The American citizen. [volume] (Topeka, Kan.) 1888-1909, 1889-07-05


Washington. stretches out Is hand toward
the opposing scientific weapon, crying:
There is none like that; give 1t TO mel"
I was reading this afternoon of HerscheL |
who was looking at q meteor through q |
telescope and when it came over the face |
of the telescope it was so powerful he had |
to avert his eyes And it has been just so |
that many an astronomer has gone into an |
observatory and looked up into the mid |
night heavens, and the Lord God has,
through some swinging world, famed up !
on his vision, and the learned man cried
out: tEWho am /? Undonel Uncleanl
Have mercy, Lord GodW
Again remark, that the travelling dis.
position of the world, which was averse
to morals and religion Is to be brought on
our side. The man that went down to
Jericho and fell amidst thieves was type
of great many travellers. There is many
a man who is very honest at home who.
when he is abroad, has his honor flched
and his good habits stolen. There are but
very few men who can stand the stress OF
an expedition. Six weeks at a watering
place has damned many a man. In the
oldan times God forbade the travelling OF
men for the purposes of trade because OF
the corrupting il fuences attending it A
good many men now can not stand the
transition from one place to another.
Some men who seem to be very consistent
at home in the way of keeping the Sab.
bath, when they get Into Span, on the
LORDS day always go out TO see the bull
fights. Plato said that no city ought to be
built nearer to the sea than ten miles. lest
1t be tempted 30 CO mmerce. But this
travelling disposition of the world, which
,;.&kt -. t. - n
brought on our side. These rail trains,
why they are to take our Bibles; these
steamships, they are to transport our mis-
sionaries; these sailors rushing from city
to city all around the wor d, are to be con.
verified int o Christian heralds and 60 out and
preach Christ among the heatnen nations.
The gospels are infinitely multiplied in
beauty and power snce RI 'inson. and
Thompson. and Buvckhardt have come
back and talked to us about Sloan. and
Capernaum, and Jerusalem. pointing out
to us the lilies about W hich Jesus preached,
the beach upon VIII CHI Paul was ship
wrecked, the fords at which Jordan was
passed, the Red sea bank on which were
tossed the carca sses of the drowned
Egyptians. A man said: Il went to the
Holy Land an infdel; came back 4
Christian. ! could not help It."
am not shocked at the idea OF building
a railroad to the Holy Land. | wish that
all the world might 60 and see Golgotha
and Bethlehem. II We can not afford to
pay for nIuleteers now perhaps when the
| rail train goas we can afford to buy q
ticket from Constantinople to Joppa, and
so we will get to see the Holy Land. Then
| let Christians travel. God speed the rail
| trains and guide he steamships this night
| painting across the deep in the phosphor-
escent wake of the shining feet of Him
| who from wave cliff to wave cliff to wave
| cliff trod the stormed Tiberias. The
| Japanese come across the water and see
| our civilian ion and examine our Christ.
| ianity, and go back and tell the story, and
| keep the Empire rocking until Jesus shall
| reign
| Where'er the sun
| Does his uccessive journeys run.
| And the firearms with which the In
f1del traveller brought down the Arat
| horseman and the jackals OF the desert
have been surrendered to the Church anC
we reach forth our hands, crying: "Thert
is none like that; give it to me-"
So it has always been with the learning
and the elcquence of the world. People
say: Religion is very good for women
1t is very good for children, but not To-
men," But we have in the roll of Christ
| host Mozart and Handel in music, Canovi
and Angelo in sculpture, Raphael ant
Reynolds in painting, Harvey and Boer
haava in medicine, Cowper and Scott Ii
poetry, Crot thus andBu Ike in craftsmanship
Boyle and Liebnitz in philosophy. Thoma
Chalmers and John Mason in theology
The most bri liant writ ngs Of world,
nature are all aglow with scriptural allu
sions Through sensational speech an
through essaysJs discourse Sinai thun
der and Calvary pleads and SiloaI
sparkles.
| Samuel L. Southland was mighty in tn
court room and the senate chamber, bu
he reserved his stronges eloquence 10
that day when he stool before the literar
societies at Prince on an d pleaded for tn
grandeur of our Bible. Daniel Webste
won not his chief garlands while he wa
consuming Hayne. nor when he opene
the batteries of his eloquence on Bunke
Hill, that rocking Sinai of the America
revolution, but on that day when. in tn
famous Girard will case, he showed his al
lection for the Chris al religion and eulc
gized the Bible. The eloquence and tn
learning that have bsen on the other sid
historical pen? Where is Robespierrei
sword? Captured for God There
none like that; give it to mel"
So, also, has 1t been with the pictur
making of the world. We are very am
ious on this day to have the printing pres
and the platform on the side Of Christian
ty; but we overlook the engraver's knit
and the painters pencil. The antiquaria
goes and looks at pictured ruins, or ez
amines the chiseled pil Iars of Thebes, an
. Nineveh, and Pompeii. and then come
back TO tell US of the beast mess of ancier
art; and 1t is a fact now. that many
. the finest PARLIAMENTARY artisticl
considered-ot sou pture and paintIn
! that are to be found amidst hose ruins al
not fit to b. looked at and they are locke
! | up. How Paul must have felt when stanc
ing amidst those impurities that stared O
him from the walls and he pavement
and the bazlars Of Corin'h. he preache
of the pure and holy Jesus The art
the world on the side of obscenity an
| | crime and death