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The Fundamentals this, that all my doubts, questionings, skepticism and criti cism concerning God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, con cerning the full inspiration, accuracy and authority of the Holy Scriptures as the incorruptible Word of God, concerning the sufficiency of Christ’s atonement to settle the question of sin, and to provide a ground upon which God could, in per fect righteousness, forgive and justify a sinner, and concerning an assured salvation and perfect acceptance in Christ, were swept away completely. From that day to this I have never been troubled by doubts of God and His Word. " i f THOU SHALT BELIEVE IN THINE HEART” This experience is to me, and will be to any one who reflects upon it, very wonderful and impressive. I had no notion at all that intellectual difficulties and questionings could be removed in any way except by being answered, one by one, to the intellectual satisfaction of the person in whose mind they existed. But my doubts and difficulties were not met in that way. They were simply removed when I believed on the Crucified One, and accepted Him as the Christ of God, and as my personal Savior. The explanation of this is that the seat of unbelief is not in the head, but in the heart (Rom. 10:9). I t is the will that is wrong; and the bristling array of doubts and difficulties which spring up in the mind are mere disguises and pretexts supplied by the enemy of souls, behind which the unbelieving heart tries to shelter itself and to justify its unbelief. This is the explanation of those words of our Lord, who knew what was in man, “Ye will not come to Me that ye might have life” (John 5:40). I t is man’s unbroken and unyielded will that prevents him from coming to the Fountain of eternal life and receiving that unspeakable gift of God. And this, too, is why it is written, “For with the heart man believeth unto righteous-
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