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know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy 

 Ghost which is in you ? " * 



As the tabernacle was formed according to the pattern 

 showed to Moses in the Mount,f and as the temple 

 afterwards was formed after the pattern of the tabernacle, 

 but expanded, and, like it, consisted of three parts, wherein 

 were, first, the outer court, in which a mixed multitude 

 might congregate ; secondly, that part where sacrifices 

 were made ; and, thirdly, the holy place into which the 

 high priest alone was allowed to enter ;- so, after a similar 

 pattern, is the human body built up. Such is our know- 

 ledge of its wonderful nature. We know much about the 

 outer structure of bone and muscle, and nerve and sinew ; 

 we know much, too, of intelligence and the structure and 

 function of brain ; but of the cause of life itself we are, 

 and always shall be, in profound ignorance that is, the 

 inmost sanctuary, and only He knows who is its Author. 

 Yes, your body and mine is fashioned after the similitude 

 of the tabernacle, and so He who dignified poor human 

 nature by taking the human form said, " Destroy this 

 temple, and in three days I will raise it again ; " and one 

 whom He loved reminds us that " as He is, so are we in 

 this world." Also, in several passages of Scripture, this 

 body, frail as it is, is called God's house. 



Life may be, and I often think is, the action of 

 electricity in some incomprehensible form, for think what 

 electricity has been made to do. To repeat sounds, as of 

 an operatic performance produced a year ago, and repeated 

 by an instrument a thousand times ; an instrument the 

 phonograph (" sound-graving ") by means of which words 

 spoken by the human voice can be, literally, stored up 

 and reproduced at will over and over again, hundreds, 

 it may be thousands, of times ; by means of which the 

 * 1 Cor. vi. 19. f Heb. viii. 5. 







