“[The Psalter] gives us the completest view of God which we, in our present limitations, are capable of receiving. “Canst thou by searching find out God?” We can only know Him as He reveals Himself. Herein lies the weakness of an uninspired hymnology; it cannot give us a complete view of God.”

THE IDEA OF WORSHIP By The Rev. John M. Ross, Riverside, Cal. “I HAVE seen Thee,” says Lord Bacon, “in Thy works, I have sought Thee in Thy providences, but I have found Thee in Thy temples.” In His worship men come close to God. The offering- of spiritual service to God in the celebration [...]

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Every true Christian…must speak the praises of his Lord. But he is there met by a difficulty. His words fail him. His words cannot put into expression all, or the half, of what is in his heart to say to God. His thoughts are too big for utterance. He is conscious of the need of divine aid to speak in sufficient and right terms the great themes of his worship.”

A Selection from THE PSALMS IN WORSHIP, edited by John McNaugher, D. D., LL. D., 1907 Chapter 1, THE IDEA OF WORSHIP By The Rev. W. H. McMillan, D. D., LL. D., Allegheny, Pa. WORSHIP is right conceptions of the character and works of God suitably expressed. It is seeing Him, and expressing our thoughts [...]

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“Christianity has no new principle of praise worship to offer…It has nothing to add to the character of God, nothing to tell of His relation to men which had not already been uttered by the Holy Ghost through the men whom He had inspired of old.”

“There has been no change in the basic idea of praise. The eternal God remains the same. He is ‘the Father of lights, with Whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.’ Evangelical Christians agree in the belief that the Canon of revelation is closed. God has accomplished His purpose with men in revelation. There [...]

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