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FROM THE PULPIT.

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being personally in no need of this aid to life and faith, who might so well have done that as our Lord?

Let me briefly mention some of the common reasons or excuses along this line.

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1. The cult of the ultra-pious. There are good folk who forsake the assembling of themselves to- gether with the rest of us because the rest of are not sufficiently sanctified or orthodox enough or devout enough to afford them congenial fellowship. I knew a man who travelled every week- end-perhaps still does--for years from Halifax to Bristol to find the one other mah in broad England with whom he felt he could study and pray, which is the extreme case of fairly common phenomenon. Well, our Saviour is our great

private example in

prayer, for which he used habitually to retire from all companionship. He also often tanght and prayed with the inner circle of disciples, in ways which would not have been possible with the crowd around them. It might be thought' That He had nothing to learn from any teaching He was likely to hear in the synagogue of Nazareth. Yet there it was His custom to go, reckoning it no misuse of His very precious time.

2. The cult of the open air, our old friend Dr. Greengrass, whose consulting rooms are on The seashore and the hillside: His medicine, rightly taken, is good bath for soul and body, but when he calls it communion with God through nature and exalts it as far superior to the stated ordinances of the gospel he incurs the suspicion of being something of a quack. No poet that ever breathed has anything to teach Jesus Christ. about seeing God through His created works. His preaching is full of that at every point-lessons from the lilies of the field, from sunrise and sun- set, the dropping of the rain. the diffusion of the light. The whole of natural life was full to Him of divine sugges tion, showing lines which ran upward from every point. Yet the Sabbath day found Him habitually in the synagogue. where God was known in coven-' ant with His people, where He was approached purposefully and unitedly, where also one may add there was no danger of mistaking sensuous delight in external "nature for spiritual fellowship with the God of whom nature is but the outer garment.

3. The cult of the unconven- tional The alleged mere formality of Sunday worship is an objection of which a great deal is heard. We are being told e. g." that the boys from the trenches will not enter Our Churches on that account. It might be well to wait till the boys are really back before putting so many opinions forward in their name, but in any case if even a returned hero should -"talk too fast about more formality and so forth he will have to be checked and advised not to make so free with question-begging terms. There have always been people who will scarcely admit that anything connected with re- ligion can be real unless it is according to their ideas informal. If a service is in a theatre, a hall. Y.M.CA. hut they will run to it, but let it be in a Church built for the purpose and on a stated day or hour and their lik ing for the unusual is not satisfied. Well our Saviour could speak the word in any kind of place or cir- cumstances, in people's kitchens or parlours, by well-sides and way. sides, out of a fishermen's boat or on the steps of a market. So also could His Apostles after Him. but both He and they put honour upon the Temple and the synag- ogue, and no detractatory word is recorded from their lips about any of the stated means of grace. They were not of the sort to whom decency means deadness and order unreality. The casual, un- usual, special means and ways of worship come and go. "but the stated ordinances of Sabbath wor- ship and memorial Eucharist do not go, and never will.

Isay then let Christian peoplé vaine these and make much of them as they value the work of grace in their own and their children's characters and the per- manence in this world of our Master's Kingdom

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