We lose much in our study and contemplation of Christianity and God’s revelation in His Book by failing to recognize the essential unity of the divine government and plan of salvation. God is one. He is not divided or inconsistent. Some of His words may on the surface, taken in and of themselves alone, seem to be contradictory. Some of His acts may seem inconsistent with His character, but when understood they are divine paradoxes, notes and tones in the great diapason of the gospel which produce marvelous harmony. God is not one thing yesterday and another to-day. Yesterday we may have had a revelation of His mercy and long-suffering. To-day may be a revelation of His justice, or the working in physical effects of persistent transgression, but when clearly understood we can see that both mercy and justice are essential elements in His great perfect character of love guided by infinite wisdom. In one place we may have a wonderful revelation of God’s character in precept, in another a revelation of His character in promise; but both promise and precept are better understood, their beauty and breadth, depth and height, better appreciated if we will but blend them together as His Spirit ever will do in the heart of the receiver. God’s truth is not many truths, but one truth. In the scores of times the word occurs in our English Bible it is never in the plural. We never find “truths” (plural) in all the Word; it is invariably in the singular—truth. Why, then, should we talk of old truths, new truths, various truths, as if there were so many separate truths which God has locked in separate compartments of His great temple? It is true that the term is often used by writers or speakers in an accommodated sense. They do not mean us to understand that they hold these things as separate and distinct, and yet the very language itself conveys that idea, and at the same time perverts the clearer thoughts of the speaker or writer. The term “truths” is used to refer to different doctrines which Christians hold, but in this, also, we fail to grasp the divine unity, for God has not many doctrines, but one. In the Bible the plural, “doctrines,” is used only of false teaching and teachers. Never once do we read of doctrines according to godliness, but the doctrine—the teaching—which is according to godliness. The doctrine, the teaching, of the Bible is one indivisible body of teaching, not divided or divisible. We can not carve it up or segregate its parts, and so accept this doctrine and reject that; believe this truth essential, but that unimportant and non-essential. Just as soon as we take such positions as that we cut into the very body of vital truth and vital teaching. Faith in God is that which will accept His teaching, His truth; and, accepting that truth, if the heart is true it accepts everything there is in it. Accepting His teaching accepts everything there is in that teaching, all its various parts, phases, ramifications in present and future. All these phases of truth that men are inclined to divide up into so many different doctrines are merely avenues which lead to the very heart of the great all-encompassing truth, Christ Jesus. Of this we shall have more to say hereafter. We hope that our readers will take these simple suggestions and begin anew a study of the divine Word, the divine truth, the divine teaching. They will find a blessed strength and unity which will be seen in no other way.