Peace be to you.

In this lesson we come to that detail of the creed which states,

I believe in the Holy Ghost.

As we stated before, Holy Ghost and Holy Spirit may be used indifferently.

It might be well to introduce this particular subject by pondering on a question which you have probably asked yourselves many times.

Would it not have been better for you to have lived in the days

of our blessed Lord than to live now?

Have you not missed much by not being a contemporary of the incarnate life of God that walk this earth.

Did we lose something?

Is the 20th century at a disadvantage being so far removed from him.

In answer to those questions, it must be admitted that there would have been some

advantages living at the time of our blessed Lord.

We could have heard his voice and been tremendously impressed by the ring of its authority.

Parents could have brought their children to him to have been blessed.

Sinners would have been charmed too by the majesty of his bearing.

All of us would have been stirred by the eloquence of his words.

As were the police, you will remember, when they set out to arrest our blessed Lord, they were arrested by his eloquence.

When they went back to the temple authorities, they said to the police, why did you not arrest him?

And they said, no man ever spoke as that man spoke.

These would have been some advantages.

But we must go on the words of our blessed Lord himself, who said it was better for him that he go.

This is what he said the night of the Last Supper, when the apostles were rather sad.

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