If they made any spiritual advancement, they would have new wants to express and new thanksgivings to offer.

But they have been for a decade of years stuck fast in the mud, and they splash the same thing on you every week.

We need a universal church cleaning by which all canting and humdrum shall be scrubbed out.
If we would keep fresh, let us make occasional excursions into other circles than our own.

Artists generally go with artists, farmers with farmers, mechanics with mechanics, clergymen with clergymen, Christian workers with Christian workers.

But there is nothing that sooner freshens one up than to get in a new group, mingling with people whose thought and work run in different channels.