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Irreverence in the House of Prayer

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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 23, 1868

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 22, No. 1.

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Irreverence in the House of Prayer

We have often been surprised and grieved at irreverent acts in the house of prayer; and the thoughtlessness manifested by many while the Doxology is being sung and the benediction pronounced, is very unbecoming. A paper in Indiana rebukes the evil by proposing hereafter that instead of saying, “Let us sing the Doxology,” the minister shall say, “Let us put on overcoats, adjust furs, slip on gloves, grab our hats, look to the Lord, and be dismissed.”