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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Oct 29, 1885

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 11, No. 41.

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Act Reverently.

I could sometimes wish you did not leave your pew so abruptly and promptly as you do, the moment the last syllable of the benediction has been pronounced. There is no need that you should have your hat in your hand; no need that you should have the great coat upon the shoulder; nor yet that, the moment the last syllable is pronounced, doors should be thrown open as though you were eager and impatient until the thing had come to a close. It would be well—it would be better, more in harmony with those outward expressions of reverence—if there were a moment's silence, a silent pause, indicating that when the service is closed you have not been eager for its close; and then it is yours to go away in the hopeful confidence that God, who has been reverently waited on by you, and whose benediction has been pronounced over you in his name and by his authority, would go with you and help you to make the rest of your life not secular as distinguished from religious, but spiritual and godly through and through.—Homiletic Monthly.