Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-09-29

are able to guess the general drift OF the sub
iect and decide quite we'll whether II is about
| Moses or Paul or some one else-instead Of
that you will have coming from the theologi.
cal seminaries all over the land young min.
listers with voice enough to command the at
tention Of an audience OF $4,000 people That
| is the reason that the Lord gives us two
lungs instead OF one. 1t is the Divine way
! OF saving 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 resound 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, all the
Philharmonic and Handel and Haydn So
cieties.
Then give rs Haydn's oratorio OF the
Creation for our Lord took part in uni
verse building and without him." says
John, was not anything made that was
made and Handers messiah" AMI
Beethoven's Symphonies and Mendels-
sohn's elijah" the prophet that typined
our Christ and the grandest compositions OF
German and English AMI American masters,
| living or dead. All instruments that can
I
, clap or trumpet or thunder the praises OF the
Lord joined to all voices that can chant or
MARBLE or precentor multitudinous wor-
shippers. What an arousing when 5000,
| Join in "Antioch" or Coronation" or
Ariel, rising into halleluiah OF 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's AK or fire.
| Where is my favorite of all arts. this art OF
| sculpture. that it is not buster for Christ or
that its work is not better appreciated? Let
| il come forth at that worlds jubilee of the
nativity. We want second Phidias to do
| for that new temple what the first Phidias
| did for the Parthenon Let the marble OF
| Carrara come TO resurrection 10 celebrate
| our Lords resurrection. Let sculptors set
up in that auditorium Of Christ's celebration
bas-relef and intsglio descriptive OF the bat
| ties won for our holy religion. Where are
| the Canovas OF the Nineteenth Century,
! Where are the American Thorwaldsens and
! Chantreys? Hidden somewhere, warrant
| you.
Let sculpture turn that place into ano Their
Acropols. but more glorious b. as much as
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 rs well 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 "Chrst at the Jordan. or
| "Christ at the Last Supper, or "Christ 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
| sketching "The Domes OF the Yosemite will
! come to present the domes OF the world con-
qusred for Emmanuel.
Added to all this l would have a floral
decoration on a scale never equalcd. The
fields and open gardens could not furnish it,
for it will be winter. and that season appro-
priately chosen. for it was into the frosts and
desolations Of winter that Christ immigrated
when he came to our world. But while the
fields will be bare. the conservatories and
lighthouses within 200 miles would gladly
keep the sacred coliseum radiant and aro-
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 Washingtons inauguration,
where the rivers OF wine drowned the So
briefly of so many senators and governors
and generals, but banquet for the poor, the
feeling Of scores Of thousands ofpeople OF a
world in which the majority Of the inhabi-
tants have never yet had enough to eat. not
a banquet at which few favored men and
women OF social or political fortune shall
sit. but such "a banquet rs 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 whole week OF
legal holiday-at least from Christmas day
to New Years day.
Aided 10 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 pulphs ofall these cities and
tell what they know Of Him whose birth w.
celebrate. At those conyocatiOns let vas.
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 10 the world let
the world give itself to Hin.
Why do propose America as the country
for this convOcationy Because most other
lands have a State religion, AMI 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
les? Answer-By that time December =.
1900-these four cities OF New YORK, Brook
lyn. Jersey City and Hoboken. by bridges
and tunnels. will be practically one AMI with
an aggregate population OF about 5000 GOD.
Consequently no other part OF America will
have such an immensely OF population.
Why do l now make this nomination OF
time and placer Answer Because such q
stupendous movement cannot b eXtemooS-
lied. 1t will take seven years to &c, ready
for such an overt owering celebration. an
the work ought to begin speedily in churches.
in colleges. in legislatures, in congresses. IN
parliaments in all styles OF National asser-
bages, and we have no time to los. II
would take three years to make programme
worthy OF such coming together.
Why do take 1t upon myself to make such
nomination OF time and place? Answer
Because it so happened that in the myster.-
Gus providence of God. born in a farmhouse
and Of no royal or princely descent. the doors
of communication are open TO me every week
by the secular and religious printing presses
and have been open to ne every week ior
many years. with all the cities and towns and
neighborhoods Of Christendom. and indeed
in lands outside Of Chr;stendOm. where
printing presses have been established. and
feel that If there is anything worthy in this
proposition it will be needed and adopted.
On the other hand, ii it be too slnguine or
too hopeful, or too impractical. an sure it
will do no harm that have expressed my
wish for such an international jubilee, cele-
bTative OF the birth of our Emmanuel.
My friends, such a birthday celebration at
the close OF one century and reaching into q
new century would be something in which
heaven and earth could join. 1t woald not
only be international, but interpanetary,
interstellar, interconstellation. If You re-
member what occurred on the first Christ
mas night, you know that it was not a Joy
confined TO our world. The choir abOvs
Bethlehem was imported from another
world, and when the star left its usual
sphere to designate the birthplace all
astronomy felt the thrill II there be any
thing true about our religion, 1t is that other
worlds are sympathetic with this world aud
in communication with it. The gloriied Of
heaven would iOin in such "A celebration