the Week of Proper 28 / Ordinary 33
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Means of Grace: Their Disuse a Sad Loss
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My Aeolian harp is not sounding and yet a fine fresh wind is blowing in at the window. Why hear I not its soft mystic strains? I remember, it was put away in the lumber room and some of its strings are broken. There is a gracious revival in the church, and believers are greatly refreshed by the visitations of God's Spirit, but I am in a sadly worldly unbelieving condition. May it not be because I neglect private prayer, and have not been regular at the prayer-meeting; my family concerns and business cares have kept my heart in the lumber room, and my soul has lost her first love? Yes, these are the reasons. Lord, tune my heart, and I will again seek the places where the heavenly wind of thy Spirit blows graciously and refreshingly. How can I bear to be silent when thy daily mercies are all around me singing of thy love?
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Spurgeon, Charles. Entry for 'Means of Grace: Their Disuse a Sad Loss'. Spurgeon's Illustration Collection. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/fff/m/means-of-grace-their-disuse-a-sad-loss.html. 1870.
