The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1893-09-28

'us,,' anu hii cnurches, and all great halls
would be needed, there should be- one c-reat
auditorium erected 90 hold such nm audisnce
as has never been seen ON say sncre5 occ,.
sion in America
III Scribonius Curlo, at the cost OF n tino-
dom. could build the nrst two yast amnhi-
theatres. placing them back to back. hold
ing great audiences for dramatic representa-
uon, and then by wonderful machinery
could turn them round with ali their
audiences In them, making tho two
auditoriums one amphitheatre, to witness a
gladitorial contest, and veapasian could con-
struct the Coliseum with its eighty columns.
and It's triumphs In three orders of Greek
architecture, and capacity to hold 81. 900
peopls seated and $4,000 standing. aud all
ior purposes OF cruelty and sin, cannot our
glorious Christianity rear In honor OF our
glorious Christ structure large enough TO
hold 5000 OF its worsbipers2
III we go cropping now among the ruined
nmphuheaters OF Verona and pompeii and
Capua and Puzzuoli and Tarrnco. and then
stand transfxed with nmazement Mt their i'm
mense sweep that held from 50 600 20 iOO 600
spectators gathered for carousal and moral
degradation. could not Christianity afford
ono architectural achievement that would
hold aud enthrall It's 90. 900 Christian disci-
plesG Do you say no human voice could be
heard Throughout such buildnr2 All
then you were no, present when at tho Bos-
t'h HtuHt lhUil'f fuFfpn easily with npF voice
enchanted 80. 900 auditors
Aud the time Is near at hand when in theo-
logical semlnlries. where our young men are
being trained for the ministry, tho voice will
be developed. and instead Of the mumbling
ministers. who speak with 80 low n 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
lect and decide quite we'll whether il is about
Moses or Paul or sone one olsa-instead of
that you will have coming from the theologl-
cal semlnaries all over the land Young min
isters with voice enough 10 command the M D.
tention OF nm audience Of q. 900 people. That
r. tho reason that the Lord gives IA two
lungs instead oi one. II Is tho Divine WAY
OF saying phys!ologcally. "Be heard r'
That II the reason that the New Testament
In beginning the accoun; oi Christ's sermon
on the mount describes our Lords plain
articulation and rrsound OF uttertnce by say
inc. "He opened his mouth In that
mighty concert hall and preaching plarn
which suggest for this nineteen hundrcdth
anniversary let musiccrown our Losi. Bring
all the orchestrns. all the ordtorios, all the
Philharmonic and Handel and Haydn So
cictlCs.
Then give us Hay lns orltorio ot tho
Creation fo- our Lord TOOK part In unit
verse building Hni without MIN" sty4
John. was not anything made that was
made, and Handel's Messiah" ani
Becthoyen's 'Svmphonies" ant Nendcs-
sohn's Elijah the prophet that typihrd
our Christ AMI the grIndest compositions oi
German and Englisi an American masters,
living or dead. All instruments that can
hum or roll or whisper or harp or flute or
clap or trumpet orthander tho praises OF the
lord ioinsito all voices that can chan, or
warble or precentor multitulinous wor-
shippers. What an arous'ng when $4,000
join In Antioch or coronation or
Ariel rising into halellmh or subsid-
ing into an almost supernatural amen
Yea. let sculpture stand on prdesia.s all
around that bullding-,he forms OF apostles
aud martyrs, men and women. who spoke or
wrought or suffered by heaisman' Ak or fire
Where is my favorlte OF ali arts, this art OF
sculpture. that IL is not buster Tor Christ or
that its work Is not better appreciated? Let
II come forth at that worlds jubilee OF the
nativity. We want second Phdias to do
Tor that new temple what the frst Phi dias
did for the Psrthenon. Let the marble OF
Carrara oome TO resurrection ~ celebrite
our Lords resurrection. Let sculptors set
up In that auditorium of Christ's celebration
bas-relief and intaglio descriptive OF the bat
ties won for our holy religion. Where are
the Canoyas OF the Nineteenth Century,
Where qre the American Thorwadsens ami
Chantreys? Hidden somewhere, / warrant
you.
Let sculpture turn that place into aao ther
Acropolis, but moro glorious by rs much n
our Christ IL stronger than their Hercules,
and has more to do with the sea than their
Neptune. and raises greater haryestS than
their Ceres, and raises more music in tue
heart OF the world than their Apollo. Tho
gods OF the heathon are nothing but dumb
idols bur our Lord made rhe heavens" In
marble pure as snow celebrate HIM who
camo TO make us 'whi.er than snow Let
the chisel rs we'll ~ 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 at the Last Supper, or Christ Com
ing 10 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 Blerstadts from
sketching THE Domes OF the YOSEMITE will
come to present the domcs OF the world con-
quered for Emmanuel.
Added 10 all this / would have n floral
decoration on scale never equaled The
fields and open gardens could not furnish II,
for IL will be winter. and that season appro-
priately chosen, for II was into tho irosts and
desolations of winter that Christ immigrated
when he came 10 our world. But while tho
fields will be bare, the conservatorios and
nOt-uOuSsS Within @Ou
keep the sacred coliseum radiant and aro-
matte during all the convocations.
Added TO all let there be banquets, not
like the drunken bout NJ tho 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 governors
and generals, but banquet for tho poor, tho
feeding OF scores of thousands OF people of u
world In which the majority OF tho inhabi-
tants have never yet had enough 10 eat. not
a banquet at which few favored men and
women OF social or political fortune shall
sit. but such banquet rs Christ ordered
when He told His servants TO Ego out into
the highways and hedges and compel them
10 come In. Let the mayors OF cities and
tho governors OF States and the President OF
the United States proclaim whole week OF
legal hollday-at leas; from Christmas day
20 New Years day.
Added 10 this let there be a. that interna-
tonal moral and religious exposition n
mammoth distribution OF sacred literature.
Let the leading ministers from England,
Scotland. Ireland. France, Germany and the
world take the pulpits ofall these cities and
tell what they know OF HiR whose birth we
! thngo anrVOputiDns let vast