“How often have I thought that, if he had said, “Bare your back to the scourge, and take fifty lashes”; I would have said, “Here I am! Come along with your whip, and beat as hard as you please, so long as I can obtain peace and rest, and get rid of my sin.” Yet that simplest of all matters—believing in Christ crucified, accepting His finished salvation, being nothing, and letting Him be everything, doing nothing but trusting to what He has done,—I could not get a hold of it.10”