No Billin’ | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 16, 1872

No Billin’.

“We need men of hot hearts to tell of the love of Jesus,” was the appeal sent home by some Chinese converts, the other day. This is what the church needs—that the world needs—“men of hot hearts.” “I would ye were hot,” is the Master’s cry. If we are to succeed, we must be on fire about it. Dr. Arnott, of Edinburgh, tells of his being at a railway station one day, and wearied of waiting for the train to move, he asked one of the men what the trouble was. “Is there a want of water?”

“Plenty of water, sir,” was the prompt reply, “but it’s no bilin’.”

That’s the trouble with the church to-day. There’s abundance of machinery, the engine is all in order, the train is made up, the men are at their posts—“there’s plenty of water, but it’s no bilin’.”