Today the supper room has taken the place of the upper room . Play has taken the place of pray , and feasting the place of fasting . There are more full stomachs than there are bended knees and broken hearts . There is more fire in the range in the kitchen than there is in the pulpit . When you build a fire in the church kitchen it often, if not altogether, puts out the fire in the pulpit .
Ice cream chills the fervor of spiritual life .
The early Christians were not cooking in the supper room the day the Holy Ghost came. They were praying in the upper room . They were not waiting on tables . They were waiting on God . They were not waiting for the fire from the stove , but for the fire from above .