in devotion has robbed it of its freshness and power. Daily, hourly occupation in the routine of ministerial labor has created formality and coldness. Continual working in the solemn duties of our office, such as dealing with souls in private about their eternal welfare or guiding the meditations and devotions of God’s assembled people, often with little prayer and little faith, has tended grievously to rob us of that profound reverence and godly fear that ought to possess and pervade us.
