Mount Rushmore is a mountain in the Black Hills of South Dakota. At the top of this 6,200 foot high mountain is a solid block of granite 1,000 feet long, 450 feet wide and 300 feet high. On the face of this block are carved the faces of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt.

The size of the presidents' heads to the tip of their chins is the distance of 60 feet. Should the entire man have been sculptured, each image would have been 465 feet tall—tall enough to look into the forty-second story of a skyscraper. The faces can be recognized from twenty miles away.

The Mount Rushmore Memorial bears witness to a changing world, and to the four famous men who figured in the changes of their times. They themselves lived their brief days, made their mark upon the world and then passed away. Some of their accomplishments remain; some have not remained. Even their memorials carved out of granite, though expected to last for a long time, will pass away. All rocks are harmed by sun, wind, rain and snow, and some day the presidents' faces will crumble. (Gleaned from The World Encyclopedia.)

There is, however, a memorial that abides, that will never change. It is that of the changeless Christ for a changing world. The changing centuries vanish; still we are confronted by the timeless, the ageless, the dateless person of Christ, who said, "Before Abraham was, I AM" (John 8:58), and "I AM the LORD, I change not" (Malachi 3:6).

On Calvary we see the things that abide. Truth was victorious there. Just think of the Cross upon which the Lord Jesus died. Who won the conflict there? The religious Pharisees, Pilate, the soldiers, the mob? No! Christ Jesus won! Ever since that atoning death to put away sin was accomplished, the Cross has been the symbol of redemption that He procured for sinful men. There, "Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other" (Psalm 84:16). There, where the darkest power of evil did its worst, the brightest power of God's love and grace dealt a death blow to sin and Satan. The Cross, with the resurrection of its willing Victim from the dead to seal its work, guarantees eternal victory with a Memorial which the ages of eternity will never erase.

Now, in these days of Christ's rejection and absence, those redeemed by His blood shed on the Cross are privileged to gather unto His precious name and partake of the Memorial Feast of the Breaking of Bread He instituted before He died. For 2,000 years, and until He soon comes again, each Lord's day this Memorial of His body given and His blood shed in death is observed by His own in love for Him who said, "This do in remembrance of Me" (Luke 22:19).

In eternity, as the redeemed throng of sinners surround Him, He will be seen as "a Lamb as it has been slain" (Rev. 5:6), indicating the Memorial of the freshness of the conflict He won upon the Cross. The wounds in His hands, feet and side will ever bear witness to His love which led him to Calvary and forever stand as a Memorial of that infinite Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and His finished work of the Cross. Never will it crumble. Ever will it produce eternal praise from the hearts and lips of the redeemed, singing, "Thou art worthy . . . for Thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by Thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation" (Rev. 5:9).