22 TOHU-VA-VOHU
Our friends, the Plymouth Brethren, feel that in
the Holy Scriptures they have got into a magnifi-
cent forest, and they straightway set themselves most
busily to cut it up into toothpicks.
It is not the sinner, but the sinning, who should
tremble.
Justification is the credit side, Sanctification the
debit side, of the Christian life.
The breastplate of the high priest indicated not,
as generally supposed, his intercession for the people,
but his representation of Israel.
Thank God for what He reveals, and thank God
for what He conceals. The faith which follows God
into the light is supplemented and completed by that
which follows Him in the dark.
I do not see any reason to deny the intercession
of the saints in heaven, either for those whom they
loved on earth, or for the progress of the kingdom of
God. This does not by any means imply our invo-
cation of their intercession, which could only be