Another lesson is, not to despise the accompaniments of the first movements of the Spirit of God in man. It is not within the scope of this work to enquire why it is that when a man is moved by the Spirit of God such strange phenomena as we have been studying in the prophetic bands, which still accompany many revivals, should be the immediate results. There must be patience with these things as beginnings; but equally must there be impatience with them when they elevate themselves into a permanent claim to recognition as the only signs of a true religious life, and when they refuse to recognise as higher the sane and ethical movement to which they themselves have given birth. One of the chief difficulties in things religious is to recognise the offspring of a great movement, to discover the time when the child must be allowed its new-found freedom, to know when symbols may be dropped and the reality brought in. Protestantism has given birth to wider thoughts about God and deeper appreciations of the extent of His working, which are the logical outcome of Protestantism, and yet which are often repudiated by those whose Protestantism is of the aggressive type. A progressive movement of any kind always has these strifes. They are as constant in Science as in Religion, only in Science they are more easily overcome by the greater readiness to accept new revelation. Christianity is a religion that moves, and, as Christ Himself foretold, it causes the son to rise up against his father, the new generation to come into conflict with the old. Ours it is never to forget that the Kingdom of God is on the side of the child; except ye receive the Kingdom of God as a child, in the spirit of enquiry and growth, except ye never grow old, ye cannot enter therein. THE RELIGION OF THE LITERARY PROPHETS THE CHRONOLOGY OF THE PROPHETS _Assyrian Period._ B.C. Amos 760-750 B.C. Hosea 750-737 Accession of Tiglath Pileser III 745 Isaiah 740-700 Invasion of Sennacherib 701 Micah 724- Fall of Samaria 722 Zephaniah _circa_ 627 Western Palestine invaded by Scythians Nahum 610-608? Fall of Nineveh 607 _Chaldæan Period._ Jeremiah 626-586 Deuteronomy discovered 621 Habakkuk 605-600? First Great Exile 597 Ezekiel 593-573 Second Great Exile 586 _Persian Period._