He repents on thorns that sleeps in beds of roses.--_Quarles._

O brethren, it is sickening work to think of your cushioned seats, your

chants, your anthems, your choirs, your organs, your gowns, and your

bands, and I know not what besides, all made to be instruments of

religious luxury, if not of pious dissipation, while ye need far more to

be stirred up and incited to holy ardor for the propagation of the truth

as it is in Jesus.--_Spurgeon._

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