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title: 'Joseph A. Alexander on Public and Private Worship By the Minister'
type: post
author: 'R. Andrew Myers'
date: 2024-04-25
url: https://confessional.org/blog/2024-joseph-a-alexander-on-public-and-private-worship-by-the-minister
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# Joseph A. Alexander on Public and Private Worship By the Minister

“As public teaching will be absolutely worthless without private study, public prayer will be unedifying without prayer in secret.” — [Joseph A. Alexander](/authors/joseph-addison-alexander), *The Service of the House of God, According to the Practice of the Church of Scotland* (1859)