SUPERNATURAL INSPIRATION

Granting that Columbus was inspired to see a new world beyond the boundless main, or Plato was inspired to write philosophy or Apelles to paint pictures or Wordsworth so simply and yet so subtly,to sing -granting, we say, that these men were so inspired as to discover the great harmonies and laws and facts of nature for the time veiled from other eyes, then it follows that David and Paul and John must have been still more specially inspired to discover those realms which we have called for the want of a better word, the supernatural. The source of inspiration in the one case was on a plane with natural; but, in the case of the other, it must have been on a plane with the supernatural.The class of truth determines the quality of inspiration.The poet,painter and the musician may be inspired but theirs is only a natural process; but wherever truths communicated are above the reach of nature,are such as lie upon a plane with supernatural, then it follows that those through whom they have been communicated must have been supernaturally inspired.