Impressions, Transient
God's Holy Spirit fixes fleeting truths permanently on the human heart.
When Daguerre was working at his sun-pictures, his great difficulty was to fix them. The light came and imprinted the image; but, when the tablet was drawn from the camera, the image had vanished. Our lamentation is like his, our want the same,—a fixing solution that shall arrest and detain the fugitive impressions. He discovered the chemical power which turned the evanescent into the durable. There is a divine agency at hand that can fix the truth upon the heart of man,—God's Holy Spirit. Rev. J. Stoughton.