question of truth or duty until finally the solution came to us as if
by magic. Through what the psychologists call subconscious
cerebration our mind has been working at the great problem even when
our conscious attention was given to other matters. I have had a
number of such experiences before and since, and, had I not examined
them critically, I might easily have been led to believe they were
direct revelations from heaven.

For many months the great question had been occupying my mind by day
and by night. Finally the solution came as clear as a revelation from
God. It wakened me in the still of the night and ravished my soul
with peace and joy unspeakable. I arose and took a walk into the
country to a mountain spring and back. I shall never forget that
night, and the ecstatic joy it brought to me. My religious nature had
been outraged so long that when it was set free it returned to its
Lord with a violent bound. The fittest words I could find to express
my feelings are in the 103d Psalm: "Bless the Lord, O my soul; and
all that is within me, bless his holy name."

The question as to what church I should join, or what religious body
I should affiliate with, now confronted me and demanded solution. As
I already intimated, I was perplexed, and partly led to doubt and
confusion by the many different religious bodies, all claiming to be
right. One of my objects in entering this school was to make a
thorough study of the different religious bodies and their doctrines.
One incident that helped me in the solution of this problem was an
occurrence in our New Testament Greek class. The professor declared
that all Greek scholars of note are agreed that the proper meaning of
the word "baptism" in the New Testament is _to immerse_. As I was
raised in a pedobaptist church, this declaration was a great surprise