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use of means. They led him to cultivate the knowl- 

 edge of the heart as more valuable than any other. 

 He observed carefully the phenomena it is wont to 

 exhibit under the diversified operations of divine 

 grace, and long experience had rendered him so 

 thoroughly master of the important science that he 

 often determined, by the expression of the counte- 

 nance, with most astonishing precision, what were the 

 internal exercises of the soul. The eye of the hearer 

 was his guide, and whenever he perceived that the 

 time was come to strike home to the conscience, or to 

 pour dismay upon the stubborn heart, or to address 

 the penitent in words of consolation, he did not hesi- 

 tate to leave his proposition half discussed and press 

 on to the issue. He would carry on the mind in the 

 train of his masterly and original reasoning, or over- 

 awe it by the high authority of the Scriptures, which 

 he linked together text to text into an argument of ir- 

 refragable strength, and then, just at the moment 

 when unbelief is vanquished, and before the powers 

 of darkness have rallied to the conflict, would he rive 

 the heart with the loud and thrilling accents of his 

 voice, and direct its wandering destinies to the cross 

 of Christ. If he was powerful as a preacher, he was 

 mighty as an intercessor. Indeed, it was in the closet 

 that the holy flame of his devotion was kindled. There 

 his heart learned to glow with the conquering zeal 

 which blazed forth in the pulpit, and there he wrestled 

 with the angel of the covenant and obtained the power 

 which he wielded so successfully over the human heart. 

 And when he kneeled in the midst of weeping peni- 

 tents, to order their cause before the Lord, he indeed 

 ceased to be like other men. He asked, nothing doubt- 

 ing, and he received. The trophies of pardoning love 



