answers to the soul Note the great stress here laid upon understanding. The argument is: Don’t be like a horse or a mule that has to be pushed or dragged or somehow got to where it has to go without taking an intelligent part in the matter. Here God clearly says. “I don’t want you to act from compulsion. I want intelligent co-operation, which can only proceed from understanding the whole position, viz., understanding what I am aiming at, why I aim at it, what is your relation to me and mine to you, and how as the result of this natural relation (Jachin) we co-operate so as to form a single whole (Boaz) combining both Personality and Individuality.” All through the Bible a clear understanding of the principle on which we trust in God is set forth as the true way of advance, faith in a thing because we know what it is, not from not knowing. “I know in whom I have believed “—“ I know that my Redeemer liveth”

—.“ Salvation is of the Jews, for we know what it is that we worship,” said Jesus to the Woman of Samaria. The reason is obvious, How can you make any progress with a thing that you don’t understand? “Understanding what the will of the Lord is “—“ Sing ye praises with understanding,” and so on, throughout the Bible. “Let him that glorieth glory in this, that he knoweth and understandeth me, saith the Lord (Jer. IX: 24). “This is Life Eternal to know thee the only true God and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent” (Jesus). We

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