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 superficial work; no hallucinations; no fallacies no errors. Let this agent of ours, admitted into the courts of heaven and studying for us the deepest mysteries of the universe, have the amplest opportunity to see and hear; to examine and scrutinize; to compare, to test, to verify. Then let him make his full report; his whole soul radiant with the light of heavenly truth, unbiased and untainted by any thought or feeling of worldly origin."

If such were the cry sent up to the Divine Wisdom from the doubting and despairing mind of man, who can say that it would be an unreasonable or an audacious petition? If the theology and psychology embraced between the lids of our Bible are true, this modern seership, stupendous as it seems at first sight, is not only practicable and credible, but inevitable. The sincere Christian should hail the thought of it with joy.

God knows our wants before we ask him. He anticipates our prayers. This very thing, which the skeptic demands as the crowning proof of revelation, and which the doubting Christian desires to relieve him from his perplexities, has been already accomplished! It was a part of the great plan of Divine Providence, foreseen and provided