They have occurred in all ages, in all countries, and in
all conditions of life, for we know that they are the very truth, as we
have seen them translated into action. There is no use attempting to
explain by any human reason facts of such majesty and mystery, for how
can natural reason explain what is supernatural?
In a rapture of joy Jane walked swiftly home. She was not conscious of
her movements, the solid earth might have been a road of some buoyant
atmosphere. All the world looked grandly different, and she herself was
as one born again. Her servants looked at her in amazement and talked
about "the change in Missis," while the work of the household dropped
from their hands until old Adam Boothby, the gardener, came in for his
dinner.
"She passed me," he said, "as I was gathering berries. She came from the
oak wood, and O blind women that you be, couldn't you see she hed been
with God? The clear shining of His face was over her. She's in a new
world this afternoon, and the angels in heaven are rejoicing over her,
and I'm sure every man in Hatton will rejoice with her husband; he's hed
a middling bad time with her lately or I'm varry much mistaken.
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