mind when he said, “Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead” (Eph. 5:14). Death is a spiritual sleep or lethargy. I would suppose that the moral man who was morally asleep was also spiritually asleep. It is possible for one to be morally awake and then slip back by degrees into a kind of spiritual somnolence that is coldness and lack of feeling about God and the things of God, about Christians and about the dying to self, and the Scriptures and prayer. You get used to things and you get