Excerpt from Short History of the Early Church Christ, immediately behiot'hhism - hscqdsiod, commanded his disciples to re main in Jerusalem until they should be endued with power from on high. Here lay his promise of Spiritual preparation for their ministry. It was, at the same time, a direct lesson that a special spiritual preparation and plenitude were, for all time, a requisite for the suc cessinl preaching of the gospel. Without the descent of the Spirit at Pentecost there would have been no im pulsive power in Christianity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.