_Third._ Alex. Campbell did not _raise himself up_. God raised him, not for _himself_, nor for us to _glory in him_, but for _his own glorious purpose_, and he did not leave him without the _means_ to accomplish that great purpose. He always provides a way for a man to do the work for which he has raised him up. Alex. Campbell could not have gone, as he did, at his _own charges_, traveling thousands of miles, and for many long months at a time, and through immense districts of country, where he had no kind brethren to entertain him and support him, if the means had not been provided. Nor could he have started, maintained and sent forth a publication, coming in collision with all the religious publications in the world without the means to sustain him. God provided him the means, so that he never lacked. No man ever had the power to stop his mouth by cutting off his support. He stood independent, except upon God, who was with and prospered him. How could he have founded a seminary first and then a magnificent college and prosecuted his great work without means? How could he have supplied his extension table, always extended in his long dining hall, along which the vast numbers that visited him at all seasons, but specially on commencement occasions, sat, were fed and satisfied, and went away admiring their noble host, of whose munificence they had partaken, had not the Lord prospered him? God enabled him to give examples in generosity, hospitality, and to push on his great work. It was of the highest importance that he should be free from all pecuniary pressure and embarrassment, and the Lord kept him in that condition all the time—made “all grace abound” to him. Growing _rich_ and _money making_ from the _love_ of money, or _money’s sake_, were ideas that occupied no place in his great mind or heart. He made and used money, as God intended it, as a _means_ for doing the work of God, and _means_ that the work could not have been done without.