QUES. 17.-Some one here accuses the Bible of being a book of contradictions because in one place it says, "No man hath ascended into heaven, but He that came down from heaven," while in another it tells that Elijah went into heaven without dying.

ANS.-A careful reading of John 3 :13, with what precedes and follows, will, we believe, show that what occupies the Lord's thoughts is not the mere ascending to heaven to abide there, as was the case with Elijah, but a testimony rendered here by one who had teen there, had come here from there, and belonged there ; was therefore truly heavenly, and as able to bear witness concerning heavenly things as in the Old Testament He had told of earthly things.

QUES. 18.-In Genesis we have the account of God clothing Adam and Eve with coats of skin. Does this imply that they were saved ?

ANS.-That alone would not, for it might have been done simply as a type of what to us is salvation. But in calling his wife Eve (chap. 3:20) Adam shows his faith in God's testimony concerning the promised Seed of the woman (verse 15), and wherever there is true faith in what God reveals, there is salvation. The measure of spiritual intelligence depends upon the measure of the revelation given, and received in the heart; but whatever the measure of the revelation, the believing God is salvation. Abraham believed God's promise of a son when he was old and childless; "he believed the Lord, and it was counted to him for righteousness" (Gen. 15:3-6).

QUES. 19.-Will you kindly answer through Help and Food the following question ?

If a person has been baptized, on the profession of faith, in the name of the triune God at the administration of the ordinance, is it necessary to be baptized again on any plea whatever ! Is not being baptized in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, Christian baptism ?

ANS.-Assuredly it is, and Eph. 4:5 affirms there is " One Lord, one faith, one baptism." To repeat it therefore is contrary to the Word, and the destruction of its meaning. Imagine a foreigner coming to this country, renouncing all allegiance to the Power he was under, and pledging solemn allegiance to the Power of this land, then after doing this asking to have it done over again. It could only cast ridicule upon the solemn ordinance.