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Excerpt from The Temple Service: A Collection of Offices, Responsive, Devotional, and Musical, Designed for Opening and Closing the Services of Public Worship The following services were prepared especially for use in Berkeley Temple. It is possible, however, that they may find favor elsewhere. The services have been selected and arranged from week to week, in moments snatched from a busy pastorate, which fact may account for some of their defects. The attempt has been made in each service to wing some common theme with psalm, and prayer, and hymn, so that it may serve to lift the congregation to the altitudes of sincere worship and heartfelt praise. Very few people are found in the spirit of worship at the beginning of the Sunday service. They must be brought into it gradually. They must be led on by degrees from the vestibule of the King's palace to the footstool before the throne, where they can, with the heart and the understanding, praise God, from whom all blessings ow. The principle of the climax has therefore been observed in the arrangement of these services. Each introductory begins with a call to worship and some musical selection which embodies the key-note to the whole service. The responses and music which follow are designed to stir the emotions of the worshipers along the line of the theme, so that it becomes an easy and natural thing for the entire congregation to sing the familiar hymn which comes at the end of the service, and also to be lifted to the higher levels of worship on the majestic strains of some of the great masters of sacred harmony. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfec