No glory of the Eternal One is higher than this, " Mighty to save ;" no name of God is more adorable than that of " Saviour ;" no place among the servants of God can be so glorious as that of an instrument of salvation.
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“Thousands of pulpit orators have swayed their audiences as a wind sways standing corn; but in the result, those who were most affected differed nothing from their former selves. An effect of eloquence is sufficient to account for a vast amount of feeling at the moment; but to trace to this a moral power, by which a man, for his life long, overcomes his besetting sins, and adorns his name with Christian virtues, is to make sport of human nature.”
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