They are made to retain the phrase; no explanation is offered, and, if sought for, shirked.

And so it resolves itself into a wonder, dimly conscious of profanity, as to whether Tim Jones the carpenter with the wooden leg, will have a new one; and whether papa will have the wart on his cheek or not, and how he will look without it.

Of course these are elementary speculations; but they are true ones, for they were literally my own at an early age.

Such speculations are certainly better avoided; and, indeed, all early speculation on dogmatic questions at all is better not suggested.
"_The Holy Spirit_.

When I was a child, the dogma of the Trinity caused me the most terrible perplexity, which was all the more distressing because it was shrouded in a kind of awful remoteness, by the reticence, the bewildered and serious reticence, with which my elders approached the subject; but besides the identification with and the appearance as a dove, the term Comforter--and Paraclete, as some of the hymn-books had it--the expression, '_proceeding from_ the Father and the Son,' mystified me completely.