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 Perfect man would find the Word perfect as a medium of the revelation of spiritual truth. It is a necessary consequence that the non-spiritual, looking from the standpoint of self and measuring with false standards, should regard the Word of God erroneous and inadequate; but the errors are in the view-point of the individual, and not in the Word.

The Word is a perpetual source of revelation.

In the Old Testament particularly the relation of God to man obedient to His law and disobedient is fully exemplified, and the principles of the providence over us are set forth. However barbarous the story may appear, the spirit and the truth are there. In the New Testament, the laws of life here, the nature of death, the spiritual world, the resurrection of the person unchanged, the life everlasting, the love of God, are as fully defined and declared as