The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1891-04-30

AAB1& 10 tTOuDO ABOUT THIS greaI
.hos.ss. erected by your prayers and
sympathies and sacrifices. and cry out
In the words of my text. What mean
ye by these stonesf'
1t Is an outrage to build a house like
this, 30 vast and so magnificent, unless
-here be some tremendous reasons for
doing it; and SO, my friends, / pursue
you tonight with the question of my
text, and l demand of these trustees
Ind OF these elders and OF all who have
contributed in the building of this
structure, ''What mean we by these
sonesf" But before get your answer
10 my question you interrupt me, and
point to the memorial wall at the side
If this pulpit, and say, Explain that
Unusual group of memorials. What
mean you by those stones2 By per
saission of the people of my beloved
charge / recently visited the Holy
Lands, and having in mind by day and
night during my absence this rising
house of prayer, I bethought myself,
what can do to make that place
significant and glorious.
On the morning of December the
Sd We were at the foot of the most
sacred mountain of all the earth, Mount
Calvary. There is no more doubt of
the locality than of Mount Washington
or Mont Blanc On the bluff of this
mountain, which is the exact shape OF
the human skull, and so called in the
Bible '"The place of a SKULL" there is
room for three crosses. There / saw a
stone SO suggestive rolled it down the
hill and transported it. 1t is at the top
of this wall, a white stone with Grim
son veins running through 1.-THE white
typical of purity, the crimson sugges-
tive of the blood that paid the price of
our redemption. We place it at the
top Of the memorial wall, for above all
in this church for all time, in sermon
and song and prayer, shall be the sacri-
fee of Mount Calvary. Look at it.
That stone was one of the rocks rent at
the crucifixion. That heard the cry,
at is finished" Was ever any church
on earth honored with such a memo
rial2
MOUNT SINAI AND MARS HILL.
Beneath it are two tables of stone
which I 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, Ee said, 1--WE can easier
bring two rocks than one, for one must
balance them on the back of the
camel" and l did not think until the
day of their arrival how much more
suggestive would be the two, because
the law was written on two tables OF
Iuoso os-Ia.ro sAic-s nSL ~iOu Tic
words Mount Sinai' felt the earth
quake 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
tions" Since Lord Elgin took the
famous statuary from the Acropolis
the hill adjoining Mars Hill, the Greek
government makes it impossible te
transport to other lands any antiquities
and armed soldiery guard not only tht
Acropolis but Mars Hill
That stone obtained by special per
mission from the Queen of Greece, {
most gracious and brilliant woman
who received us as though we had beer
old acquaintances, and through Mr.
Tricoupis, the prime minister of Greece
and Mr. Snowden, our American minis
ter plenipotentiary, and DR.. Manatt
our American consul, that suggestive
tablet was sawed from the pulpit O
rock on which Paul preached. Nov
you understand why we have marke'
it 1.-THE Gospel" Long after my lip
shall utter In this church their last mes
sage, these lips of stone will tell of tn
law and the sacrifice and the gospel
This day present them to this churcl
and to all who shall gaze upon them
Thus you have my answer to the ques
ton, What mean you by these stones?
But you cannot divert me from th
question of the text as first put it.
! lave interpreted these four memorial
ca my right hand, but there are hur
dreds of stones in these surroundin
walls and underneath us, in the founds
tions, and rising above us, in th
towers. The quarries of this and tran'
atlantic countries, at the call of crowba
and chisel, have contributed toward tn
structure. What mean ye by thes
stonesl'
You mean among other things tha
they shall be an earthly residence IL
Christ. Christ did not have much of
home when he was here. Who an
where is that child cryingl 1t is Jesu
born in an clubhouse Where is thu
hard breathing3 1t is Jesus, asleep o
u rock Who is that in the back pa
of the fishing smack, with sailor
rough overcoat thrown over hfm2
is Jesus the worn out voyage 0 j.
sus! is it not time that thou hadst
house2 We give thee this. Thou did
give it to US first, but we give it bae
to thee. 1t is too good for US, but NJ
half good enough for thee.
oh, come in. and take the best SCI
here Walk up and down all thes
aisles. Speak throughthese organ pipe
Throw thine arm over US in the
| arches In the flaming of these bracl
cts of fire speak to Us, saying, II am Il
light of the world" Q king ! mai
this thine audience chamber. He
proclaim Righteousness and make trea
les. We clap our hands, We uncev'
our heads, we lift our ensigns, we c1
with muititudinous aeelamation uni
the place rings and the heavens listel
20 king! live for ever!"
THE TKMPLE OF A LIVING LORD.
Is it not time that he who xas hol
In strangers house and buried in
|, strangers grave should have an earth