Excerpt from Sermon Preached at the Re-Opening of St. Andrew's Church, New Westminster, Sabbath, Oct. 13, 1878 Is all this devotion to the worship and service of God reasonable and right, or is it not? Why should we con cern ourselves with the public worship of God: be zealous in the erection of churches and in sustaining the means of grace? Or in other words, why should we reasonably be expected reverently to worship God, and earnestly to work in extending the Redeemer's Kingdom? And let us ask, first of all, Why do men worship? We answer, first, Because the instinct to worship is one of the deepest and strongest instincts of human nature. Man kind have worshipped under one form or another at all times and in every place. Whether the ob, ect of worship be worthy the adoration of the human soul or not, the fact of worship cannot be disputed. The object of man's worship may be sufficiently degraded or mean: the rudely carved block which the savage calls his god, and worships; some object in nature, great or small - the sun that warmsthe earth, or the reptile that crawls upon it; the Jupiter of the' Romans, or the Jehovah of Jew or Christian: but through all these changes, the fact of worship remains the same. For let it be remembered that the Word of God does not originate the fact of worship - for prior to revela tion the instinct existed - and that it reveals itself in lands where the light of revelation never shone. Consequently, we may safely affirm that it is natural for man to worship. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.