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trustworthy interpreter of their significance. When 

 a man testifies to a miracle, he not only states a 

 fact, but he adds an interpretation of the fact. We 

 may admit his evidence as to the former, and yet 

 think his opinion as to the latter worthless. If 

 Eginhard's cairn and objective narrative of the 

 historical events of his time is no guarantee for 

 the soundness of his judgment where the super- 

 natural is concerned, the heated rhetoric of the 

 Apostle of the Gentiles, his absolute confidence in 

 the " inner light/' and the extraordinary concep- 

 tions of the nature and requirements of logical 

 proof which he betrays, in page after page of his . 

 Epistles, afford still less security. 



There is a comparatively modern man who shared 

 to the full Paul's trust in the " inner light," and 

 who, though widely different from the fiery evan- 

 gelist of Tarsus in various obvious particulars, yet, 

 if I am not mistaken, shares his deepest charac- 

 teristics. I speak of George Fox, who separated 

 himself from the current Protestantism of England, 

 in the seventeenth century, as Paul separated 

 himself from the Judaism of the first century, at 

 the bidding of the " inner light " ; who went 

 through persecutions as serious as those which 

 Paul enumerates; who was beaten, stoned, cast 

 out for dead, imprisoned nine times, sometimes for 

 long periods ; who was in perils on land and perils 

 at sea. George Fox was an even more widely- 

 travelled missionary ; while his success in founding 



