The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-04-27

Beneath it are two tables Of stone which
had brought from Mount Sinai, where thu
Law was given. Three camels we're three
weeks crossing the desert to fetch them
When at Cairo. Egypt, proposed 70 the
Christian Arab that he bring one stone
from Mount Sinai, be said, I'VE can easier
bring two rocks than one, for we must
balance them on the back IF the camel,
and did not think until tie 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 fe.t the
earthquake that shook the mountains when
the Law was given. The lower atone Of
the wall is from Mars Hill, the place ~hs-e
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 Ell
gin took the famous statuary from the
Acropolis, the bill adjoining Mars Hill. the
Greek government makes it impossible TO
transport TO other lands any Egyptian
antiquities, and armed soldiery guard not
only the Acropolis but Mars Hill That
stone obtained by special permission from
theQueen Of Greece, most gracious and
brilliant woman, who received Us as
though we had been old acquaintance,
and through Mr.. Tricoupis. the Prime
Minister of Greece, sand MIR. Snowden,
our American minister penipotentiary,
and DR.. Manstt, our American consul, that
suggestive tablet was sawed from the pull
pit of rock on which Paul preached. Now,
you understand why Wa 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, sud
the Sacrifice and the Gospel. This dayLI
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 stoues?'
But you must not divert me from the
question of the text as I 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
transatlantic countries at the call Of crow
bar and chisel have contributed toward
this structure. What mean We by these
stCnesF
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
cryingl 1t is Jesus, born in an Clubhouse.
Where is that hard breathing. Ii is Jesus,
asleep on rock Who is that in the bsck
part of the fishing-smack, with a sailors
rough over coat thrown over himi 1t Is
Jesus, the WORKOUT voyager. o Jesus Is Il
not time that thou hadst housed We give
we give it back to thee. Ii is too good f9r
us but not half good enough for
thee. o. 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
arches. In the flaming of these brackets of
fire speak 10 us sa ying: 81 am the light of
the Grid" o king make this thine audi
ence chamber. Here proclaim righteous
ness and make treaties Weclap our hands,
we uncover our heads, we lift our ensigus,
we cry with multltudinous reclamation
until the place rings and the heavens listen:
80 King! live foreverm
Is it not time at he who was born in a
strangers house and buried in a strangers
grave should have an earthly house? Come
In 0 Jesus not the corpse Of buried Christ,
but radiant and triumphant Jesus, con-
Queror Of earth, and heaven, and hell.
He lives, all glory to his name,
He lives. my Jesus still the same;
o, 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 means ye by these stonesP'
the reply Is, we mean the communion of
saints. Do you know that there is not
single denomination of Christians III Brook
Ign that has not contributed something
toward the building of this 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
denominations of CHRISTIANS, may his
tongue falter and his cheek blauch, aud
his heart stJpl lily friends, if there is any
church o. earth where there is ming
ling OF all denominations, 1t is our church.
just wish that John Calvin and Armiuius,
If they were not too busy would come out
on the battlemeuts and see u.s. Sometimes
in our prayer meetings l have heard
brethren use the phrases of beautiful
liturgy, and we know where they came
from; and In the same prayer meetings |
have heard brethren make audible eiacula-
tons: Amen" Praise ye the Lcrd!" and
we did not have to guess twice where they
came from. When man knocks at our
church door, If he comes from a sect where
they will not give him a certificate we
say: Come in by confession of faith"
While Adouiram Judson, the Baptist,
and John Wesley, the Methodist, and John
Knox, the glorious old Scotch Presbyterian,
are shaking hands in heaven, all churches
on earth can afford to come into close COM
municatiOn. Zone Lord, one faith one
baptism" o, my brethren, we ave had
enougl Of Big Bethel fghts-the Fourteenth
New York regiment fighting the Fifteenth
Massachusetts regiment. Now let all those
who are for Christ, and stand on the same
side. 90 shoulder to shoulder, and this
church, instead Of having a sprinkling
Of the divine blessing, 60 clear under
the wave in one glorious immersion in
the name of the Father, and of the Son,
and Of the Holy Ghost saw a little
child once, in its dying our, put one arm
around Its fathers neck, and the other arm
around lis mothers neck, and bring them
close down to It's dying lips, and give last
kiss. Q, l said, those two persons will stand
very near TO each other always after such
an interlocking. The dying Christ puts one
arm around TINS denomi alton of Christians
and the other arm -ound that denomina-
ton of Christians, and he brings them down
to 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 Baptist minister once say that
be thought in the Millennium it would be all
one great Bap ist church; and | heard a
Methodist minister say that he thought in the
great Millennial day it would be all one great
Methodist church; and l have known a
Presbyterian minister who thought that in
the Millennial day it would all be one great
Presbyterian church. Now | think they ara
all mistaken. l think the Millen nial church
will be composite church; and Just as you
may take the best parts of five or six tunes
and under the sklllful hands Of a Handel