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CHAPTER XII


The Office
of
Revelation


THE field of Revelation is the spiritual. Its office is to make known the otherwise unknowable. The soul, the spiritual world, life after death, and God, can be known in the first instance by revelation only. As long ago as the days of Job it was of general knowledge that man unaided by revelation could know nothing of these things. Says Zophar, "Canst thou by searching find out God?"

If by scientific investigation spiritual things could be searched out, revelation would be unnecessary, and the economy of creation would have withheld it. If it were true, as some urge, that only the scientifically demonstrated