Others will answer that they come to church to say their prayers. Well:
that is a wiser answer than the last. But if that be all, why can they
not say their prayers at home? God is everywhere. God is all-seeing,
all-hearing, about our path and about our bed, and spying out all our
ways. Is He not as ready to hear in the field, and in the workshop and
in the bed-chamber, as in the church? "When thou prayest," says our
Lord, "enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to
thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall
reward thee openly." Those are not my words, they are the words of our
Lord Jesus Christ Himself; and none can gainsay them. None dare take
from them or add to them; and our coming to church, therefore, must be
for more reasons than for the mere saying of our prayers.
Others will answer--very many, indeed, will answer--we come to church
because--because, we hardly know why, but because we ought to come to
church.
Some may call that a silly answer, only fit for children: but I do not
think so.
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