Ascension: Acts i. 9; 1 Tim. iii. 16.

The Coming of the Holy Ghost: Acts ii. 32, 33.

9. Tribulation, Wealth, Death, Judgment are the four times of special need.

Tribulation is derived from threshing, or crushing.

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Wealth is well-doing, or welfare. Prosperity and Adversity are both times of temptation.

Intercessions. (Prayer for others.)

10. Universal is equivalent to Catholic.

11. Governor refers to the relation of the Sovereign to the Church.

12. faith, fear, and love, an ascending order of submission to God. affiance=trust.