If the Bible is the word of God, it is an infallible rule of faith and practice. This question having been settled and the book accepted as a divine revelation, all reasoning in regard to the truth of its teachings becomes not only impious but absurd. If we find statements that appear to us to be in conflict either with facts or with reason, the only rational conclusion is that since our view is imperfect and inadequate, it must be erroneous. Sitting in judgment upon the acts of the Omniscient is weak as well as wicked. The following words, which are copied from an article by the Rev. Dr. Goodwin, in the Advance, present the rational view of the matter:— "In considering the subject it will be well to remind ourselves at the outset that the question is not one of metaphysics, nor science, nor philosophy of any kind. It is altogether a question of what the teaching of the word of God is. It does not matter whether that teaching seems to us rational or irrational, abreast of our times or behind them, out of accord with science or in accord with it. Our concern is solely with the utterances of this book. If there be things too deep for us, irreconcilable with the so-called laws of nature, things which antagonize and upset even all the theories spun by wise men about God and methods, that is God's matter and not ours. He is responsible for having given us this book as the revelation of his will; we are responsible only for receiving and obeying it."—National Presbyterian.