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 ture to have any power in the present, or for the present to project anything into the future before the future becomes the present, the term "projected efficiency" is misleading and inadequate. Since all advancement is from the unfolding of things that are in potency in the Spirit of God as it is received in nature and the hearts of men, it now only remains for some one again to assign the doctrine of "projected efficiency" to a "past and unenlightened age," and to formulate a modern doctrine of injected efficiency commendable to twentieth century intelligence.