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Rh the Word now revealed, is related to the letter of the Word by a law of so high and divine a character that when understood it proves that "The Lord gave the Word," though "great was the company that published it." It shows it to be a book that only the Creator Himself could frame. For it has an organized internal, causing it to differ from any other book as much as a human body differs from a statue hewn in marble.

The spiritual sense of the Word is related to the letter not artificially, but by a law that no man could invent, for it is the very law of creation itself. It is such a relation as exists between the lungs and the air, or the eye and the ether, or grief and tears, or joy and smiles, or the soul and the body. The law is profound and deep, yet simple and self-interpretive, when understood somewhat, because it is natural. In the light of it, the Word is seen to be an inexhaustible reservoir of divine truth, the infinite truth itself, the veritable