“Love divine, all loves excelling,
Joy of heaven, to earth come down.”
After the discourse, a hymn in direct didactic relation to it may be sung in a bright and joyous spirit:
“God is love; His mercy brightens
All the path in which we rove.”
The postlude will be tenderly joyous and sympathetic in style.
There are many preachers whose nervous organizations would not enable them to adjust themselves to so tender an emotional key in developing the service. On the other hand, many congregations would not follow it, but would be lulled to sleep by it.
b. Joyful Service.
They would be entirely right in selecting as the opening hymn one of general praise and worship:
“Come, Thou Almighty King,