Besides, Mr.Moggridge was not inhumanly above the pleasures of self-importance, and though he did not express it in just those words, or indeed in any words at all, the idea of his being the Maecenas of New Zion was suddenly born within him.
Now, quick was even the word with Mr.Moggridge, as became a successful man of business, and for him to conceive an idea was to carry it out, as goods were always delivered from Mr.Moggridge's shop, with despatch.
Also in some dim far-off way Mr.Moggridge's mind had, all unconsciously, been stirred by vibrations of what we call the New Spirit.

The new spirit of any age works its way even into its businesses, and though Mr.Moggridge wouldn't have so described it, it was the "New Spirit" that had made the success of his provision shop.
Speaking of the need of New Zion, Mr.Moggridge called it "new blood." He meant the "New Spirit;" and it was in reply to his advertisement for a new pastor, that the "New Spirit" in the person of Theophilus Londonderry came one Sunday to preach at New Zion..