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INTRODUCTION

_To First Australian Edition._

Christian reader, I pray that before you finish this little book you may
become so eager, so intense in your longings after God, that you will not
be satisfied until you are really and actually "FULL" of Him, "filled" with
the Holy Ghost.

When the Lord asked Job, in chap. xxxviii. 34, "Canst thou lift up thy
voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover thee?" he would
undoubtedly have answered, No. We, on the other hand, with all humility,
but without the slightest hesitation, can answer, Yes. "Abundance" is the
Father's will; "abundant" are the Stores of Life in Jesus; "abounding" for
ever and ever is the Stream of the Spirit's energies.

We have only _to reflect a little_ till the truth flashes, and _then_ the
victory is all but won. We have only to consider, WHO was it that first
loved us, and called us to be His own children, when we were wandering in
sin's desert? WHO was it that first crossed the wild with a cup of living
water to slake our dying thirst? WHO now crosses that desert a second time
on our behalf with great camel loads of wine and milk? What did it cost Him
to draw that water from Salvation's well, or to buy those luxuries for
growth and power? What will one healing, stimulating draught accomplish in
us and others? How will He grieve if we decline to "buy," or hesitate to
"drink"? What, above all, will be the consequences to His glory? Oh, let us
arise! Let us "shake ourselves from the dust!" Let us drink abundantly,
Beloved! There is just now an unutterable need for "something more." Single
souls are drooping, though divinely planted. Churches are full of bones,
"very many and very dry." The world is a jungle, a forest ready for the
fire. Men, women and children form one vast continent of feeling, of
ever-increasing sensibility, with an ever-deepening, an ever-aching void.
Even the Teachers of High Truth themselves are not "abundantly satisfied"
with the fatness