& TOHU-VA-VOHU the earlier, could not have been awanting, as the advance in the Kingdom of God is never per saltum. It must have been an immense reformation which David brought about, when we compare the state of semi-heathenism under Saul with such a hymnology as that introduced by David. No wonder that, despite all his failings, he was called ‘a man after God’s own heart.’ Saul, like most men risen from the dregs, was intensely jealous—which in such cases means self- conscious. There are two wonderful things by which the Bible shows its Divine knowledge of the human heart and the world’s need : it lifts up to a moral level those who are low, and it leads to voluntary self-abasement those who are high. Currentt occurrit is a principle which holds good of all God’s dealings in grace, whether at our conversion or afterwards in our Christian progress. Love is not self-conscious. Why should our love to God be always self-inspective ?