Spiritual Illumination

It is said of Archbishop Usher, when he grew old, and spectacles could not help his failing sight, that a book was dark except beneath the strongest light of the windows. And the aged man would sit against the casement, with his outspread volume before him, till the sunshine flitted to another opening, when he would change his place, and put himself again under the brilliant rays; and so he would move about with the light till the day was done, and his studies ended. And truly we may say that our weak eyes will not suffice to make out the inscription on the page of nature, unless wo get near the window of Scripture, where God pours in the radiance of His Spirit. And wherever it shines let us follow it, knowing that nowhere but in its illumination can we study the spiritual meanings of nature so well.—Stoughton