desire to justify thee. If not, hold thy peace. I shall teach thee."

These expressions coming from a mere boy, could hardly fail to astonish the four old men.

Please go back a half dozen paragraphs. The writer desires especially to declare his firm belief in the absolute correctness of these affirmations of the Spiritually enlightened speaker who uttered them! Try to take no half-way or doubtful position. If you or I, were able to control our thought, so perfectly that our reliance on the Divine, was entire, entire; these assertions could be proved, by actual demonstration; for there is no limit to the power of Spirit!

Here lies our trouble. Our humanity is hampered by the great unreliable. Faith does not control us in our present condition. Why? Because "The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God.” (1st Cor., 2:14.)

Peter walked on the water! But how long? Until the great unreliable said "Fear." (Mat. 14:29.)

Let the reader now turn to the thirty-fourth chapter and he will find it addressed almost entirely to the three friends whom Elihu characterizes as "ye wise men; ye men of understanding;" and to these humanly experienced old men, he speaks with the same authority (Spiritual, inspired from above), with which he had spoken to Job. Turning again to the latter, he says (Chap. 35):

"Thinkest thou this to be right that thou saidst, 'My righteousness is more than God's?'

"For thou saidst, 'What profit shall I have if I be cleansed from my sin?'

"I will answer thee and thy companions with thee. Look to the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than thou. If thou sinnest, what doest thou against Him? If thou be righteous, what givest thou Him? Thy wickedness may hurt a man, as thou art, and thy righteousness may profit the son of a man.”

What comparison can there be between man (human); and his maker; Spirit? (Job 4: 17 to 21.)

"But none saith, 'Where is God my maker, who teachest us more than the beasts and makest us wiser than the birds?" And so, pretentious and presumptuous man depending more on human reasoning, than on Spiritual understanding, more on the erring and false, than on the unerring and true; more on knowledge than on wisdom, is led into concepts, opinions and beliefs that involve us in mistakes and troubles.

"Surely, God will not hear vanity. Although thou sayest thou shalt not see him, yet judgment is before Him, therefore trust thou in Him. Job doth open his mouth in vain,-words without knowledge.' (Job, 35:16.)

In chapters thirty-six and thirty-seven, Elihu with "knowledge from afar" (inspiration) gives grand de

*Solomon Wiseman attended Earth's college-
Read all the books on the shelves of knowledge,
Took "first honors" in the study of knowledge,
Clothed himself with the garment of knowledge,
Constructed a home in the grove of knowledge,
His bread was baked in the ovens of knowledge,
His pleasures were sought in the harem of knowledge,
He builded a house to the glory of knowledge,
And exalted himself, in this temple of knowledge,
Forgot the true God in the worship of knowledge,
Found "no new thing" as result of Earth's knowledge,
Called it all "vanity"-and sought Truth's college!

(Read 2nd Chapter of Ecclesiastes.)

scriptions of the allness and the absolute oneness of the Divine Power which we call God.

"Hearken unto this, O Job; stand still, and consider the wondrous works of God!"

Every man may see it; man may behold it afar off. "Touching the Almighty, we cannot find Him out; He is excellent in power, and in judgment, and in plenty of justice; He will not afflict." Note this: "God will not afflict!" Good never did Evil. Yet, neither Job nor his three old friends could comprehend this.

These are the concluding words of this ancient forerunner. He has indeed prepared the way, not through the skillful deductions of learned and experienced men—“"the wise and prudent;" not by or through the channel of human thought, which, while serviceable to man in so many ways, is always liable to veer as it encounters obstacles in its path; but through Inspiration, which comes from a source indescribably higher than human reason, and gives true understanding, in place of varying opinions. Elihu refers to God as "My maker;" while neither of the three old friends use that expression.

By their silence, the three friends manifestly acknowledge the superiority of Elihu, even though he so distinctly disagreed with them. Neither of them attempted to make any reply. So also did Job recognize this younger man, as one who spoke from knowledge higher than his own. He was ready to dispute and wrangle with his old companions, but received the affirmations of this new friend, as something that could not be controverted or impugned, because of his recognized Spiritual authority. Nor is there any word

of resentment from either Job or his friends when their errors are pointed out to them. Bewildered amazement, changes, to an acknowledgment of the superiority by revelation.

Is it too much to say that this Spiritually instructed messenger was the precursor of the ever-coming Christ, who was before Abraham, and is with man always? Here was the beginning of dawn in Job's understanding, to be followed by light, before unseen and unknown, but vaguely heard of.

Of John the Baptist the Master said that "none greater was born of woman." There is nothing to indicate education or experience in his case (he was about the age of Jesus), therefore this immortal testimony makes it clear that John's greatness was through the possession of Spiritual intuition, so far above human knowledge. Paul says, "The wisdom of this world is foolishness with God." "The thoughts of the wise are vain." Isaiah says "Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for wherein is he to be accounted of?" Corresponding sayings are numerous in the books of the Bible. If you look for them, with open eyes, "you will find.”

But Inspiration speaks only truth, because it proceeds from the great source of all Truth. In it there is absolutely no element of deviation-no right hand or left, but unconditional straight-forwardness. Inspired Truth comes not from or through mortal seeing, or mortal hearing, nor from the deepest thinking of the human mind. Inspiration is sacredly and exclusively Spiritual.

Paul, in the Second chapter of First Corinthians,

describes the working of Spirit in his own consciousness and the utter dissimilarity and vast superiority of that which is revealed, as compared with that which is discerned through "the wisdom of this world." He says: "My speech and my preaching, was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power; that your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God. But God hath revealed them unto us by His Spirit, for the Spirit searchest all things, yea, the deep things of God. Now we have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is of God."

Carefully read and study that chapter. It is in itself a volume of information. Inspired ideas were evolved before the days of Elihu, and by no means ended with the days of Paul. What, indeed, has revelation not done for religion and mankind! What is it accomplishing in these latter days? How can revelation be, except by Inspiration? When or how, did what we consider inspiration, begin? Who can say it is ended-or ever will end? What evidence exists that it belongs to any age? Has God changed his methods? The Bible is built on the rock of inspiration.

A mortal man is made up of a physical body and a human intellect, which may be compared to dust and vapor.* How utterly different from Spiritual man, made in God's likeness. Can dust and vapor (materiality) be the likeness of God, which is Spirit? On the contrary, is it not the unlikeness of Spirit?

*Dust and vapor-that which crumbles and that which fades and disappears.