The Globe-republican., 1893-09-29

disciples that he has risen from the
dead 60 home to thy friends and
tell them how great things the Lord
hath done for thee" When He IS
come He will tell US all things" A re-
ligion of telling" And in what way
could all nations so well be told that
Christ had come as by such an interna-
tional emphasizing OF His nativity? 1t
would be the mightiest missionary
movement the world has ever seen 1t
would be the turning point IN the
worlds destiny. 1t would waken the
slumbering nations with one touch.
Question the second: How would you
have such an international jubilee con-
Quoted? Answer: All arts should be
marshaled. and art in its most attract
i've and impressive shape. First, archi-
lecture. While all academies OF music
and all churches and all great halls
would be needed, there should be one
great auditorium erected to hold such
an audience as has never been seen on
any sacred occasion in America, II
-Scribonius Curio at the cost of king
dom could build the first two vast am
phitheaters, placing them back to back,
holding great audiences for dramatic
representation, and then by wonderful
machinery could turn them round with
all their audiences in them, making
the two auditoriums one amphitheater,
to witness a gladiatorial contest, and
Vespasian tould construct the ColoS-
scum, with its eighty columns and its
triumphs In three orders of Greek
architecture and a capacity to hold
81 900 people seated and $4,000 stand
ing, and all for purposes of cruelty and
sin, cannot our glorious Christianity
rear in honor of our glorious Christ
structure large enough to hold so, 600
| of its worshipers.
If we go cropping now among the
ruined amphitheaters of Verona and
| Pompeii. and Capua, and Puzzuoii. and
| Tarraco, and then stand transhNed
| with amaZement at their immense
sweep that held from $1,000 to 100, 900
| spectators gathered for carousal and
moral degradation, could not Christi
anity afford one architectural achieve
ment that would hold and enthrall its
so. 900 Christian disciples? Do you say
| no human voice could be heard through
| out such building? In that mighty
concert hall and preaching place which
l suggest for this nineteen huniredth
| anniversary, let music crown our Lord.
Bring all the orchestras, all the orato-
rios, all the philharmonic and Handel
| and HAYDN societies Then give Us
| Havdn's oratoria of the Creation, for
our Lord took part in universe build
ing, and without Him." says John.
was not anything made that was
made and Handels Messiah" and
Beethoven's symphonies" ana Men
delssohn's Elijah" the prophet that
typified Christ, and the grandest com
positions of German and English and
American masters, living or dead.
What an arousing when 80, 900 join in
Antioch or Coronation or Ariel, rising
into Hallelujah or subsiding into ar
almost supernatural Amen.
| Added to all. let there be banquets
not like the drunken bout at the Net
ropolitan opera house, New York, cele
brating the centennial of Washington
| Inauguration, where the rivers of wine
drowned the sobriety of SO many sena
tors and governors and generals
but banquet for the poor
the feeding of scores of thou
sands of people OF world in which
the majority of the inhabitants have
never yet had enough to eat: not q
banquet at which few favored mer
and women of social or political for
tune shall sit, but such banquet a:
Christ ordered when Ee told his serv
ants to go out into the highways anc
hedges and compel them to come in"
Added to this let there be at that in
ternational and religious exposition ;
mammoth distribution of sacred litera
ture Let the leading ministers of re
Hgion from England, Scotland, Ireland
France, Germany, and the world. taxi
the pulpits of all these cities. and tel
what they know of Him whose brit
we celebrate. At those convocation:
let vast sums of mo ey be raised 70
churches, for asylums. for schools. fol
colleges. all of which institutions wer'
born in the heart of Christ. On tina
day and in that season when Chris
gave Himself to the world let the worlC
give itself to Him.
Why do l propose America as tn
country for this convocation? Becaus'
most other lands have state religion
and while all forms of religion may b
tolerated in many lands, America i
the only country on earth where al
evangelical denominations stand on al
equal footipC and all would hav,
equal hearing in such an internationa
exposition. Why do select this clus
ter of seacoast cities? Answer: B.
that time, December %. 1900, thes
four cities of New York. Brooklyn
Jersey City and Hoboken, by bridge
and tunnels, will be practically one
and with an aggregate population o
, about 4, 600, 900. Consequently no othe
part of America will have such i'm
mensity of population.
Why do 1 now make this nomination
of time and place? Answer: Becaus
such stupendous movement cannot b
extemporized 1t will take seven year
to get ready for such an overtowerin:
celebration. and the work ought to be
gin speedily in churches, in colleges, il