Reasons for having Family Worship Before Breakfast.
By Roswell F. Cottrell
1. We worship God before we serve ourselves.
2. The Bible represents the most prevailing prayer as accompanied with fasting.
3. The mind is more active and clear before eating, because a portion of nervous energy is called from the brain to the stomach to digest the food.
4. A family of children and hired help are more naturally and easily collected and held together before the meal than after. REASONS FOR HAVING EVENING WORSHIP EARLY.
1. The day begins with the setting of the sun. It is well to begin each day with the worship of God. This is especially so in respect to the Sabbath. To have all worldly business laid aside, preparations for the Sabbath and chores all done, and begin the day with his worship, shows a respect to the Creator, whose finished work we keep in memory, the omission of which can hardly be justified. 2. The setting sun, the expiring day, the evening twilight, are most suggestive and impressive, and therefore this season is best adapted to prayer and meditation. 3. The worship of God must be more acceptable before our spiritual perceptions are benumbed with drowsiness. 4. The children, who should go to bed early, and who need the benefit, are not only present, but awake and in a condition to be benefited. “Early, my God, without delay,
I haste to seek thy face.”