The worlds were built by it:- " The worlds were framed by the word of God " (Heb. 11 :3).

The heavens owe their existence to it:- " By the word oi God the heavens were of old " (2 Pet. 3:5).

Light came with it:- "God said, Let there be light:and there was light" (Gen. i:3).

Children of the Father are begotten through it :- "Of His own will begat He us with the Word of truth " (Jas. i :18).

We are regenerate through it:- "Except a man be born of water (the Word) and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God" (Jno. 3:5). Thus by it the spiritually and morally dead are made to live:- "The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God; and they that hear shall live " (Jno. 5 :25).

Three words from the word fell on a man rotting in the grave, and immediately he rose to his feet (Jno. ii :43).

All the dead are to hear His voice and shall arise :- "Marvel not at this:for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear His voice, and shall come forth ; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation " (Jno. 5:28, 29).

By the Word God's people are sanctified :- " Sanctify them through Thy truth ; Thy Word is truth" (Jno. 17:17). "Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth" (i Pet. i:22). S. J. P.