ABSTRACT
If worship is an essential element in religion, it is in these feelings and impulses rather than in particular modes of ritual observance that its significance is to be found. In all worship the basic element is apprehension of something that is not merely greater but is felt to be ‘higher’ than oneself. Wherever and in whatever degree there is spiritual vision, there is also worship. Such communion of will, with the release from all anxiety and doubt, and the strength to meet whatever may come, that are given by the sense of oneness with a divine purpose, is a height of spiritual experience to which most of the people can only rarely attain. In such participation we are not only coming into closer communion with God but are also in closer communion with our fellows.
