I know what seeming exceptions there are to this rule, especially in
these days. But I say that they are only seeming exceptions. I never
knew yet (and I have known many of them) a virtuous and high-minded
unbeliever: but what there was in him the instinct of worshipping--the
longing to worship--he knew not what, the spirit of reverence, which
confesses its own ignorance and weakness, and is ready to set up, like
the Athenians of old, an altar--in the heart at least--to the unknown
God.
But how to worship Him? The word itself, if we consider what it means,
will tell us that. Worship, without doubt, is the same word as worth-
ship. It signifies the worth of Him whom we worship, that He is worthy,-
-a worthy God, not merely because of what He has done, but because of
what He is worth in Himself. Good, excellent, and perfect in Himself,
and therefore to be admired, praised, reverenced, adored, worshipped--
even if He had never done a kindness to you or to any human being.
Remember this last truth. For true it is; and we remember it too little.
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