at night so surely as when there is an engagement with the Creator at
the hearth where life began? In all views, from all sides, this holy
custom is seen to be founded in divine wisdom--and divine wisdom
includes human wisdom "as the sea her waves."
I have prefaced this subject of worship with the matter of family
services, on account of its vital importance. Without the reading of the
Bible and the praise of God at home, worship appears to the young like
the grinding of the corn, the shoeing of the horses, or the aid of the
physician--a matter to be paid for rather than to be done by one's self.