Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-07-04

on his vision, and the learned man cried
out: who am L. Uudone! Unclean
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 tC
Jericho and fell amidst thieves was type
of a great many travellers. There is many
a 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 expedition. Six weeks at a watering
place has damned many a man. In the
olden times God forbade ne travelling of
men for the purposes 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 way of keeping the Sab
BATH when they get into Span, 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 he tempted to commerce. But this
travelling disposition of the world, which
was averse 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 mis-
sionar.es: these sailors rushing frC N city
to city all around the wcr d, are to be COR
verted in oChristian 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. ami
Capernaum, and Jerusalem, pointing out
10 US the lilies about " hich Jesus preached,
the beach upon which Paul was ship
wrecked, the fords at VIII Oh 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 infide!; l came back
Christian. | could not help it,"
am not shocked al the idea of building
a railroad to the Holy Land. l wish that
all the world might go and see GolgotEa
and Bethlehem. If we can not afford to
pay for muleteers now perhaps when the
rail train goes we can afford to buy a
ticke: from Constantinople 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
painting across the deep in the phosphor-
escent wake of the shining feet of Him
who from wave cliff to wave Cliff 10 wave
cliff trod the stormed Tiberias. 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
Wbereer the sun
Does his successive Journeys run.
And the firearms with which the in
fdel 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 to me-"
So it has always been with the learning
and the eloq renee of the world. People
say: Religion 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 painting, Harvey and Boer-
haava in medicine. Cowper and Scott in
poetry, Crotius andBurke in craftsmanship,
Boyle and ebnitz in philosophy, Thomas
Chalmers and John Mason in theology.
The most brilliant writ ng' of a worldly
nature are all aglow with scTiptural al u
sions. Through sensational speech and
through essayist's discourse Sinai thun-
der and Calvary pleads and Sloan
sparkles.
Samuel L. Sou thard was mighty in the
court room and the senate chamber, but
be reserved his strongest eloquence for
that day when he stood 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
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 af-
lection for the Christian religion and eulo-
yzed the Bible. The eloquence and the
earning that have been on the other side
came over to our side. Where is Gibbons
historical pen? Where is Robespierre'S
sword? Captured for God. There is
none like that; give it to me-"
So, also, has it been with the picture
making of the world. We are very anx-
ous on this day to have the printing press
and the platform on the side of Christiani-
"; but we overlook the engraver's knife
aud the painters pencil. The antiquarian
goes and looks at pictured ruins, or ex-
lmines the chiseled pillars of Thebes, and
Nineveh. and Pompeii, and then comes
back 10 tell US of the beast mess of ancient
art; and it is a fact now, that many of
he finest specimens-merely ariisticly
sculpture and painting
hat 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 stand
ng 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 side of obscenity and
crime and death
In later days he palaces of kings were
adorned with uictures. But what to I'M
clean Henry VIII. was beautiful picture
Of the Madonna? What TO Lord Jeffries,
the unjust judge the picture Of the Last
Judgment" What 10 Nero, the I'M
washed, a picture of the baptism in the
Jordan? The art of the world is still on
he side of superstition and death. But
that is being changed now. The Christian
artist goes across the water looks at the
pictures and brings back 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
suferings of the Saviour. The private
tourist goes to Rome and looks at Ra-
phaePs picture OF the "Last Judgment"
The tears start and he goes back to his
room in the hotel and prays God for prep
aration for that day when,
Shriveling like q parched scroll,
The flaming heavens together roll
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