Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1893-10-11

| naoaIs , ana capacity to hold 81 OOf
| 70 seaed and IL, 900 standing. and aII
purposes OF cruelty AMI sin. canno, onr
sIorious Christianity rear in honor ~ o,,.
| L', I1iious Cnrist structure larpe eno,,,,b -
notd oO,OOO of its worshipsrs? ~
| o-,y 80 Sroping now among the ruinad
| GnP,iltheaters GlI,, Of Verona and Pompeii and
| CNpua and Puzzuoli and Tarraco Ia 81
stand transfixed with amazenent ., ,ha;- 'ner .'
iLense sweep that held from so 600 to 1O0 ooo
] sSpectators gathered for carousal ana ,noroI
! 80, ou6fauatlon, could not Christianity AFFORD
| III, architectural achievement that would
49, "ii1 enthrail Its $4,000 Christian disci-
| Ples' 10 you say no human voice couId 10
neard throughout such a buiIding2 Al,
| @ @.uen you Were not present when at the Bos-
| toh peace jubilee Parepa easily with her voice
enchanted so 900 auditors. '0'o0
| 'he time Is near at hand when in theo-
| Hn7,',s. 5'. s1Ih1arles. where our young men are
| ne'ng trained for the ministry the voice will
| 'e developed, and instead of the mumbIjny o
| ministers, who speak with so low a tone Won
| cannot hear unless you lean forward and
hoIu your hand behind your ear, and then
are able to guess the general drift of the snb-
| !ect and decide quite well whether II is about
Moses or Paul or some one e!se-instead Of
| thtt you Will have coming from the theoIogi-
| cai seminaries all over the land Young min
isters with voice enough to command the at
ientlon H @ OF an audience of so 900 people, That
| y tne reason that the Lord gives us two
lungs instead OF one. II is the Divine way
| OF saying physfologically ''Be heard ~
| mar Is the reason that the New Testament
IN beginning the account of Christ's sermon
on the mount describes our Lords plain
artlculation and resound OF utterance by say
| ing, "He opened his mouth" In that
| mighty concert hall and preaching place
wmch L suggest for this nineteen hundreith
| anniversary let music crown our Lord Bring
| All the orchestras, all the oratorios all the
Phiiharmonic and Handel and Haydn So
cieties.
Then give US Haydn's oratorio of the
Creation" for our Lord took part in uni
verse building and without him." saws
| John, was not anything made that was
made and Handers messiah" and
Beethoven's symphonies" and Mendels-
sohns Elijah, the prophet that typifled
| 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
| eiap or trumpet orthunder the praises of the
| Lord joined to all voices that can chant or
| Warole or precentor multitudinous 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 buildinS-the forms of apostles
| mi martyrs, men and women, who spoke or
| wrought or suffered By headsman's ak or fire.
| Mnere IS my fayorite of all arts, this art OF
| <tulpture, that ii is not buster for Christ or
| cat It's work Is not better appreciated? Let
| Il come forth AZ that worlds jubilee of the
| nativity. We want a second Phidias to do
| 'or that new temple what the first Phidias
| did for the Parthenon. Let the marble of
| Carrara come to resurrection 70 celebrate
| our Lords resurrection. Let sculptors set
| up in that auditorium of Christ's celebration
| 7ls-relief and intaglio descriptive of the bat
| ties won for our holy religion. Where are
| the Canovas of the Nineteenth Century?
Where are the American Thorwuldsens and
| CIuntreys? Hidden somewhere, 1 warrant
you.
Let sculpture turn that place into sno ther
| Ac-opolis, but more glorious by as much as
| our Christ is stronger than their Hercules,
aud 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 rs snow celebrate Him vino
came to make us ''whiter than snow" Let
| the chisel as well rs pencil AMI pen be put
down at the feet OF Jesus.
Yea, let painting do its best. The foreign
galleries will loan for such jubilee their
| Madcnnas their Angeles, their Rubens. their
| Raphaels, their Christ ut the Jor ian.' or
"Christ at the Last supper, or Christ Com
ing to Judgment" or ''Christ on the Throne
OF Universal Dominion, and our own Iorans
| VIII put tDelr pencils into IIe nineteen uul-
| dredth anniversary, and our Berstadts from
sketching 1.-The Domes OF tne Yosemite Will
come to present the domes of the world con-
querei for Emmanuel.
Al ted to all this | would have floral
decoration on a scale never equaled. TIE
fields and open gardens could not furnisl it,
for il will be winter. and that season appro-
priately chosen, for it was into the trosts and
deSolations OF winter that Christ lmmigrated
when he came to our world. But while the
AL INTO rtA and
hot-houses within 200 miles would gladly
keep the sacred coliseum radiant and arc
matte during all the convocations.
Added to all let there be banquets, not
like the drunken bout at the Metropolitan
Opera House, New York. celebrating the
centennial of Washington's inauguration,
where the rivers of wine drowned the So
briefly of SO many senators and governor
and generals, but banquet for the poor, ths
fee ling o. scores OF thousands OF psople OF
world in which the ma jority OF the inhabl-
tants have never yet had enough TO eat. not
banquet at which a few favored men and
women of social or political fortune shall
sit, but such a banquet as Christ ordered
when He told His servants to ''So 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
mammoth distribution OF sacred literature.
Let the leading ministers from England,
Scotland, ireland, France, Germany and the
world take the pulpits of all these cities ana
tell what they know of Him whose birth We
celebrate. At those convocations let vast
sums of money be raised for churches, for
asvlums, 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 L propose America as the country
for this convocation? 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 l select this cluster of seacoast cit
les? Answer-By that time-DecemDer 70,
I9OO-these four cities of New YORK, Brook-
lyn, Jersey City and Hoboken, by bridges
and tunnels. will be practically one and with
an aggregate population of about 8, 6,0OO,OOO
Consequently no other part OF America VIII
have such an immensity OF population:
Why do l now make this nomination oil
time and place? Answer-Because such
stupendous movement cannot be eXtempor-
lied. 1t will take seven years to get ready
for such an overt owering celebratlo1, ami
the work ought to begin speedily in churches,
In colleges, In legislatures, IN congresses III
parliaments, in all styles OF National assem-
bIages. and we have no time to lose 1t
would take three years to make programme
worthy of such coming together
Why do I take ii upon myself to make such
| a nomination OF time and place? Answer
| Because it so happened that in the mysteri'
| Gus providence of God, born in a farmhouse
and of no royal or princely descent, the door
| of communication are open to me every weeE
| nv the secular and religious printing presses
and have been open to me every week ioi
many years, with all the cities and towns and
, neighborhoods of Christendom, and indeed
in lands outside of Christendom, whers
| -1rintino nresses have been established, and
feel shat If there is anything worthy In this
proposition it will be needed and adopted.
In the other hand. If 1t be too sanguine, or
too hopeful, or too impractical, am sure II
will do no harm that have e1Prssseu NY
risb for such an international jubilee, cele-
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