Year: 1866

look and live He will boldly declare
that God has given to that same Jesus
who hung upon the cross, "a name
which is above every name, that at the
name of Jesus every knee should bow
and every tongue confess that He is
Lord to the glory of God the Father
When men hearing this word shall be-
lieve and come weary and heavy laden
with sin, he will point them to the
Lamb of God that taketh away the sins
of the world that taking His yoke up
on them, which is easy, and His burden
which is light, they may find rest unit
their souls. -


Here, within these sacred walls, viii


come the throng of devout worship
yes, to send up their united voices il
prayer and praise. They will come Il
meekly bow before the Lord of the
whole earth, remembering, He ha!
promised His special presence, whert
ispeople gather in His name, they vii
Danish from their minds worldly thoght:
and worldly themes, and as they bow
before the Holy One will fix their mind.
on heaven, striving ''to worship il
spirit and in truth" Him "who is &
spirit" and who seeks such TO worship
Him" Here will they oft find theil
Bethel and though in vision, they may
not see ladder set up whose top shal
reach to heaven, and upon which the
angels of God are ascending and de
scending, yet shall they find the sweet
presence of Him who tilleth all in all
and who shall breathe into their souls
in answer to prayer, that peace of Goo
which passeth all understandings
peace of which the world knows nothing
which it can neither give nor take
away"


Here in this house, devoted to the
service of the Great Eternal, will be ad
ministered the sacraments of God:
Church. Here will Cody parent:
bring their infant children, and in bap
tism dedicate them to God, promising
for them that they shall renounce the
devil and all his works, the vain pomT
and glory of the world, with all GOV
etoms desires of the same, and all the
sinful lusts of the flesh, and that they
shall keep Gods holy will and com.
mandments, and walk in the same al
the days of their life"


Hither-within these sacred walls
will come those whom the Spirit of the
Holy One shall move to ratify and re-
new the solemn VOWS made for them III
baptlsm-vows made on earth but reg
istered in heaven, and witnessed to by
angels and men-vows binding them IN
q lifelong service to Jehovah making
them to wrestle not simply with flesh
and blood, but "against principallties
and powers, against spiritual wicked
ness in high places, against the rulers
of the darkness of this world"-witil
such wrestling, to stand i'll every hour
of trial they will need to take orthem-
selves "all the panoply of Cod"


Here, too, will be gathered from time
to time, those who come to feed spiritu'
ally upon the flesh and blood of Him
who gave Himself for the life of the
world. Remembering the words OF
Jesus, how He said, Except We eat the
flesh of the Son of Man, and drink His
blood, We have no life in yOu," and
again, "Do this as oft as ye shall do it
in remembrance of me-" they will
gather rs their Lord has hidden, meek
ly, and in faith to receive "the emblems
of Savior's dying love-" To take His
broken body, and shed blood, as means
whereby Z" they may evermore dwell in
Him and He in them"


Here also, within this house of prayer
will come the young maiden, leaning
upon the arm of him she has accepted
from among the sons of men, to be n
lifelong partner of all her joys and sOr-
rows. They will come to pledge before
God their mutual love; promising before
high heaven that nothing but death
shall part them; and the priest of God,
shall with the mystic ring seal their
uttered vow, saying "thosc whom God
hath joined together, let no man put
asunder."


Here too will come the stricken and
sorrowing ones of earth, as they bring
their dead in Christ, to listen to the
sublime strains of inspiration, bidding
them sorrow not rs those who have no
hope, but to rest in the fullest assurance
that ''those who sleep in Jesus will God
bring with Him in the day when "this
mortal shall put on Immortality" and
death bs swallowed up of victory"
Thus shall they be comforted, as they
commit their righteous dead to the
mother earth, "dust to dust, and ashes
to ashes"


Thus will it be through coming years.
Within these sacred walls here builded,
will be uttered and oft repeated, the
most solemn vows man can make
vows whereby mortals enter into COW
enant with their Maker, promising obe-
dience and service to Him, who of right
can claim their every power and every
act of alteration. In the transactions
within this house centre all the deeply
and profoundly solemn things of mans
nature and being. Men will come here
TO transact business. the full import and
extent of which may not be known or
realized until there shall come a new
heaven and new earth, the one that
now is having been burned up, and
when "this mortal shall have put on
immortality" How many of US filly
realize the greatness Of this occasion,
and take in the length and breadth OF
what we are doingi How many of us
wrapt into the future, as with a seer's
vision, gaze upon the vastness of the in-
terests which centre in the work OF
building this house of Godf Who
among us understands and realizes the
significance of this work fthe infu-
ence of the transactions here were to be
bounded by time, the case would
be different. If we had met to
Law the corner stone of some
hall of justice, some place for man
TO ratify with man his bargains Of trade,
or business, where the transactions per-
tained only to matters connected with
time-perchance only to those who
counseiled OF bargained together, it
would seem smaller matter. But when
we build a temple where We invoke
the presence of the King of Kings,
and Lord of Lords, and men come to
meet and vow to Him "who sitteth upon
the circle of the earth, and the inhab-
itants are as grasshoppers before Him
where we are to make arrangements
which shall endure as long as our swn
deathless sspirits-arrangements concern
ing our future home with the blessed
angels, and with 1.-THE spirits of just
men made perfect" when God will show
Himself as our reconciled Father, and
Jesus Christ shall stand as an elder
brother. oh! who can describe the


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