Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1907-03-09
Calm,aSe
Sermon
By Rev.
Frank De Witt Talmage. ID. ID.

message of timely and practical value
on the best equipment Of men and wo-
men for service, spiritual, mental and
physical. The text is l Kings vi, 30,
"And he carved thereon cherubims and
palm trees and open flowers and COW
cred them with gold fitted upon the
carved work"
Most people have but little architec-
tural Imagination. When q great archi-
tect comes to them and says, 81 am
going to build a temple Of fame or a
schoolhOuse or state capitol or ca
thedral or palace, and 1t Is to be 80
many feet high and so many feet wide,
and 1t is to have large porch and
hallway hanked by 50 many rooms"
he might as we'll be talking In San
skirt as far as most people are con-
cerned Drawings and lines and Oil
mensions mean no more to the aver
age mind than wife's description OF
walking suit which she Is planning
for the coming season means to an ay-
erage husband.
Now | am frank to say that l for
one could never get an adequate con-
ception of what the old Solomonic tenn
ple looked like from the plans which
have been drawn for us in the Bible.
! architectural mnOin0-
ton keen enough to construct this tenn
pie from those figures. Some BiDle
students have, but | have not. AS
soon as | begin to study those plans l
get the pOrches and the outer walls all
mixed up. But when the inspired au'
thor of the Bible comes to me ana
shows me one of the doors Of the inner
sanctuary and says, This door Is not
only made out of fir wood, but 1t mas
beautiful carvings thereon of cheruolm
and palm trees and flowers in blossom,
and all these exquisite carvings are
overlaid with gold" then l say: III
one little part Of that temple was as
beautiful as that, the whole temple
must surely have been an iridesceht
| dream of architectural beauty. All the
gorgeous colorlngs Of the rainbow must
there have been frozen in stone. All
the opalescent splendors OF the ever
J changing surface of the seas must
there have submerged its columns and
dome and walls and mosaic floors like
n tidal wave. All the divine chemls-
trlea which produced the marvellous
| hlendings of an orchid patch must
there have been exhausted In order 10
nroduce this ancient temple, which
architecturally has been the marvel OF
the ages. From the perfection or the
little we can in imagination conceive
Of the perfection of the whole. From
the beautiful carvings Of two doors OF
the inner sanctuary we can eaten
glimpse of what must have been the
beautiful entirety of the whole struc
ture. And he carved cherubims and
palm trees and open flowers and GOV
cred them with gold fitted upon the
carved work."
If YOU ride through some of the vine
wards now growing upon the hillsideS
where once stood the ancient capito
of Samarla and find there the stone
walls made out Of most beautifully
carved stones and wonderfully design
ed pillars which once adorned the an
cient temples. you at once say, "Ih'
architect who designed those temples
must have been a great lover OF th'
beautiful" Thus when we read tina
the fir tree doors of the inner sanctu
ary were carved by master hand lnt'
figures Of cherubim and palm trees an(
flowers in blossom and all covered VIII
cold we have right to say that tn'
God who designed that ancient temple
was q God who loved the beautiful
, We have only to look around us at tn
mountains. the valleys, the trees ant
I. the flowers and the glorious sunsets Z
c be confirmed in that belief. wan
this morning to take a step further
: The God who loves beauty in natur
1 and beauty i'll architecture loves ais
beauty In character. AS he directed
Solomon to adorn the temple VIII
carvings. so he ordalns that our char
acters shall be adorned. God wishes u
to consecrate to his service a beaut
full body, a beautiful mind, a beautlfu
soul, beautiful temple, a Deautitu
church service, a beautiful home and
beautiful store and as far as possiDl
make everything beautiful for his dea
name. "And he carved thereon chert
bins and palm trees and open flower
D and covered them with gold fitted upo
carved work.
Tempe Of the Holy Ghost.
. The physical body has been apt
: called the temple Of the Hol
Ghost" Therefore, in the first plac
it Is incumbent upon us to study ho'
we can make our personal presen'
inst as attractive and winsome as po
sibIe. For his dear names sake W
should strive to possess as beautlfui
ohvsical body as we can. We shoul
cover that body with just as ne'
clothes as we can afford. We shoul
make our physical frames an ageh'
for spiritual prayer. l do not torg
y that the word flesh" in the PauliI
,pIstles is used again and again
the symbol of sin, but that is no re
son why man should clothe his DOC
with filthy linen aud ungainly 1ttlr
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