Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1893-10-06

/ glorious Christianity rear in honor OF our
glorious Christ a structure large enough 10
hold 80. 600 Of its worShipsrs2
II We 10 cropping now among tho ruined
| amphitheaters OF Verona and Pompeil and
/ Capua and PuzzuOn and Tarraco, and then
stand transiiXed with amaZement at their I'M
mense sweep that held from so, 900 to 100, 900
/ spectators gathered for carousal and moral
| degradation, could not Christianity afford
| one architectural achievement that would
/ hold and enthrall its 90, 600 Christian disci-
plesr Do you say no human voice could be-
/ heard throughout such building2 Ali
| then you were not present when at the Bos-
| ton peace jubilee Parepa easily with her voice
enchanted $4,000 auditors.
! And the time is near at hand when In theo-
| logical seminaries, whore our young men are
( being trained for the ministry, the voice will
/ be developed and instead OF the mumbling
| ministers, who speak with so low a tone you
cannot hear unless you lean forward and
hold your hand behind your ear, and then
are able TO guess the general drift Of the sub
ject and decide quite well whether 1t is about
Moses or Paul or some one else-instead OF
that you will have coming from tho theologi-
cal seminaries all over the land young min
listers with voice enough to command the ut
tention Of an audience OF 90, 900 people. That
is the reason that the Lord gives us two
lungs instead OF one. Il Is tho Divine way
OF saying physioloGically, "Be heard ~
That is the reason that the New Testament
In beginning the account of Christ's sermon
on the mount describes our Lords plain
articulation and rcsound Of utterance by say
Ing, HE opened his mouth" In that
mighty concert hall and preaching place
which suggest for this nineteen hundredth
anniversary let music crown our Lord. Bring
all the orchestras, all the oratorios, oil the
Philharmonic and Handel and Haydn So
cieties.
Then give us Haydns oratorio OF the
"Creation," for our Lord took part In uni
verse building and "wlthout him." says
John, twas not anything made that was
made" and Handlers messiah" and
Beethoven's "Symphonies" and Mendels-
sohns "Elljah." the prophet that typihed
our Christ and the grandest compositions OF
German and English and American masters,
living or dead. All instruments that can
hum or roll or whisper or harp or flute or
clap or trumpet or thunder the praises OF the
Lord Joined to all voices that can chant or
MARBLE or precentor multtudinous wor-
shippers. What an arousing when $4,000
join in "Antioch" or Coronation" or
Ariel, rising into halleluiah or subsid-
ing into an almost supernatural amen
Yea, let sculpture stand ON pedestals all
around that building-the forms OF apostles
and martyrs, men and women, who spoke or
wrought or suffered by headsman 5 AK or fire.
Where Is my fAvorite Of all arts, this art OF
sculpture, thut IT is not buster for Christ or
that its work IS not better appreciated? Let
II come forth at that worlds jubilee OF tho
nativity. We want a second Phidias to do
for that new temple what the first PhidiAs
did for tho Parthenon. Let the marble OF
Carrara come to resurrection TO celebrate
our Lords resurrection. Let sculptors set
up in that auditorium Of Christ's celebration
bas-relief and intagio descriptive OF the bat
ties won for our holy religion. Where are
the Canovas OF the Nineteenth Century?
Where are the American Thorwaldsens and
Chantreys2 Hidden somewhere, l warrant
you.
Let sculpture turn that place into ano Their
Acropolts, but more glorious by NJ much rs
our Christ Is stronger than their Hercules,
! and has more to do with the sea than their
Neptune, and raises greater harvests than
| their Ceres, and raises more music In the
| heart OF the world than their Apollo. "The
| gods OF the heather are nothing but dumb
| idols, but our Lord made the heavens In
marble pure as snow celebrate Him who
came to make US "whiter than snow" Let
| the chisel as we'll as pencil and pen be put
| down at the feet OF Jesus.
Yea let painting do its best. The foreign
| galleries will loan for such jubilee their
! Madonnas, their Angeles. their Rubens, their
| Raphaels, their Christ at the Jordan, or
! "Christ gt the Last Supper, or "Chrtst Com
! ing to Judgment" or Christ on the Throne
OF Universal Dominion, and our own MOrans
| will put their pencils into the nineteen hun
dredth anniversary, and our Bierstadts from
Bketchinc The Domos OF the Yosemite will
come to present the domes OF the world con-
quered for Emmanuel
Added to all this | would have floral
decoration on scale never equaled. The
fields and open gardens could not furnish 1t,
for II will be winter, and that season appro-
priRtely chosen, for it Was into the frosts and
desolattons OF winter that Christ immigrated
when no came to our world. But while tho
fields will be bare, the eonservatories and
lighthouses within 200 miles would gladly
keep the sacred coliseum radiant and aro-
matte during all tho convocations.
Added to all let there be banquets, not
/ like the drunken bout at tho Metropolitan
Opera House, New York. celebrating the
centennial of Washington's inauguration,
where the rivers OF vino drowned the So
briefly OF 80 many senators and governors
and generals but Il banquet for the poor, the
feeding OF scores OF thousands OF people OF
world in which the ajority OF the inhabi-
tants have never yet had enough to eat. not
banquet at which Il few favored men and
women Of social or political fortune shall
sit, but such a banquet US Christ ordered
when He told His servants to Ego out into
the highways and hedges and compel them
to come in" Let the mayors OF cities and
the governors Of States and the President OF
the United States proclaim a whole week OF
legal holiday-at least from Christmas day
to New Years day.
Added to this let there be at that interna-
tional moral and religious exposition a
mammoth distribution OF sacred literature.
Let the leading ministers from England,
Scotland, ireland, France, Germany and the
world take the pupits ofall these cities and
tell what they know OF Him whose birth We
celebrate. At those Conversations let vast
sums OF money be raised for churches, for
asylums, for schools, for colleges, all OF
which institutions were born in the heart OF
Christ. On that day and In that season
when Christ gave Himself to the world let
the world give itself to Him.
Why do propose America as the country
for this convocation2 Because most other
lands have a State religion, and while all
forms OF religion may be tolerated in many
lands America is the only country on earth
where all evangelical denominations stand
on an even footing, and all would have equal
hearing In such an international exposition.
Why do select this cluster Of seacoast cit
ies2 Answer-By that time-December rs,
1900-these four cities of New York, Brook
Ign, Jersey City and Hoboken, by bridges
ana tuI8els, Will DO practlcally One anu Win
an aggregate population OF abont e,00O, 900.
Consequently no other part OF America will
have such an immensely OF population.
Why do l now make this nomination oil
time and placer Acknowledgements such a
stupendous movement cannot DO extempor-
lied. 1t will take seven years to get ready
for such an oyertowering celebration, and
the work ought to begin speedily In churches,
In colleges, in legislatures, In congresses, in
parliaments, In all styles OF National assem-.
blages, and We have no time to lose. u
would take three years to make programme
worthy OF such n coming together.
Why do | take 1t upon myself to make such
n nomination OF time and placer Answer
Because it 80 happened that in the mysteri
Gus providence Of God, born in a farmhouse