attention, you must now, while a student of theology, subject your principles to the most rigid scrutiny. Take up each subject separately, examine it carefully and patiently. Consider the evidences on which each principle rests, and the objections that may be made to it; the evidence on which the opposite principle rests and its difficulties. Examine the subject as a whole, and in all its parts. Do not rest satisfied until you have explored every inch of the ground. I have found the following plan of study very satisfac- tory: Take a particular doctrine, "Justification" for example. First collect and write down all the Scriptures that bear upon it. Examine each text 216 A Busy Life. and ascertain its exact meaning. Then draw out from all these a statement of the doctrine as you have found it, as logically as you can. Next examine the declarations of the Confession and Testimony on the subject and compare them with your own conclu- sions. Then select the best treatise you can iind, defending each of the great positions taken on the subject. Read these works with the greatest care. After you have mastered them, then look up the his- tory of the doctrine. At every step you will become more familiar with the subject, and finally you may expect to be fully persuaded as to the truth. Such an investigation will so root, ground, settle and estab-