Later, he hears his sister cry out upstairs!
This inherited capacity is a sort of sixth sense--a soul-sense which sees, hears, feels, all in one.
Howie thinks he hears movement outside at one point but sees nothing.
The general assembly reviews all the work of the Church; settles controversies; makes administrative laws; directs and stimulates missionary and other spiritual work; appoints professors of theology; admits to the ministry applicants from other churches; hears and decides complaints, references and appeals which have come up through the inferior courts; and takes cognizance of all matters connected with the Church's interests or with the general welfare of the people.
She converses with angels, sometimes even with the Lord, and both hears and see mysteries."