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any trouble of digging, or anxiety, or chance, or waste of time, 

 cut it away, and coin as much as they needed. 



" But Nature does not manage it so. She puts it in little 

 fissures in the earth, nobody knows where ; you may dig long 

 and find none ; you must dig painfully to find any." 



Can we find out St. Luke's intention in constructing his 

 wonderful system of triphcations, and why it has not been 

 recognised before ? 



He was evidently a highly-cultivated man, and also one who 

 fully recognised Divine wisdom, for he frequently described 

 men as filled with the Holy Spirit. There cannot be a doubt 

 that his elaborate plan of triphcations was employed to 

 emphasize important spiritual truths to thoughtful readers. 



His writings have been examined recently in a variety of 

 ways, which have not all given satisfactory results. Some 

 men question the accuracy of his records, while others seek to 

 find some new doctrines in them, suited, as they think, to the 

 advanced condition of the human mind ; many of both classes 

 of these men neglect the spiritual facts and truths of the Holy 

 Scriptures, 



Of late years long-buried inscriptions and archasological records 

 have been brought to hght, and carefully studied ; they have fully 

 testified to the strict historicity of the sacred records, especially 

 of the writings of St. Luke ; apparently they were discovered 

 just at the time when their witness was most required. 



In this paper we have investigated a few long hidden, but 

 recently recognised hterary plans, which reveal to us some of 

 the workings of St. Luke's divinely-guided mind — a mind as 

 quick and intelhgent by nature as that of any modern critic. 

 These plans have also been discovered at the opportune time 

 to meet the arguments of the present-day advocates of the 

 so-called New Theology, for we find that St. Luke has laid very 

 much more stress than was formerly recognised upon the 

 foundation truths of our faith : while no allusion whatever 

 to any new doctrine can be discovered. 



" Thus saith the Lord, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and 

 ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein 

 (Jer. vi, 16). 



The subject of this paper will be considered in fuller detail in the 

 author's book, The Literary Marvels of St. Luke, which, it is hoped, will 

 soon be published. 



