ine
prophecy, the sound of His inspired evangelists and apostles had gone
throughout all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world.
Throughout every city and village, like a replenished barn floor,
churches were rapidly abounding and filled with members from every
people. Those who, in consequence of the delusions that had descended to
them from their ancestors, had been fettered by the ancient disease of
idolatrous superstition, were now liberated by the power of Christ,
through the teachings and miracles of His messengers."--(Eusebius,
_Eccles. Hist._, Book I, ch. 3.)

6. Patmos.--A small island in the Icarian section of the Aegean Sea. Dr.
John R. Sterret writes of it in the _Standard Bible Dictionary_ as
follows: "A volcanic island of the Sporades group, now nearly treeless.
It is characterized by an indented coast and has a safe harbor. By the
Romans it was made a place of exile for the lower class of criminals.
John, the author of 'Revelation' was banished thither by Domitian, 94
A.D. According to tradition he lived there at hard labor for eighteen
months."

7. The Holy Ghost Given.--In answer to a question as to whether the Holy
Ghost was received by the apostles at or before Pentecost, a statement
was published by the First Presidency of the Church on February 5, 1916
(see _Deseret News_ of that date), from which statement the following
excerpts are taken: "The answer to this question depends upon what is
meant by 'receiving' the Holy Ghost. If reference is made to the promise
of Jesus to His apostles about the endowment or gift of the Holy Ghost
by the presence and ministration of the 'personage of Spirit,' called
the Holy Ghost by revelation (Doc. and Cov. 130:22), then the answer is,
it was not until the day of Pentecost that the promise was fulfilled.
But the divine essence called the Spirit of God, or Holy Spirit, or Holy
Ghost, by which God created or organized all things, and by which the
prophets wrote and spoke, was bestowed in former ages, and inspired the
apostles in their ministry long before the day of Pentecost.... We read
that Jesus, after His resurrection, breathed upon His disciples and
said, 'Receive ye the Holy Ghost.' But we also read that He said,
'Behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry ye in the
city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high' (John
20:22; Luke 24:49). We read further: 'For the Holy Ghost was not yet
given; because that Jesus w