Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-07-04

70 Ine hOiy LanQ an mndel; came back
Christian. could not help ft.n
l am not shocked at the idea Of building
a railroad to the Holy Land. wish that ali
the world might go and see Golgotha and
Bethlehem. II we cannot afford to pay for
muleteers now, perhaps when the rail train
goes we can arrord to buy a 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 the deep in the phos-
who from wave cliff to wave cliff trod the
stormed Tiberias. The Japanese come across
the water and see our civilization, and e1-
anime 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.
And the firearms, with which the infidel
traveller brought down the Arab horseman
and the jaclKals of the desert, have been sur
rendered to the church, and we reach forth
our hands, crying: "Thereis 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 is very
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
medicine Cowper and Scott i'll
poetry Crotius and Burke in states
nanship; Boyle and Leibnitz in philosophy;
Thomas Chalmers and John Mason in theolo-
gy. The most brilliant writings of a worldly
nature are all aglow with scriptural illusions.
Through senatorial speech and through essay
;ctic dicooursn Sinai thundarc and Calvary
pleads and Sloan sparkles.
Samuel L. Southland was mighty in the
court room and in the senate chamber, but
he reserved bis strongest eloquence for that
day when ho 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
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 lis
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
bons's historical pen? Where is Robespierre's
swords Captured for God. "There is none
like that; give it mer'
So, also, has it been with the picture max
this day to have tho printing press and the
platform on the side of Christianity; but we
overlook the engraver's knifo 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
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 fiji
to be looked at, and they are locked up,
How Paul must have Seiu, wren, standing
amidst those impurities that stared on him
" e"",,: @ lie lie 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 anGs crime and death.
In later days the palaces of Kings werc
adorned with pictures But what to un-
clean Henry VIII. was beautiful picture OF
the Madonna? What to Lord Joifries, the
unjust Judge, the picture of tho last Judg-
ment% What to Nero, the unwashed, a
! art of the world still on the side of super
stitition 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 mas
ters. The Christian minister goes over to
| Venice, looks at the "Crucifxion 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 Rome
and looks at Raphaers 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 scroll,
| The flaming heavens together roll.
Our Sunday-school newspapers and wall.
are adorned with pictures of Joseph in tn
court, Daniel in the den, Shadrach in thu
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 kneelini
in prayer will mean more to your children
than twenty sermons on devotion. Ono pa
tient face Of Christ by the hand Of the nrtis
on forbearance The art of the world is t
be taken for Christ What has become O
Thorwaldsen's chisel and Ghirlandajos cray
Oh ? Captured for the truth. "There isnon
like that; give it mel"
So, I remark, it is with business acume
and tact. When Christ was upon earth, th
people that followed Him, for the most par
had no social position. There was but on
man naturally brilliant in all the apostl
| ID.
man, risked nothing when he offered hole
the rock for the dead Christ. How man
of the merchants in Asia Mine
befriended Jesusf think Of only one, Lydi;
How many of the castles on the beach {
Galilee entertained Christ? Not one. Whe
Peter came to Joppa, he stopped with OF
Simon, a tanner. What power had Christ
name on the Roman exchange, or in IL
bazars Of Corinth? None. The prominel
1 Il M
risk their reputation for sanity by pr
tending to be one of His followers. Now tina
is all changed. Among the mightiest men Il
.. our great cities to-day are the Christian n mel
chants and the Christian bankers; and If tc
morrow, at the Board Of Trade, any. ma
should get up and malign the name Of Jesu
|, he would be quickly silenced or put out. l
the front rank of oil our Christia
workers to-day are the Christian merchant
and the enterprises of the world are comir
on the right side. There was farm willie
away some years ago, all the proceeds
that farm to go for spreading intldel book
Somehow matters have changed and no
all the proceeds of that farm [
toward the missionary cause. One
Tho finest printing presses ever bu
; was built for the express purpose Of publis
ing infidel tracts and books. Now it do
nothing but print Holy Bibles. Ibelieve tn
, the time will come when, in commercial Ct
!. cles, the voice Of Christ will be the mightie
of ali voices, and the ships
Tarshish will bring presents and t
, Queen Of Sheba her glory and t
, wise men of the East their myrrh and frank
! cense Hook of upon the business men
i our cities and rejoice at the prospect th
| their tact, and ingenuity, and talent WI
after q while, all be brought into tho servi
! 4 of Christ. It will be one Of the Tightit
| of r,rnn., .,,,,r tNyTlhora ic mona Ike that. fri