p. 139 | Worship Through Practical Brotherly Love

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · March 3, 1885

FromAdvent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 62, No. 9

Worship Through Practical Brotherly Love

By T. E. St. John

—The worship of Almighty God that is embraced in the generous impulse by which you are induced to lighten some weary, heavy-laden heart, is just as real, and will do as much toward lifting the world into righteousness, as any hour spent in formal prayer or speech or song. The great question of life is not how many times you gather for praise and prayer through the week, but, How often does your heart thrill with, and your hand obey, the behests of a true brotherly love? The great test question of religious character is not whether you can say, “The will of God be done,” but whether it is in your heart to say, What can I do to help the man that is lower than I?—T. E. St. John.