Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-07-04

ships, they are to transport orr mic;
these sailors rushing from CITY to citv ali ali
around the world, are to be converted into
christian heraids and go out and preach
Christ among the heathen nations The Cos
Pels are INFINITELY multiplied in beauty and
power since hobinson. and Thomson and
Burckhardt have come back and talLa5 ~,
US ABOUT Sloan, and Capernaum and
Jerusalem, pointing out to us the lilies aho,,+
winch 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: az went
to the Holy Land an infidel; came back a
Christian. / could not help it.n
/ am not shocked at the idea of hu;ld;no
q railroad to the Holy Land. wish that ali
the world might go and see Golgotha and
Bethlehem. If we cannot afford to paw for
muleteers now, perhaps when the rail train
goes we can afford to buy ticket from
viii get to see the '0aRR oy i Land 50 rb ws
let Christians travel God speed the
rail trains, and guide the steamships this
night painting across the deep in the phos-
phorescent wake of the shining feet of him
who from wave cliff to wave cliff trod the
stormed Tiberias. The Japanese come across
anime our Christianity, and 20 back and tell
the story, and keep that Empire rocking until
Jesus shall reign.
whereer the sun
Does his successive journeys run
And the firearms, with which the infidel
traveller brought down the Arab horseman
and the jackals of the desert have been sur
rendered to the church, and we reach forth
our hands, crying: THERE'S none like that;
give it meln
So it has also been with the learning and
the eloquencc of the world. People saw;
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
painting; Harvey and Boerhaave in
medicine Cowper and Scott in
poetry; Crotius and Burke in states
manship: Boyle and Leibnitz in philosophy:
Thomas Chalmers ana j o.. ilason M 1neaio-
gy, The most brilliant writings of worldly
nature are all agiow with scriptural illusions.
Through senatorial speech and through essay
lists 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 so
cieties at Princeton commencement and
pleaded for the grandeur Of our Bible. Daniel
Webster won not his chief garlands while he
was consuming hdyne, nor when ne
opened the batteries of his eloquence on
Bunker Hill, that rocking Sinai Of the Ameri-
can Revolution, 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 to our side. Where is Glib
bonss historical penn Where is RobesDierre's
sword? Captured for God. "There is none
like that; give it mep
So also, has il 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 engravers knife and the
painters pencil The antiquarian goes and
looks at pictured ruins, or examines
the chiseled pillars of Thebes, and Ninevah
and Pompeii, and then comes back to tell us
Of the beastliness of ancient art; and it is a
fact now, that many Of the finest speci-
mens-merely 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 obscurity 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 Jeffries, the
unjust Judge, the picture of the Last Judg-
mentr' What to Nero the unwashed,
picture of the baptism in the Jordan The
art of the world still on the side Of super
stitition and death. But that is being
changed now. Tho Christian artist
goes across the water looks at the
pictures, and brings back to his American
studio much of the power of those old mas
tiers. The Christian minister goes over 70
Venice, looks at the 'Crucifxion of Christ"
and comes back to his American pulpit to
talk as never efore of the suirerings of the
Saviour. The private tourist goes to Rome
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
shrfveling 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, Shadrach In the
fire, Paul in the shipwreck, Christ on the
cross Oh, that we might in our families,
think more of the power OF Christian PIC
lures One little sketch of Samuel kneehng
in prayer viii mean more to your children
than twenty sermons ON devotion: one pa
tent face of Christ by the hand of the artist
y
ON forbearance. The art Of the world Is TO
be taken for Christ What has become OF
chisel and Ghirlandajo's cray
on Captured for the truth. There snone
like that; give it me-
So. remark, it is with business acurnen
and tact When Christ was upon earth, tne
people that followed Him, for the most part,
had no social position. There was but one
man naturally brilliant in all the apostle
shin. Joseph, of Arimathea, the rich
man. risked nothing when he offered a hole IN
fine rock for the dead Christ. How many
Of the merchants in ASA Minor
befriended Jesusy l think Of only one Lydia;
How many of the castles on the beach OF
Galiles entertained Christi Not one. when
Peter came to Joppa, he stopped with one
simon. a tanner. What power had Cnrisss
name on the Roman exchange, or N tne
bozars of Corinths None The prominent
men of the day did not want 20
risk their reputation for sanity oy pro
c,,s,n. - % ols o. ,sis f,,.-,.sei y y. e.1as
: ali changed. Among the mightiest men IN
mr. great cities to-day are the Christian 7! mer-
,hants and the Christian bankers; ana II 70
,,o-rovv at the Board Of Trade, any man
,..i1 80 mn and malign the name OF Jesus /