WHY I BELIEVE THE BIBLE 'l7 from every State in the Union; some from the marble quarries of Marlboro, N. H., others from the granite quarries of Quincy, Mass., some from the brownstone quarries of Mid dletown, Conn., some from the white marble quarries at Rutland, Vt., some from the gray sandstone quarries at Berea, Ohio, some from the porphyry qua.rries below Knoxville, Tenn., and some from the redstone quarries near Hancock, Mich., some from the brownstone quarries at Kasota, Minn., some from the gypsum quarrier. of the Far West; some stones from every Statt- in the Vnion. The stones were to be of all conceivable sizes and shapes-some large, some small, some mediu:11, sorre were to be cubical, some spherical, some cylindrical, son,e conical, some trapezoidal, and some rec tangular parallelopipcdons. Each stone was to he hewn into its final shape al the quarry from which it was taken. Not a stone was to be touched by mallet or chisel after it reache<l its destination. .Finally the stones are at Washing ton, and the builders go to work. As they build, they find that every stone fits into every other stone, and into its place. It is found that there is not one stone too many, or one stone too few, until at last the builders' work is done and there rises before you a temple with its side walls, its buttresses, its naves, its arches, its transepts and its choirs, its roof, its pinnacles, and its dome, perfect in every outline and in every detail, not
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