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<p>When the Spirit of God is gone, even truth itself becomes an<br />
iceberg. How wretched is religion when it becomes frozen and<br />
lifeless! The Holy Spirit is gone, and all energy and enthusiasm<br />
have gone with him.<br />
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What the valleys would be without their brooks, or the cities<br />
without their wells; what the corn-fields would be without the<br />
sun, or the vintage without the summer- that would our<br />
churches be without the Spirit. As well think of day without<br />
light, or life without breath, or heaven without God, as of<br />
Christian service without the Holy Spirit.<br />
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Nothing can supply his place if he is absent: the pastures are a<br />
desert, the fruitful fields are a wilderness, Sharon languishes,<br />
and Carmel is burned with fire.<br />
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Blessed Spirit of the Lord, forgive us that we have done such<br />
despite to you, by our forgetfulness of you, by our proud self-<br />
sufficiency, by resisting your influences, and quenching your<br />
fire! Henceforth work in us according to your own excellence.<br />
Make our hearts tenderly impressible, and then turn us as wax<br />
to the seal, and stamp upon us the image of the Son of God.
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