movement, the wonder is that the Scriptures lay such stress as they do
upon the type of vision which arises from faithfulness in doing the
revealed will.

If we may characterize scriptural mysticism, it seems very much akin to
mental abilities which we meet frequently in our ordinary intercourse.
Take, for example, the prescience of a skilled business man. Nothing is
more inadequate than the rules for success laid down by many a man who
has himself succeeded in business. Mastery of his rules will not help
another to win business success. The reason is that there comes out of
prolonged business practice a keen sense of what is likely to happen in
the industrial or financial world. The sharpened wits foresee without
being able to assign reasons or grounds for the prophecies. So it is
with intellects trained to any superior skill. The Duke of Wellington
once remarked that he had spent all his life wondering what was on the
other side of the hills in front of him, yet the Duke himself came to
marvelous skill in guessing what was on the other side. There is also a
variety of scientific mysticism, if such an expression may be permitted.
The man long trained to the reading of scientific processes develops a
quick insight which runs far ahead of reason or proof. The transcendent
scientific discoveries have been glimpsed or, rather, sensed before they
so reported themselves that they could be seized by formal proof. Now it
is a far cry from business men, generals, and scientists to the
mysticism of the Scriptures, but when we see the emphasis which the
Scriptures place upon constancy in keeping the law and in acting
according to divine commandments, we cannot help feeling that biblical
mysticism was and is an awareness developed as the life becomes
practiced to the doing of religious duty. Think too of the emphasis
placed in the Scriptures upon the consecration of the whole life to the
truth as cleansing the heart from evil. All this makes for a power to