The way to the kingdom of heaven and what to do to be saved in it . e Way to the Kingdom of Heaven. 85 Jesus here teaches that spirit birth is a reality, justas real i:s natural birth; but it comes as a free gift,it comes as the wind comes. We see evidences of thepassing wind: it fans our cheek in the gentle zephyr;it sighs in the pines; it rattles the panes and roarsin the storm; and yet we do not see it. But no mandoubts that the wind blows. So it is with the spiritbirth. We do not see it; but we see the evidencesof it. In physical birth we see that there is phys-ical life—the child physical
The way to the kingdom of heaven and what to do to be saved in it . e Way to the Kingdom of Heaven. 85 Jesus here teaches that spirit birth is a reality, justas real i:s natural birth; but it comes as a free gift,it comes as the wind comes. We see evidences of thepassing wind: it fans our cheek in the gentle zephyr;it sighs in the pines; it rattles the panes and roarsin the storm; and yet we do not see it. But no mandoubts that the wind blows. So it is with the spiritbirth. We do not see it; but we see the evidencesof it. In physical birth we see that there is phys-ical life—the child physically lives. In spiritual lifewe see that the man spiritually lives. As anotherexpresses it, he loves and hopes and aspires and feelsthe vital reality of the unseen eternal verities. This new birth, this being born again or anew, isbringing again spirit life into the lost soul. The newbirth takes place in the baptism of the Holy Spiritalready so fully explained. One thus born anew isready for the realization of spirit life with God inthe temple of the Holy RAPHAEL. (86) XIIT. THE GEE AT TEMPLES OF THE EARTH, ANDTHE TEMPLE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. Solomon erected under the divine guidance a mag-nificent temi)le at Jerusalem; but the glory of it,though far-famed among the nations, is not com-parable to the temple of the Holy Spirit, whichGod not only plans but builds. Hiram and hisworkmen were mighty craftsmen, but God displayedmore skill in planning the human eye, the windowof his temple, than all the plans their trestle boardcontained. Raphael was a great master among thepainters of earth, but the beautiful colorings in hispencilings were mere imitations of the tints Godhas placed in the flowers. Michael Angelo was amaster among the sculptors; but the ideal imageshis deft hands traced in the fair marble of his beau-tiful land were but the feeble awakening of powersthat man possesses only because of his relationshipto God. is great only as he is inspired fromabove or bor
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