experience, whereas the design of God in redeeming us unto himself seems to be this:-That we give ourselves at once wholly and for ever away to his service, in order that we may be unto him a peculiar people, zealous of good works, not living to ourselves, as we should do were we ever absorbing ourselves in perplexities about our own experience. Who would not dismiss a servant that was ever saying, 'I have about as much as I can do to serve myself?""&c. Several members resolved to come up to the point of entire consecration, that is, to serve Christ wholly: we then covenanted together to begin at once to work for God. I suggested to them to single out some individual, not the most likely, by way of being religiously influ enced, but the most unlikely, and to interest themselves, even as for their own souls, in the experience of such, until we should meet again on the coming week.
Pursuant to the advice I had given, I began to think, Who shall I take to labor for so absorbingly during the week? when it was suggested, You had better inquire of God. I did so. To my astonishment, the individual referred to, with whom my former efforts had seemingly been so fruitless, was presented. For a moment, I turned away with dismay. My thoughts ran thus :-Were the most vile, reckless sinner, suggested, or even a professed infidel, I might in some way know how to approach