Milford chronicle., 1893-09-29

le- would be the mlghtlest missionary move
ts ment the world has ever seen. It woul
be the turning point in the world s destiny
- 1t would wallen the slumbering nation
with one touch.
Question the Second-How would vol
have such an international jubilee con
80 Quoted? Answer-All arts should be mar
a shaled, and art in its most attractive apS
e- impressive shape. First, architecture
IL While all academies of music and al
N churches and all great halls would be
needed, there should be one great audi
~ torium erected to hold such an audience as
n has never been seen on any sacred occasion
in America. If Scribonius Curio at the
cost of kingdom could build the first two
y vast amphitheaters, placing them back
= to back, holding great audiences for
= dramatic representation, and then by
y wonderful machinery could turn them
. round with all their audiences in
them, making the two auditoriums one
amphitheater, to witness a gladiatorial
i, contest and Vespasian could construct the
Coliseum with its so columns and its tri-
umpbs in three orders Of Greek archftec-
! ture and a capacity to hold 81, GOO people
seated and $1,000 standing, and all for pur-
poses Of cruelty and sin, cannot our glod-
GUS Christianity rear in honor of our glori-
$1,000 of its worshiperss
A CONGREGATION OF $1,000 PEOPLE.
II we go gropinss now among the ruined
emphitheatcrs of Verona and Pompeii and
Capua and Puzzuoli and Tarraco, and then
stand transixed with amazement at their
immense sweep that held from $1,000 to
100000 spectators gathered for carousal and
moral degradation, could not Christianity
afford one architectural achievement that
would hold aud inthrall its $4,000 Chris |
tian disciples? Do you say no human
voice aeuld be heard throughout such a
/ building? Ali then you were not present /
when at the Boston peace jubilee Parepa I
easily with her voice enchanted $4,000 au-
ditors.
And the time is near at hand when in
theological seminaries, where 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 vour
ear, and then are able to guess the general
drift of the subject and decide quite well
whether it is about Moses or Paul or some
one else-instead of that YOU will have
coming from the theological seminaries all
over the land young ministers with voice
enough to command the attention of an i
audience of $4,000 people.
That is the reason that the Lord gives us
two lungs instead of one. It is the divine =
way Of saying physiologically, BE heardri ,,
That is the reason that the New Testament. 4
in beginning the account of Christ's SER y
mon on the mount, describes our Lords
plain articulation and resouud of utterance a.
by saying, He opened his mouth. " In that :,
mighty concert hall and preaching place .,
which I suggest for this nineteen hun :,
tredth anniversary let music crown our -
Lord. Bring all the orchestras, all the ora y,
-orios, all the Philharmonic and Handel y,
and Haydn societies. ~
Then give US Haydn oratoriO Of the ssCre- =,
ltion," for our Lord took part in universe 10
luldlng and without him" says John. II,
was not anything made that was made" III
md Handels Messiah, F" and Beethoven's -
Symphonies" and Mendelssohn's ell A.
all, the prophet, that typifed our Christ
nd the grandest compositions of German -.
nd English and American masters, living ao
r dead. All instruments that can hum or nj
oil or whisper or harp or flute or clan or 81
rumpet or thunder the praises Of the Lord. %,
lned to all voices that can chant or war t,,-
lie or precentor multitudinous worshipers. he
hat an arOusing when $4,000 ioin in "An- M,
och" or Coronation" or ariel" rising -
Ito halleluiah or subsiding into an almost aay
Ipernatural amen! ~. ~
Yea, let sculpture stand on pedestals all siti
ound that building, the forms of apostIes -
I'd martyrs, men and women, who smoke III
wrought or suffered by the headsman's r
or fire. Where is my favorite of all arts hir,
is art of sculpture, that is not buster for IL.
lrist, or that its work is not better an H.
eciatedg Let it come forth at that aiI
)rlds jubilee Of the nativity We want arol
second Phldias to do for that new temple M
nat the first Phidias did for the Par ti,-i
ssil.rtio, o'tq ~ il,i,iie ol C,rLr come grea
rection. Let sculptors set I'D in that -
ditorium Of Christ celebration bas-reIef
d intaglio descriptive of the battles won and
our holy religion. - -
Where are the Canovas of the nineteenth en- :
tury? Where are the American Thor ~
ldsens and Chantreyss Hidden some ,ola1
ere, warrant you. Let sculpture turn IL n
t place into another AcrOpolis, but more eor,,,
rious by as much as our Christ is 1C,-a
1nger than their Hercules, and has more ti,,o
10 with the sea than their Neptune. and -
es greater harvests than their Ceres ~.
rouses more music in the heart of the hofo,
Id than their Apollo. THE gods of the lin,
then are nothing but dumb idols. but no.
Lord made the heavens" In marble a,io-e
e as snow celebrate him, who came to 6is !
Se us whittier than snow" Let tine air7l,
el as well as pencil and pen be put down fbe ]
le feet of Jesus. ii. -,
PAINTING AND FLOWERS. a1d e
"a, let painting do its best The FOREIGN go :
cries will loan for such a jubilee their with
onnas, their Angeles, their Rubens. sonnd
, Raphaels, their Christ at the Jor- besvs
- ef'b1,i-f Mt rba 1.e Cl.t,,.,.. --' :
rist Coming to Judgment" ," or "Christ -.
he Throne Of Universal Dominion. " III 4,
our own Morans viii put their pencils .;. ~. q
the nineteen hundredth anniversary. -;
our Bierstadts from sketchina ssTbe 80
IS of the Yosemite" will come to pre- i- ,ili.e
the domes of the world conquered for - 80 :.
anuel i an. "
ded to this I would have floral ~ "-t1r, -
alton on a scale never equaled. The posH y
and open gardens could not furnish -
: 1t Will be winter, and that season ap- -.
lately chosen for it was into the frosts eL '.i
esolations of winter that Christ i'm 90 10 ae
lted when he came to our world But i Il u /,
the fields will be bare the conserva- - -
and hothOuses within 200 miles a;tI-r- tl.i--y
gladly keep the sacred coliseum radf- IA =,
I'd aromatic during the convocations. et.i ~ Sil
led to all, let there be banquets, not -
rGa,,s ~ ~ az 'iIe nations
'-li,, +Sa VI y AZ @ lnaugurallon But
:, - - 80 u MlLe drowned the before
y e-aro-i ,I,'''y ssn"tols S anu govern midnig
he -. ,s OuO 9 ueD toE Ine among
~ ,arid - 800 G u snous'lnus q jubilee,
i,,haI,sta...l "a Nnion une majority house o
- ~ W. Iase never ysD 1ao will KIN
,o,..S 49,, ~ ~, 8 oall4ueD az wnlcn tion th
4 ,i' mo,iisii u sociSI OF joy and
: Css+ i So siO' 2uu sIlcn pan But wh
Z, -, ~ ~ mnSn He uolu ms part in
and compel them to come in. Let ~, Y
yors of cities, and the governors Of fro,,t J.,
and the president Of the United a,,5 si-s sse ~
proclaim whole week Of legal hol- 5asa',5
least from Christmas day to New ~ is'ls'.t ~