The Wilderness Sanctuary Cutaway DiagramBible World
25:8Exodus 25:8
And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them.
God commanded Moses on the mount after the giving of the law at Sinai to make Him a portable sanctuary in the wilderness where His glory would rest and His presence be specially manifested among Israel. It was to be made in every detail according to the heavenly pattern shown to Moses, with God Himself devising the plan and qualifying chosen workers with skill, wisdom and ability to accomplish it. The costly materials were to come only from freewill offerings given freely by willing hearts, and the people gave so cheerfully and abundantly that the supply exceeded the need and the offerings had to be stopped. It was given in pity for their weakness after Egypt as a visible sign where God could meet with fallen humanity with veiled glory they could endure, foreshadowing Christ veiling His divinity in human form to dwell among men. The same command requires His people still to prepare sacred, orderly, reverent places where He can meet with and bless them, built and supported by willing, liberal, unselfish giving.
Command and Historical Setting
God commanded Moses on the mount to have Israel make Him a sanctuary so that He might dwell among them, the command coming after the law was given at Sinai and after the covenant was ratified. Moses went up into the mount of God and spent forty days and nights there receiving the specifications for Israel's service and the details of its obligations. There the Lord gave him the directions for building the sanctuary and showed him the pattern of the ark.
Those directions for the sanctuary were given before the special instructions about the Sabbath were given. Israel's apostasy cost them the blessing of God's presence and prevented the sanctuary from being built for a time. When first commanded the sanctuary planned for His presence among Israel was not yet built, and Moses pitched a temporary worship tent outside the camp. When the people were again accepted, Moses carried out the command to build.
Christ gave Moses the specifications for building the tabernacle. Paul repeated those specifications chapter after chapter to his fellow workers while making tents with Aquila and Priscilla, for his own and their benefit. He related them while working with his hands, making tents diligently and thoroughly.
Structure of Earthly Dwelling
The command was to make a distinct earthly dwelling where God could dwell among Israel while they journeyed through the wilderness, a structure where His glory rested and His presence was specially manifested, not the earth itself nor the land of Canaan. It was the earthly dwelling place of the Most High given in the mount, with a court and two apartments, the holy place and the most holy place, where the divine presence was manifested in the most holy place between the cherubim. The sanctuary built in the wilderness was the movable tabernacle carried by Israel, later represented by the temple in Jerusalem.
It was made portable so it could be taken down, carried, and set up again from place to place through all the travels of Israel, in order that the knowledge of God would be made known wherever they went. Though movable, it was of great magnificence, with walls of upright boards heavily plated with gold set in sockets of silver. Its roof was of layered curtains or coverings, the outer of skins and the innermost of fine linen beautifully wrought with figures of cherubim. Outside was a court containing the altar of burnt offering, and the tabernacle itself held the two apartments called the holy and the most holy place, separated by a rich and beautiful curtain or veil, with a similar veil closing the entrance to the first apartment.
The holy place held the candlestick on the south with its seven lamps giving light day and night, the table of showbread on the north, and the golden altar of incense before the veil separating the holy from the most holy. From that altar a fragrant cloud with the prayers of Israel daily ascended before God. The most holy place held the ark, a chest of precious wood overlaid with gold containing the two tables of stone with the ten commandments. It was covered by the mercy seat with two cherubim of solid gold, one at each end, where the divine presence appeared in the cloud of glory between the cherubim above the ark.
After Israel settled in Canaan the movable wilderness sanctuary was replaced by Solomon's temple in Jerusalem, which represented it and received the vessels from the movable sanctuary. That temple retained its proportions and furnishings, with holy and most holy places answering to those of the tabernacle.
Heavenly Pattern and Workmanship
Neither Moses nor the workmen were left to plan the form and workmanship, for God Himself devised the plan and gave particular directions as to size, form, dimensions, materials, curtains, furniture, and every article pertaining to it. He showed Moses a miniature model of the heavenly sanctuary and commanded that the tabernacle and all belonging to it be made in similitude of heavenly things according to the pattern shown in the mount. Moses wrote all the directions in a book and read them to the most influential of the people. As designer God educated the builders, choosing the workers Himself and raising up men and women and qualifying them with more than natural abilities. He fitted them for their work by giving skill, wisdom, and genius, imparting embroidery and ingenious work including vessels of solid gold, and apportioning to each worker work according to ability to make up one divine design.
The work required hard labor with heart and soul and strength, the sturdy mechanic taxing muscle and sinew. Industry, diligence, thoroughness, and quick, skillful work with the hands in God-appointed work is true religion, a manifestation of love to God and labor for His honor. Such diligent, thorough, intelligent manual labor preaches the gospel, keeps the worker in touch with the great Teacher, educates others in unity, and the skill, genius, and wisdom given by God are to be used to His glory with supreme honor to Him. The specifications Christ gave Moses for the tabernacle were repeated by Paul chapter after chapter to his fellow workers while making tents with Aquila and Priscilla, for his own and their benefit.
Different workers received different work requiring unity in diversity, with each person assigned a task and each part in harmony with the other. No one was to seize another's portion of the work or stand in a fellow laborer's way, but each was to do appointed work with strictest fidelity, for in the essential building no part is menial and every part means service. Followed in this way the plan produced a complete tabernacle illustrating simplicity, beauty, harmony, perfect order, and coordinated labor without discord. From the beginning God was particular as to both design and accomplishment, arranging every detail of construction so that the sanctuary, its order, harmony, exalted character, and workmanship represented His power, majesty, and holiness and honored His name.
He gives wisdom to all engaged in His service today to do His will and to carry His work forward on an elevated, refined, ennobling basis, with faithfulness, stability, and fitness seen in every line and with buildings corresponding to His providence. His name must be honored by work done for Him today and His work must not move forward shabbily. He is displeased with those who in their service do not carry out His design, and He will separate such men from His cause and prove others in their place, who if self-sufficient will in turn be replaced by still other laborers. God gave Israel in the wilderness the privilege, honor, and great responsibility of making Him a sanctuary of surpassing splendor demanding the most costly material and the highest artistic skill, a stupendous task for a people just escaped from slavery. Yet He who gave the plan stood pledged to cooperate with the builders, with Christ and His angels as instructors in that industrial school, as all the people cooperated with labor of brain and hand and by that labor and giving learned to cooperate with God and with one another and to cooperate also in preparing the spiritual building, God's temple in the soul.
Willing and Abundant Offerings
Preparing a dwelling for God required costly materials and great, expensive preparations with precious materials including gold, silver, brass and other materials, yet only freewill offerings given freely and willingly were accepted, from every one whose heart stirred him and whose spirit made him willing. Devotion to God and a spirit of sacrifice were the first requisites in preparing a place for Him, and unwilling and stinted offerings are not accepted. The construction was supported by such freewill offerings brought by people whose hearts and spirits made them willing, and the work went forward according to the word of the Lord.
The command came just after leaving Egypt, when freedom was fragile and one step could turn them back to slavery, and Israel was to build from limited and scanty means while their own tents were small. God's house was to be built first, before enlarging their own dwellings, according to the design God gave. Each soul was anxious to have a part and gave cheerfully without urging, even taking ornaments and jewelry from the person and giving gold, silver, brass and ornamental work gladly. In such abundance was given that more than a million dollars was expended.
The people gave so freely and abundantly for the sanctuary and its service, including precious materials and skilled work, that the supply exceeded what was needed until there was more than enough. Moses had to proclaim that they had enough and that offerings and labor must cease, telling them to stop bringing offerings because enough had been brought.
Those who prize the blessing of God's sacred presence and value heavenly blessings higher than earthly comforts manifest greater interest and zeal in proportion as they value divine things, willingly bringing acceptable offerings of the very best they have. They are blessed in proportion as they have estimated the value of divine things. Those who withhold what belongs to God and rob Him will be afflicted in their families and decreased in their possessions according to the measure of that withholding. A building prepared expressly for God to meet with His people should therefore be arranged with care, made comfortable, neat and convenient, dedicated and presented to Him with Him entreated to abide in that house and make it sacred by His holy presence, with enough willingly given to liberally accomplish the work so the workmen can say bring no more offerings, and a house built for God never should be left in debt, for God would be dishonored.
Purpose of God's Dwelling
The sanctuary was commanded as a visible symbol of divine presence so that God might live among the people and meet with them. It was given in pity for their weakness, for after long years in Egypt amid material and degrading representations of deity they found it difficult to conceive the existence and character of the Unseen One. In that condition they needed a tangible sign to help them grasp that He is real and to learn what He is like.
After the fall the tabernacle became the appointed means by which God could approach humanity. There He met with the people and His voice was often heard, and His presence was made visible in the glory of the cloud resting above the tabernacle, while the cloud veiled its brightness so that mortals could endure it. As His glory was thus veiled in the sanctuary, so Christ's divinity was afterward veiled in human form, and the sanctuary foreshadowed Christ dwelling among humanity so that people could draw near to Him, behold His character, and live. His presence in this veiled nearness remained with Israel through the wilderness journey.
The command looked beyond a building, for God's purpose was also to make Israel themselves His dwelling place by revealing to them His glorious ideal of character. That pattern was shown in the mount in the giving of the law from Sinai and in the proclamation of the Lord as merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth. To impress that majesty, holiness, and required purity, special directions were given for arranging the camp in perfect order and for everything connected with the tabernacle. That order and harmony and exalted character were not for Israel alone but to make an impression upon the surrounding nations, revealing to them the character of the true God and what He desires His people to be.
Worship and Work Today
A place prepared for God to meet with and dwell among His people is sacred, set apart above ordinary temporal things, and dear to His loyal people, calling for reverence. Its divinely ordered service and directions show that worship and places dedicated to God are sacred and are to be treated as sacred. They are to be kept pure, clean, and orderly, with His people giving their best in His service. Such a house is to serve as a place where He meets with and blesses them, and personal sacrifice is willingly made so it can fulfill that purpose.
A house dedicated to worship should therefore be treated as sacred and not used for school, meals, business, or other common purposes. Worshipers should enter it with reverence and leave worldly thoughts and sinful attitudes behind. Those who value God's sacred presence and prize the blessing of His presence should prepare a place of worship with interest and zeal in keeping with the worth they place on heavenly blessings, manifesting greater interest and zeal in proportion as they value heavenly blessings higher than earthly comforts, realizing they are preparing a house for God. Such a building prepared expressly for God to meet with His people should be arranged with care and made comfortable, neat, convenient, and tastefully finished. It is to be dedicated and presented to Him, with Him entreated to abide in that house and make it sacred by His holy presence.
Devotion to the work of God and sacrifice from the heart are first required in preparing a place for Him, with only free-will offering accepted and unwilling and stinted offerings not accepted. Enough should be willingly given to liberally accomplish the work so the workmen can say bring no more offerings. A house built for God never should be left in debt, for God would be dishonored. Those who willingly bring acceptable offerings of the very best they have will be blessed in proportion as they have estimated the value of divine things, while those who withhold what belongs to God and rob Him will be afflicted in their families and decreased in their possessions according to the measure of that withholding. As in building the wilderness tabernacle, God's people should exert their efforts in faith to provide room for His work and to prepare a place dedicated to Him, and He blesses those efforts according to their faith.
God's people are commanded to arise and build Him a house where He can meet with those who worship Him, and to build without delay even when voices on every side say it cannot be done and no help comes from the conference. Obedience means advancing step by step on a sure basis in faith, while God provides means at the exact time of need, opens the way for experienced workers to labor for reduced wages or as donation, supervises the building, honors faith and prospers the work. The result is a neatly and tastefully finished meetinghouse completed without debt, large enough to hold growing worshipers with room to enlarge, through which God's name is glorified. The same principles apply now, for God gave Israel special directions for arranging their camp in perfect order and for everything connected with the tabernacle to impress them with His majesty and holiness and with the purity He requires of all who serve Him. That order and harmony and exalted character were not for Israel alone but to make an impression upon surrounding nations, revealing to them the character of the true God and what He desires His people to be, so those who labor for God must study the instructions given to ancient Israel and make all their arrangements such as rightly to represent Him, because the world judges by appearances.
The directions for building the tabernacle mean He establishes His work where He has said it is to be, so the work in Washington will be established to show forth His praise. Where He directs the building, the Lord God of Israel is in the work, His name is glorified, His truth finds standing room, and the place shows forth His praise. The same command now requires God's people in America to give willingly, liberally, and unselfishly without grudging or selfishness, with hearts stirred and made willing bringing the Lord's offering for the work so the work goes forward according to the word of the Lord. That giving is to erect memorials for God at Takoma Park and Washington, with a school and a sanitarium to be set in operation and a publishing house and a building for public work to be built. The work is to go forward without weariness and without slack, slipshod work, with all means sent in used in the most careful, economical way, with buildings put up and furnished without display or unnecessary expenditure, with extravagance in dress and other things restrained, with church officers counseling prompt action, with all churches showing unselfish interest to hasten it forward, with prayers ascending to heaven, and with wisdom given to builders and workers and blessing to those who aid the work.
God commanded Moses on the mount after the giving of the law at Sinai to make Him a portable sanctuary in the wilderness where His glory would rest and His presence be specially manifested among Israel. It was to be made in every detail according to the heavenly pattern shown to Moses, with God Himself devising the plan and qualifying chosen workers with skill, wisdom and ability to accomplish it. The costly materials were to come only from freewill offerings given freely by willing hearts, and the people gave so cheerfully and abundantly that the supply exceeded the need and the offerings had to be stopped. It was given in pity for their weakness after Egypt as a visible sign where God could meet with fallen humanity with veiled glory they could endure, foreshadowing Christ veiling His divinity in human form to dwell among men. The same command requires His people still to prepare sacred, orderly, reverent places where He can meet with and bless them, built and supported by willing, liberal, unselfish giving.
Command and Historical Setting
God commanded Moses on the mount to have Israel make Him a sanctuary so that He might dwell among them, the command coming after the law was given at Sinai and after the covenant was ratified. Moses went up into the mount of God and spent forty days and nights there receiving the specifications for Israel's service and the details of its obligations. There the Lord gave him the directions for building the sanctuary and showed him the pattern of the ark.
Those directions for the sanctuary were given before the special instructions about the Sabbath were given. Israel's apostasy cost them the blessing of God's presence and prevented the sanctuary from being built for a time. When first commanded the sanctuary planned for His presence among Israel was not yet built, and Moses pitched a temporary worship tent outside the camp. When the people were again accepted, Moses carried out the command to build.
Christ gave Moses the specifications for building the tabernacle. Paul repeated those specifications chapter after chapter to his fellow workers while making tents with Aquila and Priscilla, for his own and their benefit. He related them while working with his hands, making tents diligently and thoroughly.
Structure of Earthly Dwelling
The command was to make a distinct earthly dwelling where God could dwell among Israel while they journeyed through the wilderness, a structure where His glory rested and His presence was specially manifested, not the earth itself nor the land of Canaan. It was the earthly dwelling place of the Most High given in the mount, with a court and two apartments, the holy place and the most holy place, where the divine presence was manifested in the most holy place between the cherubim. The sanctuary built in the wilderness was the movable tabernacle carried by Israel, later represented by the temple in Jerusalem.
It was made portable so it could be taken down, carried, and set up again from place to place through all the travels of Israel, in order that the knowledge of God would be made known wherever they went. Though movable, it was of great magnificence, with walls of upright boards heavily plated with gold set in sockets of silver. Its roof was of layered curtains or coverings, the outer of skins and the innermost of fine linen beautifully wrought with figures of cherubim. Outside was a court containing the altar of burnt offering, and the tabernacle itself held the two apartments called the holy and the most holy place, separated by a rich and beautiful curtain or veil, with a similar veil closing the entrance to the first apartment.
The holy place held the candlestick on the south with its seven lamps giving light day and night, the table of showbread on the north, and the golden altar of incense before the veil separating the holy from the most holy. From that altar a fragrant cloud with the prayers of Israel daily ascended before God. The most holy place held the ark, a chest of precious wood overlaid with gold containing the two tables of stone with the ten commandments. It was covered by the mercy seat with two cherubim of solid gold, one at each end, where the divine presence appeared in the cloud of glory between the cherubim above the ark.
After Israel settled in Canaan the movable wilderness sanctuary was replaced by Solomon's temple in Jerusalem, which represented it and received the vessels from the movable sanctuary. That temple retained its proportions and furnishings, with holy and most holy places answering to those of the tabernacle.
Heavenly Pattern and Workmanship
Neither Moses nor the workmen were left to plan the form and workmanship, for God Himself devised the plan and gave particular directions as to size, form, dimensions, materials, curtains, furniture, and every article pertaining to it. He showed Moses a miniature model of the heavenly sanctuary and commanded that the tabernacle and all belonging to it be made in similitude of heavenly things according to the pattern shown in the mount. Moses wrote all the directions in a book and read them to the most influential of the people. As designer God educated the builders, choosing the workers Himself and raising up men and women and qualifying them with more than natural abilities. He fitted them for their work by giving skill, wisdom, and genius, imparting embroidery and ingenious work including vessels of solid gold, and apportioning to each worker work according to ability to make up one divine design.
The work required hard labor with heart and soul and strength, the sturdy mechanic taxing muscle and sinew. Industry, diligence, thoroughness, and quick, skillful work with the hands in God-appointed work is true religion, a manifestation of love to God and labor for His honor. Such diligent, thorough, intelligent manual labor preaches the gospel, keeps the worker in touch with the great Teacher, educates others in unity, and the skill, genius, and wisdom given by God are to be used to His glory with supreme honor to Him. The specifications Christ gave Moses for the tabernacle were repeated by Paul chapter after chapter to his fellow workers while making tents with Aquila and Priscilla, for his own and their benefit.
Different workers received different work requiring unity in diversity, with each person assigned a task and each part in harmony with the other. No one was to seize another's portion of the work or stand in a fellow laborer's way, but each was to do appointed work with strictest fidelity, for in the essential building no part is menial and every part means service. Followed in this way the plan produced a complete tabernacle illustrating simplicity, beauty, harmony, perfect order, and coordinated labor without discord. From the beginning God was particular as to both design and accomplishment, arranging every detail of construction so that the sanctuary, its order, harmony, exalted character, and workmanship represented His power, majesty, and holiness and honored His name.
He gives wisdom to all engaged in His service today to do His will and to carry His work forward on an elevated, refined, ennobling basis, with faithfulness, stability, and fitness seen in every line and with buildings corresponding to His providence. His name must be honored by work done for Him today and His work must not move forward shabbily. He is displeased with those who in their service do not carry out His design, and He will separate such men from His cause and prove others in their place, who if self-sufficient will in turn be replaced by still other laborers. God gave Israel in the wilderness the privilege, honor, and great responsibility of making Him a sanctuary of surpassing splendor demanding the most costly material and the highest artistic skill, a stupendous task for a people just escaped from slavery. Yet He who gave the plan stood pledged to cooperate with the builders, with Christ and His angels as instructors in that industrial school, as all the people cooperated with labor of brain and hand and by that labor and giving learned to cooperate with God and with one another and to cooperate also in preparing the spiritual building, God's temple in the soul.
Willing and Abundant Offerings
Preparing a dwelling for God required costly materials and great, expensive preparations with precious materials including gold, silver, brass and other materials, yet only freewill offerings given freely and willingly were accepted, from every one whose heart stirred him and whose spirit made him willing. Devotion to God and a spirit of sacrifice were the first requisites in preparing a place for Him, and unwilling and stinted offerings are not accepted. The construction was supported by such freewill offerings brought by people whose hearts and spirits made them willing, and the work went forward according to the word of the Lord.
The command came just after leaving Egypt, when freedom was fragile and one step could turn them back to slavery, and Israel was to build from limited and scanty means while their own tents were small. God's house was to be built first, before enlarging their own dwellings, according to the design God gave. Each soul was anxious to have a part and gave cheerfully without urging, even taking ornaments and jewelry from the person and giving gold, silver, brass and ornamental work gladly. In such abundance was given that more than a million dollars was expended.
The people gave so freely and abundantly for the sanctuary and its service, including precious materials and skilled work, that the supply exceeded what was needed until there was more than enough. Moses had to proclaim that they had enough and that offerings and labor must cease, telling them to stop bringing offerings because enough had been brought.
Those who prize the blessing of God's sacred presence and value heavenly blessings higher than earthly comforts manifest greater interest and zeal in proportion as they value divine things, willingly bringing acceptable offerings of the very best they have. They are blessed in proportion as they have estimated the value of divine things. Those who withhold what belongs to God and rob Him will be afflicted in their families and decreased in their possessions according to the measure of that withholding. A building prepared expressly for God to meet with His people should therefore be arranged with care, made comfortable, neat and convenient, dedicated and presented to Him with Him entreated to abide in that house and make it sacred by His holy presence, with enough willingly given to liberally accomplish the work so the workmen can say bring no more offerings, and a house built for God never should be left in debt, for God would be dishonored.
Purpose of God's Dwelling
The sanctuary was commanded as a visible symbol of divine presence so that God might live among the people and meet with them. It was given in pity for their weakness, for after long years in Egypt amid material and degrading representations of deity they found it difficult to conceive the existence and character of the Unseen One. In that condition they needed a tangible sign to help them grasp that He is real and to learn what He is like.
After the fall the tabernacle became the appointed means by which God could approach humanity. There He met with the people and His voice was often heard, and His presence was made visible in the glory of the cloud resting above the tabernacle, while the cloud veiled its brightness so that mortals could endure it. As His glory was thus veiled in the sanctuary, so Christ's divinity was afterward veiled in human form, and the sanctuary foreshadowed Christ dwelling among humanity so that people could draw near to Him, behold His character, and live. His presence in this veiled nearness remained with Israel through the wilderness journey.
The command looked beyond a building, for God's purpose was also to make Israel themselves His dwelling place by revealing to them His glorious ideal of character. That pattern was shown in the mount in the giving of the law from Sinai and in the proclamation of the Lord as merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth. To impress that majesty, holiness, and required purity, special directions were given for arranging the camp in perfect order and for everything connected with the tabernacle. That order and harmony and exalted character were not for Israel alone but to make an impression upon the surrounding nations, revealing to them the character of the true God and what He desires His people to be.
Worship and Work Today
A place prepared for God to meet with and dwell among His people is sacred, set apart above ordinary temporal things, and dear to His loyal people, calling for reverence. Its divinely ordered service and directions show that worship and places dedicated to God are sacred and are to be treated as sacred. They are to be kept pure, clean, and orderly, with His people giving their best in His service. Such a house is to serve as a place where He meets with and blesses them, and personal sacrifice is willingly made so it can fulfill that purpose.
A house dedicated to worship should therefore be treated as sacred and not used for school, meals, business, or other common purposes. Worshipers should enter it with reverence and leave worldly thoughts and sinful attitudes behind. Those who value God's sacred presence and prize the blessing of His presence should prepare a place of worship with interest and zeal in keeping with the worth they place on heavenly blessings, manifesting greater interest and zeal in proportion as they value heavenly blessings higher than earthly comforts, realizing they are preparing a house for God. Such a building prepared expressly for God to meet with His people should be arranged with care and made comfortable, neat, convenient, and tastefully finished. It is to be dedicated and presented to Him, with Him entreated to abide in that house and make it sacred by His holy presence.
Devotion to the work of God and sacrifice from the heart are first required in preparing a place for Him, with only free-will offering accepted and unwilling and stinted offerings not accepted. Enough should be willingly given to liberally accomplish the work so the workmen can say bring no more offerings. A house built for God never should be left in debt, for God would be dishonored. Those who willingly bring acceptable offerings of the very best they have will be blessed in proportion as they have estimated the value of divine things, while those who withhold what belongs to God and rob Him will be afflicted in their families and decreased in their possessions according to the measure of that withholding. As in building the wilderness tabernacle, God's people should exert their efforts in faith to provide room for His work and to prepare a place dedicated to Him, and He blesses those efforts according to their faith.
God's people are commanded to arise and build Him a house where He can meet with those who worship Him, and to build without delay even when voices on every side say it cannot be done and no help comes from the conference. Obedience means advancing step by step on a sure basis in faith, while God provides means at the exact time of need, opens the way for experienced workers to labor for reduced wages or as donation, supervises the building, honors faith and prospers the work. The result is a neatly and tastefully finished meetinghouse completed without debt, large enough to hold growing worshipers with room to enlarge, through which God's name is glorified. The same principles apply now, for God gave Israel special directions for arranging their camp in perfect order and for everything connected with the tabernacle to impress them with His majesty and holiness and with the purity He requires of all who serve Him. That order and harmony and exalted character were not for Israel alone but to make an impression upon surrounding nations, revealing to them the character of the true God and what He desires His people to be, so those who labor for God must study the instructions given to ancient Israel and make all their arrangements such as rightly to represent Him, because the world judges by appearances.
The directions for building the tabernacle mean He establishes His work where He has said it is to be, so the work in Washington will be established to show forth His praise. Where He directs the building, the Lord God of Israel is in the work, His name is glorified, His truth finds standing room, and the place shows forth His praise. The same command now requires God's people in America to give willingly, liberally, and unselfishly without grudging or selfishness, with hearts stirred and made willing bringing the Lord's offering for the work so the work goes forward according to the word of the Lord. That giving is to erect memorials for God at Takoma Park and Washington, with a school and a sanitarium to be set in operation and a publishing house and a building for public work to be built. The work is to go forward without weariness and without slack, slipshod work, with all means sent in used in the most careful, economical way, with buildings put up and furnished without display or unnecessary expenditure, with extravagance in dress and other things restrained, with church officers counseling prompt action, with all churches showing unselfish interest to hasten it forward, with prayers ascending to heaven, and with wisdom given to builders and workers and blessing to those who aid the work.