can hear or drink deadly poisons, or doctrines but they will not kill our soul.  “These signs shall follow them that believe.  The real Christ life is and always will be hateful to the world.  I have often heard it said of me; “I cannot bear that Carry Nation!” I would only to do the people good.  I do not blame these as I once did; “For the natural man is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.”  “Marvel not that the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.”  I know that when I was ten years old I felt the movings of God’s spirit—­got an answer of peace, but like a little infant pined away, for lack of care and nourishment.  Nothing but the divine mercy of Almighty God could have directed the affairs of my tempest-tossed life.  I now know there are no accidents.  A sparrow falls by a special providence.  There are no sins or temptations that I can not say:  “My God delivered, saved and forgave me for that.”  I go to prisons and all kinds of houses of sin.  I say:  “I can tell you of one who can save and forgive you for that, he forgave me, and he will forgive you, for I was as bad, or worse, than you.”  I have never seen anyone whom I thought had committed more sin than I. Many will lift up horrified hands at this but ’tis true.  I never saw the corruption of but one life, one heart,—­that was mine.  I was never so shocked, so disgusted, so distracted with remorse over any life, so much as my own.  My heart was the foulest place I ever saw.  I do not know what is in other people’s hearts.  Paul meant this when he said:  “Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners of whom I am chief;” Said, this, “is worthy of all acceptation” or was, a good testimony.  Because one can never see how bad the heart is, until God sheds the light to see it.  So many people are deceived, as a blind man.  They may be in filth, and do not know it.  It is there, but not seen, for lack of light.

I was first condemned by reading the Psalms.  I said:  “If Christians have impulses to “rejoice”, clap their hands, and “shout”, I do not know what it is.  I find no response of gladness in my heart.”  I trembled with fear to think of God and the judgement day.  This continued from youth up to the age of forty.  At this time I received from Christ the “Gift of the Holy Ghost”, the “Unction”, that which “leads unto all truth.”  There are many names for this; I call it the Bible name.  “Hold fast the form of sound words.”  Before this I had never spoken a word for God or prayed in public.  At one time I was called on to do so, and was terrified and mumbled out something, that was no prayer.  Now all was changed:  “I was glad when they said unto me, let us go into the house of the Lord.”  I was anxious for my time to come to tell how good Jesus was to me.  When I met my neighbors I would be heavy-hearted, because they talked of servants, house cleaning, the new fashions, and these seemed so vain, so frivolous.  I liked to direct their minds to speak of the Scriptures,