Thoughts on Family Worship (1847) - Softcover

Alexander, James Waddel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1104414015 ISBN 13: 9781104414016

Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, 2009

Synopsis

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

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From the Inside Flap

"A classic book on the importance of an often-neglected duty, Thoughts on Family Worship by James W. Alexander focuses on the many benefits of daily worship as it strengthens minds and cultivates personal piety among both parents and children. The author further shows how family worship influences our churches and society, perpetuating sound doctrine and leaving a legacy for posterity. Alexander gives practical directions for conducting family worship, discussing in detail such things as the place of Scripture reading, prayer, and praise. He is aware, however, of the difficulties of maintaining family worship and answers several common objections to it. If you struggle to hold times of worship with your family, or even if you simply desire some encouragement in the practice, this book is sure to provide the words of counsel you need.

"In the hurry of our great cities, it is painful to observe the preference given to mammon over God. Look at the living tide which rolls every morning down such a thoroughfare as Broadway! A stranger might be forgiven if he supposed that the life of each breathless banker, merchant, or clerk depended on his reaching the commercial latitudes within a certain minute. But how many of these have prayed with their families? Some, I rejoice to believe; but the mass have no time for anything but the world. Unless men will lose their own souls, and jeopardize the souls of their children, they must take time for God. And the more busy, exhausting, and absorbing any man's days are, the more he needs the deliberate abstraction of a quiet devotional hour, such as that of family worship." James W. Alexander"

About the Author

Alexander graduated from Princeton University in 1820. Or dained in 1827, he served as pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Trenton, New Jersey (1829-1832). He became Professor of Rhetoric at Princeton in 1833; pastor of Duane Street Presbyterian Church, New York, 1844; Professor of Church His­tory at Princeton, 1849; and pas tor of the 5th Avenue Presbyterian Church, New York, 1851.

About this edition

• Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1104414015
• ISBN 13: 9781104414016
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272