Article July 31, 1902 Issue

Our Part in the Temple

BY EMMA G. GATCH.

Since the announcement at our last annual meeting that we were to build a new edifice, large enough to meet our present needs, these words of Paul, in the fifth chapter of Ephesians have been with me, almost continually, "Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; that he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, that he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing, but that it should be holy and without blemish."

What a wonderful help it would be toward bringing out the true church if each one would see to it that he loves the church sufficiently to be willing to assume this Christly relation to it and seek thus to present it to himself, without spot or blemish.

In the glossary of our text-book, Science and Health, the definition of Church contains these words: "The structure of Truth and Love; whatever rests upon and proceeds from divine Principle." Only purity, therefore, can possibly dwell therein. Envy, jealousy, malice, hate, ambition, etc., are not within its walls. It must then be our work and duty to give these enemies to progress no place in our consciousness, not to indulge them ourselves or believe there is any reality in them when we see them manifested in others. They are the obstructions in the way which we must remove in order to realize the true church,—to present it to ourselves "holy and without blemish."

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