Memorial: “Anything intended to preserve the memory of a person or event; something which serves to keep some person or thing in remembrance, as a monument or a practise.”—Webster.
2. What illustration of this is given in the Bible?
“And these stones shall be for a memorial unto the children of Israel forever.” Joshua 4:7.
3. What were these stones to commemorate?
“And he spake unto the children of Israel, saying, When your children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean these stones? then ye shall let your children know, saying, Israel came over this Jordan on dry land.” Verses 21, 22.
Note.—These stones were to be a standing memorial, or reminder, of Israel's coming dry-shod over the Jordan.
4. What was another memorial instituted to commemorate another signal providence in behalf of the Israelites?
“And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the Lord throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance forever.” Ex. 12:14.
Note.—This, the Passover, was a periodical memorial, to be observed on the fourteenth day of the first month of each year, the day on which the Israelites were delivered from Egyptian bondage, and its celebration was to be, with the seven days' feast of unleavened bread following and connected with it, in commemoration of that event. See Ex. 13:3-9.
5. Does God design that His great work of creating the heavens and the earth shall be remembered?