Experience is an Excellent Schoolmaster

Experience is an excellent schoolmaster, but he does charge such dreadful wages. — CARLYLE A hundred thousand tongues may discuss to you about the sweetness of honey; but you can never have such knowledge of it as by taste. Soa world full of books may tell you wonders of the things of God in religion; but you can never understand them exactly but by the taste of experience. — CAUSSIN In the early days of the telegraph, serious plans were being made for a line from Washington to Baltimore.

Five men were appointed to investigate the possibilities of such a line and to make their reports. Two did some quick figuring and concluded “No”; two more said, “Give it a trial.” One went out for a little and returned saying, “Yes, the line is entirely practicable.” He had experienced the sensation of receiving a message over the ex- perimental wire, realized the possibilites, and come to an emphatic conclusion.

So the “born again” person can speak of “that which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled of the Word of Life” (I John 1:1). Having had a message over the heavenly wires, he is impregnable to the doubts and insinuations of darkness on ev- ery hand. (I John 5:18-20).