The Temple That Is Eternal

Christianity was the temple that was to be eternal, and on it, as unconscious builders, men were laboring in all the ages from the creation. And if so long in preparation, may we not anticipate it will be a finality? About the temples built by the kings of Oriental monarchies there were other lesser fabrics; but with the kingly one alone the idea of permanence was associated.

So of St. Peter’s at Rome and the Cathedral at Milan. The lesser fabrics have disappeared for ever. When Christianity was completed, its lesser structures and essential ecaffoldings were all removed.

Friests and smoking altars suddenly and forever disappeared. The temple of Christianity alone remains. Dr. Foss.

7288, OHRISTIANITY, Philanthropy of. Moravian missionaries in Greenland saw little fruit of their labor the first year. Toward its close the small-pox broke out among the natives in an awful manner, and the Moravians accommodated as many of the invalids as their houses would contain, surrendering to the afflicted even their only sleeping-chambers; and though onable to make themselves distinctly nnderstood by words, they preached effectually by their conduct. One man, who had always derided them when in health, expressed his obligation to the minister shortly before he died.

‘Thou hast done for us,” said he, “what our own peopie would not do; for thou hast fed us when we had nothing to eat; thou hast buried our dead, who would else have been consumed by the dogs, foxes, and ravens; thou hast also instructed us in the knowledge of God, and hast told us of a better life.”