He just
seemed to take the whole text and throw it at them, to prove that God
loved the sinner, and that for six thousand years he had been trying to
convince the world of this. I thought I had never heard a better sermon
in my life. It seemed to be new revelation to all. Ah, I notice there
are some of you here who remember those times; remember those nights. I
got a new idea of the blessed Bible. On Monday night I went down and the
young man said, "Turn to the third chapter of John, sixteenth verse;"
and he seemed to preach better than ever. Proof after proof was quoted
from Scripture to show how God loved us. I thought sure he had exhausted
that text, but on Tuesday he took his Bible in his hand and said: "Turn
to the third chapter of John, sixteenth verse,'" and he preached the
sixth sermon from that verse. He just seemed to climb over his subject,
while he proved that there was nothing on earth like the love of Christ,
and he said "If I can only convince men of His love, if I can but bring
them to believe this text; the whole world will be saved." On Thursday
he selected the same text, John iii., 16, and at the conclusion of the
sermon he said: "I have been trying to tell you for seven nights now,
how Christ loves you, but I cannot do it.
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