"
"Are you satisfied with the evidence?" I ventured to inquire, seeing
him so confident.
"Yes."
He answered quietly, and with an assured manner.
"How do you reach a conclusion as to the truth of these things?"
"Something after the same way that you satisfy yourself that the sun
shines."
"My eyes testify to me that fact. Seeing is believing," I answered.
"The spirit of a man has eyes as well as his body," said
Wallingford. "And seeing is believing in another sense than you
intimate. Now the bodily eyes see material objects, and the mind,
receiving their testimony, is in no doubt as to the existence,
quality, and relation of things in the outer world. The eyes of our
spirits, on the other hand, see immaterial objects or truths; and
presenting them to the rational and perceptive faculties, they are
recognized as actual existences, and their quality as surely
determined as the quality of a stone or metal. If you ask me how I
know that this is quartz, or that iron; I answer, By the testimony
of my eyes. And so, if you ask how I satisfy myself as to the truth
of which I read in this book; I can only reply that I see it all so
clearly that conviction is a necessity.
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