I will not repeat the scene of that
morning when light broke fairly on my mind; how one might have thought
that I was a lunatic escaped from confinement; how I ran up and down
through the primeval forest of Ohio, shouting, 'Glory, glory!'
sometimes in loud tones and at other times whispered in an ecstasy of
joy and surprise. All the old troubles gone, and light breaking in on
my mind, I cried: 'I have found my God; I have found my God!' From
that hour I consecrated myself to the work of the ministry anew, for
before that I had about made up my mind to go into some other
profession."
His early training school for effective preaching was well selected.
It was, as is well known, one of the little villages on the banks of
the Ohio River, where the wants of river bargemen and frontiersmen
demanded his attention. It was there he decided what his life work
should be.
"My business shall be to save men, and to bring to bear upon them those
views that are my comfort, that are the bread of life to me; and I went
out among them almost entirely cut loose from the ordinary church
institutions and agencies, knowing nothing but 'Christ, and Him
crucified,' the sufferer for mankind.
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