Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1903-11-02

lurch il was gone. while we stood bud
died together in the darkness. My ia
Their and | put on our greatcoats and
started out in the storm. As we push
ed through the crowds outside the
guarding ropes we found the congrega-
ton there assembled. not by the church
bell. but by the fireman's call. Some
of the people were weeping and sob
bling as though their hearts would
| break. Some of them had been bap-
| TIED as children in that church. Some
| of them had found God there. Some
| of them had mourned beside their dead
within those walls. All, it is a sad
sight to see a cathedral or a city
church or little village meeting house
| destroyed by fire. But it will be in
| finitely sadder to see human being
whose body might be a temple of the
Holy Ghost. consumed by the fires of
.. hideOus passions and appetites. Be
ware. o man. that you never desecrate
that temple of your body or sacrifice on
the altar of your heart. which should
be consecrated to God. offerings to the
demons of perdtion.
The Temple of Christ.
The temple of the Holy Spirit should
have beautiful body - beautiful in
| reference TO the glance of its eye;
| beautiful in the tone of its voice:
beautiful as far as possible in refer
ence to its apparel; beautiful as Sarah
was beautiful. whose husband gave to
her one of the sweetest and yet court
liest of compliments when he turned
and in the quaint language of the east
said. Thou art a 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
beautify his temple of the Holy Ghost.
Christ has often been worshiped in
mud hut or an open barn. but he de-
serves the noblest 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 chiseled 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 Yincis Last Supper in d Milan
convent is painted upon the walls of
Santa Maria dele Grazie. within
which NapOleon's troops once stabbed
their horses, or as Michael Angelo
Last Judgment was painted upon the
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 elo-
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? l grant
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 new
being. 1t is a physiological law that
every seven years the body goes through
complete change. Seven years from
bone. finger nail or atom Of flesh in
your physical existence which is part
of you today. Like the old Constitu-
ton. more commonly called Old Iron
sides, once the pride of the American
navy. whose hull was made over SC
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 q new. Galen was convert
ed from atheism by studying the Won
derful construction of a human Skele
ton. But the movement of a joint in q
skeleton is not nearly so wonderful tC
me as the fact that the skeleton of a
man who died when he was seventy
years of age represents at least ten dis
tinct skeletons. which at different pc
; RODS of his existence walked around
, under the same mans personality.
, A Wonderful Structure.
, The physical body is continually be
, Ing changed. This fact being ther
granted. if you will only let the Holy
| Ghost dwell within the temple which
: ought to be his. then he will make yol
l physically over anew. Your voice will
2 become softer in tone. because then i
2 will only speak the language of love
: Your face will change in looks. for the1
: your gentler spirit will mold it. You
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