This is an age of increased facilities and reduced costs. We run where our fathers walked, and fly where they drove. The aim of modern invention is to make everything easy and to give the largest returns for the smallest outlay. All this unfits us for the deep spiritual exercises still met with in the path of faith. Modern thought has yet to discover a shortcut to piety. Some people may read a chapter of the Bible in five minutes and think there is little in it, since they get nothing out. Not so, my friend; God does not make Himself cheap like that. “The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing: but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat” (Prov. 13:44The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing: but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat. (Proverbs 13:4)).
From Christian Truth, Vol. 17, p. 84