The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1919-05-31
RUSSELL'S WORDS /:

or influence of the Truth, operate upon and
instruct His people, guiding them into the
knowledge of God. This is the channel
of at-one-ment now to the Church, and this
will be the channel of at-one-fnent to the
world - all mankind - in the Millennial
Age.
| Volume 5, Page 223) The mind, spirit,
will or disposition of the world must be
driven out Of our hearts, in proportion as
we would have them, filled with the Holy
Spirit, mind, will, or disposition of God
Volume 5, Page 224) Nothing in the
Scriptures can be construed to imply that
the Heavenly Father would have us ask
for another God "a Third Person of a
Trinity of Gods. Such thought is repug-
nant. 1t would be strange indeed if one
member of Trinity of Gods referred to
another as able and willing to give the third
as earthly parents give bread, fish, and eggs
to their children.
Volume 5, Page 225) To be filled with
the Spirit is to be filled with the Word =
the Bible
Volume 5, Page 249) If the spirit Of
love, power, mind, will, manner DISPOSE
ton, influence, be a person. another God,
then the Spirit Of fear is another person.
Volume 5, Page 267) The Holy Spirit
| is to be sent by the Father, which indicates
that it is an influence or power wholly TN
der the Fathers control, and not another
being, or person, equal in power and glory,
as men falsely assert.
81 will put Ny Spirit (mind or DISPOSE
tion) within thee" is another contradiction
Of the unscriptural theory Of three Gods,
or persons, of equal power and glory. Here
the Fathers superiority is clearly stated:
The Holy Spirit is the Fathers Spirit, pow
r. will, mind, disposition, or influence, sent
at the request, and in the Name, of our Re
1eemer Jesus
Volume 5. Page 269) Gods Holy Spirit,
mind, will, disposition, or influence, acted.
upon them, comforting special miraculous
gifts for a testimony to the world, and for
the establishment of the Church.
| A God cannot get personally into one
man, or into million men, but His DISPOSE
ton, mind or Spirit can influence them.
Volume 5, Page 27O) Those who hold
to this theory regard the Holy Spirit as
Person, and of more importance than the
Father and the Son
The Holy Spirit is Of the Father, but by
the Son, and it cannot therefore be Person
. We have seen that there is no personali-
tv connected with the Holy Spirit. 1t is
only the Spirit mind, disposition, purpose,
Intention and influence of person or be-
ing - God.
Is Volume 5, Page 273) The Spirit said
unto Philip go near and Join myself to
this chariot. Acts 500 Nothing in these
words, nor their context, even seems to
imply personality, Or the necessity for an
other God. The Lord, by His influence,
mind, or disposition, instructed Philip to
approach the chariot of the eunuch. In
what manner Philip was thus directed of
the Spirit we are not informed, and it would
| be unWise to speculate.
| Volume 5, Page 275) Galatians l Il -
Here Paul speaks relative to his call to the
ministry He declares that it came from
God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
| If the Holy Spirit were Person if 1t
were the God Whose special providence
| it is to appoint the ministers - how comes
| it that Paul was so inconsistent and I'm
Reasonable as to omit all reference to 1T?
| No. 1t was only the mind, will, purpose, dis
position, of the Father and of the Son that
called Paul to the ministry.
Volume 5, Page 279) How clear it is
| that the spirit of the world is not person,
but worldly mind, disposition or influence.
Likewise, the Spirit Of God is not person,
but the holy mind will, disposition, or in
Auence of God and His Son.
Volume S, Page 28O-282) John 2 20
aye have an JUNCTION from the Holy One.
The JUNCTION here is the Amounting of verse
IT, These words do not convey the thought
| of a person. How could one be anointed
with a person? The amounting is the I'M
seen influence, or disposition, Of "the holy
One" resting upon the Christian.
Volume 5, Pages 2S7-29O) "The Spirit
itself ma<eth intercession for us with groan
ings which cannot be uttered. Romans
1926, u.
! This expression is sadly misunderstood
bv many They tell us that the Holy Spirit
groans for them to the Father Some at
tempt to give audible utterance to its groan-
Iings themselves. Some suppose that the
/ 0rOan1nS tney 90 lelpS inc I1oly oPlll H.
compensating for the groanings which 1t
cannot utter.
Would it not be strange, if the Holy
spirit is Person equal in power with the
Father and the Son, that He would have to
groan unutterably i'll trying to make Him
self understood by them?
i The confusion arises from misapplying
the passage. 1t is not Gods Spirit that
eroans, but our o7on spirit, often failing to