manifest the instability of the creature. The true heirs of heavenly glory must therefore

wait until the time appointed for the complete dispossession of the spiritual Amorite, for

the day when they shall possess their possessions.

In these articles we are not advancing positive teaching, but giving the testimony of a

number of readers. We have no right or authority to decide which testimony shall be

deemed good or which shall be deemed indifferent; the very variety will show how the

Lord still speaks "in sundry times and in diverse manners" in making all men see what is

the dispensation of the mystery (Eph. 3: 9, R.V.).

The testimonies that we have cited hitherto have not taken us to obvious passages like

Eph. 3:, but have shown how passages that are somewhat removed from the actual

revelation of the mystery can be used to illumine the subject. We come, however, in this

testimony to one aspect of the subject that is positive in its teaching.

This friend (who is an active worker for Christ) has had a long and varied experience.

Interest in the teaching of the epistles was first quickened by the suggestion of a friend

that the occurrence and usage therein of prepositions and personal pronouns should be

studied. This in its turn led to a more careful reading of the epistles, and at length

Anyone who has approached the revelation of the mystery in this way, will have seen

it from the comprehensive standpoint, and will not be easily tripped up by details and

seeming contradictions.  After  Acts 28:  has been seen as the dispensational

boundary, the three spheres of blessing into which the blessed hope is subdivided

becomes obvious and most necessary if all Scripture is to be accepted without reserve.

The three spheres of blessing are as follows:--