10. His Appreciation of his Conversion.

His Appreciation of his Conversion

Under the impulse of gratitude, and from a profound sense of obligation, he writes : "’ Is not this a brand plucked out of the fire ?’ Zech. 3: 2. What a just and striking description of every sinner! To snatch a smoking brand from eternal burnings, and plant it among the stars in the firmament of heaven, there to shine like the sun forever! Such a brand am I; a brand yet smoking with the half-extinguished fires of sin ; a brand scorched and blackened by the flames of hell! What then do I owe to Him, who entered the furnace of divine wrath, that he might bring me out?”