This Pearl of Eternity

November 5.

The temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.

I CORINTHIANS 3, verse 17.


Now shed Thy mighty influence abroad
On souls that would their Father's image bear;
Make us as holy temples of our God,
Where dwells forever calm, adoring prayer.

C. J. P. SPITTA.


This pearl of eternity is the church or temple
of God within thee, the consecrated place
of divine worship, where alone thou canst
worship God in spirit and in truth. When once
thou art well grounded in this inward worship,
thou wilt have learned to live unto God above
time and place. For every day will be Sunday
to thee, and, wherever thou goest, thou wilt
have a priest, a church, and an altar along with
thee. For when God has all that He should
have of thy heart, when thou art wholly given
up to the obedience of the light and spirit of God
within thee, to will only in His will, to love only
in His love, to be wise only in His wisdom, then
it is that everything thou dost is as a song of
praise, and the common business of thy life is
a conforming to God's will on earth as angels
do in heaven.

WILLIAM LAW.