Daily Yellowstone journal., 1889-06-30
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the roll OF CllriSts host Mozart and
Handel in music; Cauova aud Angelo
in sculpture; Raphael aud Reynolds
in painting; Harvey and BocrIAavn
in medicine; Cowper and SCOTT IN
poetry; Cr0tius aud Burke IN states.
manship Boyle and Leibniiz in p4iios-
ophy, Thomas Chalmers aud Join
Mason M theology The most bul-
liant writings Of a worldly nature
are all aglow with scripuFal allU.
sions Through senatorial speech aud
through ~essayiSt's discourse sinai
thunders and Calvary pleads and 81.
loan sparklcs.
Samuel J.. Southland was mighty IN
the court room and in the senate clgrn-
Der, but lac reserved his strongest clo-
quencs for that day when heslOod be-
fore the literary societies at Princeton
commencement and pleaded for the
grandeur of ourBlblc. Daniel Webster
won not his chief garlaudS while he
was consuming Hayne, nor when he
opened the batteries of his eloquence
on Bunker Hill, that rocking Sinai of
the American revolution, but on that
day when, in the famous Girard will
case. he showed his affection for the
Christian religion and eulogiZcd the
Bible. The eloquence and the learn
ing that have been on the other side
came over to our side. Where is Glib.
bon's historical pcnl Where is Robes
p%icrre's swordl Captured for God.
There is zone like that; give il mel'
So, also, has il been with the pic
ture making Of the world. We are
very anxious on this day to have the
printing press aud the platform on the
side of Christianity; but we overlook
the e%ngraver's knife and the painters
pencil. The antiquarian goes and
looks at pictured ruins, or examines
the chiseled pillars of Thebss, and
Nineveh, and Pompeii, and then comes
hack TO tell us of the bcaStliness of an
cient art; and it is q fact uow, that
many of the finest Specimcns-mcrely
artiStically considered--uf sculpture
and painting that are To- be found
amidst those runs are not lit to be
looked III and they are locked up.
How Paul must have felt, when,
standing amidst those impurities hat
stared on him from the walls and the
pavements and the bazlrs of COrinth,
he preached of the pure and holy
Jesus. The art of the world on the
side of ~obsceuity and crime and death.
In laterdaysthc palaces of kings were
adorned with pictures. But what tOun-
clean Henry VIII was a beautiful pic.
ture of the Madonna What 10 Lord
Jeffries. the unjust Judge. the picture
of the Last Judgment What 10
Nero, the unwashed, a picture of the
baptism in the Jordan The art of
the world still on the side of sup"rsti.
ton and death. But that is being
changed now. The Christian artist
goes across the water, looks at the
pictures. and brings back To his Amer.
lean studio much of the power Of
those old masters. The Christian min,
lister goes over to Venice, looks at the
'CruCiixiOn of Chris" and comes
back 10 his American pulpit 10 talk
as never before of the sutTerings of
the Saviour. Tic private tourist goes
TO Rome aud looks at Raphael's pic.
ture Of the Last Judgment" The
tears start, and he goes back to his
in the hotel, and prays God for
preparation for that day when,
shriyeling like a parchel scroll,
The flaming heavens together roll
THE POWER OF CHRISTIAN PICTURES.
Our Sunday school newspapers and
walls are adorned with pictures of
Joseph in the court, Daniel ia the den,
Shadrach in the fire. Pau! in the ship
wreck, Christ on the cross. Oh that
we might, in our families, think more
of the power Of Christian picturcs'
One little sketch of Samuel knceling
in prayer will mean more 10 yourChil,
dren than twenty sermons on devotion.
One patient face of Christ by tie hand
of the artist will be more Ia your child
than fifty sermons on f~urbrarancc.
The art Of the world is 10 be taken for
Christ. What has become of Thor
waldsen's chi,cl and GlirlaudaiO's
crayong Captured for the trIth.
''Thcrc Is none like tlsli. give il NOR
So. | remark, ii Is with business acu.
men and tact. When Christ was upon
earth, the people that followed him,
for the most part, had no social posi-
ton. There was but ono man natur.
ally brilliant in all the appstlcship.
joseph of Arimaihoa, Tire rich man,
risked nothing when he Offered a hole
in the rock for the dead Christ. How
many Of the merchants in Asia Minor
befriendcd Jcsusi think of only one,
LYDIA How many Of the castles on
the beach Of Galilce entertained Christi
Not one. When Peter camc To JOppl.
he stopped with one Simon. a tanner.
What power had ChriSts name on the
Roman exchange. or in the bazars of
Coriuth! None. The prominent men
of the day did not want 10 risk
their reputation for sanity by i
tending 10 be one of his follow
ers Now that is all changed.
Among Tho miglticst men in our
great cities today are the Christian
merchants and tie Christian bankers;
and IL tomorrow, at the Board Of
Trade, any man should get up and
malign the name of jesus, he would
be quickly silcnced or put ont, In
the front rank Of all ouF Christian
workers today are the Christian mer-
chants; and the enterprises Of the
world are coming on the right side,
There was a farm willcd away some
years ago, all the proceeds Of that
farm to go for spreading iniidel books.
Somehow matters have changed and
now all the proceeds Of that farm go
tnworl the missionary ca,t.. nn,rf