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 infallible witnesses before an infallible judge; and the learned observation of Di J, F. Clark is true not only of an infallible church but also of any authority claiming infallibility, that the claim can be made good only tby an infinite series of infallible witnesses and admitted only by an infallible tribunal. Have we not read how on the insertion or the omission of an i (iota) or of a long a (â) depended the substantiation or the rejection of a fundamental article of faith? Revelation as made to man is necessarily relative, "When God makes the prophet, He does not unmake the man." All the traits and peculiarities of the recipient's mind dim, alloy or divert the truth. The mind is not a passive reservoir but an active appreciator of truth; and all the idiosyncrasies of the man—his ruling ideas and moulding environments—give a particular shape and tinge to the revelation. In the very act of reaching, refining and expanding one's head and heart, conscience and soul, God's truth, which is gentle and plastic