"For this cause many are weak and sickly among
you, and many sleep."-I CORINTHIANS xi. 30.
VI. HUNGER AND THIRST AFTER RIGHTEOUSNESS

"Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after
righteousness for they shall be filled."--MATTHEW
v. 6.

VII. THE KEYNOTE OF THE EPISTLE TO THE
HEBREWS

"Take heed, brethren, lest haply there shall be in
any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away
from the living God: but exhort one another day by
day, so long as it is called To-day; lest any one of
you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin for we
are become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the
beginning of our confidence firm unto the end.”—
HEBREWS iii. 12-14.

VIII. BOWING IN THE HOUSE OF RIMMON

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"And Naaman said, Shall there not then, I pray
thee, be given to thy servant two mules' burden of
earth? for thy servant will henceforth offer neither
burnt offering nor sacrifice unto other gods, but unto
the Lord. In this thing the Lord pardon thy servant,
that when my master goeth into the house of Rimmon
to worship there, and he leaneth on my hand, and I
bow myself in the house of Rimmon: when I bow
down myself in the house of Rimmon, the Lord pardon
thy servant in this thing. And he said unto him, Go
in peace.' -2 KINGS v. 17-19.

IX. SHAME

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"Let us run with patience the race that is set
before us. Looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher
of our faith; who, for the joy that was set before
Him, endured the cross, despising the shame, and is
set down at the right hand of the throne of God."-
HEBREWS xii. 2.

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X. THE DENIAL OF PETER

"When Jesus beheld him, He said, Thou art Simon
the son of Jona: thou shalt be called Cephas, which
is, by interpretation, a stone.”—JOHN i. 42.

XI. CHARITY AND LOVE

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"And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three
but the greatest of these is charity."—I CORINTHIANS
xiii. 13.

In the Revised Version it is: "But now abideth
faith, hope, love, these three: and the greatest of
these is love."

XII. CHARITABLE BELIEF

"Charity believeth all things."-I CORINTHIANS
xiii. 7.

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"Whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord,
and not unto men; knowing that of the Lord ye shall
receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the
Lord Christ."-COLOSSIANS iii. 23, 24.

"The Son of man shall come in the glory of His
Father, with His angels; and then He shall reward
every man according to his works."-MATTHEW
xvi. 27.

"For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that
not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: not of works,
lest any man should boast."-EPHESIANS ii. 8, 9.

xv. REWARD ACCORDING TO WORK

"The Son of man shall come in the glory of His
Father, with His angels; and then He shall reward
every man according to his works."-MATTHEW
xvi. 27.

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"For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that
not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: not of works,
lest any man should boast."—EPHESIANS ii. 8, 9.

XVI. THE TWO CLASSES

"When the Son of man shall come in His glory,
and all the holy angels with Him, then shall He sit
upon the throne of His glory: And before Him shall
be gathered all nations; and he shall separate them
one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep
from the goats: And He shall set the sheep on His
right hand, but the goats on the left."-MATTHEW
XXV. 31-33.

XVII. WORKING TOGETHER WITH GOD.

"We, then, as workers together with Him, beseech
you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain."
-2 CORINTHIANS vi. I.

XVIII. THE FORGIVENESS OF SINS

"And such were some of you: but ye are washed,
but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name
of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.”—
I CORINTHIANS vi. II.

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GNOSTICISM AND AGNOSTICISM

"We know in part, and we prophesy in part: but when that which is perfect is come, that which is in part shall be done away. When I was a child, I spake as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child: now that I am become a man, I have put away childish things."-I CORINTHIANS xiii. 9-11.

THE history of man's search for knowledge in every branch of study has commonly to pass through three stages. First there is the season of toilsome struggle with difficulties, when perplexing problems are grappled with; a time of labour, no doubt, but of labour rewarded by a sense of constant progress, as difficulty after difficulty is mastered and problem after problem finds its solution. At length we reach a summit from which we can look round with some complacency on our achievements, when we see below us the heights that had been the object of our early ourselves with the

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cease and many never care to proceed further; but at length, if not the individual, at least the generation, catches sight of new heights that must be scaled. The theories that had explained our early difficulties are seen to leave residual difficulties behind. If these cannot also be made to disappear the theory is convicted of incompleteness if not of error. So further work has to be done usually what has been already done has carried us some stages on our way; but it may even be that in order to reach what we now perceive to be the real summit, we have to retrace our steps, come down from our boasted eminence, and humbly at the bottom begin the ascent anew.

Thus the most successful theories have had to submit to reconsideration and revision. The Newtonian theory of gravitation, for example, triumphantly established its claims by showing that a number of unconnected laws which had been suggested by observation were all simple consequences of one great principle. Yet the further question had to be faced: Will that principle explain not only all the general features of planetary motion but also all the minor inequalities ? And some of these were at times so stubborn that it was seriously investigated whether the law of gravitation would not have to be modified, or at least some hypothesis added as to the