he does "gifts of healings" or "workings of powers;" but, however rare may be the virtue, it is not now recognized as miraculous, although it is here shown to be more desirable and precious than all the miraculous gifts. Even Apostolic conceptions of the Supernatural cannot soar above the range of natural morality. The real nature of the "gift of Tongues" has given rise to an almost interminable controversy, and innumerable treatises have been written upon the subject. It would have been impossible for us to have exhaustively entered upon such a discussion in this work, for which it only possesses an incidental and passing interest; but fortunately such a course is rendered unnecessary by the fact that, so far as we are concerned, the miraculous nature of the "gift" alone comes into question, and may be disposed of without any elaborate analysis of past controversy or minute reference to disputed points. Those who desire to follow the course of the voluminous discussion will find ample materials in the treatises which we shall at least indicate in the course of our remarks, and we shall adhere as closely as possible to our own point of view. In 1 Cor. xii. 10, the Apostle mentions, amongst the other Charismata, "kinds of tongues" [------] and "interpretation of tongues" [------], as two distinct gifts. In v. 28 he again uses the expression [------], and in a following verse he inquires: "do all speak with tongues" [------](1) "do all interpret" [------]? He says shortly after, xiii. 1: "If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels [------] and have not love," &c. In the following chapter the expressions used in discussing the gift vary. {364}