The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1891-05-05

think until the day of their arrival how
much more suggestive would be the two
because the law was written on two Ia.
bles of stone Those stones marked
with the words "SEouut Sinai,o felt the
earthquake that shook the mountains
when the Law was given. The lower
stone of the wall is fro i, Mars Hill, the
place where Paul stood when he preach
ed that famous sermon on the brother
hood OF the human race, declaring, tsGod
hath made Of one blood all nations
Since Lord Elgin took the famous stat
uary from the Acropolls, the hill adjoin-
Ing Mars Hill, the Greek government
makes 1T impossible to transport to other
lands any Egyptian antiquities, and armed
soldlery guard not only the Acrop Ills
but Mars Hill. That stone 1 obtained
by special permission from the Queen of
Greece, q mos. 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
minister plenipotentiary, and DIR. Ma
matt, our American consul, that sugges-
tive tablet was sawed from the pulpit of
rock on which Paul preached. Now you
understand why we have marked IL
"The Gospel" Long after my lips shall
utter IN this church their last message,
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 question,
"What mean you by these stones?"
But you must not divert me from the
question of the text as I first put it.. L
have interpreted these four memorials
on my right hand but there are hum
dreds of stones in these surrounding
walls and underneath us, in the founda-
tions, and rising above US IN the towers.
The auarries OF this and transatlantic
countries at the call of crowbar and
cnlsel have contributed toward this
structure. "Nhat mean We by these
stOnes?"
You mean among other things that
they shall be an earthly residence for
Christ. Christ did not have much of a
home when He was. here. Who and
where is that child crying? 1t is Jesus,
born in ali clubhouse. Where is that
hard breathing? 1t is Jesus, asleep on a
rock. Who is that in the back part OF
the tlshing-smack, with q sailors rough
over.coat thrown over him? 1t is Jesus
the WORKOUT voYager. o Jesue! Is it
not time that thou hadst a house? We
give Thee this. Thou didst give it to us
first, but we give it back to Thee. 1t is
too good forus, but not half ~goodenough
for Thee. Oh! come in and take the best
seat here. Walk up and down all these
aisles. Speak through these organ pipes.
Throw Thine arm over us in these ar
ches. La the flaming of these brackets
OF lire speak TO us saying. 81 am the
light of the world" o King! make this
Thine audience-chamber. Here pro-
claim righteousness and make treaties.
We clap our hands. we uncover our
he DIS, we lit II enslgns, we cry with
multitudInous reclamation uutil the place
rings and the heavens listen: so King!
live for ever!"
Is it not time that he who was born in
q Strangers house and buried in a stran-
gers grave should have an earthly
house? Come in, o Jesus! not the corpse
OF q buried Christ, but a radiant an |
triumphant Jesus, conQueror OF earth,
and heaven and hell.
lilo lives, all glory to his name,
Ho lives, my Jesus, still the same.
On, the sweet joy this sentence gives
know that my Redeemer lives.
Blessed be His glorious name forever!
Again, If any one asks the question OF
the text: "What mean We by these
stones?" the reply is, we mean the COM
munion OF saints. Do you know that
there IS not II denomination OF Christians
in Brooklyn that has not contributed
something toward the building of this
house? And IT ever, standing in this
place, there shall be a man who shall
try by anything he says, 10 stir up bitter
ness between different denominations of
Christians, may his tongue falter and his
cheek blanch, and his heart stop! NY
friends, if there Is any church on earth
where there is a mingling Of all denomi-
nations, it is our church.
LUST wish that John Calvin and Ar
minus, II they were not too busy, would
come out on the b~attlements and see us,
Sometimes III our prayer meetings L have
heard the brethren use the phrases OF a
beautiful liturgy and we know where
they came from; and in the same PRAYER
meetings L have heard brethren make
audible ejaculation, ''Amen!" PRAISE
We the Lord!" ard we did not have to
guess twice where they came from.
When a man knocks at our church door,
If no comes from a sect where thew will
not give him a certificate we say:
Come in by confession of faith"
While Adcniram Judson, the Baptist
and John Wesley, the Methodist, and
John Knox, the glorious old Scotch Pres
byterlan. are shaking hands in heaven,
all churches on earth can afford to come
into close communication: Zone Lord,
one faith, n baptism" Ohmy breth-
ren-we have had enough of Big Bethel
llghts-the Fourteenth New York regi-
ment fighting the Fifteenth Massachu.
sets regiment. Now let all those who
are for Christ, and stand on the same
side, go shoulder to shoulder, and this
church, instead OF having a sprinkling of
the Divine blessing, go clean under the
wave In ono glorious immersion in the
name OF the Father, and of the Son, and
OF the Holy Ghost. L saw a little child
once. in It's dying hour, put one arm
around It's fathers neck, and the other
arm around its mothers neck, and bring
them close down to its dying lips and
give q last kiss. Oh, L said those two
persons will stand very near to each
other always after such an i%nterlocking.
The dying Christ puts one arm around
this denomination of christians, and the
other arm around that denomination of
Christians, and he brings them down to
his dying lips, while he gives them this
part, g kiss: "My peace L leave with
you. My peace l give unto you"