One day when Daniel Webster was going away from church, he met a Unitarian, who accosted him thus: “So you have been to church, where they teach that three times one are one!” Mr. Webster replied with his solemn voice, now more intensely solemn than usual, “My friend, you and I do not understand the arithmetic of heaven.”
If any man less than Mr. Webster had made this reply, it might be considered an evasion of the difficulty suggested. Mr. Webster had been attending a church where the doctrine of the Trinity is taught – three Persons in one Godhead – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit; Three in One. No human intellect can comprehend the mode of such existence; and there are those who reject this truth because it does not seem to them reasonable. But those who are wise will take God at His Word, believing, with Mr. Webster, that “the arithmetic of heaven” may not be understood on earth. In Deuteronomy 6:44Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord: (Deuteronomy 6:4), we get these words, “The Lord Our God is one Lord.” In the New Testament we get three distinct personalities, Father. Son, and Holy Spirit, repeatedly represented, and the working of these three is in perfect harmony. We own a triune God.