Daily Republican., 1890-06-24
How We worship.
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Worship 10 devotion to an object loved.
All men worship. All thinRs are wor-
shipped. All worship h the worship Of
God. The clearness Of things u their
spiritual neafnesa, y the revelation Of
their goodness. All goodness Il the
goodness Of God; all things are good, but
as yet man secs g00dness only In usea, In
what 10 useful for his earthly living; the
goodneaa Of things which man believes
are evil ID yet unrevealed to him, and
until hia sight 70 opened 10 see their
spiritual useS they will still be unrevexl-
cd. All that God has made 10 good. for
his goodness 10 i1Anite, ard We grow in
love and worship for him, only a. We see
usefulness and goodness W all his works.
Proiessed love and devotion 10 what has
been accepted ~ religion has alone been
called the worship of God. The real
worship Of God 10 devoted love for every
thing on the earth and above the earth.
Ged and bis goodness 10 In all thinas.
Whstsver man loves devotedly he wor-
ships. It ID the 9oodness OF God that he
worships, revealed In tho earthly Idol Of
his love and devotion.
Whatever the Idol may be the worship
In purely, sincerely and diginely the
worship Of him whose goodness fills the
power OF nature holds man TO the object
OF his worfhip, not the lesser power Of
him who tells man when and where aud
how to worship God. There IL divine
ruling in nature that In silence directa
man what to worship, how 10 worship.
when TO worship, and thus 1t 10 that man
w)rships what he must, what 10 best for
bis condition, what Is right, and the soul
Of bis worship, whatever the object be,
is undetiled. Man is the temple in which
God is most devotedly worshipped. The
devoted love of self has been and 10 the
supreme worship Of the human world.
The goodness of God in self is more fully
revealed In every one than In any object
outside Of self. A. all men have and do
worship God In their love OF self, so they
will some time worship God In the love
ol others. In the love of self men pursue
good repute, riches and righteousness,
fame and excellence. But when they
shall worship God In the love OF good.
ness seen 10 ali men, these selfish pur
suits will have served their end.
When man shall worship God a. much
In kindly deed TO others as to himself, II
equal a. iu legal rights, In deeds OF lov,
as much as In deeds Of punishment, Il
charity as much as in revenge Of juatice
In the spirit of Christ as much a. In pro
ieseing Christ, outslde Of creeds a. mucl
"a In them, outalde the church as muct
As In It, hls worship Of God will be large
and Lobler. Naa doee not worship GOD
IN iullness In one or in many tbings. Gol
Is to be worshipped in the love OF all BIZ
works, In wood and atone. and In thcil
craven imsgcs, in the sun, the moon, tn,
stars, and all tho vast armament Of
Heaven, In the voiceless air, In the invis
iblo power Of splrit, In light AMI dark
ness, in good and evil, In all the kind ant
seeming cruel work OF omnipotont ma
ture. While all men worship God sin
ce,ely, few there are indeed who know
they worship God. at all. The business
man may worship. God In bis love OF and
devotion to his business, the spsculator
the broker, the gambler, In their chanc,
his useless wealth, the writer In his book
the SPEAKER 10 his eloquence. a mothe
In her child, the maiden in her lover
xirlhood In gewgaws and new dresses
boyhood In sports ind waatefulness
] womanhood In cleanliness and useful.
| ness and manhood in faithful and indus
lrlous labor. All people are hero wor
shippers, but who 10 to decide which Il
the hero, the vRnQuished or the van
quish0r; remember the greatest crowr
| the world ever saw Was crown o
thorns. The varieties Of human wor
ship tint the spiritual universs of man
kind with different shades OF love and
loves devotion. Al the rainbow unfold
the hidden beauties held 10 every ray o
light, 80 the hidden beauties Of truth ar,
unfolded IN every kind OF worship. Ha
tired for anything 10 curtain Of dark
ness and ignorance, which hides Goo
from man In the object hated. Msn'd
love aud worship Is not iu.l till bis
views Of evil cease to be. for be car
worship God only In what no believes to
be good.
Man has yet to learn the uses OF al
that be now hates, and to see the good
ness Of God therein. There are gregte
nses 10 stu than In holiness, IN poverty
than In riches, In sorrow than In joy
Tho uses Of sin, and sorrow and povert,
are spiritual, and the uses OF holiness
riches and happiness ere earthly. Tn,
mind that only sees God In the outwar,
goodness OF tbings, and worships Him
therefore, ehall yet be brought TO go
Gods goodness as Christ saw 1t In tn
bitter cup Of dethsemane, and on til
cruel cross OF Calvary.
/ JAMES b, WEIGH