enter. The Head and the body are therefore one, and predestined to
the same history of humiliation and glory. And as they are one in
fact, so are they one in name. He whom God anointed and filled with
the Holy Ghost {54} is called "the Christ," and the church, which is
his body and fullness, is also called "the Christ." "For as the body
is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body,
being many, are one body, _so also is the Christ_" (1 Cor. 12: 12).
Here plainly and with wondrous honor the church is named _o Christos_,
commenting upon which fact Bishop Andrews beautifully says: "Christ is
both in heaven and on earth; as he is called the Head of his church, he
is in heaven; but in respect of his body which is called Christ, he is
on earth."

So soon as the Holy Ghost was sent down from heaven this great work of
his embodying began, and it is to continue until the number of the
elect shall be accomplished, or unto the end of the present
dispensation. Christ, if we may say it reverently, became mystically a
babe again on the day of Pentecost, and the hundred and twenty were his
infantile body, as once more through the Holy Ghost he incarnated
himself in his flesh. Now he is growing and increasing in his members,
and so will he continue to do "till we all come in the unity of the
faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God unto a perfect man, unto
the measure of the stature of fullness of Christ." Then the Christ on
earth will be taken up into visible union with the Christ in heaven,
and the Head and the body be glorified together. Observe how the
history of the church's formation, as recorded in the Acts, harmonizes
with {55} the conception given above. The story of Pentecost
culminates in the words, "and the same day there were added about three
thousand souls" (Acts 2: 41). Added to whom? we naturally ask. And
the King James translators have answered our question by inserting in
italics "to them." But not so speaks the Holy Ghost. And when, a few
verses further on in the same chapter, we read: "And the Lord added to
the church daily such as should be saved," we need to be reminded that
the words "to the church" are spurious. All such glosses and
interpolations have only tended to mar the sublime teaching of this
first chapter of the Holy Spirit's history. "And believers were the
more added _to the Lord_" (Acts 5: 14.) "And much people were added
_unto the Lord_" (Acts 11: 24.) This i