First, then, here is what they are to tell. It is to be a story of personal experience. "Go home to your friends and tell them how great things the Lord has done for you, and has had compassion on you." Not what you have believed, but what you have felt; what you really know to be your own; not what

great things you have read, but what great things the Lord has done for you; not alone what you have seen done in the great congregation, and how great sinners have turned to God, but what the Lord has done for you. And mark this: There is never a more interesting story than that which a man tells about himself.

As when on a sultry day the traveler strips off his garments, and plunges into the cool, refreshing brook, and rises from it invigorated to pursue his way, so when a spirit has learned, either in prayer or in praise, really to draw near to God, it bathes

itself in the brooks of Heaven (streamlets branching from the river of the water of life), and goes on its way renewed with heavenly strength.