The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-11-05
CITY NEWS.
A Quiet Sunday, With
Churches Largely
Attended.
AMONG THE COMMERCIAL TRAVEL
LERs.
Sermon at ST. Nask's.

st. Marks Church, during the pas
summer and fall, has been greatly i'm
proved. The ceiling has been covered
with wood in natural colOrs, the entir,
church recarpeted, cathedral glass win
do~s put in, and other smaller improve
menis Al an expense Of several thousand
dollars.
Yesterday was communion Sunday
and the second Sunday on which the
congregation have worshipped in the
main audience-ioom since last spring.
The rector, Rev. T. G.. Dashiell
d. d., preached yesterday morn
ing an appropriate sermon. His text was
Psalm 100, 4th verse, Let Us enter into
His gate with Thanksgiving AID into His
courts with praise"
If there is anything manifest in the
VOID Of God 1t is that our God asks the
homage, the worship Of his people
There is as we well know more than one
meaning TO the word worship. II may
refer 10 the occasional alteration that we
render Him when we gather in His
courts, and there with proper posture,
bu, above all with proper spirit, rem
der our sacrifice OF prayer and praise
10 may refer TO the service that we
render him in all our walk and conversa-
ton The term implies proper attitude
or becoming position. Therefore we really
have no right 70 restrict its meaning to
the duty and privilege of His house or
TO private and family prayer. In any
thing that can engage our thoughts or
hands we may worship God, we may ever
bear about with US desire to please Him,
we may every moment be conscious of
our need of Him, and so may "pray with
ont cessiDg even though the petitions be
unexpressed in words. We may every
moment remember his loving kindness,
and though no form of gratitude may go
from our lips, We may still rejoice in the
Lord always" In both senses the word
is used in the Bible In both senses it is
true. IL Is our duty 10 worship God in
our lives. 1t Is our duty to worship Him
in The sanctuary.
IL is idle TO attach any importance TO
worship in the sanctuary If we are irrey-
erent when we are na~there. No one
would attach importance 10 our bOwing
and prostratiOns on Sunday II we are
goddess the rest of the week. No one
would respect the worship of a man who
is deeply reverent in Gods house but
prOfane on the street, who says Amen"
very distinctly in church but never prays
at home. In the same way you may be
sure that the man VITO says he can wor
ship God ct home as we'll as at church,
and who does not regularly and sincerely
worship in the sanctuary, is one whose
plety Will soon run ont AMI disappe T.
In Jerusalem on Mount Zion God
called His people TO worship Him For
purposes Of instruction to keep up
memory of His name and regard fer His
law to discipline and drill the people in
the ways of holiness, services were regu
larry appointed. His people were called
to worship Him In the beauty of holi-
ness. They were taught that above all
other places was the house in which lie
was worshipped. As sacrifice due to
Him, as a dutysf indispensable impor
tance 10 themselves, they were eXhorted
10 approach Him there with reverence
and godly fear. To go around about
His altar; to worship and fall down be-
fore Him TO enter into His gates with
and into His courts with
praise.
The Doctor said he wanted TO press one
point. The worship OF God should
awaken feelings OF JOY. 1t was a great.
a sacred privilege. 4 father wants his
children to keep good company; surely |
we should keep good company. Nowhere
can Il be found than in the house Of the
Lord. Surely we ought TO enter into His
gates with thanksgiving and into His
courts with praise.
We ought to cherish gratitude, to ex-
press our natural feelings of JOY, to grow
stronger relgiously every day, TO cherish |
reverence for the place OF worship, and
blessing the God that we can approach.
Al this is true in general, but. this day In
particular we should come with peni-
ence, faith and charity, because We will
celebrate the holy communion. We
hould come with JOY and gladness, be-
ause We worship again In our Old, ac-
ustomed place.
The Doctor congratulated the congre-
,ation on the work done during the snm-
ner, which brings the congregation into
church so improved and beautiies, an
SO pleasing TO the eye and
greeable 10 the tastes of all who rejoice
n the adornment of Gods home, and at
he same time so we'll arranged for COM
ort. A debt Of thanks, he thought, was
ue those who had supervised it all. He
cknowledged with pleasure what had
cen done TO make the yestry-room so
comfortable; and the fact that so much
.ad been done there and in the chancel
" the hands of dear parishioners made
Il appear more delightful to bis vision,
nd all the Improvements were enJoya,
lie. As to the building committee and
hose who had co-operated with
hem, he suggested that the con
regaiion at large do not leave
10 him 10 give utterance 10 words OF
ppreciatioD, but speak for themselves
Ie asked this because 1t sometimes hap
ened that good people have made them
elves unhappy and their friends uncom-
ortable by an ability to detect what was
\ the least degree open to criticism
iithout seeing all the rest that was ex-
civ right. II is for this reason, he con
uued, | suggest that you speak Tor your
lives 10 those who have had the labor