The Red Cloud chief., 1889-06-28

al the better for us. Tho armies o. the
Lord Jesus Christ have stormed the ooser-
vatories OF the words science and from
the highest towers have flung out the b1n-
ner of the cross. and Christianity 'o-niEh'.
from The o~bservator.es OF Albany and
Washington, stretches out t. hand toward
the opposing scientific weapon. crying:
''There is none like that; give IL 70 me!'
I was reading this afternoon Of Herschel.
who was looking at . meteor through .
telescope. and when IL came over the face
OF the telescope II was 20 powerful he had
t. avert his eyes Aud it has ben just 80
that MANY an astronomer has gene into an
observatory and Looked MP into the mid
night heavens, and the Lord God has.
through some swinging word, famed up.
on his vision, md tho learned man cried
out: ''Who am ]: U"dons! Unclsan
Have mercy, Lord God"
Again, l 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
Je. ich0 and fell amidst thieves vas . type
of . great many travellers There il many
. man who 10 very onest at homo who.
when he is abroad, has his hOnor 6lched
and his good habits stolen. There arc but
very few men who can stand the stress Of
an expedition. Six weeks At . watering
place has damned many . man. In the
olden times God forbade the travelling Of
men for the purposes Of trade because OF
the corruptiDx influences attending it A
good many mon now can NO stand ths
transition from one place TO another.
Some mon who seem to be very cOusistent
at homo in the way Of keeping the Sab
hath. when they get into Span. on the
Lords day always 60 out to SEQ b bull
fights Plato aid that NO city ought to be
built nearer to the $50 than ten miles. lest
it be tempted to commerce. ~ this
travelling disposition Of the world, which
was averse to that which Is good, is to b
brought en- our side. These rail trains,
why they are to take our Bihles; these
steamships they are to transport our mis-
s~ionaries; these sailors rushing r. m city
to city oil around the word. are to DO con-
verted iniOC Christian heralds aad 60 out and
preach Christ among the hea,nen nations.
The gospels are infinitely multiplied in
beauty and power sine Robinson. and
ThompsOn. and Burckhardt have come
back and talked to Us about Sloan. and
Capernaum, and Jerusalem. pointing out
10 Us the lilies about " hich Jesus preached.
the beach upon which Pau was ship
wrecked, the fords ut which Jordan was
passed. tbs Red sea bank on which were
tossed the carcasses OF the drowned
Egyptians. A man said: II went to the
Holy Land an intidsI: I came back .
Christian. / could not help it,"
l am not shocked 1t the idea OF building
q railroad to the Holy Land ] wish that
all the world might 60 and see GolgotLa
and Bethlehem. II we can not afford to
pay for nuleteers now perhaps when tbs
rail tran gO,s We q afford to buy .
tickle: from C~onstantinople to JopDa. and
SO VIC will get to see the Holy Land Then
let Christians travel. God speed the rail
trains and guide The steamships tn 8 night
painting across the deep in the phosphor-
escent wake Of the shining feet Of Him
who from wave cliff to wavec lif to wave
cliff trod the stormed Liberals. The
japanese come across the water and see
our civilization and examine our Christi
and 60 back md 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
fidei traveller brought down the Arab
and the jackals Of the desert,
rave been surrendered to the Church and
reach forth our hands, crying: "1here
is homo like that; give it to me-"
So it has always been with the learning
and the elCqience Of the world. People
say: "Relig.on is very good for women. |
it 10 very good for children, but not for
men, But We have in the roll Of Christ's |
host Mozart and Handel In music. Canova
and Angelo in sculpture. Raphael and
Reynolds in painting. Harvey and Boer-
haava in medicine. COwDer and Scott in
poetry, Crotius sndBurke in staiesmanship, |
and Lietnitz in PHILOSOPHY. Thomas
Chalmers and John Mason in theology. |
The most brilliant writ nGs Of q worldly
nature are all aglow with scTiptural al u
Through sensational speech and
through essayis:'s OBSCURE Sinai thun. |
der and Calvary pleads and Sloan
sparkles
Samuel l. Southland was mighty In the
court room and the senate chamber, but
he reserved his strongest eloqusnce for
day when he stool before the literary
at Princeton an d pleaded for the
grandeur Of Bible. Daniel Webster
won not his chief garlands whiIe 10 was
Hnyne. M when he opened
the batteries OF his ~eloquence on Bunker
Hill. that rocking Sinai OF the American
but on that day when. in the
Girar1 will case, he showed his at
for the Christian religion and eulo.
z zsd the Bib'e. The ~eloqusncs and the
that have bsen ON HI ot'er side
over TO our side. Whore IL Gibbons
historical pen: Where is Robespisrre's
,wcri: Captured for God There Is
none like that; give it to mel"
So. also, has 1t been with the picture
Of the world. We are very anx-
Ious ON this day to have the printing press
the platform N the side Of Christiani-
y but VI overlook the engraver's knife
the painters pencil. The antiquarian
goes and looks at pictured ruins or ex-
lmines the chiseled pillars Of Thebes. and
Sineveh. and Pompeii. and then comes
,ack to tell US Of the beast mess Of ancient
lrt; and it il . fact now, that many Of
he finest specimens-merely artisticly
.onsidered-of sculpture and painting
hat are to be found amidst those ruins are
lot fit to b. looked 1t and they are locked
ID. How Pau must have felt when stand.