Finney, what ails you?' I could make him no
answer for some time. He then said, 'Are you in pain?' I
gathered myself up as best I could, and replied, 'No, but so
happy that I cannot live.'"
I just now quoted Billy Bray; I cannot do better than give his
own brief account of his post-conversion feelings:--
"I can't help praising the Lord. As I go along the street, I
lift up one foot, and it seems to say 'Glory'; and I lift up the
other, and it seems to say 'Amen'; and so they keep up like that
all the time I am walking."[141]
[141] I add in a note a few more records:--
"One morning, being in deep distress, fearing every moment I
should drop into hell, I was constrained to cry in earnest for
mercy, and the Lord came to my relief, and delivered my soul from
the burden and guilt of sin. My whole frame was in a tremor from
head to foot, and my soul enjoyed sweet peace. The pleasure I
then felt was indescribable. The happiness lasted about three
days, during which time I never spoke to any person about my
feelings." Autobiography of Dan Young, edited by W. P.
Strickland, New York, 1860.
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