall to My darling be
Both law and impulse.'

Under the impulse derived from the Divine Spirit, the human spirit
'listeth' what is right, and is bound to follow the promptings of its
highest desires. Those men only are free as the air we breathe, who
are vitalised by the Spirit of the Lord, for 'where the Spirit of the
Lord is, there,' and there alone, 'is liberty.'

In this symbol there lies not only the thought of a life derived,
kindred with the life bestowed, and free like the life which is
given, but there lies also the idea of power. The wind which filled
the house was not only mighty but 'borne onward'--fitting type of the
strong impulse by which in olden times 'holy men spake as they were
"borne onward"' (the word is the same) 'by the Holy Ghost.' There are
diversities of operations, but it is the same breath of God, which