e up his mind that if that was for him he would have it; he said
he went home and looked to the Master, and that he never had such a
battle with himself in his life. He asked that God would show him the
sinfulness of his heart that he knew nothing about, and he just cried
mightily to God that he might be emptied of himself and filled with
the Spirit, and he said, "God has answered my prayer." I met him in
Edinburgh six months from that date, and he told me he had preached
the Gospel every night during that time, that he had not preached one
sermon but that some remained for conversation, and that he had
engagements four months ahead to preach the Gospel every night in
different churches. I think you could have fired a cannon ball right
through his church and not hit any one before he got this anointing;
but it was not thirty days before the building was full and aisles
crowded. He had his bucket filled full of fresh water, and the people
found it out and came flocking to him from every quarter. I tell you,
you can't get the stream higher than the fountain. What we need very
specially is power. There was another man whom I have in my mind, and
he said, "I have heart disease, I can't preach more than once a week,"
so he had a colleague to preach for him and do the visiting. He was an
old minister, and he couldn't do any visiting. He had heard of this
anointing, and said, "I would like to be anointed for my burial. I
would like before I go hence to have just one more privilege to preach
the Gospel with power." He prayed that God would fill him with the
Spirit, and I met him not long after that, and he said, "I have
preached on an average eight times a week, and I have had conversions
all along." The Spirit came on him. I don't believe that man broke
down at first with hard work, so much as with using the machinery
without oil, without lubrication. It is not the hard work breaks down
ministers, but it is the toil of working without power. Oh, that God
may anoint His people! Not the ministry only, but every disciple. Do
not suppose pastors are the only laborers needing it. There is not a
mother but needs it in her house to regulate her family, just as much
as the minister needs it in the pulpit or the Sunday-school teacher
needs it in his Sunday-school. We all need it together, and let us not
rest day nor night until we possess it; if that is the uppermost
thought in our hearts, God will give it to us if we just hunger and
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