Recent
events lead one to think much upon Jerusalem past and present, and to recall the psalmist's words: "Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee.
It
is probable that throughout Christendom and in all Jewry the deliverance of Jerusalem has caused men to study with care Ezekiel's thirty-sixth chapter.
In
the closing verses of the twelfth chapter of Matthew we find a wonderful sermon which has appealed to Christian people in all the centuries since the words were uttered by the master Christian.
In
the forty-fifth psalm we have a wonderful presentation of the spiritual idea, which marks a strong contrast between mortal concepts and that which is conceived of Spirit.
To
rejoice in the scientifically Christian conviction that there is but one cause, and that God, good, is that cause, is to possess the scepter of spiritual dominion which destroys sorrow, sickness, and sin.
We
are all familiar with the thought of temples as expressed in human experience past and present, although we perhaps have not often paused to realize that a temple points to something above and beyond the material structure; that rightly understood it symbolizes a spiritual idea which is imperfectly understood if recognized at all by mankind.
