Lyndon Rectory, Uppingham.
_Stone-pillar Worship_ (Vol. v., p. 121.).--The article "Hermae," in
Smith's _Antiquities_, throws some light on this subject. The pillar set
up as a _witness_ (see Genesis there quoted, and the Classics
_passim_)[5] is of course closely connected with the idea of sanctity
attached to it. The Laplanders in selecting the _unhewn_ stone "in the
form in which it was shaped by the hand of the Creator Himself," seem,
to a certain extent, unwittingly to have obeyed a command of the
Creator: see Exodus, xx. 25.
[Footnote 5: Is it not as the _witness_ and keeper of Holy Writ
that St. Paul calls the church Στύλος καὶ ἑδραίωμα τῆς ἀληθείας?]