九月三十日
歌颂他名的荣耀，用赞美的言语将他的荣耀发明。（诗66：2）
赞美神与否幷非随我们自己的私意所能绝定的。神理当受赞美，每一位受过他恩典的基督徒，必须天天赞美神。当然我们没有权威所规定的每天赞美神的程序，我们也没有命令定规什麽时候当歌颂感谢他；但我们内心有一种赞美神的命令比写在石版上，从雷电交作的西乃山所传下来的更有力量。是的，赞美神是基督徒的本分。这不仅是他所乐意作的一件事，且也是他的义务。你这时常忧伤的人啊！不要以爲你在这一方面是没有过犯的，或者想你不用赞美的歌声而能卸去你向神应尽的本分；你已经被他的爱绳所捆绑，在你一生当中你不能不赞美他，赞美他的声音必常在你的口中，因爲你蒙了他的福，就是爲了要赞美他；“这百姓是我爲自己所造的，好述说我的美德。“若你不赞美神，那末你就没有结出栽培你的神所期望于你的果子。不要把你的琴挂在柳树上，把它取下来用感恩的心来弹奏吧；要弹出洪亮的乐声，起来用诗歌赞美他。每天清晨要发出感恩的歌声，每天日落也要唱出赞美的诗词。当使你的赞美环绕大地，用歌声围绕它，神必亲自从天上垂听，幷悦纳你的歌声。
“颂扬天父真神，万古千秋主宰，坐位高在天上，万族都要跪拜。
世上君王中外百姓，世上君王中外百姓，赞美荣耀归于主名。”
September
30
“Sing forth the honour of
His name, make His praise glorious.” — Psalm 66:2
It is not left to our own option whether we shall praise God or not.
Praise is God’s most righteous due, and every Christian, as the recipient of
His grace, is bound to praise God from day to day. It is true we have no
authoritative rubric for daily praise; we have no commandment prescribing
certain hours of song and thanksgiving: but the law written upon the heart
teaches us that it is right to praise God; and the unwritten mandate comes to
us with as much force as if it had been recorded on the tables of stone, or
handed to us from the top of thundering Sinai. Yes, it is the Christian’s duty
to praise God. It is not only a pleasurable exercise, but it is the absolute
obligation of his life. Think not ye who are always mourning, that ye are
guiltless in this respect, or imagine that ye can discharge your duty to your God
without songs of praise. You are bound by the bonds of His love to bless His
name so long as you live, and His praise should continually be in your mouth,
for you are blessed, in order that you may bless Him; “this people have I
formed for myself, they shall show forth my praise”; and if you do not
praise God, you are not bringing forth the fruit which He, as the Divine
Husbandman, has a right to expect at your hands. Let not your harp then hang
upon the willows, but take it down, and strive, with a grateful heart, to bring
forth its loudest music. Arise and chant His praise. With every morning’s dawn,
lift up your notes of thanksgiving, and let every setting sun be followed with
your song. Girdle the earth with your praises; surround it with an atmosphere
of melody, and God Himself will hearken from heaven and accept your music.
“E’en so I love Thee, and will love,
And in Thy praise will sing,
Because Thou art my loving God,
And my redeeming King.”
