News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-04-30


on earth honored with such memo
rial?
| MOUNT SINAI AND MARS HILL.
Beneath it are two tables of stone
which | had brought from Mount
Sinai, where the law was given. Three
| camels were three weeks crossing the
desert to fetch them. When at Cairo,
Egypt, | proposed to the Christian
Arab that he bring one stone from
| Mount Sinai, he said, 1--WE can easier
| bring two rocks than one, for one must
| balance them on the back of the
camel" and | did not think until the
| dav of their arrival how much more
| suggestive would be the two, because
| the law was written on two tables OF
| stone. Those stones marked with the
words Mount Sinai'' felt the earth
| uuake that shook the mountains when
| the law was given. The lower stone of
| the wall is from Mars Hill, the place
| where Paul stood when he preached
| that famous sermon on the brother
| hood of the human race, declaring,
| "God hath made of one blood all ma
tons" Since Lord Elgin took the
| famous statuary from the Acropolis,
the hill adjoining Mars Hill, the Greek
| government makes it impossible to
transport to other lands any antiquities,
and armed soldiery guard not only the
Acropolis but Mars Hill
That stone l obtained by special per-
| mission from the Queen of Greece, a
most gracious and brilliant woman,
who received us as though we had been
old acquaintance, and through Mr..
Tricoupis, the prime minister of Greece,
and Mr.. Snowden, our American minis
ter plenipotentiary and DIR. Manatt,
our American consul, that suggestive
tablet was sawed from the pulpit OF
rock on which Paul preached. Now
you understand why we have marked
| it 1.-THE Gospel" Long after my lips
shall utter in this church their last mes
sage, these lips of stone will tell of the
law and the sacrifice and the gospel.
This day present them to this church
and to all who shall gaze upon them.
Thus you have my answer to the ques-
ton, ''What mean you by these stonesp
But you cannot divert me from the
question of the text as | first put it.
have interpreted these four memorials
on my right hand, but there are hun
dreds of stones in these surrounding
walls and underneath US, in the founda-
tions, and rising above us, in the
towers. The quarries of this and trans
atlantic countries, at the call of crowbal
and chisel have contributed toward this
structure What mean ye by these
| stones?"
You mean among other things that
they shall be an earthly residence fol-
Christ Christ did not have much of q
| home when he was here. Who and
where is that child crying? 1t is Jesus,
born in an clubhouse. Where is that
hard breathing? 1t is Jesus, asleep on
q rock Who is that in the back part
| of the fishing smack, with q sailors
rough overcoat thrown over him2 1t
is Jesus the worn out voyager. o Je-
susl is it not time that thou hadst a
house? We give thee this. Thou didst
give it to us first, but we give it back
to thee. 1t is too good for us, but not
half good enough for thee.
Oh, come in, and take the best seat
here. Walk up and down all these
aisles. Speak throughthese organ pipes.
| Throw thine arm over us in these
arches. In the flaming of these bracl-
cts of fire speak to US, saying, Il am the
! ioht of the world" q KING mako
this thine audience chamber. Here
proclaim righteousness and make treat
les. We clap our hands, we uncover
our heads, we lift our ensigns, we cry
with multitudinous reclamation until
the place rings and the heavens listen,
30 king! live for ever!"
THE TEMPLE OF A LIVING LORD.
Is it not time that he who was born
In a strangers house and buried in a
strangers grave should have an earthly
house? Come, in o Jesusi not the
corpse OF a buried Christ, but a radiant
and triumphant Jesus, conqueror of
earth and heaven and hell
He lives, all glory to his name,
He lives, my Jesus, still the same.
Oh, the sweet joy this sentence gives
know that my Redeemer lives.
Blessed be his glorious name for everi
Again, if any one asks the question of
the text, What mean We by these
stones?" the reply is, we mean the com
munion of saints. Do you know that
there is not single denomination of
Christians in Brooklyn that has not
contributed something toward the build
ing of this house? And if ever, standing
in this place, there shall be a man
who shall try by anything he says to
stir up bitterness between different de-
nominations of Christians, may his
tongue falter and his cheek blanch
and his heart stopi My friends, if
there is any church on earth where
there is mingling of all denomina-
tons it is our church. just wish that
John Calvin and Arminius, if they
were not too busy, would come out on
the battlements and see us.
Sometimes in our prayer meetings |
have heard brethren use the phrases of
beautiful liturgy, and we know where
they came from; and in the same pray
er meetings [ have heard brethren
make audible ejaculation, "Amenp
Praise we the Lordl" and we did not
have to guess twice where they came
from. When man knocks at our
church door, if he comes from a sect
where they will not give him certifi-
cate, we say, Come in by confession
of faith" While Adoniram Judson
the Baptist, and john Wesley the
Methodist, and John Knox the glo-
rious old Scotch Presbyterian, are shak-
ing hands in heaven, all churches on
earth can afford to come into close
communication, zone Lord, one faith,
one baptism"
Oh, my brethren, we have had
enough of Big Bethel fights-the Four
tenth New York regiment fighting
the Fifteenth Massachusetts regiment.
Now let all those who are for Christ
and stand on the same side get shout
der to shoulder, and this church. in
stead of having a sprinlxling of the
divine blessing, go clear under the
wave in one glorious immersion in the
name of the Father, and of the Son,
and of the Holy Ghost.
| saw a little child once in its diving
hour put one arm around its fathers
neck and the other arm around its
mothers neck, and bring them close
down otis dying lips and give last kiss.
Oh, said, those two persons will stand
very near to each other always after
such an interlocking. The dying Christ
puts one arm around this denomination
of Christians, and the other arm around