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by C. H. Spurgeon

Lay-Figures

.” You would all judge it to be an affront to the 7najesty of God if a man should send his clothes sttiffed with straw, or a puppet dressed tip instead ofhij?iself into the assemblies of Gods people, and think that this wotild do ifistead of his personal prese?ice.

Yet our clothes stuffed with straw would be less offensive to God than our bodies without our souls. The absence of the spirit is the absence of the 7nore noble part.” Think of this ye whose hearts are with your flocks and herds, and shops, and ships, when you are in your churches and chapels. Will ye longer insult the Lord who will have only those to worship him who worship him in spirit and in truth? A mind stuffed with vanity and unbelief must be worse than clothes stuffed with straw. Reader, have you never set up this abomination before the very eyes of the Eternal?

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