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Many of us can emotionally enter into Brainerd’s experience, both in his depressions and subsequent elevations.—‘Oh! how heavy’ (he says) ‘is my work, when faith cannot take hold of an Almighty arm for its performance! Many times I have been ready to sink in this case. Blessed be God that I may repair to a full fountain.’ ‘I stagger along under the burden’—writes another agitated Minister—‘like the poor travellers cast away in the desert, ready every step to sink under it. But when it seems as if I could not take another step, but must lie down and die, some spring opens to my view, and I get strength and courage to drag on a little further.’ Memoir of Dr. Payson of America.