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done afterward. And how can it
SO well be done as by a eelea
bration of many weeks of the birth and
character and achievements of the Won
drous and unprecedented Christ? To
such an exposition the kings and
queens of the earth would not send
their representatives; they would come
themselves. The story of Saviours
advent could not be told without tell
ing the story of His mission All the
world would say: Why this ado, this
universal demonstrations What vivid
presentation it would be, when, at
such cpnvocation, the physicians of
the world should tell what Christ had
done for hospitals and the assuage-
ment of pain, and when Christian law
yers declare what Christ had done for
the establishment of good laws, and
Christian conquerors should tell what
Christ had done in the conquest of
nations, and Christian rulers of
the earth would he'll what
Christ had done in the ge,v-
eminent of earthly dominions. Thiit ty
days of such celebrations would do
more to tell the world who Christ is
than any thirty years, Not land on
earth but would hear of it and discnsss
it. Not an eye so dimmed by tbe"sua
perstition of ages but would see the IL
Elimination, The difference of Christ's
religion from all others ia that its one
way of dissemination is by simple
telling" not argument, hot skillfat
exegesis, polemies or the science of the
illogical fsstienffs, but telling" Tell
We the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy
King cometh." go quickly and tell
His disciples that He has tiseh from
the dead" 'TGo home to thy friends
and tell them how great thiDgs the
Lord hath done fer 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 nativity2 All India would cry
out about such an affair, for you know
they have their railroads and tele-
graphs: What is going on in Amer
leap" All China would cry 6ut "What
is that great excitement in America?"
All the islands of the sea would come
down to the gang plank of the arriv-
ing ships, and ask: What is it that
they are celebrating In Americap 1t
would be the taightiest 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 COM
Quoted? Answer: All arts should be
lnarshaled, 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 audience in them, making the
two auditoriutns one ampitheater, to
witness gladiatorial contest, and Yes
pasian could construct the Colosseum,
with its eighty columns and its tri-
umphs in three orders of Greek archi-
lecture, and a capacity to hold eighty
seven thousand people seated and
fifteen thousand standing, and all
all for purposes of cruelty and sin,
can not our glorious Christianity
rear in honor of our glorious
Christ a structure large enough to
hold fifty thousand of It's worshipers?
If we go groping now among the
ruined amphitheaters of Verona, and
Pompeii, and Capua, and Puzzuoli, and
Tarraco, and then stand transfixed
with amazement at their immense
sweep that held from fifty thousand to
one hundred thousand spectators gath
cred for carousal and moral degrada-
ton, could not Christianity afford one
ARCHITECTURAL achievement that would
hold and enthrall it's fifty thousand
Christian disciples? Do you say no
human voice could be heard through
oNS sum Duii1liHS An! tnen
you were not present when, at
the Boston peace jubilee, Parepa
easily, with her voice, enchanted fifty
thousand auditors. And the time Is
near at hand when theological semi
naries, 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 tone you can not hear unless
you lean forward, and hold your hand
behind your ear, and then you are able
to guess the general drift of the sub
ject, 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 atten-
tion of an audience of fifty thousand
people. That is the reason that the
Lord gives us two lungs instead of
one. 1t is the Divine way of saying
physiologically: "Be heard!" That is
the reason that the New Testament in
beginning the account of Christ's SER
mon on the mount, describes our Lords