Cornerstone Community Church, San Jose Ca

My guess is that the names Gutzon Borglum and Lincoln Borglum mean absolutely nothing to you. But let me give you four other names and see if two plus four adds up to anything in your minds – George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln. Some of you are still puzzled, but I imagine some of you have made the connection. Washington, Jefferson, Roosevelt and Lincoln are, of course, the four U.S. Presidents whose faces are carved into granite in a mountain in South Dakota that we call Mt. Rushmore. And the men who did the carving were Gutzon Borglum and his son, Lincoln. Construction on the 60 foot heads began in 1927 and was finally completed in 1941. Three million tourists visit the site every year. Even if you’ve never been there in person, you’ve surely seen the photographs. And while it’s safe to say that Washington, Jefferson, Roosevelt and Lincoln would be remembered for as long as people study American history even if their likenesses hadn