The writer was holding a meeting once in a
United Brethren church. He was also engaged
to hold a meeting for an Evangelical preacher
just .four miles up the road from the U. B.
church. We were having a great time. The
Saturday night before we closed on Sunday, the
Evangelical preacher came down to the meeting.
It was something unusual for him; it was more
than he had contracted for, but he had us on his
hands and there was, no getting rid of me. In
order to prepare his people for my coming, the
next Sabbath morning he took for his text, "The

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still small voice/' The next Monday night I
was on hand to assist the Evangelical preacher.
The following Wednesday he was at the altar.
God so marvelously filled him with the Holy
Ghost that he yelled and jumped for a quarter
of an hour, and then grabbed up his hat and ran
down the aisle and downstairs and down the
street for two squares yelling at the top of his
voice. This was fuel to the fire, and in a few
davs the whole church was aflame and the re-
suit was over three hundred conversions and
many sanctified wholly.
The arguments of the opposers of spiritual
joy are no arguments at all. They are without
foundation in either reason or revelation. The
objectors ignorantly affirm that "still water runs
deep." Now the truth is, still water does not
run at all — and neither do they. Still water
breeds tadpoles, toads, mosquitoes, malaria and
death, and these people breed the spiritual dearth
and death of which these things are a type.
