Philipps Brooks, in his "Lectures I on Preaching," tells of the first prayer meeting he attended at the divinity school where he received his training. He was impressed with the devoutness and fervor with which the young men prayed and exhorted one another. Their souls seemed to be on fire. The next day he met some of the same men at a Greek recitation. Several of those who had appeared the most devout the night before showed marked evidences of unlearned lessons. From this incident Brooks moralizes on the necessity of connecting devotion with painstaking work. "The boiler had no connection with the engine," he observes. Here were young men ostensibly preparing for the ministry, but who had not learned the principle that devotion should have some very definite relation to the one work which they came there to do; namely, to perform by diligent and arduous study the set tasks assigned by their instructors in order that they might be "thoroughly furnished unto
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