Nay not only our preaching,
but even our worship, is not it too accomplished by means of Printed Books?
The noble sentiment which a gifted soul has clothed for us in melodious
words, which brings melody into our hearts,--is not this essentially, if we
will understand it, of the nature of worship? There are many, in all
countries, who, in this confused time, have no other method of worship. He
who, in any way, shows us better than we knew before that a lily of the
fields is beautiful, does he not show it us as an effluence of the Fountain
of all Beauty; as the _handwriting_, made visible there, of the great Maker
of the Universe? He has sung for us, made us sing with him, a little verse
of a sacred Psalm. Essentially so. How much more he who sings, who says,
or in any way brings home to our heart the noble doings, feelings, darings
and endurances of a brother man! He has verily touched our hearts as with
a live coal _from the altar_. Perhaps there is no worship more authentic.
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