The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-08-12
THE CORONATION STONE.
Interesting Talk About It by Professor
 TOtten

interesting Talk About It by Professor
 Totten. To the Editor of the Journal and Courier:
 It occurs to me at this juncture that an article upon the Coronation Stone" of Great Britain ought to be of very general interest to your readers who include the public in general. and in particular some Bible students, MasOns, men and women of Irish, Welsh, Scotch, English and German extraction, and no end of those who employ Ja- cob's stone in their Rituals. In fact, the subject of this Stone appeals even to such as have no tangency thereto. and are merely to be interested as if in an audience.
 It has been used in England for 6O6 vars. It was similarly employed in Scotland for the previous 9S1 years, and before that in Ireland for 905 years. It is the oldest piece of Monarchical Fur niture of "Regalia" known to man. @kAl AAelNS A4caS uSGu II HI L4lS Ao4oAN45 VI the West since 580 B. sC.-2492 years in all. But that is not all. I believe it can be fairly shown that it is, in all probability. the very Stone upon which Saul, David, and all of his successors Werec rowned, which adds sos years more to it's antiquity; 5000 years of continuous enplomenty at the Corona tions of a certain line of successive kings, makes it the unique heirloom of Empire upon earth.
 But what if it be Jacobs Pillow-Pil- lar itself Gas tradition with sufficient reason avers)? Why, then, it is at least as old as Abraham's altar at Bethel and so some figure that S27 years more must be added to it's an- tiquity-pretty old! and thus we. can trace the outline of it's history for at least S,S27 years, and I believe much further back by stages similar. via the altar reared by Noah after the deluge. and even up to Abel's altar close to Eden's Gate-it has always been the Gate of Heaven" and Jacob recogniz- ed it!
 It came into England through Ed ward in 1926 A. D. and now in 1902 A. D. it is being prepared for yet an- other august coronation, because six Edwards are over in six centuries, and we are in the age of Edward VII and in the seventh century of the Edwards! This has septinary and sabbatic sound and savor; and certainly the 20th century itself will not and cannot realize it's termination without having witnessed the practical solution of ev- cry problem that disturbs us as we cross its threshold.
 | Now collected these notes some six l teen or twenty years ago and the dis cussion fits these times much better l than it would have done in the day of it's conception. There will be much said about the Coronation Stone this | year and next, all over creation, but here in New Haven, where your own readers often tolerate my own essays at quaint and curious and forgotten | lore" I am confident that you will find an audience for column or so, upon what I take to be the most significant and material fact to be put in evidence at the expected and devoutly to be, wished for, installation of the son of, the best friend we ever had, "Victoria, the Good" of glorious memory--King Edward VIII himself being likewise a, lifelong 'good friend" of America, and | the more regular colonies.
 l It is just 2,520 years since the empire of Babylon (founded in 625 B. C.) got possession Gin SIS B. C.) of Gentile em- pire. It and Persia. Greece and Rome itself, are almost at an end. A Fifth Empire cometh! Whose is it to be? If no tthat of Our Race, We too are done for in our turn! But it Is my firm con viction founded upon facts. that this 1 will never be the case, and desire to put the Coronation Stone of Israel l. e. of Great Britain, in evidence on the issue in some of your immediate cur rent and consecutive issues, and now is the appointed time. Can you give me i this space? If so, promise you a solid band of interested and impressed read CTS. Whether we make better friends or not, we shall interest many. and out of them gain friends for truth; and Truth" you know prevails.
 Yours truly,
 c. A. l.. TOTTEN.