But there is something, see you not? for the thirsty soul to do. Christ cannot save us till we come. He is indeed, as St. Paul calls him, "the Saviour of all men, especially of them that believe"--of all men, because he has opened the fountain for all and invited all to the fountain--especially of them that believe, because they accept the invitation and come to him for supply. Whoever, whatever, wherever you are--however great your obstructions, and however numerous and enormous your sins--called, you may come; coming, you will receive; receiving, you shall be satisfied forever. "Rivers of living water," Jesus offers every believer in him. See the adaptation--"water"--to assuage your thirst, to refresh the weary soul, to revive him who is fainting and dying. Observe the quality--"living water"--not a stagnant pool, but a salient spring, a fountain that never fails, a well of water within springing up unto everlasting life. Behold the abundance--"rivers of living water"--not one great stream, but many--an inexhaustible supply, having its source in a shoreless and unfathomable sea-- "Its streams the whole creation reach, So plenteous is the store; Enough for all, enough for each, Enough forevermore!" But the coming is not all. Come and what? Come and see? Come and explore? Come and investigate? Come and analyze the water, and discuss its qualities, and speculate about its probable effects? Come and praise the fountain, and commend it to others, and enjoy its cool retreats, and admire its beautiful environs, and congratulate your friends upon its conveniences, and applaud the benevolence that opened it for the benefit of all? Nay, come and drink. Not all the water from the smitten rock could save the Israelite that would not drink. Not all the river of the water of life flowing through the City of God can quench the thirst of the soul that declines it. Personally you must appropriate the mercy. Personally you must experience its restoring power. Salvation is not a theory, but a fact; not a speculation, but a consciousness; not an ethical system to be reasoned out by superior intellect, but a divine blessing to be taken into the believing heart. It is a new life received from the Fountain-Life of the world. Gushing from the throne of God and the Lamb, "clear as crystal," with a copiousness and an energy which no dam can stay nor dike restrain, it offers its refreshment to all, free as the air, the dew, the rain, or the sunlight of heaven. Drink, and you shall never thirst again. Drink, and find your immortality in the draught! [1] Preached in Rochester, N.Y., 1842. VII. SOJOURNING WITH GOD.[1] Ye are strangers and sojourners with me.--Lev. xxv. 23.