God; that
will scatter all their darkness, all their prejudice, and all their
unbelief. The moment that Philip succeeded in getting Nathanael to
Christ, the work was done.

So we say to you, "Come and see!" I thought, when I was converted,
that my friends had been very unfaithful to me, because they had not
told me about Christ. I thought I would have all my friends
converted inside of twenty-four hours; and I was quite disappointed
when they did not at once see Christ to be the Lily of the Valley,
and the Rose of Sharon, and the Bright and Morning Star. I wondered
why it was. No doubt many of those who hear me now have had that
experience; you thought when you saw Christ in all His beauty that
you could soon make your friends see Him in the same light.

But we need to learn that God alone can do it. If there is a skeptic
now hearing me, I want to say that one personal interview with the
Son of God will scatter all your infidelity and atheism. One night,
in the inquiry-room, I met the wife of an atheist, who had been
brought to God at one of our meetings. She was converted at the same
time. She had brought two of her daughters to the meeting, desiring
that they too should know Christ. I said to the mother: "How is it
with your skepticism now?" "Oh," said she, "it is all gone." When
Christ gets into the heart, atheism must go out; if a man will only
come and take one trustful, loving look at the Saviour, there will
be no desire to leave Him again.

A gentleman was walking down the street in Baltimore, a few years
ago. It was near Christmas-time, and many of the shop-windows were
filled with Christmas presents, toys, etc. As this gentleman passed
along, he saw three little girls standing before a shop window, and
he heard two of them trying to describe to the third the things that
were in the window. It aroused his attention, and he wondered what
it could mean. He went back, and found that the middle one was
blind--she had never been able to see--and her two sisters were
endeavoring to tell her how the things looked. The gentleman stood
beside them for some time, and listened; he said it was most
interesting to hear them trying to describe the different articles
to the blind child--they found it a difficult task. As he told me, I
said to myself, "That is just my position in trying to tell other
men about Christ: I may talk about Him; and yet they see no beauty
in Him that they should desire Him. But if they will only