good, unless, in fact, they were not merely useful accessories of worship, but a very integral and essential part of the worship itself? And then, again, my brethren, where are we told that Christianity is a _purely spiritual religion_; that its functions are all such as can be performed by mind and heart, without body; that, in fact, the body has no real part in them? The worship of the body is indeed no worship by itself, for: “God is a Spirit, and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth.” But is it not Christianity that has redeemed and consecrated the body? Has not the second Adam taken away from it all but its _form_ of mortality? Has not the LORD purchased it for Himself, imposing upon it much work in His service; commanding by His inspired Apostle that it should glorify Him; promising it great excellencies and rewards in its future state; appointing for it a glorious worship in heaven? Assuredly, my brethren, as man is three-fold and has been redeemed in his three-fold nature, mind, heart, and body, so has each part of him its appointed, its bounden part, to take _on its own account_ in the positive worship of God. And were it not so, were the body merely the case of the soul—its link with the material; its tabernacle in the temporal; its agent among the natural and outward—still, is it not in these respects part of its office to exhibit what is in the soul? Does not the soul naturally move it when it is moved itself? Is not the body, as it were spontaneously, affected by all that passes within, and, unless unnaturally restrained or physically disabled, does it not always betray and manifest the inward affection? The soul may worship God sufficiently (for the whole being) when the body is taking no part by reason of paralysis or prostration, or because the man, deeming it inexpedient at that time that sound or sign should escape him, is curbing and binding it down; but in health and left unrestrained, the body is such a spontaneous sympathizer and persistent co-operator with all within, that we are justified in saying of him who does not speak to God with his lips, and bow his head before Him, and clasp his hands, and kneel upon his knees, that he does not worship God in spirit and in truth! We have reached thus far, brethren—if you have gone with me—that God has prescribed much ritual, and that man from his very nature must use much ritual in divine worship.