Complete Consecration

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A Connecticut farmer came to a well-known clergyman, saying that the people in his neighborhood had built a new meeting-house, and that they wanted this clergyman to come and dedicate it. The clergyman, accustomed to participate in dedicatory services where different clergymen took different parts of the service, inquired:
“What part do you want me to take in the dedication?”
The farmer, thinking that this question applied to the part of the building to be included in the dedication, replied:
“Why, the whole thing! Take it all in, from underpinning to steeple.”
That man wanted the building to be wholly sanctified as a temple of God, and that all at once. “Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?” (1 Cor. 3:16).

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