Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1891-05-02

rial wall at the side OF this pulpit, and
saw 10 me, "Explain that unusual group
of memorials. What mean you by these
stones?" BY permission OF the people
OF my beloved chnrge recently visited
the Holy lands, and having In mind by
day and night during my absence TINS
rising house OF prayer, +! bethought
myself, "What can do TO make
that place significant and glorious"
On the morning OF December We
were ut the foot Of the most sacred
mountain OF all the earth, Mount Cal
very. There is no more doubt OF the
locality than OF Mount Washington or
Mount Blanc. On the bluff OF this
mountain which Is the exact shape oil
the human skull, and so called in the
Bible, 1.-The place OF skull, there is
room for three crosses. There | saw a
stone so suggestive rolled 1t down the
hill and transported it. 1t is at the top
OF this wall. white stone, with crimson
veins running through 1t, the white
typical of purity, the crimson sugges.
tive of the blood that paid the price OF
our redemption. We place 1t 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 Calvery. Look ut 1t. That
stone was one OF the rocks rent at the
crucifxion. That heard the cry, 1T Is
finished" Was any church on earth
honored with such q memoriaG
Well, the Brooklyn tabernacle is
erected again. We came here tonight
not to dedicate it. That was done this
morning. Tonight we dedicate our
selves. In the Episcopal and Methodist
churches they have railing around the
altar and the people come and kneel
down at that railing aud get the sacra-
mental blessing. Well, my friends, 1t
would take more than night to gather
YOU in circles around this altar. Then
lust bow where you are for the blessing.
AGED men. this is the last church that
YOU will ever dedicate.
Nav the God who comforted Jacob
the patriarch, and Paul the aged, make
this house to you the gate OF heaven;
and when, in your old days, you put on
your spectacles to read the hymn or.the
Scripture lesson. may you get prepara-
ton for that land where you shall see no
more through glass darkly. May the
warm sunshine OF heaven thaw the snow
oil your foreheads. Men in the mid
| life. do YOU know that this is the place
where you are going to get your fatigues
rested. and your SORROWS appeased, and
YOUR souls saved? Do you know that at
this altar your sons and daughters will
take upon themselves the VOWS of
the Christian. and from this
place you will carry out, some of
you. your precious dead? Between
this baptismal font and this communion
table you will have some OF the tender
est OF life's experiences. God bless you.
old. and young, and middle aged. The
money you have given TO this church
to-day will be, hope, the best financial
investment YOU have ever made. Your
worldly investments may depend upon
the whims of the money market. or the
honesty Of business associates: but the
money you have given to the house OF
the Lord shall yielG you large percent
age, and declare eternal dividends long
after the MONDAY sun shall have gone
out like u spark from smitten anvil
and ali the stars are dead.
Beneath il are two tables OF stone
which | had brought from Mount Sinai
where the law Eas given. Three cam
els were three weeks crossing the des-
ert to fetch them. When at Cairo,
Egypt, proposed to the Christian Arab
that he bring one stone from Mount
Sinai, he said, 1--WE can easier bring two
rocks than one for we must balance
them on the back OF the camel" and l
did not think until the day of their ar
rival 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 earthquake that shook the
mountains where the law was given.
The lower stone OF the wall is from
Mars hill, tho place where Paul stood
when he preached that famous sermon
on the brotherhood of the human race,
declaring, God hath made of one blood
all nations" Since Lord Elgin took
the famous statuary from the Acropolis,
the hill adjoining Mars hill, the Greek
government makes it impos,ibleto trans
port to other lands any Egyptian an
tiquities, 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 acquain .ances, and through Mr..
Tricoupis, the prime minister of Greece
and Mr.. Snowden, our American minis
-" - ."n' ."v. and DIR. Manatt,
CIR I4ule.. 1850 c1l.sul, that suggestive
tablet was sawed from the pulpit OF rock
on which Paul preached. Now you I'M
derstand why we have marked it 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!'
have interpreted these four memoir
ials on my right hand, but there are
hundreds Of stones in these surrounding
,,o1lo and underneath nc in tho fO1n1o-