The difference in our present day types of worship is one of emphasis. In the Episcopal churches there is a greater emphasis on worship and lesser emphasis on teaching, whereas in the non-Episcopal Chur-. ches there ix a stronger emphasis on teaching and a lesser emphasis on worship. It is this difference of emphasis that gives rise to the skit hich embodies one of those half, truths that so easily gain currency, that people go to the Church of England to worship God and to the Free Church to hear a seriner These differences of worship con spend to some extent to differences of temperament.
One person receives more help from a service of high ritual, another from one that is simple and unadorned. But it ought to be recognized that very offin the (we temperaments are to be found in the same person and still more often in the same family, and so there are many people who attend one type of service on Sunday mornings and another type on Sunday evenings. This would, seem to suggest that many spiritual natures demand something of the Temple as well as something of the Synagogue; they need an altar as well as a pulpit. Now we ought to remember that in Judaism the Temple and the Synagogue were not mutually exclusive and Jesus attended the services of both, May we not say that in all true worship both preaching and praise should have their due place. "This ought ye to have done and not to leave the other undone." And that this is being recognized is clear from the fact that there has been a distinct tendency within recent years in churches of both types to strengthen the weak part in their servic In the Church of England there has Yen an increasing emphasis on preaching and in the Free Churches an increasing emphasis on worship; for it is being more and more recognised that both of these things are necessary, and that neither is complete without the other.
Well, then let us be humble enough to admit that the weak point in ovr Free Church services is worship adoration, praise. That is the part we need to strengthen. Let us then take advantage of the reopening of our organ to emphasize the place of praise in public worship.
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