William T. Brantly, Themes for Meditation, Enlarged in Several Sermons, Doctrinal and Practical (Philadelphia: C. Sherman & Co., Printers, 1837), Sermon VI, "The Revival of Religion," p. 132

Few of us are to be found without some secular taint, some savouring of the things that be of men. Our spiritual necessities are not sufficiently felt, and consequently our prayers are unapt and vague, a sort of solemn i…