flame kindled on His altars, the Pillar of Fire, etc., and above all, the Pentecostal Flames and tongues of fire. 2. The Angel of the Lord, the constant wonder worker in all human history, the great Defender, Protector, Avenger, omniscient, ominpotent, omnipresent, invisible, irresistible. 3. The moral code of Jehovah; embraced in the Decalogue, and applied in the Sermon on the Mount—a complete and sublime ethical foundation for human character. 4. The Spirit of God, revealed officially and occasionally in the Old Testament, individually and perpetually in the New, as source. Of light, life, love and power to the human spirit. 5. The God-man, a new order of Being, with Divine and human natures perfectly combined in one personality—a mysterious blending of the finite and' infinite. 6. The Prophetic Vision —divine sight, foresight and insight im- parted to human agents so that they have a backward vision of pre- historic events and a forward vision of the future. 7. The conception of substitutionary Sacrifice— the. obedience and suffering of a- sinless being accepted in behalf of the sinner, so as to make pardon and reconciliation possible without sacrificing right- eousness. 8. Eternal life through believing, or the impartation of the nature W God to man through faith as a means of union and identification— t'fte., mystery of a perfect salvation through a new birth., '9. The Rewards and Retributions of the'Future St-atey complet- ing the partial administration- of Justice in this age by the final awards of eternity and the settlement of destiny. 10. The Church of God, as a called-out body of delievers and witnesses—indwelt by the Spirit of God, constituting one invisible organism of which Christ is Head. 11. The World of Spirits—invisible and innumerable—and di- vided into two great hosts—the unfallen and loyal, and the fallen and lost, with Satan at their head. 12. The Whole Conception of the Godhead—trinity' yet unity— omnipresent yet not pantheistic; infinite and eternal, yet exercising providential care over all creatures, however minute and events how- ever trifling. These are a few specimens of the wealth cf the mines of thought which in the Holy Scripturesjnvite exploration and yet defy exhaus- tion. Not one of all these magnificent- themes finds treatment in uninspired writings except as first suggested here, and therefore with- out this unique and unrivalled Word of God, the race would have been left in midnight darkness as to these and all co-related truths. Who shall even glance at such topics and still say that no such reve- lation from God was needed.
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