A church is like the steps leading in to a beautiful mansion,
but you do not sit down on the steps, you do not set up a
tent on the steps, you do not live on the steps--the steps
lift you to the level of the warm room, the blazing winter’s
fire, the bower of home that receives you out of the driving
rain or pelting snow. All the ordinances of the Church are
steps that lead to the house of character, adorned with all
those rich treasures, named truth, gentleness, meekness and
justice and sympathy. The Church is a hostelry in which man
stops for a night on his journey home. The end of the Church is
character.--N. D. HILLIS.
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