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tain solitudes, and th rough genealogical deserts, only to find th a t th e w ilder ness and th e solitary place are made glad for H im ; and in His presence the desert rejoices and blossoms as the rose. In p salm ist’s melodies; in words of transcendent wisdom; in p regnant type, and glowing symbol; in wheels th a t are dreadful; in chariots of fire; in seraphic visions of en rap tu red spirits of prophets, priests and kings, we have seen and heard the form and voice of our Beloved; until, a t last, He has come to us from ou t th e grave, being declared to be the Son of God w ith power, accord ing to the sp irit of holiness, by the resu rrection from th e dead, and w ith perfect knowledge of both worlds, He has joined us on th e Emmaus road; where w ith burning h earts we have heard Him, beginning a t Moses and all th e prophets, expound unto us in all th e scriptures th e things concerning Himself. Therefore by th e illum ination of His presence in its pages; by th e seal of His au tho rity upon all its principles, and precepts, and prom ises; by His own in variable assumption of the S criptures’ infallibility, th ere is w rought into our deepest sp iritual consciousness th e un wavering conviction th a t the Bible is the word of God th a t liveth and abideth for ever! 4 “Should all the form s th a t men devise A ssault my faith w ith treacherous art, I ’d call them vanity and lies, And bind th e gospel to my h ea rt.” EXPLAIN IT IF YOU CAN The Bible is a mine of wonders. Some of these wonders are observable bn its surface. A m iner or prospector on see ing some evidences of m inerals on the surface, comes to th e conclusion th a t probably below th e surface th e re are more, and he digs down to find them. In th is way, Mr. Panin saw some of the surface evidences of fu rth e r riches in the^B ible mine. He got “ a clue” and,
digging a little deeper, found more évi dences of th e hand of God in th e build ing of th e words of th e Bible, till at length hé could say w ithou t hesitation, it is inspired— in every word, every let ter, every book, every complete p ara graph, the number of words and' thé spelling of them , even in the case of words and names which are differently spelled by different Bible w riters, and have been regarded as erro rs in copying and considered as clerical erro rs of no importance. F o r these variations can be proved to be a necessity of th e system adopted by God so as to fit them in to a vast numerical scheme— named by Mr. Panin “Bible Numerics”-%by which th e number of words, th e number of letters, etc., autom atically yield factors of sevens, nines, th irteen s, etc., th rough out th e text of th e en tire Scriptures. This is a fe a t only possible to th e Great Mathematician, th e God of number. W hat is th ere in th e n atu ra l world th a t is not bu ilt up by weight and measure and number?* Nothing. Every element combines in unalterable proportion w ith every other element w ith which it can combine a t all. Why then should we doubt th a t in the hands of God, th e Word itself should have been bu ilt upon a basis of num ber?— Jam es Paris. MISTAKES OF THE BIBLE We are sometimes asked whether th ere are no inaccuracies in the Bible? To this we would candidly answer th a t th ere certainly are app aren t inaccuracies and statem ents, which, a t first sight, appear to be contradictory. They are due eith er (1) To a careless study of th e text and context of th e Scripture itse lf; (2) To a copyist’s erro r in w riting out some early tran slation ; or (3 ) To an impatience th a t will only believe w hat is obvious and on th e su r face, and will not w ait for th a t ligh t which God is constantly revealing to sub stan tiate the accuracy of His Word. —Rev. W. T. Hindley.
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