The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-07-17

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Jesus preached, the beach upon which Paul
was shipwrecked, the fords at which Jor-
dan was passed, the Red Sea bank on which
were tossed the carcasses of the drowned
Egyptians. A man said: II went to the
Holy Land an inTdel; came back a Chris
tian. could not help it."
am not shocked at the idea Of building o
railroad to the Holy Land, wish that all the
world might 20 and see Golgotha and Beth
lehem. live can not afford to pay for mule
teers now, perhaps when the rail train goes
we can afford to buy ticket from Constan-
tinople 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 by putting 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
Jananese come across the water and see our
civilization, and examine 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 Journey run.
And the firearms, with which the inidcl
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 eloouence 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 End Reynolds in paint
ing: Harvey and Boerhaave in medicine;
Cowper and Scott in poetry; Crotius and
Burke in craftsmanship; Boyle and Lieb-
nitz in philosophy: Thomas Chalmers and
John Mason in theology. The most bril-
liant writings Of worldly nature are all
aglow with scriptura. illusions. THROUGH
senatorial speech and through essaEist's
discourse Sinai thundccs and Calvary pleads
and Sileam sparkles.
Samuel L. Southar;S was mighty in the
court room and in the Senate chamber, but
he reserved his strongest evidence foc that
day when he stood before the literary soci-
ETY. at Princeton commencement and pleaded
for the grandeur of the Bible. DanielWeb-
ster won not his chief garlands while hewas
consuming Hayne, nor 'shea he opened the
batteries Of his eloquence on Bunker Hill,
the Rocking Sinai Of the American revolu
ton, 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
haES beenY o.fvnone -As!2ue- caessisssc -
| our sioe Where is Gibbons historical pen
Where is Robespierre's sword! Captured
for God. 'Thcre is none like that; give i
mer'
So, also, has it been with the picture max
ing OF the world. We are very anxious OF
this day to have the printing press and the
platform on the side of Christianity; but we
overlook the engraver's knife and the paint
! er's pencil. The antiquarian goes and looks
at pictured ruins, or examines the chiselec
pillars Of Thebes, and Nineveh, and Pompeii
and then comes back to tell US Of the beast
| iness Of ancient art; and it IS q fact now,
that many of the finest specimens merely
srtistically 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 thatstared
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 latter days the palaces Of kings were
adorned with pictures. But what to unclean
! Henry VIII was a beautiful picture of the
Madonna! What to Lord Jeffries, the un-
Just judge, the picture Of the Last Judg
ment" What to Nero, the unwashed, a
picture of the baptism in the Jordan? The
art Of the world still on the side Of super
stition 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 Chris
tian 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 suferings Of the Saviour. The pri-
vate 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
Shrivelng 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, Shadrack in the
fire, Paul in the shipwreck, Christ on the
cross. D that we might, in our families,
think more Of the power of Christian pict-
ures! One little sketch Of Samuel kneeling
in prayer will mean more to your children
!! than twenty sermons on devotion. One
patient face of Christ by the hand of the art
ist VIII be more to your child than fifty SER
mons on forbearancn. The art OF the world
is to be taken for Christ What has become
OF Thorwaldsen's chisel and Ghirlandaio's
crayone Captured for the truth. There is
none like that; give it me-"
So. remark, it is with business acCmeu
and tact When Christ was upon Garth, the
people that followed him, for the most part,
had no social position. There was but one
man naturally brilliant in all the apostleship.
Joseph, Of Arimathea, the rich man risked
nothing when he offered hole In the rock
for the dead Christ How many Of the
merchants in Asia Minor befriended
Jesusl think Of only one, Lydia. How
many Of the castles on the beach Of Gall
lee entertained Christ! Not one. When
Peter came to Joppa he stopped with one
Simon, a tanner. What power had Chrlsts
name on the Roman exchange, or in the
bazars OF Corinths 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 to NOR
row, at the Board of Trade, any man should
get up and malign the name OF Jesus, he
would be quickly silenccd or put out. IN
the front rank of all our Christian workers
to-day are the Christian merchants; and the
enterprises of the world are coming on the
! right side There was farm willed away
some years ago, and all the proceeds OF
that farm to 90 for spreading infdcl books.
Somehow matters have changed, and now all
the proceeds OF that farm 80 toward the
missionary cause One Of the finest print
ing presses ever built was built for the ex-
press purpose Of publishing infdel tracts
and books Now it does nothing but print
Holy Bibles believe that tho time will
come when in commercial circles, the voice
of Christ will be the mightiest of all voices,