The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-11-25

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such 1000 affair Iur Nuu know they hove .
their railroads nud tvlogWphs, What * .
uoIug ou BOO American" NU China would F.
rry uut ."Nmt Is that greet excitement .
n America all the islands of the sea
would ,'mr down to the pangpHuks of
the arriving ships aud ak. What i-
that they a.e celebrating m Amcrca" 1t
would bc the milhlie-t missionary move
meut the world has ever seen. II would
be the turn point iu the word's destiny
IL would u..,cu the sumberinR nations
with one touch.
Question the Secoud-How would you
have such an International jubilee con
uuctcds Auswer-All arts should he mar
shaded, and art in its most attractive and
impressive shape. First, architecture
While all academies of music and all
churches aud all great halls would be
needed. there should he one great audi
forum erected to hold such an audience as
has never been seen ON any sacred occasion
iu America II ScrlhOnus Curlu at the
cost oi a Kingdom could build the FIRST two
vast amphiJhcater~, placing them back
. 20 back. holding great audiences Tor
dramatic representation, and then by
wonderful machinery could turn them
round with all their audiences in
amphitheater, to witness u gladiatorial
contest and Nespasian could construct the
Coliseum with its 50 columns and its tri-
umphs in three orders of Greek architeC
ture and a capacity to hold 1000 people
seated and 10000 standing, and all for pur-
poses of cruelty aud sin. cannot our glorl-
Gus Christianity rear in honor Of our giori-
Gus Christ "A structure large enough to hold
$4,000 of its worshipers?
4 CONGREG ALTON OF $4,000 PEOPLE.
II we 20 cropping now among the ruined
amphitheaters of Verona and Pompeii and
Capua and puzzuoli and Taraco and then
stand transtiNed with amazement at their
immense sweep that held from 10000 TO
100000 spectators gathered for carousal and
moral degradation. could not Christianity
afford one architectural achievement that
would hold aud inthrall its $4,000 Chris
tian disciples Do you say no human
voice could be heard throughout such a
building2 All! then you were not present
when at the Boston peace jubilee Parepa
easily with her voice enchanted 10000 ait
ditors.
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-iusiead 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 physiological Be heard"
That is the reason that the New Testament
in beginning the account of Chrst's ser
mon ON the mount. describes our Lord 5
plain articulation and resuund of utterance
by saving, He opened his mouth In that
mighty concert hail and preaching place
which / suggest for this nineteen hun
dredth anniversary let music crown our
Lord. Bring all the urchcStraS, all the ora
torios all the Philharmonic and handel
and Haydn societies.
Then giveuS Haydn : oratOriou the Gre
alton, for our Lord too, part in universe
building, and without him. says Jonu,
twas not anything made that was made, u
and Handel's Messiah" and Beethoven's
symphonies" and Memberships Eli
iah.n the prophet, that typited our Christ
ana tlt LfdDNltNl ''l4s 'bSillOlS VI Ntillldl
r and English and American masters, living
or dead All instruments fhat can mum OF
/ roll or whisper or harp or flute or clap OF
e trumpet or thunder the praises OF the Lord
t Joined to all voices that can chant or war
t BILE or precentOr multitudinOus worshipers
| What an arousing when 10000 Join in AN
D tioch" or "COruuatiou' or Ariel risna
!. into haleuiah or subsding into an almost
Z supernatural amen!
: Yea, let sculpture stand On pedestals al
= around that building, the forms of apostle!
/ and martyrs, men and women, who spok,
or wrought or suffered by the headsrnan.
a AK or fire. Where is my favorite of all arts
+ this art OF sculpture, that is not buster fo
= Christ, or that its work is not better APP
t preciated? Let it cone forth at tina
/ worlds jubilee of the nativity We wan
c a second Lhidias to do for that new temple
t what the first Phidias did for the Par
/ thenon. Let the marble of Carrara com
II to resurrection to celebrate our Lords res
+ direction. Let sculptors set up in tina
+ auditorium of Christ celebration bas-relie
i and intaglio descriptive of the battles VOL
c for our holy religion.
i Where are the Canuvas of the nineteenth
II century, Where are the American Thol
e waldscns and Chantreys? Hidden some
IS where. | warrant you. Let sculpture tur
d that place into another AcrOpoiIs, but NOR
II glorious by as much as our Christ
stronger than their Hercules, and has NOR
to do with the sea than their Neptune, an
'e raises greater harvests than their Ceres
If and rouses more music in the heart of tn
It world than their Apollo. The gods of til
4 heather are nothing but dumb idols, bu
st our Lord made the heavens" In marbl
4 pure as snow celebrate him, who came I
d make us whittier than snow Let til
Is chisel as well as pencil and pen be put dow
i at the feet of Jesus.
Sc PAINTING AND FLOWERS.
le Yea, let painting do its best. The foreig
le galleries will loan for such jubilee the
e, Madonnas, their Angeles, their Ruben
C. their Raphaels, their Christ at the 10
le dan, or Christ at the Last Supper" {
Christ Coming to Judgment or Chris
De on the Throne of Universal Dominion
n and our own Morans will put their pencil
IL into the nineteen hundredth anniyersar
T. and our Bierstadts from sketchiug IT
rs Domes of the Yosemite will come to DR.
Ia sent the dumes of the world conquered fl
le Emmanuel.
70 Added to this | would have "A for
Of decoration on "A scale never equaed. III
a fields and open gardens could not furuis
he it, for it will be winter, and that season a
be proprately chosen, for it was into the fros
IS and desOlatiOus of winter that Christ il
lis migrated when he came TO our world. b,
while the fields will be bare, the conserv
be tories and lighthouses within 200 mil
ms would glaQly keep the sacred conseum rae