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If the laws of God cannot stand, He is not the supreme lawgiver. If His standard varies, then nothing is immutable. We cannot know Him. He is, at best, the Great Unknowable. If any other power exists than His, then there are other veritable gods. We may as well acknowledge the Olympians or the swarming millions of Hindu deities. Assuming, however, that God is the sole lawgiver, and that, while the laws of God are forever immutable, the so-called material laws are no laws of God, therefore no laws at all, therefore unreal,—a mortal misapprehension of the immutable, spiritual law of God,—we do not have to take the impossible position that Supreme Wisdom annuls its own decrees, and that such annulment results in good; nor, on the other hand, that decrees involving consequences which all men deplore, and which ultimate in death, are the immutable decrees of infinite Love.

We can take and hold the position that God is the supreme lawgiver, His laws are immutable, and that their immutability is clearly revealed in the works of Jesus and his disciples,—works which proved the unreality of all those so-called laws which result in sin and misery, by bringing to light the immutable law of God which destroys sin and misery,—"the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus," which makes free "from the law of sin and death."

ARTHUR CHAMBERLAIN.

The Christian Register.

It is evident that we find here the explanation of an apparent mystery and injustice. Why is there greater inspiration in one age than in another? Why is larger vision vouchsafed to one man than to his neighbor? Why does the same man receive more abundantly to-day than he did yesterday? Inspiration is not dependent upon the moods. The attainment and the attitude of man, intellectual, moral, spiritual, are the determining factors. How could the same David write the prayers of imprecation and the songs of trust? When he uttered the Twenty-third Psalm he opened his soul as never before to the influence of the most High. Plato is inspired to Plato's measure of desert and consent. Shakespeare to Shakespeare's, Paul to Paul's. PROF. GEORGE E. HUNTLEY.

The Universalist Leader.

The temptation that came to the Christ was to take the lower for the higher good, the immediate for the final victory, the material for the spiritual conquest. In that temptation all men share. The spirit of evil has no lure more tempting because none more blinding than this. Among the charms and potencies of evil there is none more deadly than that which was offered to the Christ. The chasm that lies between the lower and the higher kinds of power is so deep that in the ultimate moral vision they stand for principles in deadly conflict. To crave the higher and accept the lower is not only to take evil for good, but to awaken at the end in the bitter humiliation which not only acknowledges defeat but knows that it has been duped, blinded, and cheated, and that the gold which shone afar is but a dust-heap when the end is reached.—The Outlook.

We shall make but few mistakes if while we are working hard we trust perfectly, contending against evil and courageously letting in light everywhere, into our own souls and upon our own actions, and everywhere else we can, without hesitation, believing that light will only reveal deformity and at the same time justify conformity; and then, after we have done our part, not to become restless and nervous or anxious about the part of our heavenly Father.

Pacific Christian Advocate.

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