The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1891-05-05
DR.. TALMAGES TABERNACLE
Opened Sunday..-Cost StOO 900. e =.
count of the stones Brought Prom he
Holy Land

Opened Sunday---Cost etoo 600. c.
count of the stones Brought From the
Holy Land.
On Sunday the new Brooklyn Taber-
nacle was opened for the frs. time. The
New York Herald says il was dedicated
to the Lord aud Tsmage- The services
were very interesting. Rev, DR.. Hamiin.
of Washington, ,, d. c Preached, and III
the afternoon union service was held
participated in by DR.. Deems and Tom
Dixon among others.
DR.. TALMAGE is one of the gre,test OF
living forces. He breaches a glorious
gospel of hope and faith. 1t lifts up age
and gives zest to youth. Lous may he
live
Opening Sermon in New Tabernacle.
At the evening service DR.. Tslmage
preached his first sermon In the
new church. There was again a
congregation which complet- ly filed
the edifce. The title of his
discourse was Sermons in Stones. "
His text Was from Joshua, iv. 10: what
mean We by these stonesl' He told the
story Of the Israelites crossing the tur-
buleut floods of the Jordan while the
surging waters were miraculously held
back, and how they erected monument
stone to commemorate the wonderful
passage. In the course of his remarks
he told the interesting story of the Curl
Gus memorial wall which has been built
into the church at the side of the pulpit
''By permission Of the people of my
IL L., AT Al
visited the Holy Lands. and having in
mind, by day aud by night, during my
absence, this rising house Of prayer,
bethought myself what can do to make
that place significant and gloriousf
''On the morning OF December 3rd We
we're at the foot Of the most sacred
mountain of all the earth-Mount Gal
vary. There is no more doubt of the
locality than of Mount Washington or
Mont Blanc. On the bluff Of this noun
tain, which is the exact shape Of the
human skull, and SO called in the Bible
The place Of the SKULL there is room
for three crosses. There 1 saw q stone
and transported it. 1t is at the top OF
veins running through it, the white
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 sacrifice OF
Mount Calvary. Look at it. That stone
was one of the rocks rent at the cruel
fixion. That heard the cry, 1T is fin
ished.' Was any church on earth hon.
Ored with such a memorial2"
Beneath it are two tables of stone
which had brought from Mount Sinai
| where the law was given. Three camel.
we're three weeks crossing the desert to
fetch them. When at Cairo, Egypt,
proposed to the Christian Arab that be
bring one stone from Mount Sinai. He
said, "We can easier bring two rocks
| than one, for we must balance them or
the back of the camel, and l did no,
think until the day 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 th'
earthquake that shook the mountain
when the law was given.
| "The lower stone of the wall is from
| Mars Hill, the place where Paul stoot
when he preached that famous sermon
on the brotherhood of the human race
declaring. God hath made of one oloO(
all nations Since Lord Elgin took th'
famous statuary from the Acropolis, th
hill adjoining Mars Hill, the Greek gov
ernment makes it impossible to transpor
to any other lands any Grecian antiqui
ties. and armed soldiery guard not onl,
the Acropolis but Mars Hill.
That tone obtained by special permits
sion from the Queen of Greece, a mos
gracious and brilliant woman, who re
ceived us as though we had been old &C
quaintances, and through Mr.. Tricoupis
the Prime Minister of Grece, and Mr.
Snowdep, our American Minister Plenip0
potentiary, and DR.. Manatt, our America
Consul, that suggestive tablet was save
from the pulpit of rock on which Pan
preached.
''Now you understand why we hav
marked it The Gospel Long after m
lips shall utter in this church their las
message these lips of stone will tell c
| the Law, and the sacrifice and the Go
pei, This day I present them to tn
church and to all who shall gaze upo
them. Thus you have my answer to tt
question, "What mean ye by the,
| stOnes"