The engineers who directed the work of the Hoosac Tunnel started two gangs of men from opposite sides of the mountain. So accurate was their survey that when they met midway in the mountain, the walls of the excavations approaching from the different starting points joined within less than an inch. The practical working of the bore proved the scientific accuracy of the survey. Man, starting from the side of his human spiritual need reaching out and upward toward God, is met by the revelation in Christ coming out and downward from God, a revelation which exactly fits and covers his need. This perfect match between the human need and the heavenly supply is the perfect proof of the Divine origin of the Bible. Just as color is intuitive to sight, harmony to the musical sense, beauty to the sense of the beautiful, so is God’s word intuitive to the spiritual consciousness. Coleridge was wont to say: “I know the Bible is true because it finds me.” [_End of Required Reading for February._] GRACE. By B. W. There is grace in the leaves of the unfolding rose, In the calm of the floating swan, In the bend of a river that swiftly flows, And the bridge of a single span. There is grace in the sweep of a midnight sky, In the bounds of a wild gazelle, In the measures of music rolling by, And the tale which the poets tell. There is grace in the round of that baby’s arm; In the form that is bending to kiss; There is grace in all ways that quietly charm And that silently waken bliss. But the grace which most deeply enamors my heart Is the bearing of Jesus to me; —How quietly he with all riches could part, A man and a Savior to be. In him is more fulness of all I call grace, Than the eye or the heart e’er possessed. His knowledge is heaven, wherever the place; His beauty, my quietest rest. WHAT GENIUS IS. By JAMES KERR. M. A. We will now consider what genius is, and, more particularly, whether it is an inborn or an acquired power. On this much debated question there are, so to speak, two schools of thought, diametrically opposed to one another, and each pushing its views to an extreme, as if there were no middle way in which the truth may be found.