*' Marion Harvie, a young woman, not twenty years of age, on her way to the place of execution, was interrupted hi her devotions : on which she turned to her fellow-prisoner, Isabel Alison, and said, ' Come, Isabel, let us sing the 23d Psalm j' which accordingly they did, Marion repeating the psalm line by line without book. Being come to the scaffold, after singing the 84th Psalm, and reading the 3d of Malachi, she said, ' I am come here to-day for avowing Christ to be the head of his church, and King in Zion. They say I would murder; but I declare, I am free of all matters of fact ; I could never take the life of a chicken but my heart shrinked. But it is only for my judgment of things that I am brought here. I leave my blood on the council and the Duke of York.' At this the soldiers interrupted, and would not allow her to speak any."— Cloud of Witnesses.
"Heaven is my throne...Isaiah 63"
GOD'S REJECTION OF ALL MATERIAL TEMPLES. There was a time when it could be said that there was a house of God on earth. That was a time of symbols, when as yet the Church of God was in her childhood. She was being taught her A B C, reading her picture-book, for she could not as yet read the Word of God, as it were in letters. She had need to have pictures put before her, patterns of the heavenly things. Even then, the enlightened amongst the Jews knew well that God did not dwell between curtains, and that it was not possible that He could be encompassed in the most holy place within the veil It was only a symbol of His presence. But the time of symbols is now passed altogether. In that moment when the Saviour bowed His head, and said "It is finished! " the veil of the temple was rent in twain, so that the mysteries were laid open. So, one reason why God saith He dwelleth not in temples made with hands, is, because He would have us know that the symbolical worship is ended...
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