"He is called 'the Comforter, who will teach all things,' knowing 'the mind of God,' preserving and governing the world."
After a moment's pause, the gentleman added, "I remember to have heard an account of an infidel which well illustrates the point your mother has explained, that though we cannot understand, we must believe spiritual and experimental truths. This infidel was sitting with many others in a public room belonging to a hotel. At length he began to talk upon the absurdities of the Christian religion, quoting these expressions—,'I and my Father are one;' 'I in them and thou in me;' and 'three persons,' 'in one God.' Finding his auditors were not disposed to applaud his blasphemy, he turned to one gentleman and said, with an oath, 'Do you believe such nonsense?'
"'Tell me,' asked the gentleman, in reply, 'how that candle burns.'
"'Why,' answered he, 'the tallow, the cotton, and the atmospheric air produce the light.'
"'Then they make one light, do they not?'
"'Yes.'
"'Will you tell me how they are one in the other, how the three unite and form but one light?'
"'No, I cannot.'
"'But you believe it?'
"He could not say he did not.