Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1907-03-09

useu 10 say: las oliver Cromwell wa
about to turn the members Of parlia
ment out Of their chambers he pointed
10 the mace and said, Take away thai
bauble.' When Christ shall come, whe
will effectually purge the church, ~
will say much the same OF many &c
clesiastical ornaments now held in higi
repute. Gowns and affairs and ban
ners and painted windows will all 81
at one sweep. Nor will the rhetorical
embellishments and PHILOSOPHERS oi
modern pulpits be any more tenderly
dealt with. Take away that baublel
will be the signal for turning many
folly into perpetual contempt"
But. though that is all true that Mr
Spurgeon said, we must not apply MI
words too literally The end OF trus
spiritual worship is not a liturgy or
great cathedral or high priced choir
We all know that. But we also know
that God never wants a man to live II
q palace and worship Jesus In barn
God directed the fir tree doors OF thu
inner sanctuary of his Solomonic tenn
pIe to be carved with cherubim and
palm trees and blossoming flowers, ane
God wants US to build the best temple
to his glory that we can afford. H'
wants us to build that temple In the
most conspicuous street. He wants III
to honor him with sweet songs, with
pure, true, noble worship and with al
tars as beautiful as we can afford tc
make them. And he carved thereon
cherubims and palm trees and open
flowers and covered them with COLO
fitted upon the carved work"
But before | close / want to empha
size one other fact. Every one OF these
figures which were carved upon the ~
tree doors Of that inner sanctuary wa
q symbol Of everlasting life. Like th'
evergreen tree, its branches are COW
cred with green all the year round
The cherubim are the symbol OF the
great company Of the redeemed OF
heaven. OF course we know that tn
word cherubim literally interpreted
means an ,rder Of celestial beings
But this word taken as a symbol means
the whole company of the redeemed OF
heaven. The palm tree Is and always
has been the symbol Of victory b,
grace. while the blossoming fowert
are the symbol of profession or the
public yielding Of our will 10 Gods
will, and the gold Is the symbol oi
the divine being. Thus this gold Govern
ALL Yes, every figure engraved upol
that door Is a symbol Of spiritual tri
umph. Thus, my friends, cannot we
find all our struggling after the beau
tiful the symbol of our cOnsecrating all
the beautiful parts Of our lives to tn
service of the Divine Master, whose
name is not only Wonderful" bu'
who is the acme Of all that Is beauu
| full?
Beautiful Symbols.
Oh, that step by step in these beaub
full symbols we can find our consecra
ton to Jesus May these symbols b
to US what the Lectures on Expert
mental Philosophy and Astronomy and
Chemistry" by G. Gregory, were Il
Joseph Henry. After Mr.. Henryt
death this little book Of Mr.. Gregory
was found in Mr.. Henry's library witt
the following inscription written By
the great Smithsonian upon the ny
leaf: "This book, although by no meant
a profound work, has, under Proyi
dence. exerted a remarkable infuenc
upon my life. 1t accidentally fell int
nv hands when | was about sixteer
wears old and was the first work eyel
read with attention. 1t opened to m
a new world of thought and enjoy
ment invested things before almost
unnoticed with the highest interest
fixed my mind on the study OF natur'
and caused me to resolve at the time
of reading that | would Immediately
devote nv life to the acquisition o
knowledge" So may it be with US to
day. May this text have the same In
fluence upon our lives as the lectures
Of Gregory had upon a Joseph Hen
ry. May we reach out and continue
to reach out In mental and physical de
velopment.
But as we reach out may these sym
bols Of Solomon's temple teach US tina
we are to reach out only for the pur
pose of consecratng our cherublm ant
palm trees and blossomipg flowers I
: Gods great work and for the saliva
} ton Of man as well as for our eterna
] life. "And he carved thereon cherubim
J and palm trees and open flowers ant
covered them with gold fitted upon IN
carved work" May God bless thi
I beautiful sermonlc theme OF this beau
+ tiful Sabbath day for Christs horo
and glory.
copyright. 1907, by Louis Klopseh.l