d a vision of what it is to be learned, to explore
the great fields of knowledge which the Infinite has spread
before the world. And this vision has driven her out from the
seclusion of her own quiet life that she might give this great
truth to womanhood everywhere....

And so we come, each bearing her torch of living truth, casting
over the world the light of the vision that has dawned upon her
soul.

But there is still another vision which reaches above earth,
beyond time--a vision which has dawned upon many, that they are
here not to do their own work, but the will of Him who sent them.
And the woman who sees the still higher truth, recognizes the
great power to which she belongs and what her life may become
when, in submission to that Master, she takes upon herself the
nature of Him whom she serves.

We will notice in the second place the purpose of all these
visions which have come to us. Paul was not permitted to dwell on
the vision of truth which came to him. God had a purpose in its
manifestation, and that purpose was revealed when He said to the
wonder-stricken servant, "Arise; for I have appeared unto thee
for this purpose, not that thou behold the truth for thyself, but
to make thee a minister and a witness both of that which thou
hast already seen and of other truths which I shall reveal unto
thee. Go unto the Gentiles. Give them the truth which thou shalt
receive that their eyes may be opened, and that they may be
turned from darkness to light; that they, too, may receive a like
inheritance with thyself...."

This, then, is God's lesson to you and to me. He opens before our
eyes the vision of a great truth and for a moment He permits our
wondering gaze to rest upon it; then He bids us go forth. Jacob
of old saw the vision of God's messengers ascending and
descending, but none of them standing still.

Herein, then, lies the secret of the success of the reformer.
First the vision, then the purpose of the vision. "I was not
disobedient unto the heavenly vision." This is the manly and
noble confession of one of the world's greatest reformers, and in
it we catch a glimpse of the secrets of the success of his
divinely-appointed mission. The difference between the Saul of
Tarsus and Paul the Prisoner of the Lord was measu