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 feet understanding between the Creator and his creatures.

How is all this to be effected? By light from heaven. By a new revelation. By the opening of the seals which have hidden from our eyes the spiritual sense of the Word of God. In that sense alone lies the illuminating and unitizing power of the Scriptures. It is the inner garment of our Lord, which was of one piece woven without seam from top to bottom. The literal sense is "the clouds of heaven" which conceal from us the pure light of the sun. God is coming down in those clouds and will make them transparent with the glory of the spiritual sense.

When, where, and how is this to be accomplished?

If the honest and earnest dissenting element in and out of the Church—that element which hungers and thirsts after the truth, and refuses to recognize the so-called orthodoxy as truth; if that element could be concentrated and questioned as to its real sentiments, wants and needs, and could make a definite reply, we may imagine that it would be somewhat in the following strain:

"We ask a new and more satisfactory revelation from heaven. It is the one great, urgent, mighty