The national Republican., 1867-11-09
LOCAL DEPARTME ENT.

LAYING OF CHUncn CoRNsn. .sroSr-IS-
TEnEsrisG CERENosIEs Yesterday afternoon
the corners stone Of St. Paul's church, was laid
with imposing ceremonies, on Twsnsy.third
street, south Of the circle. H
There was q very large number Of psrsons In
attendance, including several hundred ladies'.
The ceremonies opened with chant By the
clergy and delegates, numbering somo twenty,
who attended the Episcopal oonvoeation just
adjourned. 20.
The Rev. A. Jaokson, rector Of the church,
Rad the opening service Of the Episcopal church,
s,S was followed BY Rev. John Vauhn Lewis, Of
g. Johns parish, who conducted the exercises
Of laying the stone.
After The stone had been dspositsdin Its place
forvent and appropriate prayer was offered By
tho Rev. Mr.. Howard, Of Maryland, after which
the Rev. Dr. Hall, Of III. Epiphany church, dc.
livered tho following address:
Thirty centuries ago "a certain man went up
from Ramnthaim. Zophim In tho mountain ooun.
try Of Ephraim to Shiloh to bear his offerings to
] the priests Of the Lord. He 10 known 10 us
now only because he was the father Of the last
and tho .nost remarkable Of the prophst judges
Of Israel But we read that his wife Hannah
went to weep At the temple gates after they
4 had offered aud psrtaksn thsmselvss OF the saori.
fee. Tho story says ''now Eli the priest sat
upon q scat by q post Of the temple Of the
Lord" Again, the historian speaks Of how .
few years later the boy Samuel, her son, had
"laid dowa to sleep, and Q voice came to him
zero tho lamp Of God won't out in the temple Of
tho Lord, whore the ark Of God was'' to call
him to his high mission Of prophecy from his
tkoyhood. Once more David the Psalmist Of
Lgrael, and Il was ffty,,ysars later, In q moment
81 high Inspiration, shouts In poetic phrase bis
claim to piOus and patriotic obsdisncs to his
fathers God "Dut as for me will come into
Thy House In the multitude Of Thy mercy, and
In Thy fear will I worship toward Thy holy tenn
ple. :" This temple was the house Of God at
Shiloh, and the word which both the historian
and the royal psalmist used is lofty word
which leaves no doubt In our minds that they
would themselves define II with full hearted
reverence and elevation, which let them moth
ing to ask Of worldly splsndor and oostlinsss.
II satisfied ali their ideal, for then they knew
] that they met the Lord. Isaiah and Daniel
use this same word Haikai whsn they speak Of
the magnificent buildings Of later day.
X And what, We ask, was this haikal-this pal
\ ace.templo Of the Lord How large was II
|, What was its splsndor7 1t was an humble tent
y skins, around which tho Israelites had gathered
Y In their long journey In the wildsrnsss-which
\ shall In tho next reign be taken up and DO borne
Z on mems shoulders up to the rock Of Araunah
tho Tishmite and then Pass out Of existsucs, when
h omon has at last built for the Lord "a house
sor him to dwell in forever" Itwas ''ths tabsr.
d nacle Of Witness" As feet by about 20, whose
y
| by 60-whose towering magnincence was eI'
aited just 20 feet toward he stars Of heavsn--s
little house Of God to the eye Of man. not to b.
mentioned with the proud palsos.tsmples o
Egypt or the Minerva at Persspolis. staround
1t, then, be gathered the grandest and trussi
conceptions Of the motivo-powsrs Of religion and
thought which this world has known. Both II
its conception and Its history, then, may b
found the grandsst ideal OF ali ritual worship
whose glory and boauty-hfst made visible BY
PRECEDENT vision to the solitary Moses. on the
heights Of Sinai, when he was made to see all The
"similitudss Of things in Heaven and com
manded to copy them as he best could In earthly
materials and symbols, asd Afterwards revealed
In q more settled and artistic age 10 the msr
whom God saw at to raise up and educate, tha
bic might work them out In marble and goid io'
perpetual generations. .,,-,,
We may look for q moment at this man Solo.
mon, and the Divine care Of him In his work
the care taken to make him . master-builder
He was crested to build the Temple-a mag
pidcent soul, diyinely moulded, whose minS
graspsd all things in nature, from the cedar o
Lebanon to tho hyssop growing on the wall
whose learning was not In the wisdom OF tn
Egyptians alone, but Of all civilization then OF
fersd no violent passion to dishgure his imagt
nation, and no warning dsods to dehlo his hand
with blood; whose wisdom has left Its record ol
all tho mental energies and practical life Of th
whole world, from that time onward. He Is tn
chief architect Of the Temple. Hiram, king o
tho rich oommsrcial capital Of Tyre who's
wealth was gained from the distant gold fields o
Ophir and the harvests Of Egypt, aud the pro
ductiops Of the isles Of Chittim, far out h
Cadil, on the broad Atlantic, was second and 90
laborer-thus giving to the Gentils world the jus
claim to their part in tho Temple. There va
another man-the third In that work. ma
over whose humble name the scholar often passe
II, .oId n mi
ths son Of widow yet whom the lofty monarc
hesitatss not TO call I" Hiram, my father" an
whose memorial for skill and hdelity 10 csrryin
out the drawing plans and details Of the wor
has been as sacredly preserved In the score
heart. Of mankind and the mysterious orypts {
religious thought, as that Of either Of his CON
panions. We may imagine those three me
standing beneath the ceiling Of the temple (
Mount Moriah. when at last 1t was finished, an
hb courier OF the mighty Prince Of Peace hAv
gone out 20 call in tho tribes, that they ma
ioin iu Its solemn conservation.
Aud as We think Of them again We feel th
strange mlnslips Of the human and the di,ir
ia their contaminated wish. Our imagination
are something chilled down as We MEASURE th
actual feet Of ground which contained the dwell
ing place Of the Omnipotsnt Solomon ha
dared no farther to innoyato on the design
Motss than to double his numbers and substitu
enduring materials for his temporary walls al
ple Of the Lord which fingers In our imagin
tions with divine beauty and glory was only i,
feet In length by 90 In breadth, and Its ro
stood 45 feet above tho tessellAtod pavement,
was about the size Of one Of our parish ohurehe
II would sink into littleuess beside any OF q
cathedrais of Europe; yea, before some Of o'
own continent True, there were ether buiidin
on the haran,, or temple space, and porohss Al
gates, on which the eye could rest with plsasuI
but, Of oourIo, We may not believe that
Nous wisdom Of the three master.builder Of 4
Mas or temple proper would suffer the out
subordinato works to interrupt the view Of I
central edides, or distract the mind Of the We
shipper from the healing influence Of the tr
dwelling Of the Lord Of Hotts. As the Iraeliti
farmer came down the Mount Of Olives with
animals for sacrifice, or the merchant return
by tho same path with his camels, beari
spicery and balm from Labra, and "the sw'
cane from a far country" the ono object
which his eye would rsst with delight, while
breast surged with overwhelming emotions v
to temple proper. His lips opened with praii
st the sight oft, and his words came forth,
10 we'll seen, o God, how Thou goest In
sanctuary the singers go before, the minstr
follow after; in the midst are the damssls
lowing with tho timbrels. Thy God hath 0,
80 for Thaa. .t.hI;sh Nha I'M oa