Milford chronicle., 1889-06-28

down geology can dig ana the hlgneF up usr
trononly can soar all the better for us The
armies Of the Lord Jesus Christ have stormed
the observatories of the worlds scisnce, and
from the highest towers have flung out the
banner Of the cross, and Christianity tonight
FROM the observatories Of Albany and Wash
ington stretches out its hand toward the op-
posing scientific weapon, crynis, There a
none like that; give It me-" was reading
this afternoon OF Herschel, who was looking
at a meteor through a telescope and when 1t
came over the face Of the telescope 1t was SO
powerful he had to avert mis- eyes And It
has been just so that many an astronomer
has gone into an observatory and looked up
into the midnight heavens, and the ord GOD /
has, through some swinging world, hamed
upon his vision, and the learned man cried
out, 'eWho am II Undonel uncleanl have
mercy, Lord God"
WORLD OF TRAVELLERS
Again, l remark, that the travelling dispo- |
sition 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 man who (
is very honest at home who, when no Is /
abroad, has his honor filched 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 a man. In the olden times God for
babe the travelling Of men for the purposes
Of trade, because Of the corrupting influences
attending it. A good many men now cannot
stand the transition from one place TO an
other. Some men who seem to be very con-
sistent at home, in the way Of keeping the
Sabbath, when they get into Spain, on
the 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 our
missionaries; these sailors, rushing from city
to city all around the world, are to be con-
verted into Christian heralds and go out and
preach Christ among heather 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 WINS passed, the Red sea bank ON
which were tossed the carcasses OF tAe
drowned Egvptinns A man said; II went
to the Holy Land an infdel; came back a
Christian. could not help it.
am not shocked at the idea of building a
railroad to the Holy Land. l wish that all
the world might go and see Golgotha and
Bethlehem If we cannot afford to pay for
muleteers now, perhaps when the rau traiil
goes we can afford to buy ticket from Con-
stantinople to Joppa, and SO we Will get TO
see the Holy Land. Then let christians
travell God speed the rail trains and guide
the steamships this night painting across the
deep in the phosphorescent wake OF the shin
ing feet of Him who from wave cliff to wave
cliff trod the storIned Tiberias The Japan
csc come across the water and see our civil
cation. and examine our Christianity and 50
back and tell the story, and keep that empire
rocking until Jesus shall reign.
, Wherever the sun
Does his successive journeys run
And the firearms, with which the intide
traveller brought down the Arab horsemar
and the iackals of the desert, have been sur
! rendered to the church, and we reach forth
! our hands. CRYING: There is none like that
+ give it mel"
! RELIGION GOOD FOR EVERY ONE.
So il has also been with the learning ant
the eloquence of the world. People say
= "Religion is very good women, it is very goo'
for children, but not for men," But we hav
=. in the roll of Christ's host Mozart and Han
del in music; Canova and Angelo in sculp
4 ture; Raphael and Reynolds in painting
=, Harvey and Boerhaave in medicine; Cowpe
z and Scott in poetey; Grotius and Burke i
craftsmanship; Boyle and Llehnltz IN phllos
, ophv: Thomas Chalmers and John Mason i
ust. hill frar n
: worldly nature are all aglow with scripture
u allusions. Through senatorial speech an
:, through essayists discourse Sinai thunder
" and Calvary pleads and Sloan sparkles.
> Samuel L. Southland was mighty in tn
. court room and in the senate chamber; bu
!, he reserved his strongest eloquence for tha
day when he stood before the literary sociC
:. ties at Princeton commencement and pleade
~ for the grandeur of our Bible Daniel Wei
ster won not his chief garlands while be wa
=. consuming Hayne, nor when he opened IN
:. batteries of his eloquence on Bunker Hn
~ that rocking Sinai of the American revolt
- ton: but on that day when, in the famoI
- Girard will case, he showed his affection tc
Il the Christian religion, and eulogized tn
- Bible. The eloquence and the learning thu
:, have been on the other side came over to OF
- side. Where is Gibbons historical penf Whel
- is Robespierres swordl Captured for Co
There is none like that; give it me-"
So. also, has it been with the picture NAL
ha ing Of the world. We are very anxious
~ this day to have the printing press and Il
= platform on the side of Christianity, but '
- overlook the engravers knife and the painter
pencil. The antiquarian goes and looks
= pictured ruins, or examines the chiseled p
~ lars of Thebes, and Nlneveh, and Pompe
49, a.. oh 70 Tall Of the beast
- ness of ancient art, and it is a fact now tn
~ many of the finest specimens-merely arti
ically considered-of sculpture and painful
~. that are to be found amidst those ruins a
- not fit to be looked at, and they are lock
ND. How Paul must have felt when standr
., amidst those impurities that stared on h
i, from the walls and the pavements and {
-, bazars of Corinth. lie preached OF the pr
- and holy Jesus The art Of the world on
'ho side of obscenity and crime and death.
~ ~ In later days the palaces of kings We
- adorned with pictures But what TO uncle
~ Henry VIII was a beautiful picture of
. Madonnal What to Lord Jeffries, the uni
IA Judge, the picture of the Last Judgmen
What to Nero, the unwashed, picture OF
,,.,, baptism in the Jordanl The art of the wo
!. still on the side Of superstition and dea
5lv But that is being changed now. The Chi
! Z, tian artist goes across the water, looks aV
~, mixtures. and brings back TO his Americ
10 studio much of the power Of those old m
- ters. The Christian minister goes over
~ Venice looks at the "Crucifxion Of Chris
~ and comes back to his American pulpit
in talk as never before of the sufferings OF
hat Saviour The private tourist goes to Ko
ths and looks at RaphaeFs picture of the Il
.ast Judgment" The tears start, and he 6
ans back to his room in the hotel aud prays {
N n for preparation for that day when,
hat Shriveling like parched SCROLL
The flaming heavens together roll
,oyv THE POWER OF CHRISTIAN PICTURES.
orc Our Sunday school newspapers and W
tba are adorned with pictures OF Joseph IN
- court, Daniel In the den, Shadrach In
for fire. Paul in the shipwreck, Christ on
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