New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-07-03


side The man th AT went down 90 to jericho.
and Tell amid thieves was q type OF d prea Il
Il many travellers There is man 4 a, n; ~ wI,ni
| IS very honest at home who, when he ia
| abroad has his honor flched and his good
1 ablts stolen. There are but very few men
s Who can stand the tn stress of an expedition
SIX weeks at a watering place has damned
many man. In the olden times God for
bade the travelling of men for the purposes
OF trade bece use of the corruptine, in.
1iuences attending it. good man now
| can not stand the transition from one
! place to another. Some men who seem to be
| very consistent at home in the way OF keep
ing the Sabbath, when they getinto Spain
on the Lord s. day always go Quito see the.
bull fights. Plato said that no city ought
| to be built nearer to the sea than ten niles,
4 least 1T be tempted to commerce But this
trayehng 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 steam
/ ships, they are to transport our mission
aries; these sailors rushing from city to city
/ all around the world are to be converted
INTO Christian heralds and go out and preach
Christ among the heather nations The
I gospels are infinitely multiplied in beauty
/ and power since Robinsons and Burckhardt
have come back and talked tous about Sloan
and Capernaum, and Jerusalem, pointing
out to US the lilies which Jesus preached, the
/
lords at which Jordan 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 infdel; came back
q Christian. coul not help it,
! am not shocked at the idea OF building a
railroad to the holy land. [ wish that all
the world might go and see Golgotha and
Bethlehem Ii we can not afford to pay for
muleteers now perhaps when the rail train
| goes we can afford to buy a ticket from Con-
s1antlnople to Joppa, and SO we will get to
see the holy land. Then let Christians tray
| ei! God speed the rail trains, and guide the
steamships this night painting across the
1 deep in the phosphorescent wake OF the shin
| ing 1eet OF him who from wave cliff to wave
| cliff trod the stormed Liberals. The Japan
ese come, acr oss the water and see our civil
lzatlon and examine our Christianity. and
| go back and tell the story, and keep that en-
pire rocking until Jesus shall reign
| Where'er the sun
| Does his successive journeys run %
/ And the firearms, with which the infidel
traveller brought down the Arab horseman
and the jackals of the desert, have been sur
| rendered to the church, and we reach forth
| our hands, crying: '.There is none like that:
| give it to mel"
So it has been with the learning and the
| eloquence of the world. Peoplesay: ssReg-
lonsis very good for women, it is very good
TOR children. but not for men, But we have
! in the roll Of Christ host Mozart and Han
| delin music, Canova and Angelo in sculpture,
Raphael aud Reynolds in painting Harvey
and Boerhaave in medicine, Cowper and
| Scott in poetry, CrOtius and Burke in state
manship, Boyle and Leibnitz in philosophy,
Thomas Chalmers and John Mason in theol-
ogy. The most brilliant writings OF a world
| ~ nature are all aglow with scriptural allu-
sions. Through senatorial speech and
4 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 socie-
LOT tne grandeur OF our b!ole DANIEL Web
| ster Won not !, nus chle1 garianus Whlle ne was
consuming Hayne, nor when he opened the
"a 81 ms eioquence on bunker Hill,
tnao rocking 9lhai OF the Ameflean SreYoitl-s
I,oil, 1ue on tna5 gay "hen, II Ghe iaInous
G y WIZ case; ne shoWen MS aHeeI1on for
me Chflstlan rellglon ana the Bible
me ne eloquence ana !n 1 earning tina rave
Deen on the other slde ca me over to our side.
" " mere u Glp . stlstorlcal penn " here is
hopespierre, 8 sword? CAPTURED for God.
'.Ihere rs none like that; giyei it mel
&c, alas, has It been with the picture making
i OF the WLrld. We are very anxious on this
i q " to have the printing-press and the plat
4 1Crm on the side OF Christianity; but we over
55|look the engrayers knife and the painters
pencll. .lAe antlquarlan goes and looks at
pictured q, ruins, or examines the chiseled pill
lars OF Ihebes, and Nlneveh and Pompeli,
i i;nu sel comes oack 70 Ten US o. tne Deast-
.ness ~ ancle4 ~ tlf. anu ~ - q laco nov
/ artisficaljv consideredwo scnIntnra .,nd
4 naintino, that are tn he fonnd amidst those
minis are not 81 ~ ha looIed Of and 0 +ban
4 are locked m How paul rn,1st ba,-a III
4 whom standing amid those i'm n,,r;t ;as ~ OF
stared on him from the walls and the 1 M ave ue0
ments and tho hazaars ofCornth hanrea pcI.s
Of the pure and holy Jesuss The art Of tha
/ world On the side al ohsrenitv and crime an
i death '-'o -
-,
IN later Gays tne paIaces OF kings were
aaornea q1 WIN pictures. bnt VIVA! TO unciean
| Henry VIZ. was Deautlul picture OF the
| Manaonna! What 10 Lofd Jenrles, the IN
| JUST Judge 2 me picture OF the Last Judg-
| ments Wnao 70 Nero, the unwashed l., PIC
t9re o. tne oap!1sm IN the yoraan! Inc he. al t
| OF Ine word sui on the slde OF superstition