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Biliousness and Piety “There may come times when there is real nervous and spiritual exhaustion. The signs of these are very often a refusal to stop working and a determination to fulfil our plans even if they deepen our inward weariness. . . . The poisoning of some disordered organ is mistaken for blameworthy spiritual decline, and excited nervous conditions are mistaken for visions and revelations of the Lord. People think they have grown cold and lost their lo\’e of God when they are just very tired, and should go to sleep or take a holiday. There is a Avorld of wisdom in the humour which dictated a sentence in a little medical dictionary published some years ago: ‘Biliousness —an affection of the liver frequently mistaken for piety.’ Spiritual life is nourished by a wisely-ordered breakfast as Avell as by a chapter of Thomas a Ivempis. Life is one. Spiritual life is not a mode of living, but the essential quality of our being, and all our activities, mental and physical, and all our passivities affect it, and are dictated by it.”—The Rev. G. S. Stewart, D.D., in The Lower Levels of Prayer.
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Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20912, 18 September 1939, Page 6
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194TOPICS OF THE DAY Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20912, 18 September 1939, Page 6
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