But Nature does not tell all the secret. If we knew only what Nature tells we should be compelled to cry with the old Hebrew prophet, “Verily, Thou art a God that hidest Thyself.” After all Nature has to say, our entreaty is still, “Tell me, I pray Thee, Thy name.” (2) God’s name has been revealed to us more plainly _in the Bible_. In this book you have one name for God following another, and with every fresh name came new light. Westcott says that “the three chief stages in the history of the Old Testament are characterised in broad outline by the names under which God was pleased to make Himself known in each!” First He is El-Shaddai, the God of might. Then He is Jehovah, the Great I AM, the God of the covenant. Then He is Lord of Hosts, the King of the Universe, the Disposer of Events, the Ruler of the world. It was a great event in the history of men when God announced by His servants and prophets a new name for Himself: We talk about great discoveries—the discovery of a new mountain range, or river, or lake in the Dark Continent, the discovery of some new facts in the realm of science, the discovery of some new method of applying Nature’s forces to do men’s work. I am not saying these are not great discoveries, but I do say the greatest discovery that ever happens in this world of ours is the discovery of a new name for God. You have the history of those names, those discoveries in the Bible. To trace the giving of these names is to trace the history of men as they were being led out of darkness into His most marvellous light. But who would not feel that, if the Bible stopped short at the book of Malachi, the light at best was only the dim and uncertain twilight. If the old book finished there, our cry would be still, “Tell me, I pray Thee, Thy name.” Well, thanks be to Him, He has told us His name. He has kept nothing from us.