but 'ye cannot bear them now.' Let us wait with patience until we are
ready for the illumination. For two things go to make revelation, the
light that reveals and the eye that beholds.

Now one remark before I go further. People tell us, 'Your modern
theology is not in the Gospels.' And they say to us, as if they had
administered a knockdown blow, 'We stick by Jesus, not Paul.' Well,
as I said, I do not admit that there is no 'Pauline' teaching in the
Gospels, but I do confess there is not much. And I say, 'What then?'
Why, this, then--it is exactly what we were to expect; and people who
reject the apostolic form of Christian teaching because it is not
found in the Gospels are flying in the face of Christ's own teaching.
You say you will take His words as the only source of religious
truth. You are going clean contrary to His own words in saying so.
Remember that He proclaimed their incompleteness, and referred us,
for the fuller knowledge of the truth of God, to a subsequent
Teacher.

II. So, secondly, mark here the completeness of the truth into which
the Spirit guides.

I must trouble you with just a word or two of remark as to the
language of our text. Note the personality, designation, and office
of this new Teacher. 'He,' not '_it_,' He, is the Spirit of truth
whose characteristic and weapon is truth. 'He will guide you'--
suggesting a loving hand put out to lead; suggesting the
graciousness, the gentleness, the gradualness of the teaching. 'Into
all truth '--that is no promise of omniscience, but it is the
assurance of gradual and growing acquaintance with the spiritual and
moral truth which is revealed, such as may be fitly paralleled by the