But I appeal to your experience, are not your thoughts of Him the most unsteady? Do you not have as much trouble holding your thoughts on Him as you would holding a telescope on a star with a palsy-shaking hand? It takes a long time for our minds to focus on Him, to place the eyes of our minds upon Him—and when we have, O how our hands shake! how often we lose sight of Him! So while we are in the most serious talk with Him, when all other things should be kept out, yet how many chinks there are in the heart, at which a flood of other thoughts come in!
