p. 499 | Defects in the Living Temple

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Aug 21, 1884

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 10, No. 32.

Defects in the Living Temple

In the service of the temple the priest was required to be physically without blemish. In the service of the living temple every Christian is called to priestly perfection of beauty. Some are crook-backed, and so lack the strength which a strong, well-built backbone gives to a man’s body—or character. With others, the defect is one of sight, and so the light of truth is somehow lost upon us, or, perchance, is too strong for our feeble vision. In the case of others the malady is lameness, and so the movement upward is a slow and painful effort. In some the malady is general prostration, resulting from the loss of vital force, and producing what may be fitly described as a complication of diseases.—Sel.