“THE Bible was written for the people—the mass; and if God had not intended the Word of faith to be understood in a common-sense way, he would have prefaced the Bible with a dictionary, and have explained the nature of believing; but as there is no such explanation given, we infer that we are to understand it just as it is understood in ordinary language among men.” —Ladies’ Repository. The foregoing commends itself to all the candid. Would that all might look thus upon the Bible. Much confusion and many fables would be removed from the minds of the people. The spiritual interpretations throw the whole Bible into a mass of jargon, that only serve to make the study of the Scriptures distasteful and unprofitable. In this way the enemy of all righteousness keeps the mass of the people in darkness. How clearly developed is the sign of the last days, mentioned by Paul,—“They will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; and they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.”—Ex.