Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1903-10-31
The Temple of Christ.

reference TO the glance or It's 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 10
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 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 10
beautify his temple Of the Holy Ghost
Christ has often been worshiped In
a 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 sanctuarles
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. Id
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 a Milan
convent is painted upon the walls oi
q Santa Maria dele GraZie, within
which Napoleon's troops once stabbed
their horses. or as Michael Angelos
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 marcn-
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, chow can
beautify my physical body? l grant
that need not be sloyenly or unkempt
in apparel, but | do not grant that
can change my looks. | cannot, III the
language of Nicodemus, for the second
time be born Of the flesh" Oh, yes,
nv brother you can. You can start
today to obtain from God that grace
which will make you physically a new
being. 1t is a physiological law that
every seven years the body goes through
n complete change. Seven years from
now there will not be any part or a
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 SO
many times that there have been many
Constitutions instead Of one. so you
nv 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 a human skele
ton. But the movement Of joint in
skeleton is not nearly so wonderful L
me as the fact that the skeleton OF 9
man who died when he was seventy
years Of age represents at least ten dls
tinct skeletons. which at different pc
riods of his existence walked aroun(
under the same mans personality.
A Wonderful Structure.
The physical body is continually be
ing changed. This fact being thel
granted, If you will only let the Hol!
Ghost dwell within the temple whlcl
ought TO be his. then he will make yo'
physically over anew. Your voice viii
become softer in tone. because then ]
will only speak the language OF love
Your face will change in looks, for the
your gentler spirit will mold 1t. You
hand will change its conformation, 10
then. instead of being the knotted mus
, cles of q human brute or the close rs
, of a miser, looking In its vindictiv'
, ness like the grinning gargoyles Q
> Notre Dame. ready to spring upon thei
prey below. It will be the opened pail
J of succor and have the warm grasp
a sympathetic touch. Yes. my brothe
, Won can artistically and astheticall
p as well as spiritually beautify you
p physical body. Ye can surrender
B. in the name Of Jesus Christ. to
? made over entirely anew to his ser
ice.
A strong temple! A clean templ
{ A beautiful temple! We have be'l d
|. scribing them ALL But, after all. VIII;
@ is q temple? A temple is a buildlr
(. dedicated to the worship Of a deit
V Its four walls inclose holy place
g which that deity is supposed to dive
4 Each temple is supposed to be the pc
e sonal property Of an individual divlr
| tv in the same sense rs a mans hou
e belongs to him when the title deed
d not only put in the family safe. D
o also recorded among the county re
d ores.
f II this be true what Is the next ste
- Why, each temple should have q
when it is publicly dedicated to
y deity for whom it is built. When
Solomonic temple was to be at i
- dedicated the king made the serv
=. one of national import. He assemD
~ - in one place all the officers ana u
=, of state, and OH that occasion he
- rificed 10000 sheep and 22,OOO OK
The rivers of blood which flowed fr
a that altar signify to us how great
~ ~ occasion that dedication must h'
"a been.
~ When few years ago the ram
lu' Cologne cathedral was dedicated
"a. Europe sent its representatives to N
no the king Of Prussia at the spot. 1
ID cathedral was begun in 124S. 1t
lie begun in the name Of the Father,
"a and Holy Spirit. The work, howe'
cD wos not comDleted in the thirtee