The Penn's Grove record., 1889-07-13

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towards the opposing scientific weapon,
CRYING, s'There is none like that: give
it to mel l was reading this afternoon
of Herschel, who was looking at q
meteor through a telescope, and when
it came over the face of the telescope it
was so powerful that he had to avert his
eyes. And it has been just SO that
many an astronomer has gone into an
observatory and looked upinto the mid
night heavens, and the Lord God has,
through some swinging world, famed
upon his vision, and the learned man
cried ont: "Who am I? Undone! I'm
cleani Have mercy, Lord God!"
Again, l remark that the travelling
disposition 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 a type of a great many trav-
elers. There is many a man who is very
honest at home who, when he isabroad,
has his honor filched, and his good
habits stolen. There are but very few
men who can stand the stress OF an ex-
petition. Six weeks at a watering-place
has damned many a MAN. In he olden
times God forbade the travelling of
men for the purposes of trade, because
of the ~corrupting influences attending
it. A good many men now
CANNOT STAND TRANSITION
from one place to another. Some men
who seem to be very consistent at home
in the way of keeping the Sabbath,
when they get into Spain, onthe Lords
day always go 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 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 are to
transport missionaries; these sailors
rushing from city to city all around the
world, are to be converted into Christ
ian heralds and GO out and preach Christ
among.the heather nations. The Cos
pels are infinitely multiplied in beauty
and power since Robinson and Thomp-
son and Burckhardt have come back
and talked to us about Sloan AVID Cap
ernaum and Jerusalem, pointing out to
us the lilies about which Jesus preach
ed; the beach upon which Paul was
shipwrecked; the fords at which Jordan
was passed; the Red Sea bank on which
were tossed the carcases Of the drowned
Egyptians. A man said: 81 went to
the Holy Land an infidel; l came back
a christian. 1 could not help it."
L am not shocked at the idea of build
ing a railroad to the Holy Land.
wish that all the world might goand see
Golgotha and Bethlehem. If we cannot
afford to pay for muleteers now, per.
haps when the rail-train goes we can
afford to buy a ticket from CONSTANT
nople to Joppa, and SO get to see the
Holy Land. Then
LET CHRISTIANS TRAVEL!
God speed the rail-trains, and guide
the steamships IT, day painting across
the deep in the p4osphorescent wake OF
the shining feet of Him who from wave
cliff to wave cliff trod the stormy Tiber.
las! 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 reign
where'er the sun
Does his successive journeys run.
And the firearms with which the in
idel traveller brought down the Arat
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 t.
me-!
So it has also been with the
N ELooUENCE
of the world. People say: 'sReligiol
is very good for women, it is very goot
for children, but not for men, But W,
! have in the roll of Christ's host Mozar
and Handel in music; Canova ant
Angelo in sculpture; Raphael and Rey
nolds in painting; Harvey and Boer
have in medicine; Cowper and Scott il
poetry; Crotius and Burke in states
manship; Boyle and Leibnitz in philos
ophy; Thomas Chalmers and Johl
Mason in theology. The most brillian
writings of a worldly nature are al
aglow with Scriptural illusions
Through senatorial speech and through
~essayists' discourse Sinai ~thunders, an,
Calvary pleads, and Sloan sparkles.
Samuel L. Southland was mighty il
the court room and in the senate cham
Der, but he reserved his stronges
eloquence for that day when he stoo'
before the literary societies at Prince
ton Commencement and pleaded TO
the grandeur of our Bible. DAME
Webster won not his chief garland
while he was consuming Hayne, no
when he opened the batteries of hi
eloquence on Bunker Hill, that rockin
Sinai of the American Revolution, bu
on that day when, in the famous Girar,
will case, he showed his affection 70
the Christian religion and eulogized tn
Bible. The eloquence and learnin
that had been on the other side cam
over to our side. Where is Gibbon'
historical pen? Where is Robespierre'
sword? Captured for God!
So, also, has it been with the picture
making of the world. We are yer
anxious on this day to have the print
ing press and the platform on the sid
of Christianity; but we overlook the Ell
graver's knife and
THE PAINTERS PENCIL.
The antiquarian goes and looks at pit
tured ruins, or examines the chiselle
pillars of Thebes and Nineveh an
Pompeii, and then comes back to te
us of the beastliness of ancient art; an
il is a fact, now, that many of the fines
specimens-merely artistically consider
ed-of sculpture and painting that al
to be found amidst these ruins are NJ
fit to be looked at, and they are locke
up. How Paul must have felt whei
standing amidst these impurities thu
stared on him from the walls and I'll
pavements and the bazars of Corintl
he preached of the pure and holy JesuI
/, The art of the world on tie side
obscemty and crime.
In later days the palaces of kins
were adorned with pictures. But viii
to unclean Henry VIII. was a beautifl
picture of the Madonna? Whatto Lor
, Jeffrey, the unjust judge, the picture
> the sLast Judgment? What to Mere
5 the unwashed, a picture of the baptis
in the Jordan? The art of the worl
still on the side of superstition al
; death. But that is being changed nov
, THE CHRISTIAN ARTIST
goes across the water, looks at the pi
furao on1 Irriuos back 10 his Amarica