Emptying himself of selfish ambition, he held up the emptied vessel to be filled with the grace of God. Thus far, Mr. Finney's example is not certainly beyond the reach of imitation. We answer, that faith fed and grew upon the Word of God. He searched his Bible on his knees, and grouped its promises, till unbelief fell, smitten, before the combined blaze of their testimony. It grew, again, by the experience of prayer.
Experiment is the most convincing argument.
Faith is confirmed by every new promise which the prayerful soul grasps, and especially by every new experience of prayer answered. His simplicity was seen in his singleness of aim, his sacred zeal to glorify God in saving and sanctifying souls. He cared more for the groan of one whom the arrow of truth had wounded, than for the shouts of an hundred praising the archer's skill. Hence he avoided dogmatism, substituted argument for authority, assumed nothing, and led the mind on, step by step, to the embrace of truth. Then he struck for the Will.