The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-07-03

done! Unclean! Have mercy. Lord
Godm
Again, l remark that the travelling dis
position of the world, which was averse
to morals and religion, is to be brought on
our side. The man that went down to
Jericho and fell amidst thieves was type
OF great many travellers. There Is many
a man who is very honest at home who,
when he is abroad, has his honor tlched
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 man. In the
Olden times God forbade the travelling Of
men for the purposes of trade because Of
the cOrrupting influences attending 1t. A
good many men now cannot stand the
transition from one place to another. Some
men who seem to be very constant at
home in the way of keeping the Sabbath,
when they get into Spain, on the lord day
always 90 out to see 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 DISPOSE
ton, 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 are TO trans
port our missionaries; these sailors rush
ing from city TO city all around
the world, are TO be con-
verted into Christian heralds and go
out and preach Christ among the heather
nations The gospels are infinitely null
tiplied in beauty and power since Robin
son, and Thompson, and Burckhardt have
come back and talked to us about Sloan,
and Capernaum, and Jerusalem, pointing
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preached, the beach upon which Paul was
shipwrecked, the fords at which Jordan
was passed, the Red sea bank on which
tossed the carcasses of the drowned Egyp-
tians. man said: al went to the Holy
Land an infidel; l came back Christian.
l could not help it,
am not shocked at the idea of building
a railroad in the Holy Land. 1 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 get TO see the Holy Land. Then
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 the water and see our civilization,
and examine our Christianity, and 90
back and tell the story, and keep that en-
pire rocking until Jesus shall reign
Whe e'er the sun
Toes his successive journeys
And the firearms, with which the inf
del traveller brought down the Arab horse
man 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 mel"
So it has 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 Christ's host
Mozart and Handel in music; Canova and
Angelo in sculpture; Raphael and Rev
nolds in painting; Harvey and Boer-
have in medicine; Cowper and Scott in
poetry; Crotius and Burke in statesman
ship; Boyle and Leibnitz in philosophy;
Thomas Chalmers and John Mason in
theology. The most brilliant writings of
a worldly nature are all aglow with scrip
tural illusions. Through senatorial
speech and through essayist's discourse,
Sinai thunders and Calvary pleads and
Sloan sparkles.
Samuel L. Southland was mighty in the
courtroom and in the senate chamber,
but he reserved his strongest eloquence
for that day when he stood before the
literary societies at Princeton commence
ment and pleaded for the grandeur of our
bible. Daniel Webster won 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 Chris
tian religion and eulogized the bible. The
eloquence and learning that have been on
the other side came over to our side.
Where is Gibbons historical pen? Where
is Robespierres 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 anx-
ious on this day TO have the printing press
and the platform on the side of Christian
ity; but we overlook the engravers knife
and the painters pencil. The antiquar-
ian goes and looks at pictured ruins, or
examines the chiseled pillars of Thebes
and Nineveh, and Pompeii, and then
comes back to tell us of the beastliness of
many of the finest ecimens-merely ar
tistically 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 obscenity
and crime and death.
In the later days the palaces of kings
were adorned with pictures. But what to
unclean Henry VIII was a beautiful pic
ture of the Madonna? What to Lord JEFF
fries, the unjust judge, the picture of the
"Last Judgment?" What to Nero, the
unwashed, the picture of the baptism in
Jordan? The art OF the world still on the
side of superstition 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
masters. The Christian minister goes over
to Venice, looks at the "CruciixiOn of
Christ" and comes back TO his American
pulpit to talk as never before of the suffer
ings of the Savior The private tourist
goes 10 Rome and looks at Raphael's pic
ture 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
walls are adorned with pictures of joseph
in the court, Daniel in the den, Shadrach
in the fire, Paul in the shipwreck, Christ
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