up"; Paul not the only one who should be privileged
with rapture to the third heaven; George Fox not the only one to whom
it was given to say, "I was come up, through the naming sword, into the
Paradise of God." Many there are who have known "the Most High God no
vision, nor that One who rose again."

God, who at sundry times, in manners many,
Spake to the fathers and is speaking still,
Eager to find if ever, or if any
Souls will obey and hearken to His
Who that one moment has the least descried Him,
Dimly and faintly, hidden and afar,
Doth not despise all excellence beside Him,
Pleasures and powers that are not and that are.
Aye, amid all men bear himself thereafter,
Smit with a solemn and a sweet surprise,
Dumb to their scorn and turning on their laughter
Only the dominance of earnest eyes.
Whoso has felt the Spirit of the Highest
Cannot confound nor doubt Him nor deny;
Yea, with one voice, O world, though thou deniest,
Stand thou on that side, for on this am I.

Yes! things that were seen of old may be seen again; voices that spake
to prophets and seers be revived in the innermost soul of God's
faithful children; God is not dead; the Lord Jesus has not been raised
from the grave to be placed in an inaccessible limbo, far from the
sight of believing eyes: the Holy Spirit still speaks, as of old time,
by holy men; He has not left the world yet, He dwelleth with you, He
shall be in you.

Suppose I were to say to you that if you were to go down to Hastings
you would be able to see the French coast clearly and distinctly, you
would say, "Impossible even to the longest-sighted person; it is more
than fifty miles away"; and yet, as you may see in the Philosophical
Transactions for 1798, the coast of France was so visible, without a
telescope, from Calais to St. Vallery, with the fishing-boats, and the
colour of the houses clearly perceived. When you hear this, you say,
"Well, if it is in the Philosophical Transactions, it must be true, and
if it happened once, it may happen again." Good enough reasoning; and
the Scriptures are the Spiritual Transactions, the record of God's
dealings with and revealings to men of old time. If they are true, He
has unveiled the hidden mysteries not once or twice to waiting souls;
and what He has done, He not only may do again, but will do, wherever
He finds a truly humble heart in which to work and rest. If He stood
by Paul, saying, "Fear not,"