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I. ITS PRINCIPLE. God made each, and God rules all; and while of each is demanded individual acknowledgment and homage — "Stand in awe and sin not, commune with your own heart upon your bed and be still," "enter into thy closet, and shut thy door, and pray to thy Father which is in secret," — yet of all is required, that they should acknowledge a common origin, recognize a common supremacy, confess a common necessity, deprecate a common peril, avail themselves of a common salvation.

II. THE FORM. We are enjoined in the text to "worship and bow down, and kneel before the Lord our Maker."

III. THE BENEFITS. We thus realize by faith the presence of an unseen Deity. We thus recognize the moral supremacy of the God who wilt be our Judge. We feel the precariousness of life, and are thus made to improve its remaining opportunities. The act of coming hither is the confession that we have a soul; and the act of uniting in what is here transacted is a cultivation of the soul for immortality.

(T. Dale, M. A.)

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KJV: O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the LORD our maker.

WEB: Oh come, let's worship and bow down. Let's kneel before Yahweh, our Maker,