EXTRACT.—"When the ancient people of God built their tabernacle under the direction of Jehovah, they brought each their offerings from the most precious of their possessions. Gold and jewels, and skilful handiwork and pure vessels and pictures, and whatever was costly or beautiful, was cast into the treasury of the Lord. We who to-day call ourselves his people have to build no material temple, no tabernacle of costly wood and of rare and gorgeous workmanship, but we have each to dedicate to the God of the prophets, a temple in our hearts, a temple adorned with the beauty of holiness. Whoever of us performs the most acceptable service to God and humanity beautifies the most his heart temple. He who stands firm in the hour of temptation, brings from the quarry of trial and suffering, granite to help form its beautiful proportions. He whose heart throbs in continual sympathy with humanity, whose hand supports the falling, and whose voice whispers, brother, to the degraded, hangs up daily pictures that Christ himself may look upon with delight. He who offers the prayer of faith, with a broken and contrite spirit, breaks bottles of exquisite perfume, whose delicate odors fill the outer court and penetrate even to the holy of holies."—Sel.