May 14

Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?—I COR. iii, 16.

Fling wide the portals of your heart,

Make it a temple set apart

From earthly use for Heaven's employ,

Adorned with prayer, and love, and joy.

So shall your Sovereign enter in,

And new and nobler life begin.

GEORGE WEISZEL.

This pearl of eternity is the church or temple of God within thee, the consecrated place of divine worship, where alone thou canst worship God in spirit and in truth. When once thou art well grounded in this inward worship, thou wilt have learned to live unto God above time and place. For every day will be Sunday to thee, and, wherever thou goest, thou wilt have a priest, a church, and an altar along with thee. For when God has all that He should have of thy heart, when thou art wholly given up to the obedience of the light and Spirit of God within thee, to will only in His will, to love only in His love, to be wise only in His wisdom, then it is that everything thou dost is as a song of praise, and the common business of thy life is a conforming to God's will on earth as angels do in heaven.

WILLIAM LAW.