The Mena weekly star., 1912-05-16

Many times I have been asked by |
bereaved ones shall we know each
other in heaven Many tunes !
have addressed the same question
to myself.
This question is answered IN |
ferentially and satisfactorily III
this verse.
Moses and Elias had not lost
their identity and were recognized; /
neither will we lose our identity,
hence I vii know my mother IN
heaven and you will know yours;
we shall know each other there
blessed thought
II is no wonder that the impetu-
GUS Peter ecslatically broke the aW-
full silence with the exclamation;
Let US build three tabernacles.
one for thee. one for Moses and
one for Elias
Notwithstanding, this was an ex-
clamatioin OF impulsion, yet Peter
uttered a great truth, one eminent
" worthy Of your consideration
and incubation.
pray that you may catch the
spirit Of this ecstatie cry, and as
a class say ''let us build
Go out into the busy, active
world, on whose threshold you
stand toady as builders.
| would commend to you the lm-
mediate verbiage of the declaration
and ask you to cry out today in
unison-"Let Us Build Three Tab
ernacles.n
Build a moral character or tab.
ernacle on the teaching or prin-
ciples Of Jesus Christ.
Be christian men and women.
Remember now thy creator in the
days of thy youth First seek ye
the kingdom Of God and His right
eousness.n
This is fundamental Build
spiritual tabernacle on the Rock
of Ages" and the rains may de-
scend, the floods come, and the
winds blow and beat upon you, but
you will fall not. Look well to
your spiritual foundation.
Build an intellectual tabernacle.
Don't stop with your present at
tainments.
Continue to apply yourselves.
Be students.
If POSSIBLE continue your stud
les in some good college or uni
yersity, but if this is impossible
then. be students always.
You now possess the key that will
unlock the vast storehouse Of
knowledge; that will enable you to
be ''workmen that needeth not to
be ashamed"
Insert this talismanic key every
day and open wide the door Of
universal knowledge and go for
ward.
Build a physical tabernacle.
Young men and young women,
look well to your physiques.
Take care of your bodies.
Regard your bodies as something
sacred.
| AS something holy.
| Do not defile them.
| Give your bodies necessary rest
/ as well as exercise.
/! Do not squander your physical
strength.
Do not dissipate your physical
| energies.
| Refrain from everything that
would pollute or destroy your
bodies. Young man avoid the dead
~ cigarette as you would viper.
Young men refrain from the in
toxicating cup.
| Look not upon the wine when
| it is red, for az last it biteth like a
serpent and stingeth like an adj
| der"
| Surely it is not necessary to
warn the young women just here,
not even with reference to the
equally ruinous, though more
| fashionable champagne.
| | would even advise you young
| women to make this resolution
"The lips that touch liquor shall
never touch mine
Hear mel Look well to your
bodies.
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Be chaste.
| BE an IS. p. /. class looking al
| ways to the spiritual, the physical
| and the intellectual.
Build three tabernacles.
| A moral tabernacle;
| An intellectual tabernacle, and
| A physical tabernacle.
| If you will build these three in
lone, you will be inyincible to the
| worlds conflicts.
| You will be unconquerable in
life's warfare.
| Your success is assured.
| There is another sense in which
| | would have you be builders.
| Make this old world better.
| Go out to touch it with the mag
| ic hand of loving consecrated SER
vice.
Live for those who love you,
For those who know you true,
For the heavens that smile above
And await your coming,too.
| For the cause that needs assist
ance,
For the wrongs that need re-
sistance,
| For the future in the distance
And the good that you can do.
And there was cloud that
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