These all died in their sins. They need the grace of the Holy Ghost. Let us value our religious privileges, but let us not rest entirely upon them. Let us desire to have the benefit of them in all our movements in life, but let us not put them in the place of Christ. Let us use them thankfully, if God gives them to us, but let us take care they produce some fruit in our heart and life.
Nothing so hardens the heart of man as a barren familiarity with sacred things.
Once more I say, it is not privileges alone which make people Christians, but the grace of the Holy Ghost Without that no man will ever be saved. I ask those who attend a sound ministry in the present day to mark well what I am saying. All this is very good. It is a privilege. I should be thankful if ministers like yours were multiplied a thousandfold.