Most churches are religious cisterns instead of spiritual
reservoirs. A cistern has all the trenches dug, the pipes laid,
the roofs shaped to catch the showers of the favoring sky, and
the water runs into it to be dipped out by the owner or occupant
of the building, for the purpose of consumption. A reservoir has
streams running into it, but all its trenches are dug and pipes
laid in order that the water shall flow away from it, for the
purpose of distribution.--THEODORE S. HENDERSON.
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