e worships,
just because he is NOT merely an animal, but a man, with an immortal soul
within him. Just in as far as man sinks down again to the level of the
brute--whether in some savage island of the South Seas, or in some
equally savage alley of our own great cities--God forgive us that such
human brutes should exist here in Christian England--just so far he feels
no need to worship. He thinks of no unseen God or powers above him. He
cares for nothing but what his five senses tell him of; he feels no need
to go to church and worship. Just in as far as a man rises to the true
standard of a man; just in as far as his heart and his mind are truly
cultivated, truly developed, just so far does he become more and more
aware of an unseen world about him; more and more aware that in God he
lives and moves and has his being--and so much the more he feels the
longing and the duty to worship that unseen God on whom he and the whole
universe depend.

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.
Of course we know that God is good; first and mainly by His goodness to
us. Because He is good enough to give us life and breath and all things,
we conclude that He is a good being. Because He is good enough to have
not spared His only begotten Son, but freely given Him for us, when we
were still sinners and rebels, we conclude Him to be the best of all
beings, a being of boundless goodness. But it