"Abide in me."--_John 15:4._
THE Lord God the Holy Ghost goes on coming and being with us still.
He does not show us when He comes now, because it is more blessed to
believe than to see; but we know He does come to each of us when we are
baptised, to help us and make us good.
The reason He made the apostles able to speak all those languages, was
that they were to go and teach all the nations round the Gospel--that
is to say, the good news that Christ was come, and had died for the
sins of everyone, and risen again. They did go and teach; and all who
chose to believe and belong to Christ's kingdom were baptised.
Then each of us receives the Presence of the Holy Ghost, to help us to
be good, and to keep God's holy law, the Ten Commandments, that He gave
on Mount Sinai.
More and more of that good help of the Holy Spirit is given to everyone
who comes, as our Lord bade, to take and eat and drink of the bread and
wine, by which we partake of the Body and Blood of Christ; and He gives
all that we ask to us if we pray to Him. For we belong to those nations
that the apostles were commanded to teach and baptise, and bring into
the fold; and we belong to Jesus Christ just as much as His own first
disciples did.
We are called Christians, after His name; and all the time we live
here, He takes care of us; and if we serve Him, He takes our souls to
be with Him in Paradise, when death parts them from our bodies.