"The son of God I also am or was; And if I was, I am; relation stands; All men are sons of God." [2] Andrew Jukes, "The New Man," p. 53. {127} VII THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE SPIRIT {128} "The Holy Ghost from the day of Pentecost has occupied an entirely new position. The whole administration of the affairs of the Church of Christ has since that day devolved upon him. . . That day was the installation of the Holy Spirit as the Administrator of the Church in all things, which office he is to exercise according to circumstances at his discretion. It is as vested with such authority that he gives his name to this dispensation. . . There is but one other great event to which the Scripture directs us to look, and that is the second coming of the Lord. Till then we live in the Pentecostal age and under the rule of the Holy Ghost."--_James Elder Cumming, D. D._ {129} VII THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE SPIRIT The Holy Spirit, as coming down to fill the place of the ascended Redeemer, has rightly been called "The Vicar of Jesus Christ." To him the entire administration of the church has been committed until the Lord shall return in glory. His oversight extends to the slightest detail in the ordering of God's house, holding all in subjection to the will of the Head, and directing all in harmony with the divine plan. How clearly this comes out in that passage in the twelfth chapter of First Corinthians. As in striking a series of concentric circles there is always one fixed center holding each circumference in defined relation to itself, so here we see all the "diversities of administrations" determined by the one Administrator, the Holy Ghost. "Varieties of gifts, but _the same Spirit_"; "diversities of working, but _the same God_"; different words "according to _the same Spirit_"; "gifts of faith _in the same Spirit_"; "gifts of healing _in the one Spirit_"; miracles, prophecies, tongues, interpretations, "but all these worketh the _one and the same Spirit_, dividing to each one severally as he will." Whether the authority of this one ruling {130} sovereign Holy Ghost be recognized or ignored determines whether the church shall be an anarchy or a unity, a synagogue of lawless ones or the temple of the living God.