Now,  another  evidence :  You  will  enjoy  prayer  to
Grod.  Oh !  it  will  be  sweet !  and  at  times  you  will
feel  as  if  you  hardly  knew  whether  you  were  in  this
world  or  another,  when  you  are  communing  with
the  I  Am.  Oh !  what  an  exalted  privilege  of  the
saint  of  the  Most  High,  like  Moses,  to  talk  with  God
face  to  face !  Oh !  the  blessedness  and  the  sweet-
ness—  may  I  not  say,  the  glory — there  is  in  the  soul
of  the  man  who  can,  as  was  said  of  John  Welch,
pray  right  in  the  heart  of  God !  There  is  no  other
experience  like  this  between  the  believer  and  his
God.
Take  another  evidence.  You  will  find  in  your
heart  a  spirit  of  benevolence.  I  do  not  mean  in  money
altogether,  but  I  do  partially.  I  mean  the  spirit  of
the  Master,  with  all  the  interests  of  His  kingdom,  or
with  all  there  is  in  the  condition  of  a  fallen  world.
Jesus  said,  "  If  any  man  have  not  the  spirit  of  Christ
he  is  none  of  His,"  and  you  can  not  expect  to  be  a
Christian  if  you  do  not  carry  about  with  you  the
spirit  of  the  Lord  Jesus.  Don't  wrap  yourself  in  a
little,  mean,  contracted  sectarian  coat,  and  act  and
talk  as  if  you  did  not  care  a  fig  whether  anybody


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