And the _third_ stage--the triumphant stage? Bunyan felt that the scales were merely level because, in the balance that contained the hope, he had thrown only four of the six words that make up the text. '_My grace is sufficient_'; he had no doubt about that, and it gave him encouragement. But '_for thee_'; he felt that, if only he could add those words to the others, it would turn the scales completely. 'I had hope,' he says, 'yet because the "_for thee_" was left out, I was not contented, but prayed to God for _that_ also. Wherefore, one day, when I was in a meeting of God's people, full of sadness and terror, these words did with great power suddenly break in upon me; _My grace is sufficient for thee, My grace is sufficient for thee, My grace is sufficient for thee_, three times together. And oh! methought that every word was a mighty word unto me; as _My_ and _grace_, and _sufficient_, and _for thee_; they were then, and sometimes are still, far bigger than all others. Then, at last, that about Esau finding no place for repentance began to wax weak and withdraw and vanish, and this about the sufficiency of grace prevailed with peace and joy.' And so the issue was reversed; the scale that held the hope overweighed completely the scale that held the despair. If it were not that others have passed through an identically similar experience, we should feel inclined to marvel at Bunyan's reluctance to cast into the balances the tail of the text: _My grace is sufficient--for thee!_ It seems strange, I say, that Bunyan should have grasped with such confidence the _four_ words and then boggled at the other _two_. And yet it is always easier to believe that there is a Saviour for the world than to believe that there is a Saviour _for me_. It is easy to believe that There is grace enough for thousands Of new worlds as great as this; There is room for fresh creations In that upper home of bliss; but it is much harder to believe that there is grace and room _for me_. Martin Luther believed implicitly and preached confidently that Christ died for all mankind, long before he could persuade himself that Christ died for Martin Luther. John Wesley crossed the Atlantic that he might proclaim the forgiveness of sins to the Indians; but it was not until he was verging upon middle life that he realized the possibility of the forgiveness of his own.