3.2). 2.0 LIBRARY OF THE THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY PRINCETON. N. J. Presented BYTOr-s. K.T". Xe-VoV^CAm, BS 2675 .S55 Simpson, A. B. The Apostolic Church /^ THE APOSTOLIC CHURCH BY ^^^^^Bsm. ivi^ y REV. A. B. SIMPSON ^ PUBLISHED BY CHRISTIAN ALLIANCE PUBLISHING CO. Nyack and New York. CONTENTS. I. Unity of the Church. II. Teaching of the Church. 111. The Ministry of the Church. IV. The Purity of the Church. V. The Church and the Christian in Relation to the World. YI. The Christian Ministry: Its Authority and Support. VII. Living in the End of the Age. Vlll. The Ordinance of the Church. IX. Supernatural Gifts and Ministries of the Church. X. love, the Crowning Grace of the Church and Christian. XI. The Worship and Fellowship of the Church. XII. The Hope of the Church. XIII. The Lord's Day. XIV. The Support of the Church, or the Principle of True Supernatural Giving. INTRODUCTION. The first epistle to the Corinthians deals largely with the principles and life of the Church of Christ. It is a picture at once of Christ's ideal for His Church and the Church's failure to meet it. But the very fault of this particular church were overruled in God's prov- idence as occasions for the profound teachings of the Holy Spirit respecting the true charac- ter, government and work of the Church. We have, therefore, in this epistle an outline for an apostolic Christian Church in its unity, purity, discipline, government, life, work, worship and glorious destiny. May these Outlines be used of the Holy Ghost to help us individually and collectively more perfectly to realize that divine ideal in our life and work.