Stones of Rememberance

So, what is the hymn “Come Thou Fount” referring to with this obscure and unfamiliar phrase about raising an Ebenezer? When you hear the word Ebenezer, you probably think of Scrooge from Dicken’s Christmas Carol . Not too many people name their sons Ebenezer these days. But in Scripture we find this word in 1 Samuel 7:12: Then Samuel took a stone and set it up between Mizpah and Shen. He named it…