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52 THE ACTS OF TEE APOSTLES The nature of the Holy Spirit is a mystery. Men cannot explain it, because the Lord has not revealed it to them. Men having fanciful views may bring together passages of Scripture and put a human construction on them; but the acceptance of these views will not strengthen the church. Eegarding such mysteries, which are too deep for human understanding, silence is golden. The office of the Holy Spirit is distinctly specified in the words of Christ: ^'When He is come. He will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment."' It is the Holy Spirit that comucts of sin. If the sinner responds to the quickening influence of the Spirit, he will be brought to repentance, and aroused to the importance of obeying the divine requirements. To the repentant sinner, hungering and thirsting for righteousness, the Holy Spirit reveals the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world. ''He shall receive of Mine, and shall show it unto you," Christ said. ''He shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you. ' ' ' The Spirit is given as a regenerating agency, to make effectual the salvation wrought by the death of our Eedeemer. The Spirit is constantly seeking to draw the attention of men to the great offering that was made on the cross of Calvary, to unfold to the world the love of God. and to open to the convicted soul the precious things of the Scriptures. Having brought conviction of sin, and presented before the mind the standard of righteousness, the Holy Spirit withdraws the affections from the things ^John 16:S. Jolin 16 : 14 ; 14 : 26.