The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-01-18
Cleansing The Temple
(Bsrmon Delivered Friday Afternoon, January IT,

Inc temple wAS uGfiL $AU year
| after the jews came from Egyptian
bondage 1t was built during the
| fourth year of the reign Of King Solo
| mon and IL took ten years to build 1t.
/ 1t took the com bined efforts Of $4,000
| Jews and strangers to build It. II
| took 10000 men eleven years Just to
ent down trees and there were So.ee0
squared stones In it, and there were
| 1000 hewers OF wood. and there
were ~, zee men who did nothing but
! drag the timber out of the woods and
! drag It where they were going to build
/ this temple, and Solomon's temple
, cost $500, goo goo. according 30 our
standard of gold and silver.
We think we've got some fine build
I ings now and we talk about them.
We have. but Soiomon's temple would
make them look like a plugged coun-
ierfeit cent by the side OF $4,000
United States government bond. II
cost Soo.eoo.ooo and At the dedica-
tory service Solomon offered 100, o00
sheep and 10000 oxen, and the gold
and silver adjoining the temple was
SO perfect and 30 beautiful and arts
tic that 1t was often regarded by the
ignorant and uniformed as being the
work OF the fingers OF an angel rather
than the skilled ingenuity of man
Temple is For Worship,
The temple is q building which Is
dedicated to the worship OF the deity.
They worshiped In that tenn pie just
Is your property belongs to you.
through a deed which you have safely
tucked away in some safety deposit
box The ancient cities had their
temples; there was the temple of
Diana Of the EphesciAna. They say
that this neurological huntress en-
tered the water one morning for her
accustomed bath when suddenly Act
aeon appeared upon the scene, and
her maid attempted to screen her
from his vision. Failing to do this
as he came near she splashed water
in his face and said:
GO tell II you can that you saw
Diaha of the Ephesians battle" and
they tell IA in mythology that long
antiers started to grow from his head
like the horns OF a deer, and his
arms Iengthened until they touched
the ground and his hands and feet
assumed the form and shape of
hoofs. his body became covered with
long hair like deer. He maintained
the power of thought. but the only
way ne could express himself was by
hlsatinE He had been robbed of the
power OF speech and his dogs caught
the scent of deer and when he at
tempted to tell them who he was he
blcated. but that only intensified their
anger and they chased him over the
hills and through the valleys At
last they caught him and tore him TO
shreds Thus originated the temple
of Diana of the Ephesians.
And in Athens they had the tenn
pie OF Jupiter. and In Rome a temple
| In Mara Our modern cities have
! their temples-St Peters at Rome.
St Paurs In London. St Marks In
Venice. the Kremiin at Moscow. and
the cathedrals at Cologne and Madrid
ana Paris.
| Corinth was q city of God. 1t had
shrines to all the deities on earth.
There WAS a temple to Venus. and the
nude female slaves wandered around
and roamed through her great iaby.
rim tbs, her rounds and her halls. There
was the temple of Neptune, the god
of the seas There was the temple
to Apollo. the god music In lust and
| bestiality. old Corinth could out
! Sodoru Sodom- A woman WAS not re-
spected because of her virtue. and the
women that could so to the greatest
depths OF vice, the women that could
boast and blow OF the largest mum.
Der OF paramount. were the women
that ware put on . pedestal. not be-
1
because their vice put them there
! The name of wife---oh, that was q
m cookery: and the name of mother wa.
derided and sneered at Oh. hear me
| You can have your culture clubs. yor
can have your uteraries. you can have
your keeiey cures, you can have oul
Huh House settlements, you can have
sociology and you can build. my
friends. your libraries. you can buiit
a university in the middle OF every
block, YOU can stick n public schoo
on every corner. you can erect your
museum@--you will never preven'
America from rotting into hell with
out n tidal wave of the old time re-
ligion! II can't be done
II a girls skirt In too short, stick
a little on II; II It In cut too much
at the top, add a couple of stories
But that won't purify her heart.
tell you. America needs a tidal wavs
OF religion!
l believe In your 1brnrfea, be-
lfcve in your social work, / believe
in your sociology. believe I'm your
social settlements. I believe In al
and everything. and I win go with
you IN any work and in anything thai
has for it's keynote the upiift Of hu-
manity. But when you part company
with Jesus Christ will not go with
you.
Now that's tho typo Of q New TIES
lament temple Know ye not thai
your bodies are the temples OF the
Holy Ghost1" Do you thing the Holy
Spirit wants to look out through a
pair OF eyes that are bloodshot from,
last nights debauchery and beer and
champagne guzzle? Do you think the
Holy Ghost wants the. feet to 90 t1
church that the devil used yesterday
TO go to some haunt Of sin or dowr
on some ballroom floor?
Oh, do you think the Holy Spirit
wants TO speak out through lips thai
will drink booze at some banquet OIL
In some home? DO you think the
Holy Spirit wants to nestle in the
I hands that one day witt reach out and
touch the Bible and another day the
things forbidden of this old world
No.
Would you think Of worshippine
God In d church where a lazy janitol
/ had made the aisles a dumping place
/ for the cinders and ashes and where
the rats had gnawed holes in the car
pet. where the choir loft was deserted
and the spiders had spun their webs
and where the doors were broken off
and browsing cattle might wander
through and 10 dauvv In fha Aarorfnd