point, its internal is spirit and life. From the standpoint of its spirit and life it should be determined whether or not the Bible is the source of revelation from God to man to-day. When studied as a book whose purport is to teach history and science, it is natural that one should become agnostic or fall into the sophistry and the consequent apostacy of the pseudo-learning of the higher criticism—a costly fad, but one whose days are already numbered. But when the Word is viewed as a book whose purpose is to teach spiritual truth; to teach each that amount of spiritual truth that he will live up to, and at the same time withhold what he will not live up to and so bring upon himself the guilt of profanation; when it is read as a means of leading men away from evils and into a true life whereby he may receive in his heart the love of God that cannot be expressed in type; when its letter is
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