Once again her writings are the best evidence of her actual footsteps of thought. The manuscript on Genesis was growing steadily now. Mrs. Webster referred to it rather disconcertingly as Mrs. Glover’s “version of the Bible,” as others were later to refer to it as “Mrs. Glover’s Bible,” but it was, more exactly, her metaphysical comment on the Bible, or at least on Genesis.⁹³

Her aspiration found expression in an “Invocation for 1868” which she sent to the Lynn Reporter at the beginning of the year:

Father of every age!
       Of every rolling sphere!
Help us to write a deathless page
       Of truth, this dawning year.⁹⁴

Thirty years later, writing of this period, she described an interesting phenomenon. There seemed to be a curious coincidence between what she called the light of revelation and the light of day: “I could not write these notes after sunset. All thoughts in the line of Scriptural interpretation would leave me until the rising of the sun. Then the influx of divine interpretation would pour in upon my spiritual sense as gloriously as the sunlight on the material senses.”⁹⁵

But Mrs. Glover did not take the stenographic view of inspiration which makes the writer a mere unconscious medium of truth. She was thinking her way through the subject—it was in these notes on Genesis that she first announced that “the time for thinkers has come.”⁹⁶ At the end of the day she would sometimes tear up everything she had written when it seemed as though her developing thought had escaped the network of refractory words.

Meanwhile her sense of her own mission was growing. She wrote in her manuscript of the “science which has been revealed to me through  ● ● ●