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APPENDIX D. 285
his kindness for others flows out, he prays for them; whatever
emotion springs up in his bosom, he utters it, whether of sorrow
for sin, of gratitude for favors, of adoration, of intercession, or of
praise. If one great feeling pervades his heart, he dwells upon it,
and brings it out in various forms in his addresses to the Deity.
In the course of half an hour he has perhaps looked many times
into his Bible, hymn book, and other devotional helps that may
lie before him, and at each interval poured out his various and
rapidly succeeding emotions and desires before the throne and
mercy-seat of God. He rises and walks his room, and kneels
again; he prays; he sings, it may be; he changes his subject, his
book, his posture, and passes from one act of devotion to another,
just as his feelings prompt him; and his states of feeling are
every moment changing, as thoughts succeed each other. This is
nature in such an occupation; it is man acting out, without restraint, his own character, as a religious being, in the cultivation
of religious affections. And it is very likely he will offer the
same petition, word for word, many times in succession, and at
every time ending with the usual doxology and Amen. He loves
to say, " Through my Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ; " and to
" ascribe praise to Father, Son, and Holy Ghost." He loves to go
over the same thing again and again, where his affections for the
moment are strongly fixed; and he believes that God, who is his
Father, is willing to hear. And he will perhaps return to the
same topic many times in the same season of his retirement.
Now, let it be observed that the entire system of the Episcopal ritual is based upon this principle—viz., on the natural and
various promptings of religious affections in closet devotion, so
far as it can be applied to public worship. There is this difference
between the two. In his closet the Christian, being alone, follows the promptings of his feelings; whereas a public ritual should
itself be the prompter and the guide. In his closet the Christian is
not called upon to have respect to others, but only to himself, in
the course of his devotional exercises. But in public, where there
are many minds and various states of feeling, the exercises of devotion should be so contrived as to bring all these various minds,
as far as possible, to the same state at the same time. In public,
| Title | The comprehensive church |
| Creator | Vail, Thomas H. (Thomas Hubbard) |
| Publisher | Appleton |
| Place of Publication | New York |
| Date | 1879 |
| Language | eng |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Title | 00000289 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | APPENDIX D. 285 his kindness for others flows out, he prays for them; whatever emotion springs up in his bosom, he utters it, whether of sorrow for sin, of gratitude for favors, of adoration, of intercession, or of praise. If one great feeling pervades his heart, he dwells upon it, and brings it out in various forms in his addresses to the Deity. In the course of half an hour he has perhaps looked many times into his Bible, hymn book, and other devotional helps that may lie before him, and at each interval poured out his various and rapidly succeeding emotions and desires before the throne and mercy-seat of God. He rises and walks his room, and kneels again; he prays; he sings, it may be; he changes his subject, his book, his posture, and passes from one act of devotion to another, just as his feelings prompt him; and his states of feeling are every moment changing, as thoughts succeed each other. This is nature in such an occupation; it is man acting out, without restraint, his own character, as a religious being, in the cultivation of religious affections. And it is very likely he will offer the same petition, word for word, many times in succession, and at every time ending with the usual doxology and Amen. He loves to say, " Through my Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ; " and to " ascribe praise to Father, Son, and Holy Ghost." He loves to go over the same thing again and again, where his affections for the moment are strongly fixed; and he believes that God, who is his Father, is willing to hear. And he will perhaps return to the same topic many times in the same season of his retirement. Now, let it be observed that the entire system of the Episcopal ritual is based upon this principle—viz., on the natural and various promptings of religious affections in closet devotion, so far as it can be applied to public worship. There is this difference between the two. In his closet the Christian, being alone, follows the promptings of his feelings; whereas a public ritual should itself be the prompter and the guide. In his closet the Christian is not called upon to have respect to others, but only to himself, in the course of his devotional exercises. But in public, where there are many minds and various states of feeling, the exercises of devotion should be so contrived as to bring all these various minds, as far as possible, to the same state at the same time. In public, |
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