Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-08-28
MACLACHLAN TALKS ON
"N0|SELESS BUILDING"
symbol of Gods Presence
Among His People Must
Arise Silently.
WITHOUT CLANG OF IRON TOOLS
Spiritual Temples Are Not Erected
by Mnrhinrry--NO sound or Hmm
mcr or "A kdScrtirrs Their
Growth. Says Ministcr In sermon.

Taking as his subject The Noise
loss Building Kcv. IL D. c. Mac.
-lErhlnn. In Seventh street Christian
Church, preached Yesterday morn
as as follows
In this unique constructions! pro-
Nls!on there lay, whether COnBc!ous-
IL or uncon9ciuusly on The part %
tho builders. profound spir.tua!
tJth The building was GODS hnusc
IA. symbol OF His presence amonk
rs people, and IL must arise silent
lLr-withuut tie c!aEg ana cla,nor
OF lion tolls 50 cy. must -" IN"
pIeparation 90 Ia" stones no audible
3"aannry must ut them ON" 20 tn"
rih-r
80 IT - With all ., God's hai.d
Ing Spiritual temples are no, buil,
les machinery 40 sound OF hammer
or ~ advrrtises their growth. Their
si"ner are of Gods shaping. behind
tnt veil IN the hidden quarrics Of
IN" Divine purpose. And thus it
often happens that the world with
y, olind fni'h IN engineering. scarce
N notices their rIs. until n. last
stone Is laid upon the topmost tower.
History Of Church.
No better illustration OF this T..
80 '' Alldn III inc history oil
ID" church TN" real church * no,
'h- one you md In Inc churcn hts
tories There, there - machinery
and clengor enough There are Tn.
frpes and councils, IN" crecds and
'onfcsSions the Emperors aud Kings,
me religious wars, the persccuticns
IN" hamm"ring Of sect by sect, tho
nails driven ny Augustine. A,hana-
sins, Calvin and tho rest. nails that
ar" meant 10 last forever. hut that
begin 10 rust and decay almost as
S""u as driven.
Rut III" real temple t. not beiu.
hL'dcd thus Behind The noise. tn.
aust and the clangor. Il has arisen
silently c"urs" by course, in the
hearts OF the faithful in ;hc pray
"rs Of the saints. iu IN" spirit nii"d
ives. not 81 cardinals and creed
makers, but "' the great. voir.lcss
prolctar!at OF cod. who hav. kept
alive IN the hearts ~ the people IN.
torch ~ i living ialih Ia cod
The true church history has never
h+cn written. So-callcd histories
'ner" AZ" apientv ina, tell w wha,
iop" this ana Pope tho other did
what tn" councils or Chalcedon and
Nicaca enacted now this or tha,
rehnemen, nt theology tyraun.zed its
''''' "sS over tNc cGlsgicrCsS OF
mankind
w." can hear the harnrurr!ng and
tho shaping and m" hcwIng OF that
"arth.ouil, temple clearly enough
BAt WHAT We want 20 know about Is
The songs and prayers OF the fai,h-
i!L We want TO hear them az their
private davotions
Affected Common People.
Wa want To know how religion
affected tn. lives OF the common
people in the FIRST. IN tho tenth. In
tnc hit"cnih century. and how II az
'"etS 'h"m today in Tho twcut!.ih
century We want TO know how mon
Fad women rose 10 God, In spite
~ the munmcry or the mass. and
how the spirit OF Christian love took
hold OF the lives OF the people. in
spite OF the lovclcssness %, their
,ttuiar overiords
There was and is the true Gods
t"mp!"-built IN IN. silence Of con
secraicd livee--eveu as Jesus Him
self said The kingdom o, God
c"mc'h not with observation
And so there are those who say
there is no such building Tina, was
the temptation whispered by one OF
MS followers into tn. ear OF 6hrclh
IN Tcnnys"u's !dyi Hut Garech will
not be gainsaid. Presently. as they
near The city-a vision or - reality.
who shall sayr--ou, Of its gates "A
blast AZ music pcalcd'"