We have lengthy records of this temple, It had been David's ear-nett sish to be allowed to build it but that honour was reserved Jer Solomon his son, David had made Invish provision of gold and wilyer and material of all sorts; and Solomon enters on the achievement of his father's great dream. The temple was reverently assem-Ded without sound of hammer or other tool, nothing but costly and enutiful things entered into the fabric, careful and thorough was the workmanship and the result as near os man could make it worthy of becoming the habitation of God. And us such God accepted it. We whould miserably fail short of what the narrative is meant to teach us if we saw in Solomon's temple less than that, If we saw in it only most costly and beautiful building: ty its dignity and worth calculated fo turn men's thoughts toward an absent God. No, this was to be house for God, a place where He might always" be found and again it is written in this book that God desires to dwell with man, to have a house in th midst of them and definite modes approach.
'These churches and cathedrals of cours are not great empty tombs, architectural monuments, they are not only meeting places for instruc~ tion and for edification, they are in very truth temples' of God. Here, as we gather for private prayer or in corporate worship, there jg born in upon us a sense God's presence and power in a way that we find it nowhere else.
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