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 children of Israel upon his heart before the Lord continually." (Ex. xxviii. 30.) Now as all varieties of good and truth are contained in the letter of God's Word, signified by the twelve precious stones, called Urim and Thummim, so God himself, as the Only Life, is in the midst and centre of His revealed Word; for good and truth with all their singulars and particulars, can no more be separated from God than a living form can be separated from its essence. The good intelligent man perceives this truth: hence the command, "Let thy Urim and Thummim be with thy Holy One." The recognition of the Lord's perpetual presence in His Word, is the breast-plate of judgment upon the heart. The Holy One is expressed in Hebrew by the term ; thus teaching that God is a Divine man—the prototype of created man, his image and likeness. As it is our privilege to worship Him as the, being seen in and through His Word, so it is written, "Glorify ye Jehovah in the !"—[Heb. in the .] While we love the truths of God's Word, and live the life they teach, the breast-plate of judgment is upon the heart, and we, in fact, glorify Jehovah in the Urim.

HERE is nothing more certain than that the operations of Divine Truth, which in itself is one and perfect, are, both in the mental kingdom and in the material, one and the same; and all the opera-