Let the student, then, remember this the first essential to thought-expression in speech or writing is clearness. It is not enough that one may be understood, one must be understood--less than this is dire failure. To secure the quality of clearness in thought-expression sacrifice anything, everything, seeming elegance, high sounding phrases, harmonious sounding sentences, brave tautology even, but make yourself understood. LESSON XIV. (Scripture Reading Exercise.) THE DISPENSATION OF THE GOSPEL COMMITTED TO ENOCH. ANALYSIS. I. Enoch's Place in the Line of the Patriarchs. II. The Visions of Enoch. III. The Founding of the City of Enoch--Translation. IV. The Writings of Enoch. REFERENCES. Gen. v:18-24. Jude 14, 15; Hebrews xi:5. Notes 1, 2. Book of Moses (P. G. P.) ch v:21-68. Ibid, ch vii. See Article "Enoch," Smith's Bible Dictionary. Also Kitto same title. Josephus' Antiquities, Bk. I, ch. iii. Jude 14, 15. And see Article "Book of Enoch" in Seventy's Bible Dictionary, and Smith and Kitto cited above, on same title. Notes 3, 4. NOTES. _1. Enoch:_ Enoch is said to be the seventh from Adam (Jude 14). This is counting both Cain and Abel among the patriarchs. From the time of Seth until the birth and calling of Enoch there was an uninterrupted line of righteous men holding the priesthood, but a special dispensation of the Gospel seems, nevertheless, to have been given unto Enoch. The information we have of this patriarch in the Bible is extremely meagre, the references being found in Gen. v: 18-24, in the brief allusion to him in Jude 14, 15 and in Hebrew xi: 5. Apart from these references the only reliable information we have of Enoch is to be found in the Book of Moses, (P. G. P.) chaps, vi, vii. The occasion for giving the dispensation of the Gospel to Enoch seems to have been the development of very great wickedness among the Antediluvians and the Lord called unto Enoch out of heaven appointing him to prophesy unto the people concerning the impending calamities to fall upon them, and to cry repentance unto them. It is from the Book of Moses, ch. vi that we learn how complete was the dispensation of the Gospel committed unto Enoch; for therein is the cause of Adam's fall, the means of redemption provided, as also an account of Adam's acceptance of the Gospel is set forth in considerable detail. Among the great events of the dispensation committed unto Enoch is, first, the account given by prophecy of great battles between the people of Canaan, who were the descendants of Cain, the murderer, and other inhabitants of the earth, chiefly the people of Shum. Second, the fact that the rest of the descendants of Adam hold aloof from association with the descendants of Cain, who were cursed with blackness and their land made a desert, (Book of Moses, ch. vii). Third, the separation of the righteous following of Enoch from their enemies who fought against God. Fourth, of God taking up his abode in the city of Enoch, Zion, the