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The Fundamentals term, is designated as a “First Cause”, but which is infinitely far from what is meant by a personal God. Well, then, shall the quest be given up? Is the universal thought of God merely an ignis fatuus leading the hopeful traveler into a realm of impenetrable mists and shadows ? Or is there still some way of finding out God? Yes, there is a fourth road by which we approach Him; and it is an highway cast up by the King Himself. I t is called “ Revelation”, or the Unveiling. There is an antecedent presumption in its favor; to wit, that if there is a God anywhere in the universe He would not leave us to grope our way hopelessly in the dark toward Him, but would somewhere, somehow, unveil Himself to us. Well, here is a Book, which claims to be Revelation. Of all the books in the literature of the ages it is the only one that claims to have been divinely authorized and “written by holy men as they were moved by the Spirit of God”. It opens with the words, “In the beginning, God” ; and pro- ceeds to set forth the two great doctrines of Creation and Providence. I t affirms, on the one hand, that everything in the universe has its origin in the creative power of God; and, on the other, that everything is sustained by the providence of God. In these two doctrines we have the sum and substance of Bible truth. But this is not all. In between the doctrines of Creation and Providence there walks, through all the corridors of Holy Writ, a mysterious Figure who is the foregleam of another revelation further on. At the outset this Figure appears in the protevangel as the “Seed of Woman”, who is to come in the fullness of time to “bruise the serpent’s head”. And He appears and re-appears, now in kingly guise, again as a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief, and again with a name written on His vesture, “Emmanuel”, which being inter- preted is “God with us”. This Book, claiming to be the written Word of God, makes
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