It seems to me a very rational answer: perhaps a very
reverent and godly answer. A man comes to church for reasons which he
cannot explain to himself: just so--and many of the deepest and best
feelings of our hearts, are just those that we cannot explain to
ourselves, though we believe in them, would fight for them, die for them.
The man who frankly confesses that he does not quite know why he comes to
church is most likely to know at last why he does come; most likely to
understand the answer which Scripture gives to the question why we come
to church. And what answer is that? Strange to say, one which people
now-a-days, with their Bibles in their hands, have almost forgotten. We
come to church, according to the Bible, to worship God.
To worship. Think awhile what that ancient and deep and noble word
signifies. So ancient is it, that man learnt to worship even before he
learnt to till the ground. So deep, that even to this day no man
altogether understands what worshipping means. So noble, that the
noblest souls on earth delight most in worshipping; that the angels, and
archangels, and the spirits of just men made perfect, find no nobler
occupation, no higher enjoyment, in the heavenly world than worshipping
for ever Him whose glory fills all earth and heaven.
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