Editorial December 31, 1904 Issue

The Still, Small Voice

John B. Willis

Men have been accustomed to think that the most convincing things in the world are always phenomenal; that a colossal sense testimony is the one unanswerable statement of any proposition. In the parable of Dives and Lazarus, however, Jesus seems to have clearly taught that the word of Moses and the prophets made a more significant appeal than would the resurrection of one from the dead, even as Elijah found his illumination not in the the wind, the earthquake, or the fire, but in the truth conveyed by "a still, small voice."

In his story of the lustful guilt, and tragic end of Sebald and Ottima, Browning has given this irresistible address of truth a most dramatic setting. Recounting their experience in the forest, Ottima says,—

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