From the following illustration of electrical contact, Rev. William
Arthur draws the moral that if we would be spiritually electrified we
must draw nigh to God.
When a lecturer on electricity wants to show an example of a
human body surcharged with his fire, he places a person on a
stool with glass legs. The glass serves to isolate him from
the earth, because it will not conduct the fire--the electric
fluid. Were it not for this, however much might be poured into
his frame, it would be carried away by the earth; but, when thus
isolated from it, he retains all that enters him. You see no
fire, you hear no fire; but you are told that it is pouring into
him. Presently, you are challenged to the proof, asked to come
near, and hold your hand close to his person; when you do so, a
spark of fire shoots out toward you.
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