"_Then with gladness shall ye draw waters out of the wells of salvation._" Isaiah 12:3. What can be meant by the "wells of salvation," but the _fountains of truth_ in God's Word? By way of describing the _abundance_ of the supply of truths from this source I will here quote from the forty-first chapter of Isaiah, as follows: "_I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water: ... that they may see, and know, and consider, and understand_." One man is a _hillside_; another is a _valley_. One man is a _desert_; you think he never can be made to produce anything. But he shall be supplied, and thus be made to blossom as the rose. Others are _dry land_ of a general character; but there is water enough to make all fruitful: so that instead of the thorn, the myrtle; and instead of the thistle, the fig; and instead of the deadly upas, the olive shall grow. In Jeremiah's description of the departure of the Jews from the TRUTHS of God's Word we find the following complaint against them from the mouth of the Lord himself, recorded in Jer. 2:13, "_My people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water_." This can mean nothing, spiritually, but a departure from the TRUTH of God as revealed, and substituting in its place some false doctrine of man's own invention. Jesus said: "_If any man thirst, let him come to me, and drink_." For, said he: "_My words are spirit, and they are life_." His words are the water of life. This explains my text. It might surprise some of you if I were to point to that spring yonder and say, "There flows the water of life." But would I not tell the truth? Can man or beast live one moment without it? Let us think a little. What is your blood? It is water, holding in solution the various elements with which your bones, and sinews, and muscles, and nerves, and other tissues of your body are to be supplied and nourished. Can man or beast live a moment without blood? Then they cannot live a moment without water. Can trees and plants live a moment without sap? They cannot, because their sap is their blood. But the water of that spring, indispensable as it is to your bodily life, ceases as to its uses in this respect when this end is met; and if man had no life other than that of mere corporeal or animal existence, no other water would ever be demanded by him. In that case there would be no need of the invitation given in the text.