SENTENCES INTRODUCTORY TO PUBLIC OR SOCIAL WORSHIP

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He who dwelleth in Love dwelleth in God, in the secret place of the Highest, under the Shadow of Almighty power. So make God thy habitation, and He will give His angels charge over thee to keep thee and guide thee in all thy ways. For those who dwell in love, all things work together for good, — light and darkness, joy and sorrow, life and death, even as the darkest lot, the bitter cross, ministered to the perfection of God's holiest Son.

What manner of love is this that is bestowed on us, that we are called to the immortal inheritance of children of God, partakers of the Divine Nature! In the

Lord Jesus we behold what we are created to become. Thanks be to God for this blessed Revelation!

Bless the Lord, the bountiful Giver. His mercies are new upon us every morning and every evening. He crowneth our lives with His loving-kindness. Pour out your hearts before Him in thankfulness, and beseech Him to guide us in the right way, not for merits of ours or of any other, but for His own goodness' sake, which we have done nothing to deserve.

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The Spirit of the Lord, said Jesus, is upon me, because He hath anointed me to proclaim glad tidings to the poor. He hath sent me to heal the broken-hearted, to proclaim deliverance to the captives, and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are bruised.

Come unto me, all who are weary and

heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, for it is easy, and my burthen, for it is light.

By this will all men know that you are my disciples, if you have love one to another.

Herein is our heavenly Father glorified, that we bear the fruits of Holiness in our daily lives.

Greater love hath no one than to lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends, if you do what I have commanded you. I call you not servants, for the servant knoweth not what the master doeth. He who doeth the Divine Will is in communion and fellowship with the Most High, who worketh within us to will and to do.

III

God, who made the world and all that is therein, seeing that He is Lord of

Heaven and of Earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands, neither is worshipped by men's hands as though He needeth anything. He giveth to all life and breath and all things, and hath made of one blood all the nations on the earth.

Not every one who crieth Lord, Lord, will enter into the heavenly kingdom, but he who doeth the Will of our Father in Heaven. The humble and contrite heart is the chosen dwelling-place of Him whom the heaven of heavens cannot contain. There are made known His Presence and His Peace, the Peace that passeth all understanding, but which only the heart knoweth.

He who doeth the truth cometh to

the light.

Let thine

eye be single, and thy whole

heart shall be full of light.

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by

the mercies of God, that we present ourselves living offerings unto God, and be no longer conformed to the world, but be transformed by the renewing of our minds, that our worship may be acceptable in His sight.

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Wherewith shall we come before the Lord, and bow ourselves before the High God? Shall we come before Him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old? Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the Lord. He hath shown thee, O man, what is good; and what is required of thee, but to do justly, and love mercy, and walk humbly before Him? Cease to do evil, learn to do well.

Whosoever heareth these sayings, and