The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal Vol. 1. No 6. June, 1880. CONTENTS The Work of the Holy Spirit. What Is It? What Are Its Relations And Uses? Credibility Of The Evidence Of The Resurrection Of Christ. “Broad-Gauge Religion.”—Shall The Conflict Cease? Papal Authority In The Bygone.—The Infidel’s Amusing Attitude. “Even Now Are There Many Anti-Christs.” What Is To Be The Religion Of The Future. Bill Of Indictments Against Protestants. A Summary Of Truth. Ethan Allen, The Infidel, And His Daughter. Truth Is Immortal. THE WORK OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. WHAT IS IT? WHAT ARE ITS RELATIONS AND USES? I know of no religious people who intentionally deny his agency in creation, providence or redemption. But men differ widely in their opinions concerning it and its relations and uses. Many honest-hearted persons have been educated in the theory of an immediate and direct operation of the Spirit upon the hearts of sinners in order to their conversion, which they often call the baptism of the Holy Spirit. On this account thousands of prayers are offered up continually to induce the Lord to pour the Spirit upon sinners and convert and save them. And happy meetings are attributed to wonderful outpourings of the Spirit. What is his work? It is said that he moved upon the face of the great deep, and that God said, Let there be light, and there was light. This operation upon physical nature gave to our planet cosmic light, and the darkness, which had shut out the light of the heavenly bodies through the long lapse of time extending back from Moses’ first day to the beginning in which creation took place, was removed. Activity having begun in matter, periods of light and darkness alternate until the conditions of our planet are so changed that the light of the heavenly bodies becomes the light of this world; and the great work of the Spirit having accomplished its purposes, is classified with the extraordinary efforts of God in bringing into existence this beautiful planetary system of ours. It is, consequently, a work of the past. But the work of the Spirit is not over.