———— _ — —_—— TOHU-VA-VOHU 3 Jat froid,’ which means, It produces cold; while in German we have it: ‘Hs thut kalt,’ It affects one cold, which is the true thing. There are even good people who suffer from religious or, still worse, from theological dyspepsia. Beware of spiritual biliousness. Perhaps it is best cured homeopathically—i.e. similia similibus. Put two of these people together—that ia, if they are both genuine. [Tam afraid I am not becoming more—what they call—orthodox; but I hope I am becoming more Christian. Formerly I used to find it much easier to be orthodox than now. I suppose I was working with thinner ropes. But now these two ropes—free grace and human responsibility—have grown so very large in my hands, that I am not strong enough to tie them together. If I did not believe mn the perseveranee of saints, I could no longer believe in the Saviour Himself. For is it not so that at our conversion we put ourselves with perfect confidence into the hands of Christ, to be saved by Him ?—and salvation would scarce be worth having B 2 ro at