on which the
superstructure of good order, and government, and prosperity, has been
reared.

Remember that God made you what you are, and placed you. Dare to be
yourself--a simple, humble, sincere follower of Jesus. Do not seek to
imitate this or the other great speaker or leader. Be content to find
out what God made you for, and be that at its best. You will be a bad
copy, but a unique original; for the Almighty always breaks the pattern
from which He has made one vase. Above all, speak out the truth, as
God has revealed it to you, distorting, exaggerating, omitting nothing;
and long after you have passed away, those who remember you will gather
at your grave and say, "he did no miracle--there was nothing
sensational or phenomenal in his life-work; but he spake true things
about Jesus Christ, which we have tested for ourselves, and are
undeniable. Indeed, they led us to believe in Him for ourselves."

II. THE WAYS IN WHICH WE MAY BEAR TESTIMONY TO THE LORD JESUS.--There
is no miracle in your life, my reader. You are no genius; you do not
know what it is to have the rush of thought, the power of brilliant
speech, the burst of song. You have no wealth, only just enough for
your bare sustenance, and nothing to spare. You have no rich blood in
your veins, come of a line of heroes or saints. As you look daily into
the common routine of your lot, it seems ordinary enough. Be it so;
there is at least one thing you can do, as we have seen--like the
Baptist, you may witness for Jesus.

_Speak to others privately_. When only two disciples were standing
beside him, John preached the same sermon as he had delivered to the
crowd the day before, and both of them went to the frail lodging where
Jesus was making his abode. There is nothing that more deeply searches
a man than the habit of speaking to individuals about the love of God.
We cannot do it unless we are in living union with Himself. Nothing so
tests the soul. It is easy to preach a sermon, when the inner life is
out of fellowship with God, because you can preach your ideals, or
avenge on others the sins of which you are inwardly conscious; but to
speak to another about Christ involves that there should be an
absolutely clear sky between the speaker and the Lord of whom he
speaks. But as this practice is the most difficult, it is the most
blessed in its reflex influence. To lead another to Jesus is to get
nearer Him. To chafe the limbs of some frozen