The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-09-27

| and tell his disciples that he has risen
from the dead" GO home to thy friends
| hath done for thee" when he is come
he will tell US all things" A religion Of
telling"
And in what way could all nations so
Well be told that Christ had come as by
such an international emphasizing OF his
nativity? All India would cry out about
such an affair, for you know they have
their railroads and telegraphs, What is
going on in American" All China would
cry out, What is that great excitement
in American" All the islands of the sea
| would come down to the gang plank of
the arriving ships and ask, What Is
| that they are celebrating in America" 1t
would be the mightiest missionary move
ment the world has ever seen. II would
| be the turning point in the worlds deS-
| tiny. 1t would waken the slumbering ma
| tons with one touch.
Question the Second-How would you
| have such international jubilee con-
| Quoted? Answer-All arts should be
| marshaled, and art in its most attractive
| and impressive shape. First, architecture.
| While all academies of music and all
| churches and all great halls would be
needed, there should he one great audi
| tor-ium erected to hold such audience
| as has never been seen on any sacred
occasion In America. If Scribonius Curio
at the cost of a kingdom could built the
| first two vast amphitheaters, placing
| them back to back, holding great audi
ences 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 could construct
| the Coliseum with its eighty columns and
| it's triumphs in three orders of Greek
architecture and a capacity to hold $1,000
| people seated and $4,000 standing and all
| for purposes of cruelty and sin, can not
Gus glorious Christianity rear in honor
| of our glorious Christ a structure large
| enough to hold $4,000 of its wOrshipers?
A Congregation of $4,000 People.
If we go cropping now among the
| ruined amphitheaters Of Verona and
/ Pompeii and Capua and PuZzuol and
| Tarraco, and then stand transfixed with
| amaZement at their immense sweep that
| held from $4,000 to 100000 spectators
! gathered for carousal and moral degra-
dation, could not Christianity afford one
| architectural achievement that would
hold and inthrall it's $4,000 Christian
disciples? Do you say no human voice
could be heard throughout such a build
ing? All! then you were not present
when at the Boston peace jubilee Parepa
easily with her voice enchanted $4,000
auditors.
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 your ear, and then are
| able to guess the general drift of the
| subject and decide quite well whether it
4 ic oh Do old
| 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 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 saying physiologically,
| BE heardp' That is the reason that the
/ new testament, in beginning the account
| of Christs sermon on the mount,
| describes our Lords plain articulation
| and resound Of utterance by saying, He
opened His mouth" In that mighty
concert hall and preaching place which
| suggest for this ninteen hundredth ami
| versary let music crown our Lord. Bring
all the orchestras, all the oratorios, all
the Philharmonic and Handel and
| Hadyn societies.
Then give us Haydn's oratorio Of the
Creation" for our Lord took part in
universe building, and without Him."
says John, was not anything made that
| was made" and HandePs Messiah" and
| Beethoven's symphonies and Mendels-
sohns Elijah" the prophet that typi-
fled our Christ, and the grandest COM
| positions Of German and English and
American masters, living or dead. All
| instruments that can hum or roll or
| whisper or harp or flute or clap or trum-
pet 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 $4,000
join in antioch" or Coronation" or
| Ariel rising into halleluiah or subsid-
| ing into an almost supernatural ameni
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 the
headsman's axe or fire. Where is my
favorite of all arts, this art of sculpture,
that is not buster for Christ or that its
work is not better appreciated? Let it
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
| to celebrate our Lords resurrection. Let
| sculptors set up in that auditorium Of
Christ celebration bas-relief and intaglio
descriptive of the battles won for our
| holy religion.
Where are the Canovas of the nine
| teenth century, Where are the Ameri-
| can Thorwaldsens and Chantreys? Hid
den somewhere, l warrant you. Let
| sculpture turn that place into another
| Acropolis, but more glorious by as much
as our Christ is stronger than their Her
| cules, and has more to do with the sea
than their Neptune, and raises greater
| harvests than 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
| our Lord made the heavens" In marble
pure as, snow celebrate Him, who
| came to make us whittier than snow"
| Let the chisel as well as pencil and pen
be put down at the feet Of Jesus.
| Painting and Flowers.
Yea, let painting do its best The
foreign galleries will loan for such a
jubileee their Madonnas, their Angeles
their Rubens. their Raphaels, their
Christ at the Jordan" or Christ al
the Last Supper" OF Christ Coming to
Judgment" or "Christ on the Throne of
| Universal Dominion" and our own
Morans will put their pencils into the
nineteen hundredth anniversary, and our
| Bierstadts from sketching 1.-The Domes
the domes Of the world conquered for
| Emmanuel.
| Added to this 1 would have a floral
fields and open gardens could not furn-
| ish it, for IL will be winter, and that
| season appropriately chosen, for it was
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