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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · April 8, 1880

FromThe Review and Herald, Vol. 55, No. 15

Ventilation Helps the Word Have Free Course

—Listen to a man praying, in the thick, stifling, stupefying carbonic acid gas of an unventilated church, “that the word of the Lord may have free course and be glorified.” How can it have free course unless it has pure air to sail in? When the preacher is gasping and choking, and the congregation nodding and sleeping, how can the gospel have free course? It can scarcely get out of the preacher’s throat, and who ever knew it to get into a sleeper’s ears, much less into his heart? Open the doors and windows, and let the pure air of heaven first have free course and be glorified, by waking up the people and blowing the carbonic fog out of the preacher’s brain, then the word will be likely to get a chance at the people’s hearts.

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