The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-05-07
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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 skull, there is
room for three crosses, There | saw a
stone so suggestive / rollal it down the
Aill and transported it, 1t is at the top
Of this wall, 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 crucfixion. That heard the cry,
at is finished" Was ever any church
on earth honored with such memo
riall
MOUNT SINAI AND MARS HILL.
Beneath it are two tables of stone
which l 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, I'VE can easier
bring two rocks than one, for one must
balance them on the back of the
camel" and | 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,
Good hath made of one blood all ma
tons" Since Lord Elgin took the
famous statuary from the Acropolis,
the bill 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 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 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
ton, what mean you by these stonesW
But you caunot 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-
tons, 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 We by these
stonesW
You mean among other things that
they shall be an earthly residence for
Christ. Christ did not have much of
home when he was here. Who and
where is that child crying2 1t is Jesus,
born in AN clubhouse Where is that
hard breathing? 1t is Jesus, asleep on
a rock Who is that in the back part
of the fishing smack, with sailors
rough overcoat thrown over him9 1t
is Jesus the worn out voyager. Je-
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
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 brack-
cts of fire speak to us, saying, II am the
light of the world" o king make
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 averp'
THE TEMPLE OF A LIVING LORD.
Is it not time that lie who was born
in strangers house and buried in a
strangers grave should have an earthly
house? Come, In o Jesus! not the
corpse of 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 ever
Again, if any one asks the question OF
the text, What mean We by these
stones2 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 moi
contributed something toward the build
ing of this house2 And if ever, standing
in this place, there shall be mar
who shall try by anything he says tc
stir up bitterness between different de
nominations of Christians, may his
tongue falter and his cheek blanct
and his heart stop! My friends, il
there is any church on earth where
there is a mingling of all denomina
tons it is our church. just wish tho1
John Calvin and ArIninius, if they
were not too busy, would come out OF
the battlements and see us.
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