Dodge City times., 1889-07-11

many men now cannot stand the trAuRs.
tion 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 got into Spain, on the
Lords day always go out to see the bull
hghts. 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 steamboats,, they are to
transport our missionaries; these sailors
rushing from city to city all around the
world, are to be converted into Chris
tian heralds and 60 out and preach
Christ among the heathen 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, 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 the carcasses Of the
drowned Egyptians. A man said: Il
went to the Holy Land an infidel;
came back Christian. I could not
help it.
am not shocked et the idea of build
ing a railroad to the Holy Land. wish
that all the world might 60 and see
Golgotha and Bethlehem. If we cannot
afford to pay for muleteers now, perhaps
when the rail train goes We can afford to
buy ticket from Constantinople to
JOppa, and SO We will getto see the Holy
Land. Then let Christians travel! God
\ thn nd Io ha
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 ex-
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 in
fidel 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 me-
So it has also been with the learning
and the eloquence of the world. Peo-
pie say: Religion is very good for wo-
ucu, IL ID very kOOu LUZ CulluIcu, OuS
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; Har-
vey and Boerhaave in medicine; Cowper
and Scott in poetry; Crotius and Burke in
| craftsmanship; Boyle and Leibnitz in
philosophy; Thomas Chalmers and John
Mason in theology. The most brilliant
| writings of worldly nature are all
| aglow with scriptural illusions.
Through senatorial speech and through
| essyaist's discourse Sinai thdnders and
Calvary pleads and Sloan sparkles.
Samuel L. Southard 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 societies at Princeton COM
mencement and pleaded for the grandeur
of our Bible. Daniel Webster won not
his chief garlands while he was cOnsum-
| ing Hayne, nor when he opened the
batteries of his eloquence on Bunker
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 eIoquence
and the learning 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 mel"
| So, also, has it been with the picture
making 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 en-
gravers knife and the painters pencil.
The antiquarian goes and looks Mt
| pictured ruins, or examines the chiseled
! pillars of Thebes, and Nireveh, 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
specimens artistically consid-
ered-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 OBJ
scenity and crime and death.
So, remark, it is with business acu-
men and tact. When Christ was upon
earth, the people that followed him, for
the most part, had no social position.
There was but one man naturally brill
liant in all the apostleship. Joseph of
Arimathea, the rich man, risked nothing
when he offered a hole in the rock for
dead Christ. How many of the mer-
chants in Asia Minor befriended Jesus?
think of only one, Lydia. How many
of the castles on the beach of Galilee
entertained Christ? Not one. When
Peter came to Joppa, he stopped with
| one Simon, q tanner. What power mad
\ o1or
or in the bazars of Corinth? None. The
prominent men of the day did not want
to risk their reputation for sanity by
pretending to be one of his followers.
Now that is all changed. Among the
mightiest men in our great cities to-day
are the Christian merchants and the
Christian bankers; and If tomorrow, at
the Board of Trade, any man should get
up and malign the name of Jesus, he
would be quickly silenced or put out.
In the front rank Of all our Christian
workers to-day are the Christian mer-
chants; and the enterprises of the
world are coming on the right side.
There was q farm willed away some
years ago, all the proceeds of that farm
to go for spreading infdel books. Some
how matters have changed and now all
the proceeds of that farm go toward the
missionary cause. One of the finest
printing presses ever built was built for
the express purpose of publishing infi-
del tracts and books Now it does
nothing but print Holy Bibles. be-
lieve that the time will come when, in
commercial circles. the voice of Christ
will be the mightiest of all voices,
and the ships of Tarshish will bring
presents and the Queen of Sheba her
glory and the wise men of the East their
myrrh and frankincense. I look OF
upon the business men of our cities and
rejoice at the prospect that their tact,
and ingenuity, and talent will, after
q while, all be brought into the service
of Christ. It will be one of the might