When we come to pleading terms with God, there is nothing that so helps us as to be able to quote the promise and plead, “Thou saidst.” The egg of mischief is smaller than that of a midge; a world of evil lurks in a drop of rebellion. He who plays when he should work has an evil spirit to be his playmate. Sermons which we have studied with care, delivered with travail, prayed over and wept over, are praised for such minor matters as taste, accuracy, and diction, and the truth they contain is not