Family Worship | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 25, 1869

Family Worship.

Family worship should be brief. It should consist of the reading of a few verses of God's holy word—not a long chapter; the singing of a few lines of some familiar hymn, and then a short prayer, offered to the Lord of all in a soft, subdued tone of voice, should conclude the services. We have noticed in those families where these things are observed that the time of worship was precious, the influence sweet, the result lasting. Long prayers are the result of habit, perhaps, more than anything else, and as such may be easily corrected by doing unto others as we would have others do unto us, though we remember having heard a minister say that it seemed to him that he was accomplishing nothing unless he prayed long and preached long, as though a prayer or a sermon were nothing unless long.