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The Holy Spirit

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 9, 1903

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 80, No. 23.

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The Holy Spirit

By L. Gaussen

THE Spirit of God which moved upon the face of the waters was the Holy Spirit, whose existence is thus made known to us in the very beginning of the Bible. The Holy Spirit united with the Father and the Son to create the world, as he still unites with them to save each soul,—three glorious persons in one only God over all, blessed forever.
We are here taught that, although soon after, the plants, the animals, and man, with all the wonderful works of creation, sprang from the earth and the waters, yet it was not the earth and the waters which produced them by any virtue or power in them,—it was the creating Spirit who prepared them, and caused them to spring forth.
How beautiful and significant is the expression, “The Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.” The Hebrew word translated “moved” refers to the movement of the wings of a bird as it hovers over the nest.
What more beautiful emblem could be found in all nature to signify the life-giving creative power, than that of a bird hovering in silence over the lifeless egg from which a beautiful and graceful creature will soon burst forth—bright and gay as the peacock, pure as the swan, dazzling our eyes with its beauty, like the humming-bird, or charming our ears with sweet sounds, like the nightingale?—L. Gaussen.