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that the whale was prepared for Jonah; as the colored woman said, "Why,
God could prepare a man to swallow a whale, let alone a whale to swallow
a man."

One Word.

I remember I took up the word "love," and turned to the Scriptures and
studied it, and got so that I felt I loved everybody, I got full of it.
When I went on the street, I felt as if I loved everybody I saw. It ran
out of my fingers. Suppose you take up the subject of love and study it
up. You will get so full of it that all you have got to do is to open
your lips and a flood of the love of God flows upon the meeting. If you
go into a court you will find a lawyer pleading a case. He gets
everything bearing upon one point, heaped up so as to carry his argument
with all the force he can, in order to convince the jury. Now it seems
to me a man should do the same in talking to an audience; just think
that he has a jury before him, and he wants to convict a sinner. If it
is love, get all you can upon the subject and talk love, love.

The "I Ams," "I Wills," Etc.

A favorite way to study the Bible with me, is first to take up one
expression, and run through the different places where they are found.
Take the "I ams" of John; "I am the bread of life;" "I am the water of
life;" "I am the way, the truth, and the life;" "I am the resurrection;"
"I am all, and in all." God gives to His children a blank; and on it
they can write whatever they most want and He will fill the bill. And
then the promises. A Scotchman found out thirty one thousand distinct
promises in the Word of God. There is not a despondent soul but God has
a promise just to suit him.

GOLD.

-- The best truths are got by digging deep for them.

-- When we know our Bible, then it is that God can use us.

-- When we find a man meditating on the words of God, my friends, that
man is full of boldness and is successful.

-- When a man is filled with the Word of God you cannot keep him still.
If man has got the Word, he must speak or die.

-- Let us have one day exclusively to study and read the Word of God. If
we can't take time during the week, we will have Sunday
uninterrupted.

-- Now, as old Dr. Bonner, of Glasgow, said, "The Lord didn't tell
Joshua how to use the sword, but He told him how he should meditate
on the Lord day and night, and then he would have good success."

-- One thing I have noticed in studying the Word of God, and that is,
when a man is