produced between them by the divine will a third being, the Spirit of love, the Holy Ghost. For there is this difference between the operations of the human mind and the divine, that the image and the love of an object produced by the intellect and will of the former are as unsubstantial and transitory as a mirrored reflection or a passing emotion, but not so in the latter, for whatever falls within the radius of the Divinity, though it be in a measure distinct from God, must still be substantially God HimseK. God, the Son, therefore, is the intelligence of the Father, by whom and in whom, as in an exemplar, the Father contemplates His own infinite perfections and their numberless imitations in the universe of creatures, and God the Holy Ghost is the love that results from this contemplation, and reaching out clasps the entire realm of beings to the bosom of their Creator.
Brethren, it was precisely because the Holy Ghost proceeds from the Father and the Son and by them is sent upon Christ's followers that that controversy arose which called in question His divinity, and for centuries rent in twain the Christian Church. For, argued the Arians, as the person sent, such as a servant or soldier, is always inferior to the sender, his master or commander, so the Holy Ghost, though He be first of creatures, is still but a creature and in no sense equal to the Father and the Son. Nevertheless, Brethren, the Scriptures emphatically assert that the Holy Ghost is God. Only God is everywhere, and " whither," says the Psalmist,
