If we would be teachers of others, we must be learners ourselves. If we cease to keep our place
at the feet of Jesus in prayer and meditation on His blessed Word, we soon begin to think that we
know something; but while sitting there, we find and feel our own poverty and ignorance; yet
what we do learn there, we learn to profit, and are encouraged to expect, and stirred up to ask,
that more and more may be unfolded to us, by the Spirit, of the truth as it is ire Jesus:our
meditations of Him become sweet to the soul, and as we handle Him by faith, our fingers drop
with sweet-smelling myrrh. (Song of Solomon 5:5).

This is needful, not for public teachers only, but for the present peace, the soul’s health, the real
happiness, the joyful liberty of the most retiring and unobserved of God’s children.

It is only in the measure that we are receivers, through the Spirit, of the fulness that is in Jesus
that we shall have anything profitable to say for Him in our private intercourse with men, whether
converted or uncoverted.

Let not past failure discourage us. He giveth more grace. He upbraideth not.

If, in our own little measure, we find it "more blessed to give than to receive", what must be the
joy of His heart to let His fulness flow into the channels which His grace opens in the contrite
hearts of His redeemed_His brethren (John 20:17);hearts which long to know more of
Him_which thirst for closer, and yet closer,, communion with Him in whose presence, now
realized by faith, is fulness of joy. (I John 1:3,4).