Welsh Journals

THE TREASUKY. No. 31. JULY, 1866. Pbigb 2d, CtfQ* ub k Sarafee, ^HE careful reader of the Bible must have observed how very frequently the idea of sacrifice is connected with the public and private worship of God. The great Dr. Owen says, " There is peculiar reason for assigning the appellation of sacrifice to moral duties; for in every sacrifice there was a presentation of something to God. The worshipper was not to offer that which cost him nothing; part of his substance was to be transferred from himself to God. So it is in these duties; they cannot be properly observed without the alienation of something that was our own,—our time, ease, property, &c, in dedication of it to the Lord." In precise accordance with these views is the re¬ quirement of Jehovah, "none shall appear before me empty." It'would be a wise employment on the part of the reader to devote an hour to the examination of the question, how far his own worship of God accords with this divine standard. Far be it from the writer to form a harsh judgment of his fellow disciples; but he has often feared that he saw grounds for an opinion that the idea of sacrifice seldom connects itself with worship in the present day, when he has seen that a shabby garment, or a dark cloud, a very slight bodily indis¬ position, and a thousand other trifles, none of which would operate to keep Christians from secular business, or from a wedding party, have kept them from the house of God and