The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1889-06-29

TO city all around the world, are to be con-
verted ntoChristian heralds and go out and
preach Christ among the heatnen nations.
The gospels are infinitely 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 ship
wrecked, the fords at which Jordan 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 infdei; l came back a
Christian. l could not help it,"
am not shocked at the idea of building
a railroad to the Holy Land. l wish that
all the world might go and see Golgotha
and Bethlehem. IL we can not afford to
pay for muleteers now perhaps when the
rail train goss We can afford to buy a
ticket from Co%nstantinople 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 thisn night
painting across the deep in the p~hosphor.
escent wake of the shining feet of Him
who from wave cliff to wave cliff to wave
cliff trod the stormed Tiberlas. The
Japanese come across the water and see
our civilization 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 uecessiye journeys run.
And the firearms with which the In
fidel traveller brought down the Arab
horseman and the jackals Of the desert,
rave been surrendered to the church and
Nh
Is none like that; give it to me-"
So IL has always been with the learning
and the eloquence Of the world. People
say: Religion Is very good for women.
IL 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 painting, Harvey and Boer-
haava in medicine, Cowper and Scott in
poetry, Crotius andBurke In craftsmanship,
Boyle and Liebnitz in philosophy. Thomas
Chalmers and John Mason In theology.
The most brilliant writ ngS Of a worldly
nature are all aglow with scriptural al.u-
sions. Through sensational speech and
through essayist's discourse 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 eloquence for
that day when he stoo | before the literary
societies at Princeton an d pleaded for the
grandeur Of our Bible. Daniel Webster
won not his chief garlands 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 at
lection for the Christian religion and eulo-
gized the Bible. The eloquence and the
learning that have been on the other side
came over 10 our side. Where is Gibbons
historical pen? Where is Robespierre's
swordp Captured for God. There Is
none like that; give 1t to me-"
80. also, has 1t been with the picture
making of the world. We are very anx-
ious on this day to have the printing press
and the platform on the side of Christiani-
ty but we overlook the e%ngraver's knife
and the painters pencil. The antiquarian
goes and looks at pictured ruins, or ex-
amines the chiseled pill of Thebes, and
Nineveh. and Pompeii, and then comes
back to tell US of the beast mess of ancient
art; and 1t is a fact now, hat many of
the finest specimens-merely artisticly
considerable sculpture and painting
that are to be found amidst those ruins are
not fit to bs looked at and they are locked
up How Paul must rave felt when stand
ing amidst those Impurities that stared on
him from the walls and The pavements,
and the bazaars of Corinth, he preached
of the pure and holy Jesus. The art Of
the world on the sids of obscenity and
crime and death.
In later days ihs palaces Of kings were
adorned with pictures. But what to I'M
clean Henry VIII. was a beautiful picture
of the Madonna? What 10 Lord Jeffries,
the unjust judge, the picture of the Last
Judgment2" What 10 Nero, the UNI
washed, a picture of the baptism in the
Jordanf The art of the world is still on
the 81 le OF superstition and death. But
that is being changed now. The Christian
artist goes across the water, looks at the
pictures and brings bach to his American
studio much of the power of those old
masters. The Christian minister goes
over to Venice, looks at the "Crucifxion
of Christ" and comes back to his Ameri-
can pulpit to talk as never before of the
sufferings Of the Saviour. The private
tourist goes to Rome and looks at Ra-
phael's picture OF the "Last Judgment"
The tears start and he goes back to his
i"Sn "a a pays oou PioP
aration for that day when,
Shriveling like q parched scroll,
The flaming heavens together roll.
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