f my mind that, like Felix, I trembled involuntarily on the
bench where I was sitting, though I felt nothing at heart. The next
day evening I went to hear him again. He took his text from
Revelation: 'And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God.'
And he represented the terrors of that day in such a manner that it
appeared as if it would melt the heart of stone. When he finished his
discourse, an old gentleman turned to me and said 'This is what I call
preaching.' I thought the same, but my feelings were still unmoved by
what he said, and I did not enjoy religion, but I believe he did.

"I will now relate my experience of the power of the Holy Spirit which
took place on the same night. Had any person told me previous to this
that I could have experienced the power of the Holy Spirit in the
manner which I did, I could not have believed it, and should have
thought the person deluded that told me so. I went directly home after
the meeting, and when I got home I wondered what made me feel so
stupid. I retired to rest soon after I got home, and felt indifferent
to the things of religion until I began to be exercised by the Holy
Spirit, which began in about five minutes after, in the following
manner:--

"At first, I began to feel my heart beat very quick all on a sudden,
which made me at first think that perhaps something is going to ail me,
though I was not alarmed, for I felt no pain. My heart increased in
its beating, which soon convinced me that it was the Holy Spirit from
the effect it had on me. I began to feel exceedingly happy and humble,
and such a sense of unworthiness as I never felt before. I could not
very well help speaking out, which I did, and said, Lord, I do not
deserve this happiness, or words to that effect, while there was a
stream (resembling air in feeling) came into my mouth and heart in a
more sensible manner than that of drinking anything, which continued,
as near as I could judge, five minutes or more, which appeared to be
the cause of such a palpitation of my heart. It took complete
possession of my soul, and I am certain that I desired the Lord, while
in the midst of it, not to give me any more happiness, for it seemed as
if I could not contain what I had got. My heart seemed as if it would
burst, but it did not stop until I felt as if I was unutterably full of
the love and grace of God. In the mean time while thus exercised, a
thought arose in my mind, what can it mean?