West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-07-04

Nhh iotton COulu not help ~ ~
am not shocked at the idea Of bnild,pe
a railroad TO the Holy Land wish that All
the world might go and SEQ Golgotha and
bethlehem. III we cannot afford to nav for
nuieeeers now, perhaps whom tho rail- train
goes wo can afford 10 buy a ticket from
win Set ~ 500 20 Tho SoPPS and 50 wo
let Christians travell God speed the
rail trains, and guide the steamsbips this
night painting across tho deep in the phoS-
phorescent wake Of tho shining feet Of him
who from wave cliff to wave cliff trod thc
stormed Tfberias. Tho japanese come across
tho water and SEQ our civilization. and OK
amino our Christianity, and go back and tell
tho story, and keep that Empire rocking until
Jesus shall reign.
wherc'cr the sun
Docs his successive Journeys I'm
And the firearms with which tho in6del
traveller brought down the Arab horsclnnn
and the Jackols of the desert have been sur
rendered To the church, and we reach forth
our hands, crying: "Therc Is none like that.
give 10 metz '
So IL has also been with tho learning and
the eloqucnce of the world People saw:
heiigion Is very good for women, it is very
god for children, but not for men, But we
have in the roll of Christ's host Mozart and
Handel I'm music; Canoya and Angelo i'm
sculpture; Raphael and REYNOLDS i'm
painting; Harvey and Boerhaave in
poetr ITne cro.; GowP pnd p and Scott in
manship; Boyle and Leibnitz in philosophy:
Thomas Chalmers and John Mason I'm theolo-
gy. Tho most brilliant writings of q worldly
nature are all aglow with scriptural allusions
Through senatorial speech and through essay
lists discourse Sinai thunders and Calvary
pleads and Sloan sparlxlcs
Samuel L.. Southland was mighty In the
court room and in tho senate chamber. but
he reserved his strongest eloquonce for that
day when he stood before tho literary so-
CiCtlpS Mt Princeton
pleaded for the grandeur OF our Bible. Daniel
Webster won not his chief garlands while he
was consuming Haync, nor when he
opened tho batteries Of his cloquence on
Bunker Hill, that rocking Sinai of the Ameri-
can Revolution, but on that day when. I'm the
famous Girard will ease he showed his
affection for the Christian religion and
eulogized the Bible. Tho eloquenco and the
learning that have been on tho other side
came over 20 our side. Where is Glib
bonss historical pen? Where is Robespierro's
swordp Captured for God 'grhere Is mona
like that; give It mep
80 Also has it boon with the picture max
ing OF the world We arc very anxious ON
this day TO have tho printing press and tho
platform on the side of Christianity: but we
overlook the engravcr's knife and tho
painters pencil. The antiquarian goes and
.I az pictured ruins, or examines
the cniseied pillars Of Thebes, and Ninevah
and Pompeii, and then comes back TO tell us
OF the beastliness OF ancient art: and IL Is n
TACT now, that many of the finest speci
mens-merely artistically considered-of
sculpture and painting that arc to be
found amidst those ruins are NOT fit
10 DE looked at, and they are locked up.
how raul must have felt when, standing
amidst those impurities that stared on him
rom the walls and tho pavements and the
DaZars OF Corinth he preached of the pure
ana holy Jesus. The art of tho world on
the side or obscurity and crime and death
IN later days the palaces of Kings were
aiaorneq with pictures. But what to UNI
clean Henry VIII. was a beautiful picture OF
tho Madonnn2 What TO Lord Jeffries the
unjust Judge, the picture of the Last Judg-
mentT What TO Nero, The unwashed. n
picture OF tho baptism in the Jordanp The
a ..t. OF the world still on the side of super
changed now. mo Christian artist
goes across the wator, looks at tina
pictures, and brings back TO his American
studio much of the power of those old mas
ters. The Christian minister. COOS over. In
Venice looks at the ''Cruciiixion of Christ y
and comes back 10 his American pulpit To
LAX as never before of the sufrerfnas of the
saviour. The private tourist goes to Romo
ana looks at Raphaels picture OF the Last
judgment" The tears start, and no goes
pack 70 his room in the hotel, and prays God
sor preparation for that day when,
Shrivellns ike parched scroll.
Inc flaming heavens together roll
Our Sunday-school newspapers and vyolIs
nre adorned with pictures of joseph in fine
court Daniel IN the den, Shadrach in the
fire, Paul in tho shipwreck, Christ on fbs
cross. Oh, that we might, in our families.
think moro of the power of Christian mic
turesl One little sketch of SamneI lsneoiinC,
IN prayer Will mean more to your children
tnan twenty sermons on devotion Ono M
tient face OF Christ by the hand OF the artist
wiz De more to your child than fifty sermons
be taken for Christ. What has become of
Thorwaldsens chisel and Ghirlanda los crav-
on Captured for the truth There Isl none
ike that; give it mel"
so, l remark, it is with business acumon
ana tact When Christ was upon earth. the
people that followed Him, for the most mart
had no social position There was but ono
man naturally brilliant in all the apostle.
sup. Joseph, OF Arimathea, the rich
man, risked nothing when he offered n ,olo i'm
the rock for the dead Christ How many
or the merchants in Asia Minor
befriended Jesusy / think of only one. I,ydio.
HOW many of the castles on the beach of
Galilee entertained Christ? Not one. Wben
refer came to JOppa, he stopped with one
Simon, tanner. What power had Christ's
name on the Roman exchange. or in tho
bazars of COrinth? None. The prominent
men or tho day did not want to
FISK their reputation for sanity by pre-
Tending TO DO ono of His followers. Now that
san changed. Among tho mightiost men in
orr great cities to-day arc the Christian NOR
chants and the Christian bankers; and n to-
n'oiIoWi ~ lho Board OF Trade, any man
should get up and malign the name Of jesus
ne would be quickly slouced or nut ont IN
inc front rank Of all our Christian
workers to-day ore the Christian merchants.
ana the enterprises Of the world arc coming
on tho right side. There was n firm yviIJe3
away come years ago, all the proceeds Of
mat farm 70 90 for spreading inlldcl books
somehow matters have changed and now
AL the proceeds Of that farm co
toward the missionary cause. One ~
the finest printing presses over built
was Dunt Tor the express purpose Of publish
ing inhdel tracts and books Now it docs
nothing but print Holy Bibles Ibclieve tbat
the time viii come when, in commercial cir
cios, the voice Of Christ will he the miehtiest
or an voices, and tho ships Of
larshish VIII bring presents and tho
Queen Of Shobn her glory mud tbe
wise men Of the East their myrrh md frankin-
cenee. look of upon the business men ~
our cities and rejoice Mt the prospect that
their tact and ingenuity, and talent will
after while. all be brought into the eervico
Of Christ. IL will be one Of the rni0btiort
on weapons. There is none like that. Two
70 mer '' o''0
Now, II what have said be true avov
with oil d0wnheartcdneesi m science is In
% on the right side and tho travelling digpo-
sition Of the world on tho right side. and fhs
learning Of the world on the right side and
tho picture making on the right side
AMI the business acrmcn and tact az
the world on the right siIe-Thine %
lfDf0, l8 tho kingdom OH fan into