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TESTIMONY OF REV. EDWIN P. HOOD. 55

Is there not in much of our Christian worship as gross a Tripersonality as in Grecian mythology, or in the Brahma, Vishnu, and Siva of Hindoo paganism? And have we not often noticed that in most of our prayers we do not treat the Personalities as equal? Our prayer to God the Father, is as to a Person quite distinct from and superior to the Son. We do not often in prayer address the Son at all. . . . It may be doubted whether we do not often use language we do not understand, when we speak of Christ as *the gift of God.' When we implore Christ to intercede with the Father for us, we do in these phrases show that we entertain a sense of the inferiority of the second adorable Person; and it is the inevitable consequence of our teaching that it should be so." (p. 251.)

Then he proceeds to give Swedenborg's doctrine on this subject, with evident satisfaction and approval.

" Swedenborg devoutly believed in the Doctrine of the Trinity — not in three Gods, but in one God. . . . The Lord Jesus Christ is, with the Father and the Spirit, the One only true God. This is Swedenborg's great Faith." (pp. 251, 252.)

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