text and began to preach, he used to settle himself in the corner of
the pew and work out the plans of some building. He could not tell
how many plans he had prepared while the minister was preaching. He
was the architect for one or two companies; and he used to do all
his planning in that way. You see, Satan came in between him and the
preacher, and caught away the good seed of the Word. I have often
preached to people, and have been perfectly amazed to find they
could hardly tell one solitary word of the sermon; even the text had
completely gone from them.

A colored man once said that a good many of his congregation would
be lost because they were too generous. He saw that the people
looked rather surprised; so he said, "Perhaps you think I have made
a mistake; and that I ought to have said you will be lost because
you are not generous enough. That is not so; I meant just what I
said. You give away too many sermons. You hear them, as it were, for
other people." So there are a good many now hearing me who are
listening for those behind them: they say the message is a very good
one for neighbor So-and-so; and they pass it over their shoulders,
till it gets clear out at the door. You laugh; but you know it is
so. Listen! "Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that heareth My
word, and believeth on Him that sent Me, hath everlasting life, and
shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto
life."

The next note in this peal of bells I wish to ring out is--

COME AND SEE!

Scripture not only uses the ear, but the eye, in illustrating the
way of salvation. When a man both hears and sees a thing, he
remembers it twice as long as if he only heard it. You remember what
Philip said to Nathanael: "Philip findeth Nathanael, and saith unto
him, we have found Him of whom Moses in the Law, and the Prophets,
did write--Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph. And Nathanael said
unto him, Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth? Philip
saith unto him, Come and see." Philip was a wise winner of souls. He
brought his friend to Christ. Nathanael had one interview with the
son of God; he became His disciple and never left Him. If Philip had
gone on discussing the matter with him, and had tried to prove that
some good thing could come out of Nazareth, he might have never been
a disciple at all.

After all, we do not gain much by discussion. Let objectors or
inquirers only get one personal interview with the Son of