1 Kings 18:30 And Elijah said to all the people, Come near to me. And all the people came near to him… An eminent worldling wrote to a learned professor a letter in which he said: "It has been proved in the Colonies that rapid social deterioration follows upon local inability to go to church. If the settlers' 'grant' be so remote that churchgoing becomes an impossibility he gradually ceases to miss it, abandons the weekly burnishing and outside decorum, and the rest rapidly follows." Oliver Wendell Holmes, far from an Evangelical — but a man of keen insight into the human heart says, "I have in the corner of my heart a plant called reverence, which I find needs watering at least once a week." (H. O. Mackey.) Parallel Verses KJV: And Elijah said unto all the people, Come near unto me. And all the people came near unto him. And he repaired the altar of the LORD that was broken down. |
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