Nor will the want it necessarily leaves of a moral rule be the only consideration that will force this conviction on them.

The _heart_, as the phrase goes, will corroborate the evidence of the _head_.

It will be felt, even more forcibly than it can be reasoned, that if there be indeed a God who loves and cares for men, he must surely, or almost surely, have spoken in some audible and certain way to them.

At any rate I shall not be without many who agree with me, when I say that for the would-be religious world it is an anxious and earnest question whether any special and explicit revelation from God exist for us; and this being the case, it will be not lost time if we try to deal fairly and dispassionately with the question.
Before going further, however, let us call to mind two things.

Let us remember first, that if we expect to find a revelation at all, it is morally certain that it must be a revelation already in existence.