tarried in Zion, that is, the Holy City¹ and the Holy Ghost whom the Christ had promised came down upon them like a rushing wind. That was on the day of Pentecost after the ascension of the Christ to Heaven in ten days.

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All the Apostles spake with tongues of fire, to every tongue there was a nation in the world, seventy-two tongues; so the Christ kept his promise when He went up to Heaven, and He did not break His word. Who is He that can decree in Heaven, and bring his decree to pass save God, and that by His Word and His Spirit? The Christ decreed in Heaven, and decrees. He sent to the Apostles the Holy Ghost as He had promised them. If He were like Adam or like any man, prophet or otherwise, He could not decree in Heaven, nor could He go up to Heaven and remain on the earth as Adam remained, and Noah, and Abraham, and Moses and the Prophets and the Apostles, all of them. But He is the Word and the Light of God, God of God; He came down from Heaven for the salvation of Adam and his race from Satan and his error. He went up to Heaven where He had been in His honour and His dignity, and filled the hearts of the men who believed in Him with strength and the Holy Ghost that they might adore God and His Word and the Holy Ghost in Heaven and in earth. Thus the Christ taught us to say, "Our Father which art in Heaven, hallowed be Thy name, Thy Kingdom come; Thy will be done, as in

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Heaven, so in earth. Give us sufficient bread day by day; forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive whoever trespasseth against us. Lead us not into trial, O Lord, but save us from the Devil. For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory for evermore, Amen." The Christ shewed the light of God amongst men, and made them like angels of God in the earth. They have conquered the lusts of the world and its love. The will of God was among them as it is among the angels. Then the Apostles went forth, and portioned out the whole world among them; they preached about the Kingdom of Heaven and repentance in the name of the Christ. They wrought all signs by the Holy Ghost. They