"It is prayer, meditation, and converse with God that refreshes, restores, and renews the temper of our minds at all times, under all trials, after all conflicts. By this contact with God we receive continual accesses of strength. Without this healing and refreshing of spirit, duties grow to be burdens, events of life chafe our temper, they make us irritable and impatient.

"It is impossible for us to make the duties of our lot minister to our sanctification without a habit of devout fellowship with God. This is the spring of all our life and the strength of it."