been able to understand those truths, but he was able to realize their existence, their importance, and their consequences. For, remember that whereas we weigh human testimony by the consistency of the facts, we judge divine testimony by the authority of the witness, and the witness of whom I speak was infallible. So, it was possible for God to reveal those truths and for man to receive them. But did such revelation in fact take place? Beyond the shadow of a doubt, as every leaf of the Bible attests. It is vouched for in the inspired books of the Old Testament, which are the history of man and his intercourse with God from the beginning down to the Augustan Era. In three ways has God at times made known hidden truths to man: first, through his senses, as when angels in human form appeared to and conversed with Abraham, Jacob, and Gedeon; second, through his imagination, as when Pharao in the kine and ears of corn, seven fat and fair and seven lean and blighted, foresaw the seven years of plenty and of famine, or when Nabuchodonosor in his vision of the statue learned the ultimate triumph of the Church; and third, through his intellect, as in the case of Moses to whom God spoke (Num. xii.) not in vision or dream, but mouth to mouth. This last was that third heaven to which St. Paul was caught up in ecstasy. Christ had communicated with him through his senses on the road to Damascus; through his imagination amid the 'horrors of the shipwreck; and finally through his intellect when, whether in the body or out of the body, he knew not,
