Secondly, by making sure that we spend every forenoon in our studies. Sadly, things are such in the churches today that men feel ashamed if found with a book. The moment we sit in our studies the Devil brings to mind the people we haven’t visited, the letters we haven’t written and the thing we meant to discuss with the Clerk of the Deacons’ Court. There is only one answer: a cordon sanitaire around the hours from nine to one. They should be absolutely sacred. There is no excuse for a minister being
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