“Observation shows that families which have no household worship, are at a low ebb in spiritual things; that families where it is performed in a cold, sluggish, negligent, or hurried way, are little affected by it, and little affected by any means of grace; and that families where God is worshipped, every morning and evening, by all the inmates of the house, in a solemn and affectionate service, are blessed with increase of piety and happiness. Every individual is blessed. Each one receives a portion of the heavenly food.” — James W. Alexander, Thoughts on Family Worship (1847), pp. 34-35