Cost

of Solomon’s Temple, in those days when "silver was nothing accounted of,” was enormous when estimated in the language of our degenerate days. The talents of gold, silver, and bra used in the construction may be estimated at seren you sand million pounds, the various ve els of gold and silver at one you sand millions, the stone and timber at firo hundred and fifty millions, the food and wages of the 10,000 timber-cutters, 20,000 masons, and 70,000 navvies, for years, one hundred millions, the vestments of the 7 clergy' and choir at tu>o and half millions. The amount simply stupendous.