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Show 1 A UL1U CUIliE. SI , , Tjie Cfiru'tan VUnat says. "A person profesMni; holiness 1 -honId eep as tar awjj from iimoih 1 and revelations and mere impression I , snppoed to come from the spirit as J i po slble, and follow the plan word of j God. There is peril at everj iint, I but the wor 1 of tiod is a 'lamp to our I foetandalghttoourpath.'" By ".he word of GoJ" the Uru ttan Yi!nta mcaus the Holy Scnp-' Scnp-' tures, or the Old and Xew Testa ments. These are to bo "a lamp to "V our feet and a light to our path." . Well, tiippo3u we take this plain guide, and follow it, shall we noi walk in the very way that the fU- ncu warns all Cnristians to avoid? Xet us see. "For a? niauy as are led b the Sint of GoJ, they -ire the Sons of God." Iloin.iu,lI 'But the maniftstation of the Spirit is gu en to e en .man to profit witliak" X Cor. xii, 7. i sa "Follon after chant and desire Kjiintu.il gifts but rather that j o ma prophes " I Cor. xlv; I. . "tthcreforo brethren roxet to ' prophesy, and forbid nottotpfakwith tongues." a. 39 "Qnecch not the spirit." , "Uespive not prophey mgs. 11 I Thcss." . 1, 20 ' "And it shall toiiio to jass iu the last day, saith God, I will pour out ' i'J mi I'Tit upon all flesh, and jour I J s'anJourdaushtirssIiaUproplie- ( v j ! ani Joar jounj men shall set ) 1 I iiMons and your old men shall dream ! N, dreams. And on my servants and on I j myha-iJmaidcas I will pour out, in I ,hoHO di s of inv Spirit, and th 1 ! "hM projihey." Acts a, 17. is. j WecoulJ fill columns with quo I tatious of a similar character t- j show b-youd dUpute that 'th. I P'-alu word of God" gives couui I of tQc vrj opposite character t. I tnatoftheHe,whichitis cleai v is mUnamel (SiruUan, if the JCe X '. Te-tament h auj guide to what Uh C . term siniflc. - Tne Presence and power or tl. ' Holy Ghost in U,e aeatls of pread I ers and people ore tho great m-cd Christendom The dead lette. which is their 'only guide" is in ' v ! "rtfortbeneedsorhum'uity ( r' Without those very impressions ot that livinSpint which tho ir6ie. counts as a peril, the Bible is no. really the "Word of Uod." Ii ? " ' tuu fir of the present vita i J ' Sh-it to give it that l,fe and light , j '"""twhicUitism-reverblaga , j - th su,cl1 "I"" gmdes as th, j I incandthe preachers who lea. j ) the uioi in tLn fal faith, m , wonder that modern Chn-tendom U I suchamizs of confusion and it . 1 ' doctrines sai amass of conflittim 1. inconis:tncuxi. I |