The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1907-03-07
CalnaQe
Sermon
By Rev.
Frank De Witt Talmage. d. 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, SO,
And he carved thereon cherubims and
palm trees and open flowers and Gov
cred them with gold fitted upon the
carved work
Most people have but little architec-
tural imagination. When great archi-
tect comes to them and says, Il am
going to build temple of fame or
Schoolhouse or a state capitol or a ca
thedral or a palace, and it is to be so
many feet high and so nlany feet wide,
and it is to have large porch and a
hallway fianked by SO many rooms.
he might as well be talking in San
skirt as far as most people are con-
cerned. Drawings and lines and di-
mansions mean no more to the aver
age mind than wife's description of
a walking suit which she is planning
for the coming season means to an av-
erage husband.
Now, | am frank to say that / for
one could never get an adequate con
ception of what the old Solomonic tenn
pie looked like from the plans which
have been drawn for us in the Bible.
| have not an architectural magma
tion keen enough to construct this tenn
pie from those figures Some Bible
students have, but have not AS
soon as 1 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 and
shows me one of the doors of the inner
sanctuary and says, This door is not
only made out of fir wood but it has
beautiful carvings thereon of cherubim
and palm trees and flowers in blossom,
and all these exquisite carvings are
overlaid with gold,7 then l say: Eff
one little part of that temple was as
beautiful as that the whole temple
must surely have been an iridescent
dream of architectural beauty. All the
gorgeous colorings of the rainbow must
there have been frozen in stone. All
the opalescent splendors of the ever
changing surface of the seas must
there have submerged its columns and
dome and walls and mosaic floors like
a tidal wave All the divine chemis-
tries which produced the marvellous
blendings Of an orchid patch must
there have been exhausted in order to
produce this ancient temple, which
INTELLECTUALLY has been the marvel of
the ages. From the perfection of 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 catch a
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 COW
cred them with gold fitted upon the
carved work.
If you ride through some of the vine
yards now growing upon the hillsideS
where once stood the ancient capitol
of Samaria and find there the stone
walls made out of most beautifully |
carved stones and wonderfully design |
ed pillars which once adorned the an
Gent temples, you at once say, 1.-THE I
architect who designed those temples /
must have been a great lover of the /
beautiful" Thus when we read that
airy were carved by master hand into +
figures of cherubim and palm trees and
flowers in blossom and all covered with H
gold we have right to say that the
God who designed that ancient temple
was a God who loved the beautiful.
We have only to look around US at the
mountains, the valleys, the trees and
the. flowers and the glorious sunsets to
be confirmed In that belief. I want
this morning to take a step further
The God who loves beauty in nature
and beauty i'll architecture loves also
beauty in character AS he directed
to adorn the temple with
carvings, so he ordains that our char
acters shall be adorned God wishes us
to consecrate to his service beautit
full body, beautiful mind, a beautiful
soul, beautiful temple, beautiful
church service, beautiful home and a
beautiful store and as far as possible
make everything beautiful for his dear@
name. "And he carved thereon cheru-i
bins and palm trees and open fowergi
md covered them with gold fitted upomi
,arved work.
Temple of the Holy Ghost.
The physical body has been APPLY
jailed 1.-The temple of the Holy
Ghost Therefore, in the first place,
t Is incumbent upon us to stndy how
we can make our personal presence
lust as attractive and winsoUe as pos
,ible. For his dear names sake we
should strive to possess as beautiful Al
physical body as we can. We should
.over that body with just as neatIt
lothes as we can afford. We shouldE
make our physical frames an agencyH
or sniritual .nraxer. do not forgetf