Spurgeon on the Hearing of Sermons as Worship

Charles Spurgeon responds to the objection that the hearing of sermons is not really worship, in Lectures to My Students, p. 59:

If the observation be meant to imply that the hearing of sermons is not worshiping God, it is founded on a gross mistake, for rightly to listen to the gospel is one of the noblest parts of the adoration of the Most High. It is a mental exercise, when rightly performed, in which all faculties of the spiritual man are called into devotional action. Reverently hearing the Word exercises our humility, instructs our faith, irradiates us with joy, inflames us with love, inspires us with zeal, and lifts us up towards heaven.