Home or The way to make home happy Author:David Hay Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: future, of your Saviour you shall say, " His name is Immanuel, God with us." The Lord God shall dwell among you, filling you with blessing, and crowning you with... more » mercy. He shall compass you with favour as with a shield, while His oracles and His worship are your joy. CHAPTER IV. THE DAILY OFFERING; OR, THE PRIVILEGE AND ADVANTAGE OF FAMILY-WORSHIP. " How blessed must that family be ' where two or three can gather together in His name," and know that He is ' in the midst of them ;' where the whole number ' are of one heart and of one soul;' where all are united by ties which death cannot dissolve, nor eternity impair!"—Jay. Who can estimate the loss those families are sustaining, in which religious Worship is not regularly celebrated? Can they be persuaded to another course? We rejoice that thousands of them may be reached by the pulpit and the press. Let this duty, in its vast importance, and with its many advantages, be pressed home,both on those who hear, and on those who read. We should count it a great honour to be the instrument of rearing an altar of spiritual sacrifice in any family in which it does not now exist, and of inducing those who have not altogether disregarded the obligation, to attend to it with greater conscientiousness, exactness, and fervour. " Let every house His worship know, And every heart His love." Christians in general should bear in mind, that private and domestic duties must not be sacrificed to public engagements, whether those engagements be in the world or in the church. Large demands are made, in these days, upon the activity, energy, and time of men in the common business of life. The spirit of commercial enterprise, on the one hand, and the absolute necessities of myriads, on the other, call for almost unceasing care and toil...« less