Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1893-09-28


ton is by simple "telling"-not arg,l-
nent, not skillful exegesis, poemics or the
science of theological fisticuffs, but tell
ing" Tell ye the daughter of Zion, Be
hold, thy king comethl" go quickly and
tell his disciples that he has risen from the
dead" go 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 religion of telling"
And in what way could all nations so
we'll be told that Christ had come as by
such IN international emphasizing of his
nativitTP All India would cry out about
such an affair, for you know they have
their railroads and telegrnphs, "What is
going on in American All China would
FRY out, "What is that great excitement
In America" All the islands of the sea
would come down to the gangplanks of
the arriving ships and ask, what is
that they are celebrating in American 1t
would be the mightiest missionary move
ment the world has ever seen. 1t would
be the turning point in the world s destiny.
1t would waken the slumbcring nations
with one touch.
Question the Second-How would you
have such an international jubilee CON
Quoted? Answer-All arts should he mar
impressive shape First, architecture.
While all academies of music and ali
churches and all great halls would be
needed, there should be one great audi
forum erected to hold such an audience rs
has never been seen on any sacred occasion
in America. If SCribonius Curio at the
cost of a kingdom could build the first two
vast amphitheaters, 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
amphtheater, to witness a gladiatorial
contest, and Nespasan could construct the
Coliseum with its so columns and its tri-
umphs in three orders of Greek architec
ture and a capacity to hold $1,000 people
seated and 1900 standing, and all for pur-
poses of cruelty and sin, cannot our glori-
Gus Christianity rear in honor of our glori-
GUS Christ IL structure large enough to hold
$4,000 of its worshipers?
a CONGREGATION OF 10000 PEOPLE.
If we 90 CROPPING now among the ruined
amphithcaters of Verona and Pompei and
Capua and Puzzuoli and Tarraco, and then
stand transtixed with amazement at their
immense sweep that held from 10000 to
moral degradation could not Christianity
afford one architectural achievement that
would hold and inthrall its $4,000 Chris
tian disciples Do you say no human
voice could be heard throughout such
building? All then you were not present
when at the Boston peace Jubilee Parepa
easily with her voice enchanted 10000 au-
dtors
And the time is near at hand when III
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 is about Moses or Paul or some
one else-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 heardW
That is the reason that the New Testament,
il beginning the account of Christ's ser
on on the mount, describes our Lord
plain articulation and resound of utterance
by saying, He opened his mouth" In that
mighty concert hall and preaching place
which | suggest for this nineteen hun
dred h anniversary let music crown our
Lord. Bring all the orchestras all the ora
torios all the Philharmonic and Handel
and II lydn societies.
Then give us Hay dn' oratorio OF the Gre
alton" for our Lord took part in universe
building, and without him. SAYS John,
was not anything made that was made,
and Handel's Messiah, and Beethoven's
symphonies and Memberships ELI
| jah" the prophet, that typifed our Christ,
and the g'andest compositions of German
and English and American masters, living
or dead. All instruments that can hum or
roll or VIII aper or harp or flute or clap or
trumpet OF thunder the praises of the Lord,
! joined to all voices that can chant or war
bic or precentor multitudiuous worshipers.
What an arousing when $4,000 join i'll AN
tioch' or Coronation" or Ariel" rising
/ into halleluah or subsiding into an almost
supernatur"! amenl
1 Yea, let alpture stand ON pedestals all
/ around THAI building, the forms Of APOSTLES
! and martyrs, men and women who spoke
or wrought or suffered by the headsman's
AK or fire. Where Is my favolite of all arts
| this art of sculpture, that is not buster for
/ Christ or that its work is not better ap-
preciated? Let it come forth at that
/ worlds jubilee Of the nativity. We want
a second Phidlas to do for that new temple
what the first Phidias did for the Par
theuon. Let the marble Of Carrara come
to resurrection to celebrate our Lords res
direction. Lex sculptors set up in that
auditorium OF Christ celebration has relief
i ttxr.,.
for our holy religion
Where are the Canovas of the nineteenth
century: Where are the American Thor
waldsens and Chantreys? Hidden some
where, warrant YOU. Let sculpture turn
that place into another Acropolis, but more
glorious hy as much as our Christ is
Itronger han their Hercules, and has more
to do Wa the sea than their Neptune, and
raises greater harvests than their Ceres,
and rouses moremusic 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
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