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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jan 17, 1884

Overflowing.

"I do like to hear Mr. Smith speak in prayer-meeting. He does not speak as if it were a cross, but as if he could not help it. He seems to have in his heart such a well-spring of happiness that the water will bubble up and run over. He can no more keep it in than the fountain the water."

"Yes, and that is the kind of talking that does the work. I doubt if it ever does any good to say, 'It is very crossing for me to speak for Jesus, but I feel that I must.'"

"No," the impenitent man says, "that person has not much religion, or, if he has, it does him no good, makes him no happier than I am. When I am a Christian I want to be one who can speak from a full heart, because I love to speak, and I can't help it."

I remember once hearing a minister say, "I feel sure we are to have a revival, because some of my people pray as if they could not help it." And he was right.

If we would see our friends and neighbors attracted to the Saviour, we must get our hearts so full of his love that we may speak of him and pray to him freely, overflowingly, because we cannot help it.—Sel.