he
people are flocking to Christ. To him it is no surprise, for he knew
that they would do it while others were still skeptical. He knew it
because he knew God.

Let us remember that, however true it may be that God speaks in
conscience, providence, through the church and by the preaching of his
Word, his supreme revelation is in his own Word. This Book contains
the revealed will of God and this Book is his Word.

II

Why are we not having revelations to-day as we know they have been
given at other times? Why is not some one in our own land especially
working out some of the great plans and purposes of God? The question
is easily answered. The difficulty is not with God. He is the same
forever. We alone must be at fault. Without any spirit of harsh
criticism and with a prayer to God that he will make my spirit as he
would have it, permit me to say that I fear the visions are not being
given to us for the following reasons:

First: Because of the disrespect shown to his Son. We have come to a
time when men seek to limit his knowledge, and occasionally they are
saying that he did not know concerning the things of which he spake.
Such blasphemy makes us shudder. There is a disposition to
misinterpret his teaching. They did it in Paul's day and he spoke by
inspiration when he said, "If any man present another gospel than that
which I have presented let him be accursed." There is a disposition to
rob him of his deity. "Is Jesus divine?" was the question asked not
long ago of one who called himself a minister, and he answered, "Yes,
in the sense that Buddha is divine or Confucius is divine." Our faces
grow white with fear as we listen to such blasphemous statements in
such an age as this. This helps to overcast the sky and God can hardly
trust us with a vision in such an atmosphere.

Second: An irreverent criticism of the Word of God. That there is a
reverent criticism all will allow, and that many who are walking these
paths are devout believers in God and in his word I would like to be
among the first to acknowledge. There are three kinds of critics
to-day. First: Those who honestly want the best and who are studying
carefully and prayerfully to know the truth. Second: Those who ape
scholarship. Third: Those whose lives may not be right, and for them
if any part of the Bible could be cut away they would be less
condemned. We need not fear, however; our Bible is not in danger, for
this is large