It is infallibly safe, because no man has ever been able to show any evil consequences that could possibly follow the believer, upon any hypothesis. No man of any reason has ever doubted the safety of relying upon the Bible, if it be true. But we go beyond this, and declare, without hesitation, that if it were possible for it to prove untrue, it is infallibly safe to believe and rely upon it. Its moral precepts, to say the least, are good as any on earth. Its requirements in all our present relations are competent to make us as good and happy as we are capable of being in this life. And, certainly, if it could possibly prove untrue, the belief of it could not endanger our happiness in the life to come. Beyond all controversy, he who believes and practices the Bible, attains to the highest perfection and happiness of which his being is capable in this life, and stands as good a chance for happiness in the life to come as he who rejects it. And if, in the end, the whole could be shown to be a mistake, no man living can show that the believer in the Bible can possibly be in danger, in this world or in the world to come. No evil consequences can possibly follow the believer, in any event. It is strange, if that which is infallibly safe, should not prove true. REVELATION OF THE MYSTERY. God is unchangeable; the same yesterday, to-day and forever. Jesus, the manifestation of God in the flesh, and the exact representation of his person, in whom dwells all the fullness of the Godhead, bodily; the concentration and embodiment of all divine benevolence, goodness and perfection, is unvaryingly the same—the constant, the ever blessed and merciful philanthropist. Christianity, as set forth upon the sacred pages of the New Testament, is but the revelation of the mystery from the beginning of the world, hid in God who created all things by Jesus Christ, but the development of the eternal purpose of God, the unfolding of the infinite benevolence, mercy and goodness, in a gracious system of pardon, restoration and final redemption, for all them who obey him, through the proclamation of the glorious gospel of the blessed God. It was the infinite goodness that prompted it, the infinite will that resolved it, the infinite wisdom that devised it, and infinite power that executed it. God first purposed the gracious scheme of benevolence. He then promised it to Abraham, saying, “In thee, and in thy seed, all the nations of the earth shall be blessed.” He succeeded this promise by many clear predictions of the prophets, and divine testimonies from their hallowed lips. Yet these things were not understood by mortal man. Great and good men believed the promise and the testimonies of the prophets, rested in hope and died in faith, without understanding; fully appreciating or comprehending the full import of the good things to come. Eye had not then seen, ear had not heard, nor had it entered into the heart of man to conceive the good