Leviticus 6:13 The fire shall ever be burning on the altar; it shall never go out. In Florence good housewives use cakes of vine-refuse to keep the fire in when they are away from home. These cakes cannot yield much heat or create a blaze, but they feed sufficient fire to save lighting it again. Do not many obscure, untalented, but quietly sincere believers answer just this purpose in our churches? In dull and. dead times they preserve "the things which remain and are ready to die"; they detain the heavenly flame, which else would quite depart, and though the best they can do is but to smoulder in sorrow at the declension of the times, yet they are not to he despised. When, in happier days, the fire of piety shall burn with renewed energy, we shall be grateful to those who were as the ashes on the hearth, and kept the dying flame alive. Parallel Verses KJV: The fire shall ever be burning upon the altar; it shall never go out.WEB: Fire shall be kept burning on the altar continually; it shall not go out. |
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