The Red Cloud chief., 1891-05-08

be the two because the law wns 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 bill, 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 Elgin took
b famous ~statuary from the Acropol!s,
h hill adjoining Mars hill, the Greek
government makes il 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 per-
mission from the queen of Greece, a
most gracious and brilliant woman,
who received US as though we had been
old acquaintances. That suggestive
tablet was sawed from the pulpit Of
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 tell Of
the law, and the sacrifice and the
gospel This day l present them to
this church and 20 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 ! first put it /
have interpreted these four memorials
on my right hand, but there are hum
dreds of stones in these surrounding
! and underneath us in the foundations
and rising above us in the towers. The
quarries of this and transatlantic
| countries at the call Of bar and
| chisel have contributed toward this
structure. what 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 an clubhouse. Where is that
hard breathing? 1t rs Jesus, asleep OH
| a rock. Who is hat in the back part OF
the fishing smack with a sailors rough
overcoat over him? 1t is Jesus, the
worn out voyager. O, Jesus, is II not
time that Thou hadst a house? We
| give Thee this. Thou didst give it to
us first, but we give II back to Thee.
II is too good for us, but not good
enough for Thee.
Is it not time that He who was born
in n strangers house and buried In a
strangers grave should have an earthly
house? Come in, OJcsus! not the corpse
! of a buried Christ, but a radiant and
triumphant Jesus, conqueror OF earth,
and Heaven, and hell.
He lives. all glory to hi. name.
lie lives, my Jesus. still the same,
o. the sweet Joy this sentence gives
know that my Redccmer livea
Blessed be His glorious name forever.
Again. il any one asks the question OF
the text: What mean We by these
~stones?" the reply is, we mean the
communion Of saints DO you know
that there is not a single denomination
of Christians in Brooklyn that has not
contributed something toward the
building of this house? And il ever.
standing in this place, there shalr be
a nan who shall try by anything he
says to stir up bitterness between
the different denominations Of
Christians, may his tongue falter
and his check blanch, and his heart
stop. My friends, il there is any church
on earth where there is a mingling Of
all denominations il is our church. !
| Just wish hat John Calvin and Armin-
ius, il they were not too busy, would
come out on the battlements and see
us. Sometimes in our prayer meetings
/ nave heard brethren use the phrases
of a 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
havc to guess twice where they came
from. When n MAJ knocks at our
| church door, il he comes from a sect
where they will not give him a %certifi-
cate. we say: 'Come in by confession
of faith" While Adoniram Judson, the
Baptist and John Wesley, the Method
list, and John Knox, the glorious old
AFN'Ath iS'pN ~ Ahhs ~ chhhNih ashANs
in Heaven. all churches on earth can
afford to come into close communion
ton: Zone Lord, one faith, one bap
tism."
saw a 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 its dying lips, and give a last
kiss q, / said. those two persons will
stand very near Ia each other always
after such an interlocking. The dying
Christ puts one arm around this denomi-
nation of Christians, and the other arm
around that denomination OF Christians,
and lie brings them down To His DYING
lips, while lie gives them His parting
kiss; my peace l leave with you My
peace l give unto you"
How swift the heavenly course they run,
Whose hearts. and faith and hopes are one.
heard n Baptist preacher once say
that he thought in the millennium il
would be all one great Baptist church,;
and | heard a Methodist minister say
that he thought in the great millenniai
day it would be all one great Method
list church; and I have known a Presby-
terrain minister who thought that in the
millennial day il would be all one great
Presbyterian church. Now, l think
they are all mistaken. I think the
millennial church will he a composite
church; and just as you may take the
best parts of five or six tunes, and I'M
der the skillful hands Of a Handel, Mo
Fart or Beethoven. entwine them into
n grand and overpowering symphony,
SO, l suppose, in the latter days OF the
world, God will take the best part of
all denominations of Christians and
weave them into one great e~cclesiastic-
nj harmony, broad as the earth and
high as the heavens and that will be
the church Of the future.
Still further.you meanb by these stones
the salvation of the people. We did not
build this church for mere worldly re-
forms or for an educational institution.
or as a platform on which to read
essays and philosophical dispositions.
but n place for the tremendous work of
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