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In the Temple of the Lord
Sermon by Dr. Parkhurst on the Infinitude
of the Almighty Father
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By DR. O. H. PARKHURST.
Tho Lord is In His holy temple;, let nil
the earth keep silence before Him.
Habakkuk 11.. 20.
This verse, If carefully considered. Is
a, surprise, for It locates the Infinite;
puts him In a place, houses Him
in a sanctuary.
That way of rep
resenting tho sit
uation offends the
religious sense.
There Is a reason,
why It should of-
lend It; also a rea
son why It should
not offend It Solo
mon, In his prayer
dedicatory' of the
temple, said: "But
will Ood Indeed
dwell on, the, earth T
tBehold the heaven
''and the' heaven of
(heavens cannot
.contain Thee; how
much less this
(house that I have built.'
That expression, we Instantly feel
grasps with tension the sublime Idea of
--God's infinitude. But a few minutes be
fore he had said, also in prayer: "I
have surely built Thee an house to dwell
iln, a settled plaa for Thee to abide in
forever." That gives us the other con
ception, and each of them in its own way
true.
To contract the Infinite and to view It
0r, rather, to view lllm under limita
tions, Is one of the necessities of a di
vine revelation. ' It Is said of tho Al
mighty that "He dwelleth In light un
approachable, whom no man hath seen
nor can see." Which teaches us that to
know Ood In His infinitude Is an lm
.possibility to human intelligence. So that
tf wa cannot know Him in His complete
ness, there Is an end of all knowledge of
Him and an end of all religion.
We do not consider' that we are shut
UP to any such dismal and hopeless al
ternative. We do not know the whole of
ncything even of any finite thing, but
vre know something of it, and the m
j perfection of -our knowledge does not
' wipe out Its value. We have not been
able with our email thinking to com
pass tho Atlantic. It is too broad, long
and deep to be contained In any living
Bran's conception of it and has to be; yet
even our Imperfect knowledge of it Is not
without a measure of value, and Is de
pendable up to a certain point, and Its
' dependableness is demonstrated by the
success attendant upon our practical use
of that knowledge.
Had not experience taught us to the
contrary wo might naturally suppose
that in order to get any trustworthy Idea
of the sun or of any other heavenly body,
our eyes would require to be as large as
the sun and our thought as deep as tho
sun. Because they are not as large and
as deep as that, knowledge of It la a
fragmentary and. imperfect knowledge,
but we find value even in its Imperfec
tion. Every one single thread of sun
' shine tells of something, and we let that
I thread wind Itself around our finger and
give us the warmth of It, and that
warmth we trust as being art atom of
the. sun's own fervid breath. Our flnlte
ness stands in the way of perfect knowl
edge, of course, but that Is just as truo
v In our relation to finite things as in our
relation to infinite ones. In our relation
to a bit of carbon, or to John Jones as
In our relation to spirit or the Almighty. '
By believers In God who do not fre
quent the sanctuary the reason which
they sometimes put forward In explana
tion of their non-attendance Is that it is
Inconsistence with the vaatnesa of the
Divine Being to carry on their worship
of Him Indoors and under a roof. That
was exactly Solomon's thought and we
have to credit their Idea with, a certain
amount of validity. But while an Idea
may be too small to be of practical
value. It may also be too large to be
of practical value. Thelr'a is, so was
Solomon's, and so, while he proclaimed
the Impossibility or Inconsistency of a
emple, wnt to work and built one.
And some form of temple Is In
dispensable, human nature being what It
Is, the contracted thing that It Is. And
so temples of some sort have sprung up
all over the world, and the fact Is that
It Is the most spiritually minded people,
that cleave most closely to them. From
those who tell me they prefer to worship
God In the great temple of nature, I
never expect much In the way of that
kind of religion that blossoms out Into
beauteous solidity of Christian character
and service. We may grow up to It sonic
time. St. John, In his Vision of the Celes
tial City, tells us that tie saw no temple
there. That may well be. We have onlj
begun living and worshiping yet, and
cannot tell into what bur present devout
possibilities may develop.
But as to what wo need at present,
some form of church, sanctuary, temple,
tabernacle; is for most. If not all, an es
sential toa" godly life, arid If all the
churches In our cities wero loveled with
the ground one of two things would re
sult, either our religion would start on
a course of more . and more rapid de
cline, or there would spring up a cluster
of little extemporized sanctuaries, domes
tlcated here and there In the homes of
believers, which would keep alive the pa
slon for concerted worship, till It cul
minated once more In vthe replacement, of
demolished sanctuaries by sanctuaries
freshly constructed
It Is scarcely necessaryJto say that one
may be godly In thq. Inner and In the
outer life without being attendant upon
any sanctuary, one can also bo' intelli
gent fend even become learned without at
tending school. One can subsist upon1
bread and 'water, even it a more varied
diet would more perfectly meet the body's
varied requirements. The question is
not whethr a man can get along without
going to school, but whether he can get
along better with It. So the problem Is
not whether church attendance Is an ab
solute necessity, but whether It Is an
advantage.
Tho matter of certain particular places
set apart as holy Is like the matter of
certain particular days set apart
as holy. They are both of them a com
promise with human Infirmity, for, as a
matter .of fact, all places are holy and
all days are holy. But people who make
no distinction between days and theoreti
cally proceed on the basis of the
doctrine that they are all holy will
probably not hallow any Of them, and at
the point at which our religious develop
ment has thus far arrived all Sabbath
means practically no Sabbath. We have
observed that In others and have very
probably experienced it in ourselves.
We have remarked, and very likely
experienced, the same thing when the
attempt has bern made to level down all
distinction between what are commonly
known as sacred and secular places, and
to regard one place as good as another.
And we make no question but what one
place of meeting with Him is as good us
another. If only we meet with Him- Now,
that oxactly Is the point If we meet with
Him, if we come personally into spiritual
touch with Him, if we can say of our
selves as was related of Enoch, that we
have even for a few minutes been ac
tually walking with God. been conscious
of His companionship and of such con
ferments as God's experienced presence
is able to bestow'.
It Is a thing to mention In this con
nection that most churches insist upon
the sanctuary being employed exclusively
for services that are distinctly religious,
services that are maintained In tho con
sciousness of the presence of Him In
whose temple we meet. We try to bring
th'e church into everything, but there is
a wide difference between that and
bringing everything Into the church, and
that difference has generally been re
spected and the . sense of It cultivated.
When Christ drove tho money-changers
out of the temple It was not from any
objection to thp presence of the money
changers, but from the exception which
He took to the introduction there of In
terests that were spiritually inharmon
ious with the Interest of His temple.
So far as we are Informed what was
being done there was business that was
not In Itself illegal or illegitimate. In
deed, on the contrary, it appears to have
been rather directly related to the tem
ple, as the marketlrig that was being
carried on was the marketing of sheep
and oxen that were to be sacrificed in
the Interest of the temple service. Still,
the traffic In these animals was not In
Itself a religious employment, and as
such had. In the Judgment of our. Lord,
no proper place In a consecrated house of
worship. In hardly any other way could
Christ have drawn more sharply the line
between locality that was sacred and
locality that was secular, or have placed
a heavier emphasis on the sano(uary as
definitely possessed of a divine quality,
and In a peculiar sense the abiding re
vealing place of the Divine Being.
When we all of us, whatever our special
relation to the service occupants of the
pews, the chancel or the pulpit come Into
the sanctuary with a fervid sense that we
are entering the courts of the Lord's
huiR coming Into the very preienoe
Midsummer Confections fc BY olivette
A Charming Day Dress and a Magnificent Evening Gown
Natural History Lessons-
No. 1 The Hook Worm,
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Hy DOROTHY DIX.
MONO the most In
teresting of the na
tive fauna and
flora to be found In
our midst la the
hook worm, This
v a 1 u nble creature
bolongs to tho cate
gory of domestlo
animals (genus
henpeckis), and It
forms a useful and
1 n d 1 s pensable ad
junct to households
whore no maid li
kept.
The hook worm la
Indigenous to the
United States, and It flourishes most
plentifully In cities, only n ten rare and
scutterlng specimens of It having ever
been found In tho country. Scientists
differ concerning Its history, but a con
sensus of tho best authorities Indicates
that Its origin was contemporaneous with
the coming of the fashion of frocka that
button up the back, and that the, great
original hook worm was discovered by a
fat woman with short arms.
From this small and humble beginning
sprang the millions of hook worms that
now pervade tho land and make glad the
waist places of swell dressers by pulling
together belts that
do not meet by four
Inches. Thus do wo-
see how marvel-
ouHty nature pro-
vlilos for all con
tingencies.
In appearance the
hook worm Is an
elongated and tubu
lar - looking animal
"With two feet, two
a n t o nnne (techni
cally known as
hands), and two
eyes situated near
the top of Us head,
which Is not Infre
quently bald. Also
It has a tongue, which It shoots off wit!
great rapidity and volubility upon occasions.
Apparently the. eyesight of the hoo!
worm Ih very nor, as it is unable to sec
a button unless It Is the size of a silver
dollar, and It cannot distinguish an In
visible loop from a chance to tear a
hole with a hook In the back of an Im
ported dinner gown.
Likewise tho hook worm Is very awk
ward and clumsy In the way In which It
manipulates Its antennae, It having been
estimated that It makes 11,M.S51 different
motions and dabs and fumbles In trying
to Insert a porfoctly plain book In a per
fectly obvious eye.
These faults of tho hook worm are ac-
counted for, however, by sotentlsts. on
the theory that It Is still an Impcrtoctly
developed animal, and It yet lacks about
aaventaen addltlona.
hands and four
more pairs of eyes
In order to per
form satisfactorily
the function f o t
which It was ere
a t d. Doubtlest
theaje will be ac
quired In the pro
cess of evolution,
and our great-great
great-great great
granddaughters ma)
rejoice in the pos
session of hook
worms with a full
complement of fa
culties that will b
able to do their appointed tasks and fasten
up a French confection before you could
say "Scatl"
Little Is known of the habits of th
hook worm, as, although It Is a do
mcstlo animal, it absents Itself from the
house all day, only returning at night
to be fed. Its .period of greatest activity
Is juat bofore dinner and theater time,
when It gets busy and may be heard
making weird and profane noises'.
Tho hook worm Is exclusively a lady'i
pet, men seeming to have no Use for
the animal, though they are so highly
esteemed by women. It should bo stated
lit this connection,
though, that opinion
among women Is
equally divided as to
whothor It Is best to
calrh a hook worm
when he Is young
and break him In
to your own stylo of
fastenings, or to tie
p with a hook
irrm that has been
hyroughly trained
y some deceased
'udy who was ad
ulated to lingerie
shirt waists. Much
Is to bo said In favor I V s 1 )
of each aide of the '
question; but, alas! there are marry prob
lems In life, and even the yovlng hook
worm who Is conscientiously bent on
doing his duty sometimes gets In bad.
for In his excess of zeal he displays a
skill that sets tho woman who owns htm
to guessing.
The hook worm has a voryllmlted vo
oabulary, the only two expressions that
It has ever been heard to use being
"Helen Blazes" and a word that
muffled and Indistinguishable, but that
sounds as It It started with a big, big
D.
Battle of the Wilderness
By REV. THOMAS B. 'GREGORY.
By OLIVETTE.
-Tr1 nnri HoniilnH fl.rn coming into
their nwn aim In. This irraceful evening
gown in the right hand picture, with its
Jewelled overdress, produces the slender
silhouette so much In vogue.
The foundation Is of soft crepe char-
meuse, and the opalescent overdress Is
sewn on durable net
In midsummer the shops have sales of
net robes and tunics at prices for lower
than the mldseason terms. A small dress
pattern of pale pink or bluo or creamy
crepe charmeuse and a dainty tunic will
preparo you for an evening gown for
next season that will look very chlo and
elegant and cost very lltlte.
Cool and dainty Is the other frock for
midsummer wear. A soft crepe that
launders easily and does not crush Is
the rnott practical material in which to
develop It.
Almost any woman, can carry out the
ehtbrolilored design of marguerites with
outline sketch scrolls, "all. over" dots and
eyelets.
The laco insets of inch wide Irish may
It dispensed with In favor of a cheaper
lace Maltese for Instance. But the five
tiny ursiilpg tucks with ball buttons of
Irish lace at their centers are a very Im
portant feature on making this model
slightly "deferent."
Tho button "motif Is carried out on
blouse and upper skirt front too.
Advice to the Lovelorn
By BEATRICE FAIRFAX
Try the Same Time.
Dear Miss Fairfax: I have been keep
ing company with a young man for two
or three years. He writes to me occa
sionally, and sometimes he does not
write for three weeks. Should I wait
the same length of time before answer
ing his letter or should I answer In a few
days? I love this young man and do not
wish to let him know it by answering
too aoon. BBOWN BYES.
Never answer his letters sooner that he
replies to yours, and I think it would be
a good plan If you occasionally wait
longer.
Nothtnar Whatever.
Dear Mlaa Fairfax. I am deeply In love
with a girl one year my junior. She is
13 years old. She loves me, I know,- but
she Insists on flirting with a young man
in the same town. Do you think me
right In objecting? Would you qnlt going
with herT What do you think she maanaT
COLE M.
She Is not engaged to you, and has
given you no sort of promise. That
chamber of God and with hearts that
are therefore stirred to the reverent
rendering of our respective offloes of
hearing, elnging and speaking, then we
ahall go away closer to heaven, even
while living upon the earth and doing
the duties of the earth, and shall feel
In our hearts the echo of the words of the
Psalmist: "One thing have I desired oC
the Lord, that will I seek after, that I
may dwell In the house of the Lord all
the days of my life to behold the beauty
of the Lord and to Inquire In His holy
tempi."
leavea you without the right to object.
I am sure' she means nothing whatever
by her flirtations except to gratify a
girl's idea of what constitutes a good
time.
Don't Try.
Dear Miss Fairfax: I am dearly In
love with a young woman three years
my Junior, and she returns my love.
Whenever we come to a disagreement
over a certain thing she says things
which seem to be of teasing effect to
me. Some of these are: "I am mad."
"Don't speak to me any more." Kindly
advise me how I can break her of this
habit, as It would make her feel very
bad If I had to leave her.
QUESTIONER.
My dear young man, before you talk
so gravely of giving up your sweetheart
because she teases you look to yourself.
Are you not priggish, arbitrary, fault
finding, exacting and a good deal of a
scoldT
Forty-nine y'enrn ago, May , 1804, al
most 200,000 Americans were tearing away
at each other's throats In the death grap
ple known as the battle of the Wilder
ness. With 130,000
men urant was
trying to force his
way southward and
Lee, with 0,000 was
doing his best to
keen the federal
commander from
carrying out his
purpose.
All day long
! Grant pressed with
I all his might
against the gray
line, and all day
long the gray line
stood firm. Not quite all day, either,
for when the sun had begun to turn Lee
takng the offensive, hurled Longstreet
hird against the left of the blue lino and
In a short while the "Old War Horse"
MTis carrying everything before him.
But right then and there. In the very
fury and tempest of the confederate onset
something happened. Longstreet was
severely wounded, nlgh unto death, by
stray ahota from his own lines, and the
advance was suddenly stayed. The con
fusion and delay occasioned by Long
atreet'a fall gave Hancock time to
strengthen his line and the threatened
dlsaater was averted,
The sun was now nearlng Its setting
and the battle of the Wilderness was
practically over. It hud lasted two days
and tho atrateglc results were the same
sh when it began. Thirty thousand dead
and wounded men lay scattered ,over the
region, but with the exception of that.
terrible fact things were about as they
were at the start. Across Grant's path
lay Leo, anu facing him and looking
southward stood the silent man, resolved
to "fight It out on that line If It took
all summer." . '
It was just after this battle of the
Wilderness that Lee showed his flrfct
algns of despair regarding the outcome
6f the struggle for aouthern Independence
He knew that he had given the federal
commander a fearful punishment, but In
spite of that punishment Grant refused
to turn back. Observing this, and tak
ing in Its full significance. Lee turned
to a member of his staff and sadly re
marked: "I am afraid that at last we
have found a man who does not krtotv
when be is beaten."
Parisian Sunshades, .
A much admired sunshade was made flf
pink taffeta covered with tiny pleatlngs
of tulle edged with a ploot. Another no
ticed had a very pretty handle set with
precious stones and at the base la. f)a.t
piece of gold about .the slse of a half
dollar, by which It Is carried when shut,
In order that the dainty tulle pleating
may hang freely.
A substance In white was of crepon
embroidered in silk all around,' with a
wreath of cherries and leaves; the handle
of cherry wood had a pretty bunch qf
rheries and leaves daintily twisted
around It-
