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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jan 21, 1886

One Thing Needed.

The saw-mill is a very old-fashioned one. It has an up-and-down saw, and the wheel that used to move it was driven by the stream that used to flow through the mill-race. The saw is still there. The mill seems to lack no machinery. A log, pushed up against the saw, is still on the carriageway, and the work of sawing has progressed a foot or two. But for three years no progress has been made. The mill-race is dry; the wheel motionless. The machinery is rusty, and the timbers rotting. No oiling or repairs will make it move. The one needed thing is power. Are there not churches like this dead mill? The machinery may be all perfect, the work may be well laid out; but the first necessity is power. The best machinery will fail unless there is power to move it. The power is the Holy Spirit. Only his reviving and renewing influence can move the machinery of a dead church, or impart life to a dead soul. Let us, first of all, seek power from on high.—Sel.