He who would meet the inquiring soul and lead it to Christ must know the way by experience. Here the power of the heart is peculiarly employed by the Spirit of God. He who would talk profitably of repentance, must talk of it experimentally. He who would lead the young convert in the first steps of his Christian walk, must talk like an old traveller of a road that he knows by having traversed it; he must meet with something like parental sympathy, the fears, the joys, the hopes, the doubts, of the babe in Christ. He who would be a leader to the Church of Christ must be an example of all he teaches; he must not say, Go to the cross for pardon, but, Come to the cross. He must know the snares of Satan, that he may point them to others, and he must learn them from his own heart. He must be taught of God to teach God's word. He must know the trials peculiar to Christians to sympathize with his flock; and when called to the common trials of life, he must show how to sustain them. How powerful were the appeals of Paul to the Church when he could say, "Follow us as we follow Christ!"

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