“THE LOVE OF THE SPIRIT.”
By Peter H. Brooks
Praise the love of God “Our Father,”
Praise the love of God his Son;
Praise the love of God the Spirit,
“Showing” three such loves by one.
Halt not with a single lesson
Of his warm and wondrous love;
Nestle deeper and still deeper
In our hearts, most gentle Dove. Equal love from equal persons:
Father’s shines in all he gives;
Jesus shone in all he suffered,
And the third within us lives.
Shall we be “endued with power,”
As we pray in waiting hands?
Be not slow to learn the secret—
’Tis love’s heart that moves love’s hands. Let the soul from sin returning
Trust the Spirit’s love no less
Than the Father’s strongest yearning,
Or Christ’s blood and righteousness.
What his love “saith to the churches”
Greets us still if we will hear.
“Teaching,” “searching,” “filling,” “sealing,”
“Helping,” “guiding,” love so near! — Rev. Peter H. Brooks, in N. Y. Observer.