Connecticut western news., 1891-04-29

! contributed in the building of this structure, What mean ye by these stones2' But before get your answer to my question you interrupt me, and point to the memorial wall at the side of this pulpit, and say, Explain that unusual group of memorials, What mean you by those stones9'' By per mission of the people of my beloved charge I recently visited the Holy Lands, and having in mind by day and night during my absence this rising house of prayer, bethought myself, What can I do to make that place 1 significant and glorious"
 On the morning of December the | 3d we were at the foot of the most sacred mountain of all the earth, Mount Calvary. There is no more doubt of thes1ocality than of Mount Washington or Mont Blanc On the bluff of this mountain, which is the exact shape oi the human skull, and so called in the Bible ''The place of skull, there is room for three crosses. There I saw stone so suggestive rolled it down the hill and transported it. It is at the top l of this wall, a white stone with crim- 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- flee of Mount Calvary. Look at it. That stone was one of the rocks rent at the crucifixion. That heard the cry, Ut is finished" Was ever any church on earth honored with such memo rial?
 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, he said, 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 stone. Those stones marked with the 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 na- tions" 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 Acropclis bat Mars Hill.
 That stone 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 acquaintances, and through MT. Tricoupis, the prime minister of Greece, and MT. Snowden, our American minis ter plenipotentiary, and Dr. 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 '.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- tion, What mean you by these stonesr But you cannot divert me from the question of the text as first put it. I 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 crowbar and chisel, have contributed toward this structure. "What mean ye by these stonesq'
 You mean among other things that ] they shall be an earthly residence for Christ. Christ did not have much of a 1 AOu0 WuOA1 A1O "c1o ACIC. w Ao S14O where is that child crying? It is Jesus, born in an outhouse. Where is that hard breathing? It is Jesus, asleep on a rock. Who is that in the back part of the fishing smack, with a sailors rough overcoat thrown over him2 It is Jesus the worn out voyager. o Je- 1 sus! is it not time that thou, hadst a house2 We give thee this. Thou didst give it to us first, but we give it back l to thee. It is too good for us, but not half good enough for thee. 1 Oh, come in, and take the best seat here. Walk up and down all these aisles. Speak throughthese organ pipes. 1 Throw thine arm over us in these arches. In the flaming of these brack- cts of fire speak to us, saying, II an1 the light of the world" o king make this thine audience chamber. Here proclaim righteousness and make treat ies. We clap our hands. we uncover our heads, we lift our ensigns, we cry with multitudinous exclamation until the place rings and the heavens listen, 70 king! live for ever!'
 1 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 Jesus! not the corpse of buried Christ, but 8 radiant and triumphant Jesus, conqucror of earth and heaven and hell. | He lives, all glory to his name,
 l He lives, my Jesus, still tho sa
 l Oh, the sweet joy this sen. oncc gives l know that my Redeemcr live;
 l Blessed be his glorious name for everl