I have been interested lately in this character of the book of God-that it reveals God to us not by description, but through His own actings. From the beginning of the book it is so; and it is a blessed fact. What a different thing we should have if our God had employed prophets to describe Him! What a precious thing we have in seeing God Himself in action ! Philosophy seems to delight itself in describing God, thinking to magnify its object by long and learned treatises. But this is not the way of Scripture. Scripture allows God to show Himself by His acts, not undertaking to describe Him.

And what a proof that God reveals Himself to us in action and in personality, not by theological description, is the mystery of the incarnation, with all that it led to in the life of Jesus-His childhood, His youth, His subjection under the law at Nazareth, His ministry in His. sayings and doings; His sorrows, temptations, and death; His resurrection and glory! What a witness does all that bear to the great truth that we are here considering together, that God's method has not been to commit the revelation of Himself, who He is, and what He is, to the:description of even inspired men, but that He has chosen to show Himself to us, lovingly and personally. His:own activities bespeak Him, and not the pen of a theologian. J. G. B.