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They all insist that saving faith is not a mere humanly moral exercise, but that power to believe with the heart descends from God, and that it must be waited for in prayer, and that it becomes in the believer a series of supernatural and spiritual acts, a habit of soul, at once the seed and fruit of the Divine life-stirring, uniting in itself the characters of penitent humility, self-renunciation, simple trust, and absolute obedience grounded in love.
I have listened with awe to the thunder of the tropics I have held my breath as the artillery of a fleet vomited forth its fire, and rent the air with sudden concussions I have heard the roar of the tumbling river of the Canadas, and I have stood aghast at the crashing of a forest in a tornado; but never before did I feel so life-stirring, so thrilling an emotion of surprise, alarm, and sympathy, as that which arose within me, at the burst of commendation and delight with which this announcement of self-devotion and enterprise was received by the audience.
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