The Daily Green Mountain Freeman

The Living Word.

On the door of the great mosque in the old city of Damascus are inscribed these remarkable words, "Thy kingdom, O Christ, is an everlasting kingdom, and thy dominion endureth throughout all generations." For twelve centuries that mosque, once a Christian church, has ranked among the very holiest sanctuaries in the Mohammedan world. For twelve centuries the name of Christ has been regularly blasphemed in it, and the disciples of Christ have been regularly cursed in it.—The inscription, nevertheless, has remained, unimpaired by time, undisturbed by man, as if to prove that no amount of human power, that no refinement of human cruelty, could destroy Christ's kingdom. That inscription was unknown during the long reign of Mohammedan intolerance and oppression; but just at the time when religious liberty was partially restored, and Christian missionaries were enabled to establish a church in that city, it was again brought to light, and served to encourage them in their work of faith and labor of love, remembering and applying the prophecy "And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of many generations." Isa. lxi. 4.—Central Presbyterian.