Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1903-10-29


beautiful in the tone of its voice;
beautiful as far as possible In refer
cnce to Its apparel; beautiful as Sarah
was beautiful, whose husband gave to
her one Of the sweetest and yet court
lest of compliments when he turned
and In the quaint language Of the east
said, Thou art fair woman to look
upon" If God Almighty demanded
that the children of Israel should give
of their gold and silver and precious
stones to beautify his Jerusalem sane
tuary surely then we ought to try to
beautlfy his temple OF the Holy Ghost
Christ has often been worshiped in
a mud hut or an open barn, but he de
serves the noblcst and best Of human
architecture. We have all read how
millions upon millions of dollars were
spent to make artistic the sanctuaries
Of the east. The greatest of sculptors
have chiscled for them their master
pieces and out of the solid stone have
made flower gardens TO bloom at the
base and the top of the massive col
umns which support the roofs. In
them the greatest Of all artists have
been called upon to illustrate their
genius in religious pictures, as Leonar-
do da Vinci's Last Supper" In Milan
convent is painted upon the walls of
Santa Maria dele Grazie, within
which Napoleon's troops once stabbed
their horses, or as Michael Angeles
Last Judgment was painted upon tie
wall of the Sistine chapel at Rome, or
as the beautiful angels of a Dominican
monk, Fra Angelica, are seen march
ing through the dark corridors of the
Florentine convent of San Marco. In
them the finest of musicians play upon
their organs. The sweetest of voices
sing in their choirs. The most clo-
quent of preachers plead from their
pulpits. But the temple that Christ
most desires to occupy is the temple of
your heart, and that may be adorned
by The graces that the Holy Spirit sup
plies.
But" says some man. how can |
beautify my physical body! | grant
that | need not be slovenly or unkcinpt
in apparel, but do not grant that
can change my looks. | cannot, in the
Language of Nicodemus. for the second
time be born of the flesh" oh, yes.
my brother, you can. You can start
today to obtain from God that grace
which will make you physically a new
being. 1t is Il physiological law that
every seven years the body goes through
n complete change. Seven years from
now there will not be any part of
bone, finger nail or atom of hesh in
your physical existence which is part
of YOU today. Like the old Consttu-
ton, more commonly called Old Iron
sides, once the pride of the American
navy, whose hull was made over so
many times that there have been many
Constitutions instead of one, so you,
my brother. have had many different
physical bodies. You are always put
ting off an old body: you are always
putting on a new. Galen was convert
ed from atheism by studying the Won
derful construction of human skele-
ton. But the movement of Il joint in
skeleton is not nearly so wonderful to
me as the fact that the skeleton of n
years of age represents at least ten dis
tinct Skeletons. which at different pc
RODS of hi3 existence walked arudnd
under the same mars personality
A Wonderful Structure
The physical body is continually be-
ing changed. This fact being then
granted. if you will only let the Holy
Ghost dwell within the temple which
ought to be his, then he will make you
physically over anew. Your voice will
become softer in tone, because then it
will only speak the language of love.
Your face will change in looks, for then
your gentler spirit will mold it. Your
hand will change its conformation. for
then, instead of being the knotted mus
Giles of a human brute or the close fist
of miser looking in its vindictive-
ness like the grinning gargoyles of
Notre Dame, ready to spring upon their
prey below, 1t will be the opened palm
Of succor and have the warm grasp Of
n sympathetic touch. Yes, my brother.
you can artisticaly and nsthctically
as well as spiritually beautify your
physical body. You can surrender It,
In the name of Jesus Christ, to be
made over entirely anew TO his serv-
ice
A strong temple. A clean temple
A beautiful temple. We have been de-
scribing them all. But, after all, what
is temple? A temple is a building
dedicated to the worship Of deity
Its four walls inclose a holy place in
which that deity is supposed to dwell.
Each temple Is supposed to be the per-
sonal property of an individual divini-
ty in the same sense as n mans house
belongs to him when the title deed Is
not only put in the family safe, but
also recorded among the county rec
ords.
If this be true what is the next step :
Why, each temple should have a day
when it Is publicly dedicated to the
deity for whom it is built When the
Solomonic temple was to he at last
dedicated the king made the service
one of national import. He assembled
in one place all the officers and men
riliced 100000 sheep and $1,000 oxen.
The rivers of blood which flowed from
dat altar signify 10 us how great an
occasion that dedication must have
been.
When few years ago the famous