the mind than to help it. The Plan of God is not abstruse. but plain and simple,
and yet it is really a Science; it is knowledge from the Highest Source. The
word “Science” means simply Truth. And therefore when our Lord said. “Thy
Word is Truth,” it was equivalent to saying, “Thy Word is the Science ” He
also prayed, “Sanctify them through Thy Truthn-through this Science. We
therefore direct careful attention to the study of this, the true Science-the Plan
of the Ages, revealed in the Scriptures.
But some people object, saying that they see nothing scientific in the Bible. It
is a common saying that the Bible is an old fiddle upon which any tune can be
played- a Methodist tune, a Baptist tune, a Presbyterian tune, or any tune the
player may desire. We are sorry to have to say it, dear friends, but it is never-
theless a fact, that the Bible, the greatest of all sciences, the testimony of the
greatest of all Scientists, has suffered more at the hands of its friends than at
the hands of any other class of people. They forgot to “search the Scriptures”
and to “rightly divide the Word of truth,” and went to creed-making, each ac-
cording to his own liking. From the standpoint of infidelity, it is true that the
Bible appears contradictory; but it appears so only because of the varied hu-
man misrepresentalions, and not because it is so in fact. By observing order
(Heaven’s first Law) the whole Word now opens up to God’s people who are
hungering and thirsting for it; because God’s time for unsealing it has come. In
“the time of the End, the wise shall understand-the wise in Christ .Jesus. Hav-
ing been thus blessed of God through observing His order in the study of His
Word, we come together at this time. We are told to prove all things by God’s
Word, and to hold fast that which is good-that which we find in accord with
the Bible, and that only
We call attention first to these three large upper arches (pointing to the Chart).
These arches represent Dispensations. By dispensation is meant the order or
general character of a certain period of time-God’s course in reference to man-
kind during a certain time. The manner of His dealing in each of these dispen-
sations is attested by the facts of history. The First Dispensation (point) ex-
tends from the creation of Adam to the Flood; the Second Dispensation (point)
from the Flood to the Second Coming of Christ; and the Third Dispensation
from the Second Coming of Christ onward. But we fancy some one saying, “I thought there was some Second Adventism in this”; and therefore we will stop
right here to disabuse the mind of any of you of that thought. I am not an Ad-
ventist-neither a .’Second Adventist,” nor a “Seventh Day Adventist.”I know
there is prejudice on this point. Let me say, however, that I do believe in the
Second Coming of Christ. All Christians do! I know that the Roman Catholics
believe in it, and the Methodists, and the Presbyterians, and many others. We
