Excerpt from The Union Prayerbook for Jewish Worship, Vol. 1
This is the house of God. It is consecrated unto His worship. For those who seek its shelter the calm restfulness of its holy atmosphere refreshes the soul. There comes to us here a keener consciousness of our God, a fuller and freer recognition of His presence and His power in all the experiences of our life. Too often do we go our way day after day and forget His wisdom and guidance. The tasks and trials, the pursuits and pleasures of daily life absorb us and crowd the thought of God from our hearts.
Therefore the Sabbath is given to us. It is as a gentle voice bidding us turn for a moment from our daily toil, that we may refresh ourselves with the waters of life drawn from the wells of salvation. We feel safe within the sacred walls of this house of prayer. We rejoice in this Sabbath hour of worship, the heart's own hour of holy gladness. We bring our prayer and our praise, our burdens of care and our offerings of homage unto the altar of our God, and each heart finds an answer to its cry, a response for its own need.
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