The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1889-06-27

Whlf ticN W tNkt our btDlpS. these Sfp4U1-
ships they are TO transport our missionaries;
these sailors rushing from city TO CITY ali
around tho world, are 20 be converted into
Christian heralds and go out and preach
Christ among the heathen nations. The Cos
pels are infinitely multiplied in beauty and
power since Robinson. and Thompson and
Burckhardt have como back and talked TO
us about Sloan, and Capernaum, and
Jerusalem, pointing out 10 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: "I went
TO the Holy Land an infidel; came back n
Christian. could not help It."
l am not shocked mt the idea of building
a railroad to the Holy Land. wish that all
the world might go and SEQ Golgotha and
Bethlehem. III we cannot afford to pay for
muleteers now, perhaps when the rail train
goes we can afford to buy ticket from
H sss % see to the yoRs and land 50 sS
let Christians travcl 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 elf 10 wave cliff trod tho
stormed Tiberias. The japanese come across
the water and SEQ 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
Docs his successive journeys run.
And the firearms with which the infidel
traveller brought down the Arab horscmnn
and the iackals of the desert hive been sur
rendered to the church, and we reach forth
our hands, crying: There is none like that
give IL meln
SO IL has also been with the learning and
the oloquoncc of the world People say:
Religion is very good for women il 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 Reynolds in
painting: Harvey and Boerhaavc In
medicine Cowper and Scott in
poetry; Crotius and Burke in states
manship; Boyle and Lcibnitz in philosophy:
Thomas Chalmers and John Mason in thcolo-
gy. The most brilliant writings of worldly
nature are all nglow with scriptural illusions.
Through senatorial speech and through essay
lists discourse Sinai thunders and Calvary
pleads and Sloan sparklcs
Samuel L. Southland was mighty in the
court room and in the senate chamber but
he reserved his strongest eloquencc for that
day when he 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
was consuming Haync, nor when he
opened tnc batteries OF MS eloIucnce on
Bunker Hill, that rocking Sinai of the Ameri-
can 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 eloquence and the
learning that have been on the other side
came over to our side. Where is Glib
bons's historical pen? Whore Is Robcspierrc's
sword? Captured for God. "Thcre is none
like that; give IL me-"
So, also, has il been with the picture max
ing of the world. We are very anxious on
this day TO have the printing press and tho
platform on the side of Christianity; but we
overlook the engravcr's knife and the
painters pencil. The antiquarian goes and
looks at pictured ruins, or examines
the chiseled pillars of Thcbcs and Ninevah
and Pompeii, and then comes back To- tell us
OF the beastliness OF ancient art; and il il a
fact now, that many of the finest speci-
mens-merely artistically considercd--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. Tho art of the world on
the side Of obscurity and crime and death.
In later days the palaces of Kings wero
adorned with pictures. But what TO un.
clean Henry VIII. was a beautiful picture OF
.ne madonnaF nat 10 Lord Jeiries, the
y..S, unyuss 'unRe, 'ne picture oI the Last Judg-
,,;o,,,r ma ha' W Ncro, .he nnwasheI;
P,tVuro ". s ~ .ne yap.is,h III .ho Jordany inc
u.,.i. oi 'he mor,u sun on the side OF suner
~ ~s,ie''lon anu ueatn; Dut that Is ng
changed now. Inc Christian artist
goes across the water, looks at the
p.',I pluLuros anu prlnss pack 70 ms American
seuu'o s lr riuen Oh the power OF those old mas
Wi Wyglsi me ne Snristlah minister goes over TO
onI eh'ee, @ Ioohs W the 'Srucihxlon OF CHRIST
mn .m comes pack 10 ms American pulpit To
saih Us never T before OF the sunerings OF the
S oaSiour me private tourist goes to Rome
anu t loohs ut MaPhaels picture of the Last
Juusueht, Inc tears start, ana he goes
pack s 20 ms room III inc hotel and prays God
ior preparation Tor that day when,
Shriyelins Ike parchcd SCROLL
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0ua = Daii,ci i .l 'he uen, ohhdrnch III the
nre, 4 "a, IL. .ne shlpWreck, Chrlst on the
,h;n1 III on, tsae VIC hlshl, III our families,
,,,nas ~, VI e,ie power OF CHRISTIAN Pic-
~ ;ui os. oilc mn n.tie skotch Oh Saihuel kneellng
thdp" 49, WIN l,ie'in more 10 your elildreh
tin,,t sJ Ss"olIJ sciilons Oh ueVotioh; one pa.
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w, "t 10 msoIo W yVrL chllu thah nIty sermons
' hn toho's 90, ,n,ei ri ihe "rt oi the worln Is 10
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