Schließlich ist das Ganze geistlich gestorben, obwohl sie äußerlich vielleicht durch menschliche Anstrengung und Organisation weitergeführt wurde. ###>So often this has been a most disastrous attitude of mind, and has resulted in God having to go on with His full purpose in other directions and by other means, and leave that fixed thing behind to serve a much lesser purpose than He wanted with it. Eventually it has spiritually died, although perhaps carried on by human effort and organisation.