Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1849-07-09
Worship.
LABoRARE EST oRARE.

Worship.
LABoRARE EST oRARR.
According to the teachings of tt.e Spirit
World, and the unprecedented ju ignent of
all mankind, the only legitimate worship
required Of man is the worship which con.
Isists of a right action. Work is worship,
and heedessness is proclamation. The most
triffing act Of politeness as we'll as the mos,
sublime manifestation of benevolence, tend
alike to establish the kingdom of heaven
upon oarth, and are therefore acts Of true
worship. If we look around US, then, we
will have cause to rejoice that the world is
so full of worship. To-day is not Sunday,
it is q week day, and yet, look, there is
man performing an act Of worship in the
streets. He does not kneel on the pave
ments, cross his hands on his breast, gnze
upward, and address the Deity; no; but he
is none the less worshiping on that nc
count A little girl has upset her baske,
and lost the contents-the stranger stops
and consols her, he gives her money to re-
plenish the basket; her tears are dried, Joy
radiates from her countenance, and an act
of true worship Is consumated.
All labor which subserves an economic
use is worship. The sound of the trowel
on the brick, the mallet on the timber, and
hammer on the anvil, nre but symphonies
in the great anthem which Nature is every
where swelling in praise of the Deity
Then how forcible is the conviction that
I'the days OF fssbor74are rsaore shot oty''ztlan
ho HnxT Of ho ~
work worship, than the deatf,-like silence
Of the Sunday ceremonials! The former
represent the everything energies of the
Divine Actuator; the latter, the Pfostration
Of life upon the g gloomy alters of the Old
Superstition. One is responded 10 by the
inmost judgment of every man; the other
receives but all unwilling acquescence and
life.service from small portion Of man
kind.
The time has come when the importance
of disseminating true ideas in regard to the
nature Of worship should be felt. OF what
use are the religious observances of the
Hindoos, except to perpetuale the domin-
ion of their religious teachers?-of the
Nj Mohammedans, except to keep in subject
ion the minds of the people?-of the Greek
and Roman churches. except t. maintain
hordes of eccleslastics nj the public expense?
or of the protestant churches, except to
find renumerative employment to many
worthy men Does the Creator require
of man the performance of these rights and
ceremonies, or is man performing duty
to his Maker in fulfilling observances not
1<,fh n
and profit ?-certainly not the Omnipotent
and it were vain to search the records of
the past to fad the least advantage that
has occurred to man thereby.
1t is thought that the affections are chast-
ened and the heart purified by the ceremo-
nies of the ritual, but it will be found that
il! is in the practice Of benevolent acts and
in cberlshipg high and holy purpose 10
do right, together with full confidence in
the Immortality OF the soul, that chuslens
and purifes the heart, independent of any
rites or ceremonies whatsoever All the
good that the popular mode of worship can
possibly have done, would not compensate
for its evils. 1t has drawn lines Of distinc-
ton among mankind that have no tounda-
ton in nature. 1t has instituted sects and
arrayed them in deadly hostility to one an.
other. 1t has called q part Of mankind
godly and part ungodly, and these, too, all
brethren and all worshiping alike accep-
tably to heaven in the pure work worship
that fills the great earth.temple- In short
it has filled the world with gloom and shut
out the light of the spirit world from oil
hearts. How will yow worship?-by ac-
ton, or by idle ceremony. H.
MATRIMONIAL man ana his wife were
on q certain occasion enlisted in dispute,
which of them had committed the fault in
some late occurrence; at length the hus-
band perceiving that it might amount to
something unpleasant, kindly and sweetly
remarked, "W ell, my GEAR, had as lief
it would be | as you that committed the
| fault, for we have but one interest, and one
character. Eyes, my DEAR" replied the
wife. sand would as lief it would be my.
self as you.'' OF course, the quarrel was
healed in moment.
ARrEs1AN WELL.-The Charleston
! Mercury of the 22ud ut., says, that the
Artesian Well in that city has now reach
ed the depth of 1856 feet. thermometer
lowered to the bottom, indicating the tenn
perature at that point to be e2a, while al
the surface it was "a. A few days since
a, the depth of 746 feet, the thermomete'
marked e21. The temperature at the bot
tom of the Artesian we'll near Paris we un