The self-reliant soul will not stoop to be taught of the Spirit; but the humble believer will grow rich in that knowledge which endures unto life eternal. “The natural man knoweth not the things of God, for they are foolishness unto him-but the spiritual man judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged by no man." We see, therefore, that it is the Word of God as interpreted by the Spirit of God that forms the groundwork of Christianity. It is neither alone; the Word divorced from the Spirit leads to hard scholastic theology; the Spirit divorced from the Word leads to mysticism. union of the two gives a basis of dogmatic belief, combined with that pliancy and sweetness which form the complete Christian. When free play is given to this two-fold revelation of God, there will not be vital differences among believers in Christ; there will no doubt be divergences upon minor points so long as man is a finite creature, with a limited understanding, but the "unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace" will manifest itself by the brotherly love of Christians, and testify to the world that there is "one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.' PART II. RATIONALISM AND MIRACLES. CHAPTER I. CHRISTIANITY INSEPARABLY INTERWOVEN WITH W MIRACLE. E now pass to another side of the Christian Controversy, which engrosses much attention at the present day. We refer to the miraculous claims of Christianity. There is a widespread aversion now-a-days to believe in miracles; the scientific mind finds in all departments of nature the evidence of law-of a uniform ordered course of events, and recoils from the thought that the Creator could ever have set aside His own laws. There is amongst many of our scientific men an invincible repugnance to receive what the Bible tells us of the miraculous doings of Christ, and |