SAID NETTLETON—"We may talk about the best means of doing good; but, after all, the greatest difficulty lies in doing it with a proper spirit. Speaking the truth in love—in meekness, instructing those that oppose themselves—with the meekness and gentleness of Christ. I have known anxious sinners drop the subject of religion in consequence of a preacher addressing them in an angry tone." Said Payson—"I never was fit to say a word to a sinner, except when I had a broken heart myself; when I was subdued and melted into penitence, and felt as though I had just received pardon of my own soul, and when my heart was full of tenderness and pity." Said Brainerd—in speaking of the Spirit of God—"When ministers feel these special gracious influences on their hearts, it wonderfully assists them to come at the consciences of men, and as it were to handle them with hands; whereas, without them, whatever reason and oratory we make use of are stumps instead of hands." Inquires—1st. Must we not infer from the foregoing, that the great secret of the success of these men—as laborers for God—was their deep-toned piety? 2nd. Must we not believe that the same deep-toned piety continues to be the secret of all success in spiritual things at the present day? 3rd. Ought not, then, this type of piety to be regarded as the first and highest of all qualifications in the ministers of the gospel or other spiritual teachers?