The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-05-01

answer to my question you point to the /
memorial wall at the side of this pulpit /
and say to me, Explain that unusual /
group of memorials What mean you 4
by those stones?" By permission of the |
people of my beloved charge recently /
visited the Holy lands, and having IN |
mind by day and night during my alb |
sence this rising house OF prayer, be- !
thought myself, ''What can do to make |
that place significant and glOrfOus?''
On the morning Of December 3 we
were at the foot of the most sacred |
mountain of all the earth, Mount Cal
vary. 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 of
the human skull, and so called in the
Bible the place of a Skull there is
room for three crosses. There saw
stone so suggestive that 1 rolled it 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
suggestive 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 Calvary. Look
at it That stone was one of the rocks
rent at the cruciGXiOn. That heard the
cry, ''It is finished" Was any church
on earth honOred with such q memorial?
Beneath it are two tables of stone
which 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 1--WE can easier bring two
rocks than one, for we must balance
them on the back of the camel" and 1
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 stones. Those two
stones marked with the words mount
Sinai" felt the earthquake 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 brotherhood of the human race,
declaring, ''GOd hath made of one blood
all nations Since Lord EIgin took
the famous statuary from the AcrOpOlis
the hill 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 I obtained by special per
mission from the queen of Greece, a
most gracious and brilliant woman,
who received rs as though we had been
| old acquaintance. That suggestive
tablet was sawed from the pulpit of
rock on which Paul preached. Now
You understand why we have marked
| it 1.-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.
have interpreted these four memorials
on my right hand, but there are hun
dreds of stones in these surrounding
and underneath US in the foundation.
and rising above US in the towers. The
quarries of this and transatlanti,
countries at the call of crowbar anC
chisel have contributed toward thi
structure. What mean ye by thes,
stOnes?''
You mean among other things tina
they shall be an earthly residence 70.
Christ Christ did not have much of
home when He was here. Who anC
where is that child crying? 1t is Jesus
born in an clubhouse. Where is tina
hard breathing? 1t is Jesus, asleep oil
a rock. Who is that in the back part o
the fishing smack with "a sailors rougl
overcoat over him? It is Jesus, tn,
worn out voyager. o, Jesus, is it no
time that Thou hadst a house? W,
give Thee this. Thou didst give it t,
US first, but we give it back to Thee
1t is too good for us, but not goo,
enough for Thee.
Is it not time that He who was borr
| in a strangers house and buried in
strangers grave should have an earthly
house? Come in, o Jesus! not the corps
of a buried Christ, but a radiant an,
triumphant Jesus, conquerOr OF earth
and Heaven, and hell.
Blessed be His glorious name forever
Again, if any one asks the question o
the text; What mean ye by thes
stOnes?" the reply is, we mean tn
{ communion of saints Do you know
that there is not a single denominatiol
of Christians in Brooklyn that has no
Z contributed something toward tn
building of this house? And If ever
; standing in this place, there shall b
| q man who shall try by anything h