e along and let me
see His love which was endless and eternal, surpassing all the
knowledge that men have in the natural state or can get by history and
books. That love let me see myself as I was without him.... At another
time I saw the great love of God, and was filled with admiration at
the infiniteness of it.'

The truths that George Fox is trying to express are difficult to put
into words. It is the more difficult for us to understand what he
means because his language is not quite the same as ours. Other words
besides 'priest' and 'professor' have altered their meanings. When he
speaks of having had things 'opened' to him, we should be more likely
to say he had had them revealed to him, or had had a revelation.
Perhaps these 'openings' and 'seeings' that he describes, though they
meant much to him, do not sound to us now like very great discoveries.
They are only what we have been accustomed to hear all our lives. But
then, whom have we to thank for that? In large measure George Fox
himself.

In the immense bush forests that cover an unexplored country or
continent the first man who attempts to make a track through them has
the hardest task. He has to guess the right direction, to cut down the
first trees, to 'blaze a trail,' to help every one who follows him to
find the way a little more easily. That man is called a Pioneer.
George Fox was a pioneer in the spiritual world. He discovered a true
path for himself, a path leading right through the thick forest of
human selfishness and sin and out into the bright sunshine beyond. In
his lonely Quest through those years of struggle he was indeed
'blazing a trail' for us. If the track we tread nowadays is smooth and
easy to tread, that is because of the pioneers who have gone before
us. Our ease has been gained through their labours and sufferings and
steadfastness.

The track was not fully clear even yet to George Fox. He had more to
learn before he could make the right path plain to others; more to
learn, but chiefly more to suffer. To strengthen him beforehand for
those sufferings, he was given an assurance that never afterwards
entirely left him. 'I saw the Infinite Love of God. I saw also that
there was an ocean of darkness and death; but an infinite ocean of
light and love which flowed over the ocean of darkness. In that also I
saw the infinite love of God, and I had great openings.' The Quest was
ended. Faith was pure, and Joy was sure at last.

'Now was I