Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-09-29

their Ceres and rouses more music In
the heart of the world than their
Apollo. 1.-THE gods of the heather are
nothing but dumb idols, but orr Lord
made the heavens" In marble pure
as snow cele citrate him, who came to
us TO make us whittier than snow"
Let the chisel as well as pencil and
pen be put down at the feet of Jesus.
Yea, let painting do it's best. The
foreign galleries will loan for such a
jubilee their Madonnas. their Angeles,
their Reuben>. their Raphaels, their
Christ at the Jordan" or Christ at
the Last Supper" Cr "Christ Coming
| to Judgment" or "Christ on the
Throne of Universal Dominion" and
our own Morans viii put their pencils
into the nineteen hundredth annivec-
sary, and our Bierstadts from sketch
ing "The Domes of the Yosemite" will
come to presentthe d mes of the world
conquered for En- manuel
| Added to all this / would have a
floral decoration on scale never
equalled. The fields and open gardens
could not furnish it, tor it w ii be win
ter, and that season appropriately
chosen, for it was into the frosts and
desolatons of winter that Christ inn
migrated when he anne to our world.
But while the fields will be bare, the
Conservatives and lighthouses within
two hundred miles would gladly keep
| the sacred colosseum radiant and aro-
matte during all the convocations.
| Added to all, let there be banquets,
not Ike the drunken bout at the Met
ropolitan era house, New York,
celebrating the centennial of Wash
| ington inauguration, where the rivers
of wine drowned the sobriety of so
many senator's and governors and
generals, but banquet for the poor,
the feeding of scores of thousands of
people of world in which the MAORI
ty of the inhabitants have never yet
| had enough to eat; not banquet at
which n few favored men and women
of ocial or political fortune shall sit
but such a banquet as Christ ordered
when he told his servants to 'go 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 nited
States proclaim a whole week of legal
hol day, at lie st from Christmas day
to New Year day.
| Added o this let there be at that
| internatio al moral anc religious eX-
position a mammoth distribution of
| sacred literature. Let the leading
ministers of religion from Eng land,
Scotland, Ireland France, Germany
AMI the world ta,e the pulpits of all
these cities, nd tell what they know
of him Whose birth we celebrate. At
those convocations let vast sums of
money be raised for churches, for
asylums, for schools, for colleges, all
of which institutions were horn in the
| heart of Christ. On that day and il
| that season when Christ gave himself
TO the world, let the world give itself
| 10 him.
Why do | 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 ii many lands, America is the
only country on earth where all evan
| Ideal denominations stand on an
| even footing and all would have equal
hearing in such an international ex-
position. Why do / select this cluster
of seacoast cities? Answer: BY that
time, Dec. %, 1900, these four ties of
ew York, Brooklyn, Jersey City and
III Oboken, by bridges and tunnels, will
be practically one, and with an agg t.
gate population of about 1000 600.
Consequently no other part of America
| will have such immensely of popula-
| ton
Why do now make this nomination
| of time and place? Answer: Because
,uch "a stupendous movement cannot
| be eXtemporized 1t will take seven
years to get ready for such an over
| towering eel braJion, and the work
ought to begin speedily in churches,
in colleges, in legislatures ia con-
| crosses, in parliaments, in all styles
| of national assemblageS, and we have
no time to lose. 1t would take tn ee
years TO make program worthy of
such a coming together.
Why do l take il upon myself to
| make such a nomination of t me and
| place? Answer: Because it so hap
pans that, in the mysterious provi-
dence of God, born in 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 me every week for many
years, with all the cities and towns
| and neighborhoods of Christendom
| and indeed in lands outside of Christ
| endom, where printing-presses h we
been established, and | feel that If
| there is anything worthy in this rro-
position, III Will De needed ana adopted.
On the other hand, if it be too san
guine, or too hopefHl, or too impracti-
cal, am sure it will do no harm that
| have expressed my wish for such an
International Jubilee. ce curative
of the birth of our Emmanuel My
.riends, such a birthday celebration
at the close of one century and reach
ing into a new century would be some
thing in which heaven and earth could
join. 1t would not only be interna-
| tional, but interplane airy, inter-
stellar, intercons ellat on. If you re-
member what occurred on the first
Christmas night, you know that it was
not a JOY confined to our world The
choir above Bethlehem was imported
from another world, and when the
star left its ual sphere to designate
the birthplace all astronomers felt the
thrill. If there be anything true about
our religion it is that other worlds are
sympathetic with thi, world and in
communication with it. The glorifed
of heaven would join in such cele-
bration. The gene atoms that toiled
to have the world for Christ would
take part in such iublation and pro-