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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 sabject and compare them with your own conclu- sions. Then select the best treatise you can find, 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- lish you, that you will not be shaken and tossed by every wind of doctrine. It will give you confidence, decision, earnestness. I know of but few more piti- able sights than a professed minister of the gospel, who has never investigated the principles which he teaches, afraid to aflirm anything, trembling when the gainsayer opens his lips. But, how grand the man who knows whereof he speaks; who, confident in the positions which he has taken, is prepared to