“The man athirst for the water of life is one who simply feels his need of salvation. There may be such, even in Christian communities, to whom no Christian minister has ever especially addressed himself, and to whom no Christian friend has ever spoken about the great salvation, who, by the Spirit ‘who worketh, when and where and how he pleaseth,’ has had awakened within him a desire to make all right between God and his soul. To him, Christ himself here speaks the word of invitation: ‘And let him that is athirst come.’ And then, that no man can possibly think himself for- gotten or excluded from the invitation, he closes the gospel call in words which remind us at once of the terms in which he preached it near the commencement of his public ministry: ‘And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.’ Surely, in no words which human language furnishes could the offer of salvation be made more full and free than in those which our Lord has chosen.” — George D. Armstrong, The Gospel Call in Southern Presbyterian Pulpit: A Collection of Sermons by Ministers of the Southern Presbyterian Church (1896), pp. 55-56