How often

How often, when engaged in meditative study on some particular theme, have our thoughts taken a widely-different course in a second's time, and a strong irresistible impression has compelled us to do this, or to do that, and which afterwards, if we obeyed the whisperings of the silent voice, proved of great advantage to ourselves! How often, when tossed upon the bed, racked with pain, and burning with fever, have we felt the gentle fannings of seraph wings, wooing us to peace and repose, wafting electrical strength and vitality to our enfeebled limbs, and we thought them but the sighings of the passing breezes as they floated through the thick and fevered atmosphere!