Unspeakable by Ellet Joseph Waggoner

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Aug 27, 1896

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 22, No. 34.

Unspeakable.

By Ellet Joseph Waggoner

Many who have recognized the goodness and preciousness of the Lord feel a diffidence about testifying to others, because they can not express in words what they see and know. But if it could be fully expressed, it would not be a true Christian experience. The apostle says, “Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift.” If it were not more than can be expressed in human language, it would not be more than we could think. But the Lord gives us more than we can ask or think. And the Spirit of the Lord reveals it to us. And just so the Spirit of the Lord takes the feeble expressions of one in whom that Spirit dwells, and conveys to the hearer all that is in the heart of the speaker, but which his words are inadequate to express. Christ spoke in the language of the common people; his words were very simple; but the power of the life behind his words, clothed them with authority, so that those who heard him said, “Never man spake like this man.” E. J. W.