Connect your service with nothing but God, not with any particular persons. You may be comforted by fellowship, and your heart refreshed; but you must work by your own individual faith and energy, without leaning on any one whatever; for if you do, you cannot be a faithful servant. Service must ever be measured by faith, and one's own communion with God.... In every age the blessing has been by individual agency, and the moment it has ceased to be this it has declined into the world.... The tendency of association is to make us lean upon one another.