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UNSEARCHABLE RICHES—Continued from Page 9 
come and gone personally, but they have left me affluent 
in unsearchable riches. { 
I have riches. that money cannot buy and all the 
time I am trying to share them with you. I delight 
in this giving that leaves me no poorer but that makes 
you richer. These preachers of ‘‘unsearchable riches,’’ 
bearers of divine treasures, are offering you values that 
are beyond the wealth of the Rothchilds and the Rocker- 
fellers, fortunes you can carry with you beyond the 
vale of mists and be counted a Crassus in eternity. 
The preacher of Christ and the church of Christ 
give thousands of percent for all they receive. The 
world can never pay the debt. It would beggar this 
ecmmunity to pay for what the churches have done to 
enrich it. Should not every messenger of the Gospel, 
the poorest stammerer among them, have your atten- 
tion and favor when they come with this golden message 
of the ‘“‘unsearchable riches of Christ’? 
What does the apostle mean by ‘‘unsearchable 
riches’’? He means hidden riches, unfathomable, in- 
serutible riches, riches beyond all computation, values 
that cannot be estimated by the finite mind because 
they are infinite. Can you set a value upon divine 
knowledge? Can you fasten a figure value upon Gospel 
truth? 
Christ has riches of knowledge the ancient philoso- 
phers never knew and never taught. Never man spake 
like Him and never will speak like him. Aristotle was 
so learned and wise that when the old schoolmen could 
not answer a question or solve a problem they said, I 
will go to Aristotle and he will help me out. Now when 
this old world has some knotty, incomprehensible prob- 
lem on hand it says, I will go to Jesus Christ and he 
will help me out. 
When science has searched out the mystery of this 
human body, when geologists have dug to the depth of 
the mountain ranges and explored the last final depth 
of the sea, then they may presume to begin to explore 
tle riches of redemption. 
‘‘Unsearchable riches’’ of divine knowledge, of 
pardoning grace, of redeeming love, of sanctifying 
power, of consolation and hope and immortal glory in 
Christ. Do you want them? They are all offered to 
you full and free. If you go a beggared soul into 
eternity it is absolutely your own fault, your own 
personal sin. 
THE CORONATION STONE AT 
WESTMINSTER—Continued from Page II 
which may yet be distinguished on a 
close inspection. It is still firm and 
sound, though much disfigured by 
wanton mutilations. 
The coronation stone, itself, rests 
upon a middle frame, supported at 
the corners by four crouching lions, 
very clumsily executed. It is a piece 
of reddish sandstone, much worn 
with handling, and strongly resembles 
the stone used in the construction of 
the doorway at Dunstaffuage Castle. 
Geologists claim that no stone of like 
grain and texture exists in either 
Syria, Egypt or Spain. It is twenty- 
six inches long, sixteen inches wide, 
and eleven inches thick. On its up- 
per surface there is a_ rectangular 
groove into which a_ metal plate, 
bearing the Scotch prophecy was 
fixed, but it was removed in Ed- 
ward’s time. At coronations the 
chair is moved into the Sacrarium 
and covered with cloth of gold. Since 
the time of Edward I, it has been 
moved but once from the Abbey — 
when Cromwell was installed on it as 
Lord Protector. That the stone was 
so eagerly seized by Edward, so ten- 
taciously retained by his successors, 
is now strong testimony that it was an 
object of the greatest reverence to the 
Scotch people. One has only to read 
Scotch history to understand how ex- 
asperated they were at its removal, 
and very justly too. A delegation of 
Scots was sent to Rome and Pope 
Boniface was urged to compel Ed- 
ward to return it, but he was not the 
king to be intimidated, and the af- 
fair came to nothing. In after years 
in the course of Bruces triumphant 
negotiations with England, he stipu- 
lated the restoration of the stone 
called Jacob’s Pillar. By a_ royal 
writ addressed to the Abbott and 
Monks of Westminster they were en- 
joined to deliver it up to the Sheriff 
of London for delivery but they suc- 
ceeded in evading the order. 
Edward II, was the first English 
sovereign to be crowned on the fa- 
mous stone. He and his queen Isa- 
bella, were crowned February 25, 
1308, six hundred and three years 
ago, by the Bishop of Winchester, 
the Archbishop of Canterbury not be- 
ing on good terms with his majesty. 
Mary, the elder daughter of Henry 
VIII, and the first reigning Queen 
of England, was crowned October 1, 
1553. She appears to have been the 
only exception of the monarchs who 
have been crowned on _ the stone. 
During the coronation ceremony she 
sat for a few minutes, only, in Ed- 
ward’s chair. When the crown was 
placed upon her head she was seated 
in a chair sent her by the Pope for 
this purpose. ‘The coronation of 
James I, took place February 25, 
1603, and is remarkable as being the 
first celebration by the Anglican Re- 
formed Church. ‘The arrangements 
for the coronation were intended to 
be of the most splendid character, but 
the plague was raging and the people 
were forbidden to come to West- 
minister to see the pageant. 
ancient prophesy of the Scots: 
“Unless the fixed decrees of fate give 
way, 
The Scots 
scepter sway 
Wher’er this stone they find.” 
must have been recalled when the son 
of Mary Stuart sat upon it to be 
crowned king of United Britain in 
England’s capitol. When James was 
shall govern and _ the 
The 
crowned on the old Scotch stone, the 
people of the north believed the an- 
cient prediction to have been at last 
fulfilled. William III, and Mary II, 
were crowned April 11, 1689, by the 
Bishop of London assisted by the 
Archbishop of York. William sat in 
Edward’s chair, but a new one of 
similar design had been made _ for 
Mary. It is this chair that will be 
used by Queen Mary when = she is 
crowned in June. The last sovereign 
to sit on the old stone of fate was 
the lamented Edward VII. His 
mother, Victoria the good, was 
crowned June 28, 1838, with great 
pomp and ceremony. She _ was 
dressed in truly regal state in a robe 
of rich crimson velvet, furred with er- 
mine and miniver, and bordered with 
gold lace, wearing the jewelled collors 
of her orders; a circlet of gold on 
her head. 
On either side were ten gentlemen- 
at-arms with their standard bearer. 
Her Majesty was supported by the 
Bishop of Bath and Wells and the 
Bishop of Durham. A magnificent 
and costly new crown had been made 
for the young queen, and at the mo- 
ment of coronation the Peers and 
Peeresses put on their coronets, the 
Bishops their caps, and Kings-at- 
arms their crowns, amidst the most 
enthusiastic cheering of all present. 
The coronation stone is enshrined in 
the hearts of the British people; a 
link which unites the Throne of Great 
Britain to the shadowy traditions of 
Tara and Iona. Let us hope that no 
untoward event may happen to mar 
the crowning of King George V on 
the stone so long used by his an- 
cestors. 
