A lady calling upon a friend one day, exprest surprize that she
had both windows open while the thermometer was at zero, saying
that she never opened her windows in winter, adding that even
then she was unable to keep warm.
“I open my windows,” was the explanation, “to warm the rooms
by filling them with fresh air. It is impossible to heat dead
air. To inhale the same air over and over again is to breathe in
poison.”
As “it is impossible to heat dead air,” so it is impossible to incite
zeal in a dead church. The breath of the Spirit is first needed to
change the spiritual climate. (Text.)
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=Renewing the Faith=--See EXTREMITY NOT FINAL.