reasoning may it not be true that mind is infinite in its capacities? May it not, in the future, comprehend many things which are now incomprehensible? My increase of knowledge, consequent upon the capacities of my mind, enables me to comprehend a great deal that I could not comprehend a few years ago. If I could not have apprehended those things prior to comprehending them, I never would have learned enough about them to comprehend them. I always apprehend a thing, know it is, before I begin to investigate it. Now, I know God, but I do not comprehend him. He is too great in his majesty for my present knowledge. I may never comprehend him, still I apprehend him and know enough for all practical life purposes. I believe that I shall know a great deal more about him in the future; yes, more even in this life, if I am only faithful in “going on to know the Lord.” MATERIALISM IN ITS BEARINGS UPON PERSON AND PERSONALITY. Personality is individuality, existing in itself, but with a nature as its ground.—_Coleridge._ Paley says: The seat of intellect is a person. Lock says: Person stands for a thinking, intelligent being, that has reason and reflection, and can consider itself as itself, ... which it does only by that consciousness which is inseparable from thinking, and as it seems to me essential to it, it being impossible for any one to perceive without perceiving that he does perceive. Henry Taylor says: The quality of intelligence is essential in order to person. That which is not intelligent we call a thing, and that which is intelligent we call a person. By the word person we therefore mean a thing or substance that is intelligent, or a conscious being; including in the word the idea both of the substance and its properties together. Oldfield says: Person is a subsisting substance or “_suppositum_,” endued with reason as a man is, that is capable of religion. Thompson says: Person as, applied to Deity, expresses the definite and certain truth that God is a living being and not a dead material energy. Jouffroy says: Personality, in jurisprudence, denotes the capacity of rights and obligations which belong to an intelligent will. A person is a being who is intelligent and free. Every spiritual and moral agent, every cause which is in possession of responsibility and consciousness, is a person. Webster says: Person is an individual human being consisting of body and soul. We apply the word to living beings possessed of a rational nature; the body when dead is not called a person. The Biblical ground nature of the word person is in these words: “What man knoweth the things of a man but the spirit of man which is in him.”