A Sermon Preached in Union Church on Sunday, February 21, by the Rev. E. F. Horst-Smith on the Reopening of the Church Organ "Let us come before His presence with Thanksgiving And make a joyful noise unto Him with Psalms."
Psalm 95, 0. 2
Public worship as conducted in our Christian churches to-day was unknown to the Scriptures either of the Old or the New Testament. That is true of all our types of worship whether in the Catholic or Protestant churches, whether in the Episcopal or non-Episcopal churehes, Our services are an_ evolu tion, a growth, Yet we might say broadly that they are all based on two Jewish institutions, viz the Temple and the Synagogue and that they combine elements of both. The serves of the temple were services of- worship, including penitence, prayer, praise; they were concerned mainly with the Godward aspect of religion. Those of the Synagogue were services of teaching and exhortation, and were concerned with the manward aspect of jon. I repeat, all of our ser-contain elements of both Temple and Synagogue. They are solely to tenching, but seek to give 1 due place to each of these. not confined solely to worship or
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