The Fort Worth gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-189?, 1891-04-30

when he preached that famous sermon on
the brotherhood of the human race, declar-
ing, God hath made of one blood all ma
tons" Since Lord Elgin took-the famous
statuary from Acropolis, the hill adjoining
Mars Hill, the Greek government makes
it impossible TO transport to other lands any
Egyptian antiquities, annarrned s0ldiery
guard not only the AcropoliS but Mars Hill.
That stone I obtained by special permission
from the queen of Greece most gracious
and brilliant woman. who received US as
though we had been old acquaintances, and
through Mr.. Trcoupis the prime minister of
Greece. and Mr.. Snowden, our American
minister 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 message, these lips Of stone will
viii 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
question.
4 WHAT MEAN YOU by THESE sToNEsm
But you cannot divert me from the ques-
ton of the text as / first put it. ! have
interpreted these four memorials on my
right hand, but there are hundreds of stones
( in these surrounding walls and underneath
US. in the foundations. and rising above US
| in the towers. The quarries Of this and
transatlatic countries at the call of crowbar
and chisal have contributed towards this
/ structure, What mean We by these
! stOEeS?n
/ You mean among other things that they
snail be an earthly residence for Christ
! Christ did not have much Of u home when
! he was here. Who and where IS that child
! crying! 1t is Jesus. born in an clubhouse.
Where is that hard breathiuga 1t is Jesus,
asleep on 4 rock. Who is that in the back
! part Of the fishing-smacl with Il sailor's
! rough overcoat thrown over him. 1t IS
/ Jesus the worn out voyager. o Jesus! is it
I not time that thou hddst housel We give
! thee this. Thou didst give it to US first,
/ but We give it back to thee. 1t is too good
Tor US. but not half good enough for thee.
/ Oh! come in and take the best seat here.
{ Walk up and down all these aisieS. Speak
through these organ pipes. Throw thine
. arm over US in these arches. In the flaming
4 OF these brackets Of IRE speak to Us saying:
/ - am the light Of the world" O King!
make this thine audience chamb Der. Here
proclaim Righteousness and make treaties.
We clap our hands, we uncover our heads,
we lift our ensigns, we cry with multitude
nous exclamation until the place rings ana
The heavens listen
20 KING! LIVE FoREvERr'
Is it not time that he who was born in a
Strangers house and buried in a strangers
in 0 Jesus! not the corpse of a buried
Christ but I! radiant and triumphant Jesus,
conquerOr OF earth, and heaven and hell.
He lives, all glory to his name
lie lives, my jesus, still the same;
On 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 ye by these stones!"
the reply IS, we mean the communion OF
Of saints. Do You know that there is not 4
single denomination of Christians in Brook
lyn hat has not contributed something to-
ward the building of thS house! And if
/ ever, standing in this place, there shall be
man who shall try by anything he says, to
: stir up bitterness between different Genom-
/ nations of Christians, may his tongue
/ falter and his cheek bianch, and his heart
| stop! My friends, if there is any church
| ON earth where there is q mngiing of all
/ denominations, it is our church. just
wish that John Calvin and ArTnlnus, if they
| were not too busy, would come out on the
! bI,jlcmcntS and see us. Sometimes in our
/ prayer meetings have heard brethren use
| the pharseS OF beautiful liturgy, and we
| know where they came from; and in the
same PRAYER meetings have heard brethren
| make audible ejaculation, "Amen!" Praise
| We the Lord" and we did not have to guess
| twice where they came from. When man
| knocks at OR church DOOR, if he comes
! from i sect where they viii not give him &
| certificate we say:
| CONE N BY Confession OF FAITH"
| While Adouiram .Iudson, the Baptist,
and John Wesley, the Methodist and John
| Knox. the glorious old Scotch Pres byterian,
| are sinking hands i'll heaven, all churches
on earth can afford to come into close COM
| muuication: "One Lord, one faith, one bap-
| tism." Oh my brethen-we have had
/ enough of Big Bethel fghts-the 18th
! Nov Nppl- riTs1faT OH
/ massachusetts regiment. Now let all those
| who are for Christ and stand on the same
| side, 20 shoulder 10 shoulder, and this
| church instead OF having 2 sprinkling 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. 1 saw Il little child once,
| in its dying hour, put one arm around its
! fathers neck, and the other arm around its
! mothers neck, and bring them close down
! to lis dying lips, and give last kiss. Oh,
| ] said, those two persons will stand very
| near 10 each other always after such an in
| terlockins. The dying Christ puts one arm
| around this denomination of Christians,
! and the other arm around that denomina-
! ton of Christians, and he brings them down
! 10 his dying lips, while he gives them this
! parting kiss: My peace leave with you.
| My peace | give unto you"
| How swift the heavenly course they run,
Whose hearts and faith and hopes are one.
| heard a Baptist minister once say that he
| he thought il the millennium it would be all
one great Baptist church ;iGd heard Il Meth
| odist minister say that he thought in the
| great millennial day it would be all one
| great Methodist church: and | have known
| a Presbyterian minister who thought that
| in the mil!ennial day it would he all one
| great Presbyterian church. Now, think
| they are ali mistaken. | think the millen-
NAL church will be a composite church; and
| just as you may take the best part OF five or
| SIX tunes, and under the skillful hands of
| Handel. Mozart or Beethoven, entwiue them
! into one grand and ovcrpowering symphony,
! So | suppose, in the latter days of the
world, God viii take the best parts of all
| denominations of Christians, and weave
| them into one grand ecclesiastical harmony,
| broad as the earth and high as the heavens,
| and that viii be the church of the future.
| Or as moasic IS made up jasper and agate
| and many precious stones cemented together
mosaic u thousand feet square in ST.
| Marks, or mosaic hoisted in colossal Sera-
| phim in St. Sophia-so | suppose God will
| make, after awhile, one great blending of
| all crceds, and all faiths, and all Christian
| sentiments, the amethyst, and the jasper,
and the Chalcedony of all different expert
| euces and belief, cemented side by side in
| the great mosaic of the ages; and while the
nations look upon the columns and archi-