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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Aug 18, 1887

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 13, No. 32.

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FAMILY WORSHIP.

THE advantages of regular family worship cannot be overestimated. God's blessing is promised upon the families that call upon his name, and to have this is to be rich, whatever be the other circumstances. Apart from this chief good there are also blessings that come upon the household that daily gathers to worship God. The members of the family are bound together as they would not otherwise be, and the precious memories of the family altar linger while life lasts. There is here brought into the life that sense of eternal things and of an eternal Father which is necessary to make living in this world of material things safe. There is an elevation of tone that would not otherwise come into the family. There is a spirit of obedience that would not otherwise be engendered. There are no drawbacks whatever to the influences for good that come in the training of devout, regular family worship. The best image of Heaven which this earth can afford is found when a household is gathered to learn God's will from his holy word, to raise the song of praise in honor of this name, and to hold communion with him in prayer. Every family can thus breathe the air of Heaven every day.—Illustrated Christian Weekly.