The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1889-06-26

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Have mercy, Lord Godi"
Again, remark that the travelling dispo-
sition Of the world, which was adverse 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 a great
many travellers. There is many man who
is very honest at home, who when he is
abroad, has his honor ilched and his good
habits stolen. There are 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 for
bade the travelling OF men for the purpose
Of trade because Of the corrupting influences
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 wayo keeping the
Sabbath, when they get into Spain, 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, lestit
be tempted TO commerce. But this travelling
disposition Of the world, which was adverse
to that which is good, is TO be brought on our
side. These rail trains, why they are TO take
our Bibles; these steamships, they are to
transport our missionaries; these sailors
rushing from city to city all around the
world, are TO be converted into Christian
heralds and go out and preach Christamong
the heather nations. The gospels are inf
nitely multiplied in beauty and power since
Robinson, and Thompson, and Burckhardt
have come back and talked TO US about
Sloan, and Capernaum, and Jerusalem,
pointing out TO US the lilies about which
Jesus preached, the beach upon which Paul
was shipwrecked, the fords at which Jor-
dan was passed, the Red Sea bank on which
were tossed the carcasses of the drowned
Egyptians. A man said: 81 went TO the
Holy Land an inffdel; came back Chris
tian. could not help it."
I am not shocked at the idea OF building a
railroad to the Holy Land, wish that all the
world might 20 and see Golgotha and Beth
lehem. five can not afford TO pay for mule
teers now, perhaps when the rail train goes
we can afford TO buy ticket from Constan-
tnople TO Joppa, and so we will get TO see
the Holy Land. Then let Christians travel
God speed the rail trains and guide the
steamships this night by putting across the
deep in the phosphorescent wake Of the
shining feet Of Him who from wave cliff TO
wave cliff trod the stormed Tiberias. The
Japanese come across the water and see our
civilization, and examine our Christianity,
and go back and tell the story, and keep
that empire rocking until Jesus shall reign
where'er the sun
Does his successive journey run.
And the firearms, with which the inHdel
traveller brought down the Arab horseman
at.I tho tanl nf hn houn ham
surrendered to the church, and we reach
forth our hands crying: "Therc is none
like that; give it rher'
SO 1t has also been with the learning and
the eloquence Of the world. People say:
'tReligion is very good for women, it is 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 paint
ing: Harvey and Boerhaave in medicine;
Cowper and Scott in poetry; Crotius and
Burke in craftsmanship; Boyle and Lieb-
nitz in philosophy; Thomas Chalmers and
John Mason in theology. The most bril-
liant writings Of worldly nature are all
aglow with scriptural illusions. Through
senatorial speech and through essayist's
discourse Sinai thunders and Calvary pleads
and Sloan sparldes.
Samuel L. Southland was mighty in the
court room and in the Senate chamber, but
he reserved his strongest evidence for that
day when he stood before the literary soci-
ETY. at Princeton commencement and pleaded
| for the grandeur OF the Bible. Daniel Web
ster won not his chief garlands while he was
consuming Hayne, nor when he opened the
batteries Of his eloquence on Bunker Hill,
the Rocking Sinai Of the American revolu-
tion, but on that day when, In the famous
Girard will case, he showed his affection
for the Christian religion and eulogized the
Bible. The eloquence and the learning that
have been on the other side came over 10
our side. Where is Gibbons historical pen 7
Where is Robespierre's swordl Captured
for God. There is none like that; give II
mep'
So, also, has II been with the picture max
ing Of the world. We are very anxious on
this day TO have the printing press and the
| platform on the side Of Christianity; but we
| overlook the engraver's knife and the paint
er's pencil. The antiquarian goes and looks
at pictured ruins, or examines the chiseled
pillars Of Thebes, and Nineveh, and Pompeii,
/ ahu tlCil Iolhto buCh W pDI uo VI bhO OCuoL-
| illness Of ancient art; and IL is fact now,
that many Of the finest specimens
artistically considered-of sculpture and
painting that are TO be found amidst those
ruins are not fit to be looked at and they are
locked up How Paul must have felt when,
standing amidst those impurities that stared
on him from the walls and the pavements
and the bazars Of Corinth, he preached Of
the pure and holy Jesus. The art Of the
world on the side OF obscenity, and crime,
and death.
In latter days the palaces Of kings were
adorned with pictures. But what 10 unclean
Henry VIII was beautiful picture Of the
Madonnai What to Lord Jeffries the un.
| Just Judge, the picture OF the Last Judg
mentp What to Nero, the unwashed, a
picture Of the baptism in the Jordanl The
art Of the world still on the side Of super.
stition and death. But that Is being
changed now The Christian artist goes
across tho water, looks at the pictures, and
brings back 10 his American studio much Of
the power Of those old masters The Chris
tian minister goes over to Venice, looks at the
"Crucifxion Of Christ" and comes back TO
his American pulpit TO talk as never before
Of the sufferings of the Saviour. The pri-
vate tourist goes TO Rome and looks at
Raphaels picture Of the "Last Judgment" I"
The tears start ara he goes back TO his
room in the hotel and prays God
for preparation for that day when
shriveiinR like parched scroll,
The flaming heavens together roll.
Our Sunday-school newspapers and walls
are adorned with pictures Of Joseph in the
court Daniel In the den, Shadrack In the
fire, Paul in the shipwreck, Christ on the