10-12).
When the call of God came to Jeremiah, he shrank back, and said,
"Ah, Lord God! behold, I cannot speak: for I am a child." But the
Lord replied, "Say not, I am a child: for thou shalt go to all
that I shall send thee, and whatsoever I command thee thou shalt
speak. Be not afraid of their faces, for I am with thee to
deliver thee" (Jeremiah i. 6-8).
And so the call of God comes to-day to those who shrink and feel
that they are the most unfit, or most hedged in by insuperable
difficulties.
I know a man, who, when converted, could not tell A from B. He
knew nothing whatever about the Bible, and stammered so badly
that, when asked his own name, it would usually take him a minute
or so to tell it; added to this, he lisped badly, and was subject
to a nervous affliction which seemed likely to unfit him for any
kind of work whatever. But God poured light and love into his
heart, called him to preach, and to-day he is one of the
mightiest soul-winners in the whole round of my acquaintance.
When he speaks the house is always packed to the doors, and the
people hang on his words with wonder and joy.
He was converted at a Camp meeting, and sanctified wholly in a
cornfield. He learned to read; but, being too poor to afford a
light in the evening, he studied a large-print Bible by the light
of the full moon. To-day, he has the Bible almost committed to
memory, and when he speaks he does not open the Book, but reads
his lesson from memory, and quotes proof texts from Genesis to
Revelation without mistake, and gives chapter and verse for every
quotation.
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