...perfect were the preparations, that it is expressly stated, " And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready before it was brought...any tool of iron, heard in the house while it was in building." In like manner there are, in the present day, thousands of hands, heathens and Christians,...

...description of Solomon's Temple, it is stated, that • the house when it was building was built of stoue made ready before it was brought thither, so that...nor axe, nor any tool of IRON, heard in the House of God while it was in building." ( 1 Kings vi. 7.) Now the examples of temples from which my notices...

...navigate Solomon's vessels to Ophir; and such skillful artisans to prepare the materials for the temple, that there was neither hammer, nor axe, nor any tool...of iron heard in the house while it was building. There were three thousand and three hundred overseers, and 150,000 workmen engaged on this work. The...

...building on, gradually, constantly ; but yet, all this time, si/ently. Turn again to the Jewish temple. " There was neither hammer, nor axe, nor any tool of iron, heard in the house while it was in building." This silence has something in it deeply mysterious. It could not have happened from mere...

...though everything was maule ready ere it came to the spot, so that, in the language of Holy Writ, " there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building." 1 Kings vi. 7. The site on which the temple was built was Mount Moriah, " where the Lord...

...great Temple rose in all its original splendor and magnificence, growing silently as a tree grows, for there was " neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building." But it is the destiny of man to move forward, leaving old things behind and inventing...

...temple. 7 And the house, when it was in building, was built of stones hewed and made ready ; so (lint there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house when it was in building. S The door for the middle side was on the right hand of the house : and by...

...and quiet : or, like the temple of old, for edification sake, there should be " neither hammer nor ax nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was building 6." It has been well observed, that 7 " it is of more importance to every man, that his mind should...

...decoration of the Temple is not known to us. You will remember, Charley, that in 1 Kings vi. 7, we are told that the house " was built of stone made ready before...any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building." Charley. — Oh yes, mamma, I know some verses about that : — "From coasts the stately...

...so perfect were the preparations that it is expressly stated, And the house when it was in building, was built of stone made ready before it was brought...of iron, heard in the house while it was building." ' In like manner there are, in the present day, thousands of hands, heathens and christians, believers...