The Prism: A Parable by the Author of the "Royal George"

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London: J. K. Campbell, high Holborn.
THIS little tract illustrates, by the comparison of a prism, that especial manifestation of God's manifold wisdom by the Church of which the apostle speaks in Ephes. 3:1010To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God, (Ephesians 3:10). It may suggest some wholesome thoughts and correct some erroneous ones. A few remarks on the use and abuse of parabolic illustration are appended, and they point out in a plain and terse way the dangers and the right limits of this style of illustration, applied to or drawn from Scripture. Let me just observe one or two slips of expression, which might be easily corrected in another edition, in page 20: "How her (the Church's) place in Scripture is often not found because ' God has taken her into union with Himself, and because we would seek her out of Christ, under the form of some worldly designation—how she ' is not here, but is risen.'" One can understand what the author means in both phrases here marked in italics, but they are capable of being gravely misused.