How will I ever get that old guy in the air?

So my lovely wife and I were sitting around talking and we somehow came across the subject of a word in a hymn we sing at church, that happens to be one of our favorites.  In the song "Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing" by Robert Robison the second verse goes like this:

Sorrowing I shall be in spirit,

Till released from flesh and sin,
Yet from what I do inherit,
Here Thy praises I’ll begin;
Here I raise my Ebenezer;
Here by Thy great help I’ve come;
And I hope, by Thy good pleasure,
Safely to arrive at home.

You being the observant readers that you all (ya'll for the Texans out there) are probably have already figured out where I am going with this one.  Not to mention the fact that I have made the word bold and larger.  Of course, for 99.9% of us the first thing we imagine is who else but good ol' Ebenezer Scrooge.  I'm pretty sure Rev. Robison didn't have a cranky, old, miserly man (or duck in some cases) who paid Bob Cratchet in coal in mind when writing this song.  Well, we got to talking and decided that we were gonna find out what this Ebenezer was.  I know if my Dad ever reads this he will be going nuts saying "I've said that in church a thousand times while he was growing up!  Doesn't that boy ever listen?"  Sorry, Dad.  So I warmed up my Google fingers, started typing, and here is what I came up with.

“Samuel took a stone and…named it Ebenezer, saying ‘Thus far has the Lord helped us.’” 

1 Samuel 7:12

The Israelites had just defeated the ever present Philistines and taken back the Ark of the Covenant.  To commemorate this great victory, Samuel took a big rock and called it Ebenezer which translated means "Rock of Help".  So in the context of the song the Ebenezer represents something spiritual which reminds usof God's presence and the help He constantly gives to us.  So basically, anything you would consider a reminder of God's help in our lives can be called an Ebenezer.  Which after finding that out, the line after the Ebenezer line in the song, "Here by Thy great help I’ve come", meshes that much better.  Well it did before I was just too ignorant to realize it.