can't help praising the Lord. As I go along the street, I lift up
one foot, and it seems to say 'Glory'; and I lift up the other, and it
seems to say 'Amen'; and so they keep up like that all the time I am
walking."[141]

[141] I add in a note a few more records:--

"One morning, being in deep distress, fearing every moment I should
drop into hell, I was constrained to cry in earnest for mercy, and the
Lord came to my relief, and delivered my soul from the burden and guilt
of sin. My whole frame was in a tremor from head to foot, and my soul
enjoyed sweet peace. The pleasure I then felt was indescribable. The
happiness lasted about three days, during which time I never spoke to
any person about my feelings." Autobiography of Dan Young, edited by
W. P. Strickland, New York, 1860.

"In an instant there rose up in me such a sense of God's taking care of
those who put their trust in him that for an hour all the world was
crystalline, the heavens were lucid, and I sprang to my feet and began
to cry and laugh." H. W. Beecher, quoted by Leuba.

"My tears of sorrow changed to joy, and I lay there praising God in
such ecstasy of joy as only the soul who experiences it can realize."
--"I cannot express how I felt. It was as if I had been in a dark
dungeon and lifted into the light of the sun. I shouted and I sang
praise unto him who loved me and washed me from my sins. I was forced
to retire into a secret place, for the tears did flow, and I did not
wish my shopmates to see me, and yet I could not keep it a secret."--"I
experienced joy almost to weeping."--"I felt my face must have shone
like that of Moses.

I had a general feeling of buoyancy. It was the greatest joy it was
ever my lot to experience."--"I wept and laughed alternately.

I was as light as if walking on air. I felt as if I had gained greater
peace and happiness than I had ever expected to experience." Starbuck's
correspondents.

One word, before I close this lecture, on the question of the
transiency or permanence of these abrupt conversions. Some of you, I
feel sure, knowing that numerous backslidings and relapses take place,
make of these their apperceiving mass for interpreting the whole
subject, and dismiss it with a pitying smile at so much "hysterics."
Psychologically, as well as religiously, however, this is shallow. It
misses the point of serious interest, which is not so much the duration
as the nature and quality of these shiftin