got light, gladness, pardon, strength, companionship, and a joyful
hope. I was blind--you remember me when my eyes were dark, and I sat
begging outside the Temple; I was blind, now I see--look at my
eyeballs.' We can all say that. This is the witness that needs no
eloquence, no genius, no anything except honesty and experience; and
whosoever has tasted and felt and handled of the Word of Life may
surely go to a brother and say, 'Brother, I have eaten and am
satisfied. Will you not help yourselves?' We can all do it, and we
ought to do it. The Christian privilege of being witnessed to by the
Spirit of God in our hearts brings with it the Christian duty of
being witnesses in our turn to the world. That is our only weapon
against the hostility which godless humanity bears to ourselves and
to our Master. We may win men by that; we can win them by nothing
else. 'Ye are My witnesses, saith the Lord, and My servants whom I
have chosen.' Christian friend, listen to the Master, who says, 'Him
that confesseth Me before men, him will I also confess before My
Father in heaven.'



WHY CHRIST SPEAKS

'These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be
offended. They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time
cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God
service. And these things will they do unto you, because they
have not known the Father, nor Me. But these things have I told
you, that, when the time shall come, ye may remember that I told
you of them. And these things I said not unto you at the
beginning, because I was with you. But now I go My way to Him