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