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94 to the states and capacities of men, God has provided a means by which all may be reached, and by which all may be enabled to believe. The lower view will give place to the higher, as men, through faithfulness to the light they have, become more and more receptive of the higher." (pp. 113- 115.)

APPARENT TRUTHS IN NATURE.

"In the book of Nature as well as of Revelation, we are compelled to distinguish between genuine and apparent truths; and in the sun, which is a symbol of the Lord, we have a very close analogy strikingly illustrative of the subject before us. The sun, which is gloriously refulgent in an unclouded sky, appears red and lowering when obscured by fog; but there is no change in the sun itself. It is thus with the unchangeable God under the different aspects in which he appears to men. Seen through the clear spiritual atmosphere of love and truth, God is love, immutable love; seen through the fog and mist of evil, He appears to be angry, wrathful, at enmity with man. When man changes in his spiritual condition, and from his changed condition thinks of the Lord, it seems to him as though the Lord had changed.

"To conclude from appearances that the Lord changes, is as great a fallacy as to conclude from appear-