Abstract

Worship is a period of pause in the current of living marked by absence of effort. (1) In worship we make ourselves receptive in order that our wills may be commanded from without. (2) Worship is not simply the apprehension of power, for, while power may produce fear, it does not produce the holy fear characteristic of religious awe. (3) Worship is marked off from contemplation of beauty by its renewal of moral energies. Worship yields at the same time the consciousness of one's defects and the inspiration to overcome those defects. It answers skeptical questions as to why we should take our work seriously by creating faith in a better life. It furnishes singleness of aim and saves from the pessimism of disillusionment. It substitutes creative inspiration for heroic resolve.

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