Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. All the churches which have existed upon the earth are brought to view in the Bible in chronological order, and their several qualities are represented by Abraham and his posterity. Thus the spiritual history of our race is written in the language of symbols, much more accurately than would have been possible to write it in any human language. Four distinct churches, apart from various minor branches, have come and gone, and the fifth and last is now in its formative state, and will soon be fully organized and receive the influx of life which is peculiar to a Celestial Church.