Part 24 (2/2)

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So their clothes to church rather than theood church can never alone ood man

--_Dr South_

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HOW THE CHURCH MUST GROW

It has seemed sometimes in recent years as if the deaths were ht hoion if Christianity is not to perish from the world which it has re-made The Church is not an establishment in the world, but an encampment She has no natural increase She lives only by capture, by winning over from the world the citizens that make her number One must arm another with the Christian panoply, if the Church is to continue

--_The British Weekly_

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HOW TO WARM UP THE CHURCH

I was once preaching in Scotland, and when I got to the church it was so cold that I could see my breath three feet away, said Rev D L Moody

I said to the ”beadle,” as they call hi?”

He said they had no stoves or any other provision for heat

”Well, how do you expect people to get warm?”

”Oh!” he said, ”we expect the pulpit to warraphy_, vol I, page 125--Describing the first church he became pastor of, in Arbirlot, in 1830, he says: ”As to stoves, they were never thought of--the pulpit had to keep the people warm”

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