LOUD words are no evidence of power. There may be power in them, there may not; just as frequently, and perhaps more frequently, there is not. Loudness is all there is many times. The words have neither the substratum of truth or the Spirit, and the noise is used to cover the fatal defects. It may arouse, excite, and alarm, for a time, the sensational, excitable, and timid; but it is not effectual in abiding results. Words do not need to be spoken so loud in order to be powerful. Sometimes a few words spoken in a low tone of love to the hardened or repentant sinner, or the almost discouraged saint, are words of mighty power. The speaker might not have realized this—may never realize it in this life; the one spoken to might not have realized it at the time; but the Spirit of God takes the simple words spoken in love and fastens them upon the memory and heart of the receiver. They cannot be thrown off. They germinate, they grow, they bring forth fruit to the glory of God. Many Christians will learn at the last great day that their most powerful efforts for Christ were not the noisy and seemingly effectual ones to them, but that the quiet, earnest efforts put forth in the love of God, counted nothing by them, were made effectual by the power of God.