ABSTRACT
Several text is to be found in the lesson from the Pentateuch appointed to be read on this Sabbath. It speaks of a band of “wise-hearted” men who, at the command of Moses, are to make the priestly garments “for glory and for beauty.” For Art both ennobles and consoles; it reveals to its elect the divine secret, and divinely shields them from many an evil. Secular though it is, it is holy, and he whom it inspires has the Spirit. People are apt to regard the Hebrew Scriptures as a religious monument only. Deriving its chief value and significance from its divine story, its sublime patterns of human conduct, the Bible is yet full of absorbing interest as a revelation of the mind, as distinct from the soul, of the people who gave it to the world.
