Coming of the Holy Spirit

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When Nansen started on his Arctic Expedition he took with him a carrier pigeon, strong and fleet of wing; and after two years—two years in the desolation of the Arctic regions—he one day wrote a tiny little message and tied it under the pigeon’s wing, and let it loose to travel two thousand miles to Norway; and oh! what miles! What desolation—not a living creature! Ice, ice, ice, snow, and death. But he took the trembling little bird and flung her up from the ship, up into the icy cold. Three circles she made, and then, straight as an arrow she shot south; one thousand miles over ice, one thousand miles over the frozen wastes of ocean, and at last dropped into the lap of the explorer’s wife. She knew, by the arrival of the bird, that it was all right in the dark night of the North. So with the coming of the Holy Spirit, the Heavenly Dove, the disciples knew that Christ was alive, for his coming and his manifest working were proofs of it.

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