Salt Lake Telegram | 1911-09-27 | Page 4 | The Rock That Moses Smote

THE ROCK THAT MOSES SMOTE. For six centuries a great stone has been beneath be-neath the British coronation chair and .now a legend has been evolved that it ia the identical stone which Moses struck to get water for the perishing per-ishing Israelites in the wilderness. It is well enough to believe that. Why should it not bel There has been an outside opinion for a long time that Moses had a llowtwiprwhlcrrinrned down when he got over water and that on that particular morning it turned down so hard that it showed the stream was only a foot or two under the surface. sur-face. So he took an old -time Egyptian pick and opened it up. But that may be a mistake. Maybe he hit the rock sure enough and got the water. The main point is ha did get the water and aaved the Israelites, and if some antiquarian found the rock and brought it away a trophy, that was all right. It ia a good omen, too, because if smiting thst rock waa salvation to Israel, maybe for a king and queen to sit upon that rock when crowned will give them the wisdom to rule successfully a great nation. na-tion. We advise them to cling close to that atone and to keep it well guarded, because if they do not, some man will stesl it, take it to aome arid waste where the land ia good only that it lacks water, smite it, and start a peach orchard. However, most of the successes of the world up to date have been through fooling other men. Why should not that rock be a great feather in the caps of King George and Queen Mary! ...