Excerpt from The Hartford Seminary Record, Vol. 23: Issued Under the Auspices of the Faculty of Hartford Theological Seminary There will not be rest in any Protestant system where public worship is conceived to be or actually becomes an affair so much of the official ministry that there is no conscious and vital activity of the assembly or congregation in it. Any congregation that can properly be called only an audience has become analogous to something that is no longer Protestant in essence, and what is more - is unconsciously doing violence to the whole historic trend of the organized social worship of the true God. This principle holds as strongly against a choir autocracy as it does against a pulpit autocracy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.