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Trinity still more full and forcible. I find it stated, at the opening of the 
gospel of St. John, that the \oyoe, the Eternal Word, which expressed all that 
was in the Father, created all things, and that without Him was not anything 
made which was made ; and St. Paul says the same thing : “ By Him were 
all things created that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and in- 
visible, whether they be thrones or dominions or principalities or powers.” 
He is the efficient and final cause, for all things were created by Him, and 
for Him. All that comes out of Elohim. It has been said that “we ” is the 
style of potentates and kings, but in Scripture it is not the style of God. 
He speaks in the first person singular : “ I am the Lord thy God, thou shalt 
have no other gods before Me,” not “ before Us.” You find the great prin- 
ciple of Monotheism maintained in His dealings with J ew and Gentile ; and 
you find the great truth of the Trinity displayed in the Old Testament, as 
in that passage of Isaiah, where He says, “ Whom shall I send, and who will 
go for Us ? ” I find the Trinity connected with Creation ; I find the three 
persons brought out clearly, just like the white ray of light that gives us the 
rainbow when it is broken into its original colours. I find the glorious and 
blessed God presenting Himself in this form of monotheism, and I find Him 
exliibiting the Trinity in unity in all its glory and majesty, and brought out 
in creation in connection with the Elohim : “ Let us make man in our image.” 
This is one of the grandest and most forcible arguments which Holy Scrip- 
ture affords for the doctrine of the Trinity. I have only to thank again those 
speakers who have commended my paper. I thought there would have been 
many arrows levelled at me, and was trying to construct a seven-fold shield, 
such as Ajax bore, but find that I do not need it. 
The Meeting was then adjourned. 
