This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 edition. Excerpt: ... THE KINGDOM* Before the world was the Godhead existed in the persons of Father, Son and Holy Ghost. Proof for this declaration is found in St. John xvii:5: "And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self, with the glory which I had with thee before the world was." This establishes the pre-existence of the "son," and in Gen. i:2 we learn "the spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters," which establishes the existence of the "spirit." In their existence, as in three parts, they were one in all actions, making a unit in spirit, yet personal beings, for we find they formed images like unto themselves: "And God said, let us make man in our image, after our likeness * * * So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them." Gen. i:26-27. That God spoke, in the above citation, to some one is certain, for it says: "let us make man in our image." And Paul, speaking to the Hebrews, says: God, who at sundry times and in divers manners, spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, hath in these last days spoken unto us by his son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds; who, being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person * * * Heb. i:2-3_ And Prepared by order of Indiana State Association. Approved by that body in Oct., 1900. the pre-existence of Christ's person is strongly intimated in Daniel iii:25: "He answered and said, lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the form of the fourth is like the son of God." The personality of the Holy Spirit is referred to by Christ in John xiv:16-17: "And I will pray the Father and he shall give you another comforter, ...