The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-06-27

Ciii L9-iSiiltJ W c-hlpHLt from Inc ODSerV-
atories OF Albany and Washington,
stretches out its hand toward the oppos-
ing scientific weapon, crying: There
is none like that; give it mew / was
reading this afternoon of Herschel,
who was looking at meteor through
telescope. and when it came over the
face Of the telescope it was so powerful
he had to avert his eyes. And it has
been just so that many an astronomer
has gone into an observatory and
looked up into the midnight heavens,
and the Lord God has, through some
swinging world, famed upon his Wis
ion, and the learned man cried out:
"Who am II Undonei Uncleanl
Have mercy, Lord GodP'
A WORLD OF TRAVELLERS
Again. | remark, that the travelling
disposition of the world, which was
averBc to morals and religion, is to be
brought on our side. The man that
went down TO Jericho and fell amidst
thieves was a type of q 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 expedition Six weeks at a
watering place has damned many a
man. In the olden times God forbade
the travelling Of men for the purposes
of trade because Of the corrupting influ-
ences attending it. A good many men
now cannot stand the transition from
one place to another. Some men who
seem 10 be very consistent at home in
the way of keeping the Sabbath, when
thoy get into Spain, on the Lords day
always 60 out to sec 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
arc to transport 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 heathen ma
tions. The Gospels are infinitely null
tiplied in beauty and power since Rob
inson, and Thompson, and Burck-
hardt 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 were tossed
tho carcasses of the drowned Egyptians.
A man said Il went to the Holy
Land an intidel; | came back Chris
tian. could not help it,"
| am not shocked at the idea Of
building n railroad to the Holy Land.
l wish that all the world might go and
see Golgotha and Bethlehem. II we
cannot afford TO pay for muleteers
now, perhaps when tho rail train goes
we can afford TO buy "A ticket from
Constantinople to Joppa. and SO we
will get to sec the Holy Land, Then
let Christians travell God speed the
rail trains and guide the steamships
this night painting across the 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 rock
ing until Jesus shall reign
Where'er the sun
Does his successive Journeys run
And the firearms. with which the
infldel traveller brought down the Arab
horseman and the jackals of the des-
ert. have been surrendered to the
church, and we reach forth our hands,
crying: There Is none like that; give
Il mtf
RELIGION GOOD FOR EVERY ONE
4 L,- a 1ae, hnav, with fba loo npi,,o,
and tho eloquence Of the world. Peo-
plo say Religion is very good for
women, it is very good for children,
but not for mon" 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 Boerhaaye
III medicine; Cowper and Scott in
poetry; Crotius and Burke III states
manship; Boyle and Lelbnitz In philos-
ophy; Thomas Chalmers aud John
Mason in theology The most bril-
liant writings of worldly nature
are all aglow with scriptural allu-
sions Through senatorial speech aud
through essayist's discourse Sinai
thundors and Calvary pleads and 81
loan sparkles
Samuel L. Southland was mighty in
the court room and in the senate cham
Der, but ho reserved his strongest elo-
eucnco for that day when he stood be
foro the literary soaioties at Princeton
commencement and pleaded for the
grandeur of our Woia Daniel Webster
wpx not his chief garlands while he
was consuming 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 affection for the
| Christian religion and eulogized the
Bible Tho e.oquence and the learn
| ing that have been on the other side
came over to our side, Where is Glib
! bon's historical pen? Where Is Robes
pierro's swordl Captured for God;
'Thero is none like that; give it mel'
So, also, has it been with the pic
! turo making of the world. We arc
very anxious ON this day to have the
printing press and the platform on the
side of Christianity; but we overlook
the engraver's knife and the painters
pencil The antiquarian goes and
looks at pictured ruins, on examines
tho chiseled pillars Of Thebes, and
Nineveh, and Pompeii. and then comes
back 10 tell us of the beastliness of an
cient art; and it is a fact now, that
many of the finest specimens-merely
artisticaliy considered-of sculpture
and painting that are to be found
amidst those ruins are not lit to be
looked at and they are locked mp.
How Paul must have felt, when,
standing amidst those impurities that
stared ON him from the walls and the
pavemcnts and the bazars 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 the palaces of kings were
adorned with pictures. But what TO un.
clean Henry VIII was beautiful pic
ture of the Madounai What TO Lord
Jeifries, the unjust judge, the picture
of the Last Judgmentp What to
Nero, the unwashed, a picture of the
baptism in the Jordan2 The art oi
the world still on the side of supersti
ton and death But that is being
changed now. The Christian artis
goes across the water, looks at thC
pictures and brings back to his Amer
lean studio mach OF tile power o.
thoSS, old masters The Christian min
lister goes over to Venice, looks at th'
"Crucitlxion Of Christ" and comes
back 10 his American pulpit to tall
! as never before of the sutfcrings o
the Saviour The private tourist goe
, to Rome and looks at Raphael's PIC
, ture of the Last Judgment" Tn
! tears start, and he goes back to hi
room in the hotel, and prays God 10
preparation for that day when,
/, shriveling like pancbed SCROLL
I The E.l1lng heas ems together roll