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• we all make it a matter of very earnest and serious consideration, every week, what shall be the subjects upon which we shall address our people on the Sabbath morning and evening; although all Scripture is good and profitable, it is not all equally appropriate for every occasion.
• What is the right text? How do you know it? We know it by the signs of a friend. When a verse gives your mind a hearty grip from which you cannot release yourself, you will need no further direction as to your proper theme.
• To use another simile: you get a number of texts in your hand and try to break them up; you hammer at them with might and force, but your labor is lost; at last you find one which crumbles at the first blow and sparkles as it falls in pieces, and you perceive jewels of the rarest radiance flashing from within.
• It charms and fascinates you, or it weighs you to your knees and loads you with the burden of the Lord. Know then that this is the message which the Lord would have you deliver; and feeling this, you will become so bound by that Scripture that you will never feel at rest until you have yielded your whole mind to its power, and have spoken upon it a...
• If God drop not down his assistance, we write with a pen that hath no ink: if anyone need walk dependent[ly] upon God more than another, the minister is he.”