St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-10-22
PERTAINING TO MONUMENTS.
Not Necessary That They Should
Be Made of Stone.

By mistake Mr.. Lhamon's sermon of
week ago was attributed to Rev.
Charles F. Thwing. Below is synop-
sis of Mr.. lannon's yesterday morn
ing sermon, delivered at the Church of
Christ.
monumental Institutions" was his
subject. He said, monuments are of
two sorts, living and dead. The latter
are built in stone. and decay with time.
The former are built in human history.
become part of the fabric of life, and
can only die when the race of man dies.
Customs are more permanent than
bronze or stone. What takes hold OH
the life of nations, lives ambiguous with
the national growth.
There is an argument in monuments
whether written in stone or in history,
OF in the habits and the affections of
nations. Who can doubt the fact of
the American Declaration of lndepend-
ence so long as the Fourth of July is
kept as national holiday? Effects
have their causes. Nations do
not go out unanimously to the cele-
bration of something that never was.
Customs also have their causes. Cele-
brations are not inventions. The jew
ish passover is grand monument, tell
ing the present-day student of strange
facts far back in the infancy of history,
of the PharaOhS and their slaves, of the
divine deiverance, of the death of
Egypt's first-born and the passage of
the Red Sea.
So have Christian monuments that
have become part of our church fabric
and are buiIded into the lives of myriads
of the faithful followers of Christ.
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its original form it is monument show
ing forth in its every repetition the
death of Christ and His resurrection.
1t is itself an actual burial in water as
| in a grave, and a resurrection therefrom
as to new life. Thus where baptism
has not, by the substitution of others
| than the original mode, lost its primary
| significance, it continues in simple
| and beautiful way to preach to the
world the cardinal facts of Christ's life,
and to repeat the story and to confirm
| the hope of the redemption of
man. So with the Christian Sun
| day or Lords day. 1t is monument
| of great new creation and stands for
the resurrection of Christ, for the Or
ganizatiOn of the church on the day of
| Pentecost, which was first day, and
| for Christian work and worship rather
4 Iildll lOI lllc CdDDdUlC lou VI y uudESll.
The people who insist On the Jewish
Sabbath ignore Christian His Lordship
so far as that part of their religion goes.
If we were all Jews, and if Christ had
never lived then the seventh day Sab
bath would be in order. On the other
hand. by our worship on the first day of
the week we do ''show forth the Lords
resurrection till he comes"
The communion, or Lords supper is
the third of Christian monuments built
within the heart of the Christian world.
''Do this, said Jesus, in remembrance
of me-" Those who are sincerely Chris
tians should be glad of the privilege by
every communion service of drawing
near to God while saying to all who will
see and hear, 81 believe that Christ died
| for me; that in His death there is shown
love mightier than death; that in Civ
ing His life He died for those who else
had died; and that in His resurrection
| there is the worlds hope"
Such monuments live from age to
age; through them Christ still speaks,
| and man still hears and hopes.