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Show THE UTAH EVANGELIST <br> (Successor to THE EARNEST WORKER.) <br> VOL. I. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, JUNE, 1884. No. 10. <br><br> The Utah Evangelist <br> ISSUED ON TUE 15TH OF EACH MONTH BY THE EVANGELIST PUBLISHING COMPANY. <br> Entered as Second- Class Matter. <br> WM. BOYLE, EDITOR. <br><br> TO THE HUMA, <br> An Indian bird, which the natives of Borneo claimed was never seen except on the wing, and that it had no feet to alight upon the earth. <br> BY MISS LOUISA P. SMITH. <br> "Fly on! nor touch thy wing, bright bird, <br> Too near our shaded earth, <br> Or the warbling, now so sweetly heard, <br> May lose its note of mirth. <br> Fly on! nor seek a place of rest <br> In this home of care-worn things; <br> ‘Twill dim the light of thy shining crest <br> And thy brightly burnished wings, <br> To dip them where the waters glide <br> That flow from a troubled earthly tide. <br><br> The fields of upper air are thine, <br> Thy place where stars shine free. <br> I would thy home, bright one, were mine, <br> Above life's stormy sea. <br> I would never wander, bird, like thee, <br> So near this place again. <br> With wing and spirit once light and free, <br> They should wear no more the chain <br> With which they are bound and fettered here, <br> Forever struggling for skies more clear. <br><br> There are many things like thee, bright bird, <br> Hopes, as thy plumage gay- <br> Our air is with them forever stirred; <br> But still in air they stay. <br> And happiness, like thee, fair one, <br> Is ever hovering o'er; <br> But rests in a land of brighter sun, <br> On a waveless, peaceful shore, <br> And stoops to lave her weary wings <br> Where the Fount of Living Water springs." <br><br> MARRIED, <br> At the Presbyterian parsonage, St. George, Utah, May 15th, 1884, by Rev. Arthur B. Cort, John Mitchell of Silver Reef Utah, to Miss R. Anna Stevenson, Mission teacher at Washington, Utah. <br> A. B. CORT. <br> ST. GEORGE, Utah, May 19. 1884. <br><br> We publish in this issue a brief summary of the work done in nearly all the Presbyterian schools in Utah. The statistics here given will be interesting to our friends in the East and to all interested in the work. <br><br> This is a school number of the Evangelist*. <br><br> THE TRUE TEMPLE. <br> REV. A. B. CORT. <br> He taketh away the first that he might establish the second. Hebrews 10: 9. <br> In revelation there is development. The general tenor of Scripture from Genesis to Revelations is from the sign and symbol to the truth and substance, from the shadow to the reality, from the letter to the spirit, from the simplest truth to the most profound. This principle holds true in respect to all the ideas connected with the word temple. <br> The tabernacle was the first sanctuary. It was made by the express command of God. "The Lord spake unto Moses, saying, speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring an offering . . . and let them make me a sanctuary that I may dwell among them." (Ex. 25: I, 2, 8.) The plans and specifications down to the minutest particulars were given to Moses by God, and a pattern was shown him on the mount. At its completion the Lord took possession, as it were, for "the cloud covered the tent of the congregation, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle." (Ex. 40: 34, 35.) <br> More than four hundred years afterwards, Solomon, by God's command, built a temple. It was modeled after the tabernacle, but on a more enlarged scale and of more substantial materials. It took seven years to build it, and at its dedication "the cloud filled the house of the Lord so that the priests could not stand to minister, because of the cloud; for the glory of the Lord had filled the house of the Lord." (I Kings 8: 10, 11.) <br> The peculiar glory of these sanctuaries was not the beauty of their architecture, nor the richness of their adornment, nor the splendor of their ritual, all of which were extraordinary, but because they enshrined the Shechinah, or cloud of glory, which was the living witness of God's presence in the world. But in respect to the infinite God, Solomon truly says: "Will God indeed dwell on the earth? Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain Thee; how much less this house that I have builded." (I Kings, 8: 27.) The tabernacle and temple with their imposing ritual were visible exhibitions of truth. They conveyed truths as pictures do. They were the books of the people. They taught by symbol that God dwelt among his people, that he was not afar off, but was near at hand to punish the wicked and reward the righteous; that approach to him was possible only by atonement and purification. <br> Though Israel had received signal blessings of the Lord, by and by she forsook him and served idols; then the lord forsook his temple, unhallowed hands stripped it of its glory and razed it to the ground. After the lapse of seventy years Zerubbable began to build a second temple. When completed it was inferior to the first in material splendor, and was without the Shechinah. This stood till it was removed or rebuilt by Herod. ‘‘His was a marvelous structure. With its stupendous outer wall, the lofty ‘Gate Beautiful,' wrought of Corinthian brass, its pillared cloisters, its outer and inner courts, its central edifice, the temple proper, covered with gold and blazing like an earthly sun-the whole was the wonder of the world and the Israelites' peculiar pride and joy." <br> The Jews, glorying in the material splendor of their temple, were startled by the sudden appearance of Jesus within its sacred precincts, who, cleansing it of all unseemly traffic, said, "Make not my Father's house an house of merchandise." (John 2: 16.) When the Jews demanded a sign for his extraordinary conduct, he said, ‘‘Destroy this temple, and in three days I will build it up." (John 2:19.) He spoke of the temple of his body, which, though they would deprive it of life, yet it would rise again from the grave. That day was fulfilled the words of the prophet Malachi:"The Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple." (Mala. 3: 1.) Jesus was God enshrined in a human body, Immanuel, the true temple of God. The sanctuary of God upon earth was no longer a building made with hands, but a person. To emphasize this truth, Christ told the woman of Samaria, "Believe me, the hour cometh when ye shall neither in this mountain nor yet at Jerusalem worship the father...But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth." (John 4: 21, 23.) To show God's rejection of the old temple and to center men's thoughts upon the new, the decree went forth, "Seest thou these great buildings? There shall not be left one stone upon another that shall not be thrown down." (Mark 13: 2.) The changes that Christ instituted were radical. He did not put new wine in old wineskins. He did not ingraft his system upon decayed and effete Judaism. He made no blunders through want of foresight. His vision comprehended all time. As men remove an old building and clear away the foundation down to the bedrock and build anew; so Christ erected the superstructure of his church. His building is new, from the foundation to the topmost stone. The old was introductory and temporary. His was final and eternal. The old was symbolical, typical, shadowy, elementary. His was the truth, the substance, the reality, the perfection. So "He taketh away the first that He may establish the second." This is abundantly proven in the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of Hebrews. <br> (See 2nd Page*.) <br><br><br> * title and the phrase, "See 2nd page," are italicized <br><br> |
