The Quiet Way
These tiny flames were held by a few men, who preached that religion was not an affair of the brain, not the involved doctrines spun by learned theologians, but, first and foremost, the heart and will devoted in love to God and one's neighbor. God, they said, was no respecter of persons. He would use the simplest soul who believed and loved as His priest.
To Gerhard Tersteegen, an apprentice shop-keeper in Mülheim, "a godly merchant" came as God's priest and led his soul into peace. But the constant bustle of shopkeeping proved too much for his delicate health, and he retired to the more peaceful work of ribbon-weaving. In an isolated cottage Tersteegen lived alone with his God and his books, helped only by a little girl who came once a day to wind his silk.
For five years Gerhard was "deprived of the sense of God's favor" till one day, when he was walk-ing along a country road, "the Dayspring from on high visited him." He signed a covenant with God in his blood and the cottage became a center of spiritual
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