But the power of God came upon Wordsworth--I cannot say as it had never come before, but with an added insight which made him recognize in the fresh gift all that he had known and felt of such in the past.

To him, as to Cowper, the benignities of nature restored peace and calmness and hope--sufficient to enable him to look back and gather wisdom.

He was first troubled, then quieted, and then taught.

Such presence of the Father has been an infinitely more active power in the redemption of men than men have yet become capable of perceiving.

The divine expressions of Nature, that is, the face of the Father therein visible, began to heal the plague which the worship of knowledge had bred.