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Rh We worship unity in trinity, and trinity in unity; neither confounding the person nor dividing the substance. There is one person of the Father, another of the Son, and another of the Holy Ghost; but the Godhead of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, is all one; the glory equal, the majesty co-eternal. —.

Tell me how it is that in this room there are three candles and but one light, and I will explain to you the mode of the Divine existence. —.

Snow is water, and ice is water, and water is water; these three are one. —.

God hides nothing. His very work from the beginning is revelation,—a casting aside of veil after veil, a showing unto men of truth after truth. On and on from fact Divine He advances, until at length in His Son Jesus He unveils His very face. —.

Time that weakens all things else has but strengthened the impregnable position of the believer's faith and hope and confidence. And as, year by year, the tree adds another ring to its circumference, every age has added the testimony of its events to this great truth. "The grass withereth, and the flower fadeth, but the word of the Lord shall endure forever." —.

God's truth is too sacred to be expounded to superficial worldliness in its transient fit of earnestness. —.