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Thoughts on Family Worship
by James W. Alexander
Presbyterian pastor in New York, 1847
"Family-worship... languishes and goes into decay in times when error and worldliness make inroads upon the church....
"The [spiritual] experience of the heart is the grand thing... yet it must not, and cannot, abide in the closet or the heart... Love... is too communicative in its nature to be always pent up....
"Summon a family to the worship of God, at stated hours, and you summon each one to a seriousness of reflection, of which he might have been wholly robbed, by the hurry of the day's business....
"Observation shows that families which have no household worship, are at a low ebb in spiritual things; that families where it is performed in a cold, sluggish, negligent, or hurried way, are little affected by it, and that families where God is worshipped... in a solemn and affectionate service, are blessed with increase of piety and happiness."
Pgs 28-38
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