and is doing her lots of good." Excuse this, as Brother Wilkes hardly ever tells a joke-unless he has the chance; but there is more sunshine about him than any other man in six nations; a lovable, forgiving, child-like nature. So you too, brother, in the language of the text, must have, "unfeigned love of the brethren." Love is like faith, it is

impossible to please God without it.

CHAPTER XXIV.

THE TRUE TABERNACLE

Heb. viii: 2. A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle which the Lord pitched, and not man."

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Lord to show wherein the tabernacle was a type of the Christian church. God commanded Moses to build the tabernacle like the pattern. "And look that thou make them after their pattern which was showed thee in the mount." Ex. xxv: 40. That tabernacle was erected by labor, tabernacle was pitched by the Lord. that tabernacle the house of the Lord. posed of precious material, such as gold, silver, copper, prefiguring the great value of Christians-lively precious stones, forming the church of the Lord. All the material in the tabernacle although costing over a million of dollars of our money, yet was a free will offering, voluntarily contributed. Ex. xxv: 2. The sides of the tabernacle were composed of pillars of acacia, each pillar being seventeen feet long, thirty inches broad, and twenty

one inches thick. Suppose one of the pillars had been sixteen feet and eleven inches long, or only twenty inches thick. Do you suppose God would have shown his acceptance by a display of his divine presence? If only one pillar had lacked but one inch of the proper breadth, I suppose God would have rejected the entire building. God requires strict obedience to the letter. Yet how prone man is to wish to change it a little. Tell a child to do a thing in a certain way, and he changes it a little, if it gives him more trouble. Tell him to bring six sticks of wood, and ten to one he will bring in five or seven; and a man is but a grown up child.

In these days of Young America, God's commands have been so changed in warp and woof that no resemblance is left, and we are told that if a man is honest and thinks he is obeying the Lord, it will be all right. So thought Uzza, and so thought the priest spoken of in the 13th chapter of 1st Kings.

The holy place was a type of the church, 1 Cor. iii 16, Acts xv: 16. The cherubims were emblems of angels, Heb. i: 14. The most holy place was a type of heaven where our high priest

has entered, Heb. ix: 24. The partition veil represented Christ. When he was pierced the veil was rent from top to bottom, Heb. x: 20. The mercy seat represented mercy covering the broken law. Altar of incense the prayers of the saints, Luke i: 10, Rev. v: 8.

The court inclosed the tabernacle, and was 100 cubits from west to east. The first object of interest you meet is the brazen altar, eight feet and nine inches in length, and the same in breadth and five feet three inches high, with a rim around the top. The Israelite brought his lamb here and delivered it to the priest, who offered it on this altar, as the lamb of God was offered without the camp. The priest then went to the laver, a large brazen vessel filled with water, that stood just east of the door of the tabernacle: he here took off his clothes and bathed his body, and put on his priestly robe, before he was permitted to enter the tabernacle.

As the tabernacle was a type of the church, here was a type of entering the church. The tabernacle being divided into two apartments, the first entered was the holy, which was twenty cubits east and west, and ten cubits north and south, and ten cubits high. The west division was

the most holy and was ten cubits square. The priests were only allowed in the holy which was separated from the most holy by three curtains which excluded the light. Here, the high priest entered but once a year. It was a type of heaven. He entered it not without blood to make atonement for himself and the people. The brazen altar was typical of faith. The laver repesented baptism; the candle-stick the gospel; the shew bread the supper; the altar of incense the prayers. Their position could not be changed. If the laver was put before the brazen altar we would have baptism before faith, or if the altar of incense was put before the laver, you would have prayers before baptism. The laver could not have been placed after the altar of incense, as the door of the tabernacle was too small. The laver that stood in front of the temple was forty-five feet in circumference, fifteen feet broad; the door was not half that wide.

Read Lev. viii: 6: "And Moses brought Aaron and his sons and washed them with water and put on them the priestly robes." Again Ex. xxix: 4 "And Aaron and his sons, thou shalt bring unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and