The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-06-24

came over the face of the telescope it was
SO powerful that he had to avert his eyes.
And 1t has been just so that many an as
| tronomer has gone into an observatory and
looked up into the midnight heavens, and
| the Lord God has, through some swinging
world, famed upon his vision, and the
learned man cried out: "Who am II I'm
donel Uncleanl Have mercy, Lord God.n
Again, remark, that the travelling dis
position of the world which was averse 20
morals and religion, is to be brought on
our side. The man that went down to Jeri-
cho and fell amidst thieves was a type of
great many travellers There is many
man who Is very honest at home who, when
he Is abroad, has his honor filched and his
good habits stolen. There are but very few
men who can stand the stress of an expedi-
tion Six weeks at a watering place has
damned many man. In the
olden times God forbade the travel
ing Of men for the purposes OF trade
because of the corrupting influences
attending it. A good many msn
now cannot stand the transition from one
place to another. Some men who seem to
be very consistent at homo in the way of
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, lest it 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 trans
port 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
Christ among the heather nations. The
gospels are infinitely multiplied in beauty
| n nd of a
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 Jordan was passed, the Red sea bank
on which we're tossed the carcasses of the
drowned Egyptians. A man said: 81 went
to the Holy La an infidel; l came back a
christian. | could nothelp it.n
/ am not shocked at the idea of building a
railroad to the Holy Land. / wish that all
the world might go and see Golgotha and
Bethlehem. IL we cannot afford to pay for
muleteers now, perhaps when the rail train
goes we can afford to buy ticket from
| Constantinople to Joppa, and so we will get
to see the Holy Land. Then let christians
| travell God speed the rail trains, and guide
the steamships this night painting across tue
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 journeys run.
EAnd the firearms, with which the infidel
traveller brought down the Arab horseman
and the jackals OF the DESERT have been
surrendered to the church, and we reach
forth our hands, crying: "There is none
like that; give it meln
SO it has also been with the learning and
the eloquence of the world People say:
"Religion is very good for women, it isvery
good for children, but not for men," But
we have in the roll OF Christs host Mozart
and Handel in music; Canova and Angelo
in sculpture; Raphael and Reynolds in
painting; Harvey and Boerhaave in medi-
cine; Cowper and Scott In poetry; Crotius
and Burke in craftsmanship; Boyle and
Lebnitz in philosophy; Thomas Chalmers
and John Mason in theology. The most
brilliant 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 sparkles.
Samuel l.. Southland was mighty in the
court room and in the Senate chamber, but
he reserved his strongest eloquence for that
day when he stood before the literary socie-
ties at Princeton commencement and
pleaded for the grandeur of our Bible. Dan
lei Webster won not his chief garlands while
he was consuming Hayne, nor when he
opened the batteries of his eloduence on
Bunker Hill, that rocking Sinai of the
American revolution, but on that day when,
ir the famous Gi ard 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 to our side. Where is Gibbons
historical pen9 Where is Robespierres
swordl Captured for God. "rhere is
none like. that; give it mep
So, also, has it 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 sids of Christian
ity; but we overlook the engraver's knife
and the painters pencil. The antiquarian
goes and looks at pictured ruins, or ex-
amines the chiseled pillars Of Thebes, and
Ninevah, and Pompeh, and then comes
back to tell us of the beastliness of
ancient art; and 1t is fact now, that
many of the finest specimens merely
artstically 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 pave
monts and the bazars of Corinth, he
preached of the pure and holy Jesus. The
art Of tho world on the side of obscenity
and crime and death.
In later days the palaces of kings .were
adorned with pictures. But what to un-
clean Henry VIII. was beautiful picture
Of the Madonna What TO Lord Jefferies,
the unjust judge, the picture of the Last
JudgmentY' What to Nero the unwashed,
picture Of the baptism IN Jordan9 The
art Of the world still on the side Of supersti-
ton and death. But that is being changed
now. The christian artist goes across the
water, LOOKS of the pictures and brings back
to his American studio much Of the power to
those old masters. The christian minister
goes over to Venice, looks at the "Cruci-
fixion of Christ" and comes back to his
American pulpit to talk as never before of
the sufferings of the Saviour. The private
tourist goes to Il me and looks at Raphael's
picture of the Last Judgment The tears
start, and he goes back TO his room In the
hotel, and prays God for preparation for
that day when
Shriveling like parched schroll,
The flaming heavens together roll.
Our Sunday school newspapers and walls
are adorned with pictures of Joseph in the
court, Daniel in the den, Shadrach in the
fire, Paul in the shipwreck, Christ on the
cross. On that we might, in our IA miles,
think more Of the power Of christian
picturesl One little sketch of Samuel
kneeling In PRAYER will mean more to your