desires, my reason and conscience, my eyes, my tongue, my lips, my knees, my all. I am prayer all over!" 0, there is much need of this in my case, now!

Sinners are hard; one spoke truly, that they appear as if they had been on the anvil of hell, and Satan himself had beaten them into adamant. However, they are not harder than some American sinners I have encountered. I must not forget I have battled harder and longer in America, with less success. But we have set our hearts upon a great revival; have been urging our faith, and screwing it up to a high figure; believing that if we set our mark for small things, we shall act accordingly, and it will be unto us according to our low mark. There is much in this. Yet Satan has taken some advantage, just here. Well, let him,

the promise stands sure, there is a faith that will remove mountains, as well as wither the fruitless fig-tree. — Matt. 21: 18-22.

Satan was more strongly intrenched in Huddersfield than we expected. Now for a siege, if need be! We must have victory. If our weapons were carnal, we might despair. They are of other metal. There are "towers of pride and walls of confidence," which may not be taken by storm, but they may yield to a regular siege,-to sapping and mining, and other means of attack. We must be ready for every advantage. Jesus, our great Captain, will direct. Let us cut off, if possible, Satanic supplies from the besieged. When Satan fails to relieve, they cannot long hold out. Look out for flags of truce, or offers to capitulate upon honorable terms. The carnal mind glories, if it may but evacuate under arms. This shall not be, God being our helper. No! the arms of rebellion must be grounded at the feet of Jesus; submit to terms, not dictate them. This is our "war instruction;" it shall

sound and reverberate like a thunder. Then look out for the flag of defiance; but renew hostilities. The contest must be thorough and determined; no parleying with the enemy. "I am doing a great work, and cannot come down; why should the work cease, while I come down to you?" said Nehemiah. So let us say. When reduced to extremities, they will surrender at discretion.

These Yorkshire men are sturdy sinners. Like Job's Leviathan, their "heart is as firm as a stone;" they "laugh at the shaking of a spear."- Job 41: 24-29. I have met many such, in my time. Trans-atlantic sinners are not a whit behind them. Human nature is the same, the world over. As Cowper says:

"Man is the genuine offspring of revolt,

Stubborn and sturdy, a wild ass's colt."

There was truth in that remark, "Their eyes are not like the fish-pools of Heshbon, full of water; but like the mountains of Gilboa, which have neither rain nor dew upon them." Ay! as well try to draw oil out of flint as tears from some eyes; or, as soon melt an ice-bound river by breathing upon it, till the Holy Spirit comes, and then,

"As the great sun, when he his influence

Sheds on the frost-bound waters, the glad stream

Flows to the ray, and warbles as it flows."

Be it even so; eyes void of tears, as flints of oil. There was a rod once in mortal hand, which melted the granite rock, and turned it into a fountain.

"The rock into a fountain flowed."

That rod I look not for, but the word of the Lord I have; the power is what I need,-the same power that attended the touch of the rod of Moses. The word then

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will make hithe to dry eyes like fountains of waters. sooner, perhaps, my own cheeks are wet in crying with the Psalmist, "Rivers of water run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy law," the sooner it may be so with others. The weeping-time is coming, I trust. The wells are filled with earth. Like Isaac's servants, we must dig hard opened, in spite of all the Philistines of Gen. 26: 15-19.

to have the wells earth and hell!

Let me not say, with the poet, "Not to triumph is worse than not to win." Nay, that is selfish! But, triumph or no triumph, let me win souls.- Prov. 11: 30. "He that winneth souls is wise;" wisdom does not always attend a triumph. It is worse not to win than not to triumph; although success in soul-winning has often with me been the prelude to sore temptation. "Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savor of his knowledge by us in every place," said Paul. But he immediately added, speaking of the contrasted effects of their preaching, "To the one we are the savor of death unto death, and to the other of life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things?" Who is he that has not only courage to incur, but ability to cope with, troubles which are sure to follow, from devils and men. He, and he only, it may be presumed, who is called of God, as was Aaron; otherwise he would be utterly cast down and destroyed.

It is well thus privately to count the cost. My eyes look to where the Psalmist did, to the hills, to the heavenly hills, from whence cometh my help; from thence came my former vigor, in the bygone days of my sanctuary strength.

A poet speaks of the eagle careering in his own course of joy; relying firmly on his own mountain vigor, breast

ing the storm, defying the red bolts; his eye on the sun, his wing on the wind, swerving not a hair, but bearing onward, right on. Ay, that is it! I would be an eagle, to thus mount up high at God's command; or, to dwell and abide on the ROCK, on the crag of the rock, and the strong place; to behold the prey afar off; where the slain of the Lord are, there to be.-Job 39: 27, 30.

The eagle was an emblem of victory upon ancient banners, and is upon the modern. I would be one of Isaiah's eagles, that wait on the Lord; that renew their strength, mount up on wings, that run without weariness, and walk up and down conflict's field without faintness. Isaiah 40: 31.

Well, this "noting down" my feelings does me good; it enables me to say, with David, "Blessed be the Lord my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight;"ay, and the tongue, by and by, as the tongue of a ready writer. David says, the tongue of the wicked is their sword, and that they take good care to whet it. Why may not the tongue of a God-sent preacher be the sword of the Lord? "bathed in Heaven," as Isaiah says. It "reacheth unto the soul," echoes Jeremiah. Why, then, may not such an one whet his tongue, also? The pen is a good hone after the word of God and prayer. Isaiah speaks of the tongue of fire devouring the stubble. St. James says, "The tongue is a fire, setteth on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire of hell." Why, then, may not the tongue of a preacher be a fire also? devil kindles many a bad fire with the human tongue; "sets on fire the course of nature" in the tongue-owner, and in others. Why may not God kindle his fires by the tongue, also, and set the devil's kingdom in a blaze? Strange, if Satan can "set the tongue on fire of hell,"

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and Christ cannot set it on fire of heaven!

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have I felt the fire of God begin to burn in my soul, when my pen set a going! The pen has converted many a tongue into flame,- set a country on fire, and revolutionized nations.

And now for the conflict in right good earnest, the Law, Calvary, Repentance, Faith, Regeneration, the Witness of the Spirit, Holiness, Perfect Love, the Resurrection, Judgment, Heaven, Hell, in lightning and thundering truth. O, my soul! what themes are these, if thou wert more fully baptized with the Holy Ghost! Come on, ther as thou art! Christ shall endue thee with power from high, when thou art in dreadful conflict.

"Set thyself about it, as the sea

About the earth, lashing it day and night ;
And leave the stamp of thine own soul in it,
As thorough as the fossil flower in clay.

The theme shall start and struggle in thy breast,
Like the spirit in its tomb at rising,

Rending the stones, and crying RESURRECTION !"