eth in him.” Turn now to the New Testament: "Likewise also the chief priests, mocking him, with the elders, said, He saved others, himself he can not save. He trusted God, let him deliver him" (Matt. xxvii. 41).

Other verses might be quoted and their fulfillment found in the Gospels: "I am poured out like water." "All my bones are out of joint." "They pierced my hands and my feet." "They parted my garments and cast lots upon my vesture." These were all prophecies written centuries before Christ, but they read like a history of the crucifixion.

Prophecies in regard to Christ's exaltation are equally abundant: "He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied." "He shall be exalted and be very high." As a response to such prophecies Paul wrote: "Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him."

The same truth is set forth in the Revelation. The angel who declares things which are to be, commences the accomplishment of all prophecy when he says: "The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord and of his Christ." As the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy, it should be the spirit of all

Christian teaching as well as of Christian lives. What grander theme is there than that upon which the whole Bible is written? Paul desired to know nothing but Christ and him crucified. There are interpreters who count the years of Daniel, and identify the beasts of the Revelation. They find all manner of modern things in the Bible prophecies-the Pope, the Suez Canal, the United States, etc. They may be right or wrong, but this we know, they miss the central truth. The testimony of Jesus is the heart of the Bible. Jesus, born according to promise, crucified, dead and buried, raised from the dead and exalted, to be a Prince and Savior.

SPIRITUAL VISION.

A writer calls the Bible "an unrivaled collection of classics," of which "pious, credulous souls make an oracle." He has not grown superstitious, but would be "second to none in asserting the great literary, historical and philosophical value of the Scriptures." He would give them a place among the greatest writings of all ages.

His words call to mind an old story. Hodge was an English peasant, who worked till 40 years old in the mill where his fathers had worked before him. Being proud of England's greatness, he was anxious to see the sea; and so, after much preparation, journeyed to Brighton. He was disappointed. The sea was no great matter. He told his neighbors how he reached Brighton at night, and went at once to the dock and found some stone steps, and went to the water and peered into it. "And thur wur noth'n uv it; t'wur just loike our millpond when yo go afore mornin' to turn on the water!"

Paul says: "The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God," for

"they are spiritually discerned." The Bible is an ocean to him whose eyes are opened, but to him that walketh in darkness it may seem a pond, valuable only as it furnishes a stream to his literary or historical mill.

Many Christians study the Bible by very dim light. Want of faith, or a sinful life, clouds their vision. God's Word is as the ocean in a fog, except that the fog is on their hearts, and not on the Word. We may all pray the prayer of the Psalmist: "Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law."

MIRACLES.

When the Jews asked Jesus, "What sign showest thou, seeing thou doest these things?" they voiced the feeling of humanity in all ages that the man who claims to speak with divine authority must show his credentials. When Moses appeared before Pharaoh he showed signs or performed miracles. Joshua and Elijah and other prophets and leaders gave like proof that they were sent of God.

Christ claimed that miracles proved his Messiahship. "Believe me," he said, "for the very works' sake." And again: "If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin." His judgment was that those who, after his miracles, did not believe in him, had sinned both against him and his Father.

The apostles rested Christ's Messiahship on his miracles. Peter said: "Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs which God did by him in the midst of you, as