by the spell of His beauty and led by the light of His truth, realise, may be in different degrees of clearness, that verily this life, with its chastening discipline and sustaining trust, its tender griefs and holy endeavours, its quickening sympathies and uplifting aspirations, its sacred instincts and sublime visions, is an avenue- to heaven — nay, is a present paradise. Here we observe that, beneath changes and fluctuations, amidst seeming clashes and conflicts, despite apparent differences and divisions, the Holy Spirit is unfolding itself in ever-increasing grandeur even through the steady spread of culture, the sustained march of progress and the irresistible triumph of truth. Here, of a fact, we are, in a most re-assuring manner, confirmed in the faith we have all along held so dear to us that Divine Revelation — the influx of the Divine into the human mind — is a ceaseless current; that the Eternal Indweller in all souls is now, as ever, a moving power and an illumining light; and that the chapter of the doings of Divine Grace in the hearts and homes of
