Editorial June 2, 1951 Issue

THE COMFORTER

Robert Ellis Key

In the course of his three-year ministry Christ Jesus healed the sick, raised the dead, and regenerated the sinner. His healing work was conclusive. It revealed an understanding of God and His laws that caused the people to marvel. Never before had they been brought so close to God as they were by this holy and humble man from Nazareth. He gave them health, confidence, and a comforting assurance of divine Love such as they had never before experienced. Jesus was beloved by the people, but his teaching provoked the envy and hatred of the Pharisees and the learned men engaged in ritualistic worship.

There was something divinely attractive and obviously true in Jesus' words. Moreover, he did not express conflicting human opinions. His emphasis was on the fact that it was his Father who did the works and that his part was to see the works of God manifest in men. There was nothing difficult or complicated in the simple things he said, yet they were often so spiritually profound that the theologians failed to understand them.

It would indeed have been a tragedy had it been possible for the mission of this great and good man to come to an end after three golden years of ministry. Fortunately his works of healing were continued by his disciples, and before his ascension he gave them a definite assurance that he would send them another Comforter, which, he said, "shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you" (John 14:26). Thus it is clear that one function of the Comforter is to instruct us. There was to be nothing mystical or mysterious in its mission. It was to be apart from worldly origin and would not instruct us by means of worldly knowledge. According to Jesus' words the Comforter is always with us; therefore it cannot be personal, in the limited meaning of that word. These facts concerning the Comforter are to be found in the Master's simple statements as recorded in the fourteenth chapter of John's Gospel.

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