"And there is another practical lesson," Mr. Ingleby remarked, "which this case of Old Rachel teaches us, and it is this:--When a man is enlightened by the Spirit, and is brought into fellowship with Jesus Christ, and has felt the power of the world to come, he never outlives his knowledge of these wondrous realities which stand out in bold relief when his remembrance of all other things is blotted out. He may forget the wife of his bosom, and the children who revered and loved him--he may forget his mother tongue, and not recognize the hand which feeds and clothes him--and he may live till almost every sense has become extinct, and the avenues of communication between the imprisoned spirit and the living world are blocked up--but he will never forget by whose blood he has been redeemed--he will never become insensible to the charm of His name or the preciousness of His love--nor will he ever lose sight of the bright and unfading inheritance of which he has received the earnest. Old Rachel was living at ease, conscious of her possessions, even when, in the estimation of others, she was unconscious of her own existence; and indulging the sublimest anticipations of faith and hope, while in the dark cell of her confinement." "Without giving any opinion," said the Rev. Mr. Roscoe, "as to which of the cases reported this evening is the most remarkable, or presuming to decide, whether they are to be referred to some mysterious action of the imagination, or to a real, yet marvellous manifestation of the Divine presence--leaving each case to stand for your decision on the ground of its own merits--I think we may make a good practical use of the whole of them, as, when we see lights burning, though of varying degrees of brightness, we may avail ourselves of their radiance even if we cannot tell by whom they are enkindled. We believe that the evidence which the Bible supplies, in confirmation of the existence of another world, is sufficiently ample and decisive to satisfy us of its reality; but still it is not so ample and decisive as to preclude the desirableness of some additional evidence. This is often given in the death-chamber of the Christian believer; and not only to him, when dying, but to those who are eye-witnesses of the mode of his departure. When, for example, we see a man of intelligence, of taste, of great sobriety of thinking, and of courteous speech, quite calm on his death-bed, and alternately strongly excited--when we hear him speak of the hope he entertains of a glorious immortality--when we see him rising above hope into full assurance, eager to depart, though surrounded by many of the attractions of earth--when every look, and aspiration, and utterance, beats in harmony with his long-settled expectation of a grand issue to his faith--we may very naturally take his experience, not only as a safe guide, but as a valid testimony to the certainty of what we believe in common.