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 infinite wisdom could express them. The Word is the fountain of all such conceptions. If these things were not set forth in Scripture through revelation, or if no record of their revelation had been made, we would know no more of them than do the beasts of the field: but being set forth in the Word, or in revelation, human knowledge of spiritual things gets its start. There man obtains his first conceptions of things that are above the animal.

The Word has met opposition from its beginning, cunning and subtile as well as open and blatant, from avowed enemy and pretended friend. When infidelity, working under one guise, has been found out, rendered unpopular, and rejected, it has been quick to array itself in novel garments and assume a new name.

The term agnosticism has now, in public esteem, become quite synonymous with infidelity, and few care to