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session of his brain, mind, soul, and vocal organs, 

 and his preaching was supernatural, and yet it 

 is a fact that the most simple minded sat at his 

 feet to learn of him, and he nearly always made 

 himself understood by all classes of persons. 

 While most of us have only the power to reach 

 the few, he could reach the high and the low, 

 the learned and the unlearned. No man could 

 reach down lower to help a poor ignorant soul 

 up out of his ignorance, and filth, and no man 

 could write his name higher on the pinnacle of 

 fame, as orator, and minister of the pure Gospel 

 of Jesus Christ. I was often moved to remark 

 concerning him, ''He stands for the defense of 

 the Gospel." 



He was able too, and did, walk into the arena 

 and measure arms with, and defeat on their own 

 ground, skeptics, infidels, Adventists, No-sects, 

 Spiritualists, and Christian Scientists. In fact 

 I never knew of him meeting defeat in any thing- 

 he undertook. 



He lived a life of absolute abandonment to the 

 Holy Spirit of God, and he would undertake 

 nothing without the endorsement of God, and 

 thus he went forth conquering and to conquer. 

 He seemed to step boldly out on the very ragged 

 edge of finite existence; look into the great be- 

 yond, and bring the judgment, hell and heaven 

 into view in such a way that his audience would 



