THE way to lead a person on is to come down to where he is, and then to help him gently forward. We were taught simple addition before our schoolmaster gave us difficult sums to work out; but schoolmasters are wiser than those preachers who are “over the heads” of their hearers. Where there is sympathy there will be simplicity. When the preacher goes down to the spiritual condition of his hearers, it is because his sympathies have led him to their level. And having come down to them, he will bring them up to his own knowledge of Christ.