How can I doubt these things?
Say what may be said, still they have to me a reality, a practical good bearing on my life.

They are impressive instructors, whose teachings are given in such a real manner that they influence me whether I would or not.
Real pictures of the future, as actual, nay, more so than my present activity.

If I should not follow them I am altogether to blame.

I can have no such adviser upon earth; none could impress me so strongly, with such peculiar effect, and at the precise time most needed.

Where my natural strength is not enough, I find there comes foreign aid to my assistance.