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TESTIMONY OF REV. JOHN CLOWES. 17

Other name than a divine glory, surpassing all description, and exciting the most profound adoration. But what seemed to me the most singular circumstance on this occasion, was, that I was strongly impressed at the time, by a kind of internal dictate, that the glory was in close connection with that Divinum Humanum, or Divine Humanity, above mentioned, and proceeded from it as from its proper divine source.

" The glory continued during a full hour, allowing me sufficient time both to view and analyze it. Sometimes I closed my bodily eyes, and then opened them again, but the glory remained the same. It is well, however, to be understood that there was no appearance presented of any visible form, but only a strong persuasion that the glory proceeded from a visible form, and that this form was no other than the Divine Humanity of Jesus Christ.

" When the glory disappeared, as it did by degrees, I quitted my bed; but the recollection of what had happened attended me during the whole of the day, whether I was in company or alone ; and what is still more remarkable, the next morning on my first awaking, the glory was again manifested ; but, if possible, with increased splendor. Now, too, a singular effect was produced by it upon my mind, convincing me of the spiritual and providential origin of what I had

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