language, held true to itself, is peculiarly adapted to give just such freshness. Our Western Church-world is full of a westernized system of interpretation of this Eastern Book. Its symbols, parables, and picture teachings have given rise to fanciful interpretation quite foreign to the Book itself. Its pictorial language is often taken with a painful literalness of meaning quite out of touch with the simple genius of picture language. If we would recognize this it would help greatly in reading this