I was once preaching in Scotland, and when I got to the church it was so
cold that I could see my breath three feet away, said Rev. D. L. Moody.
I said to the "beadle," as they call him:
"Aren't you going to have any heat in this building?"
He said they had no stoves or any other provision for heat.
"Well, how do you expect people to get warm?"
"Oh!" he said, "we expect the pulpit to warm us up."
NOTE: _In Dr. Guthrie's Autobiography_, vol. I, page 125--Describing the
first church he became pastor of, in Arbirlot, in 1830, he says: "As to
stoves, they were never thought of--the pulpit had to keep the people
warm."
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