Connecticut western news., 1893-09-28

or the science of theological fisticuffs, but telling" ''Tell ye the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy King cometh." "Go 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 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 America? All China would cry out, "What is that great ex- citement in America?" All the islands of the sea would come down to the gang blanks of the arriving ships and ask, "What is that they are celebrating in American It would be the mightiest missionary movement the world has ever seen. It would be the turning point in the worlds destiny. It would waken the slum bering nations with one touch.
 Question the Second-How would you have such an international jubilee con- ducted? Answer-All arts should be marshaled, and art in it's 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.
 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 dra- matic representation, and then by won derful machinery could turn them round with all their audiences in them, making the two auditoriums one amphi- theater, to witness gladitorial contest, and Vespasian could construct the Col iseum with it's 80 columns, and it's tri- umphs in three orders of Greek archi- lecture, and capacity to hold 87,000 people seated and 15,00O standing, and all for purposes of cruelty and sin, can not our glorious Christianity rear in honor of our glorious Christ structure large enough to hold 50,0O0 of its wor- shipers2
 If we go groping now among tl.s ruined amphitheaters of Verona ana Pompeii and Capua and Puzzuoi and Tarraco, and then stand transfxed with amazement at their immense sweep that held from 50,000 to 100000 spectators gathered for carousal and moral degra- dation, could not Christianity afford one architectural achievement that would hold and enthrall it's 50,000 Christian disciples? Do you say no human voice could be heard throughout such a building? Ahl then you were not present when at the Boston peace jubilee Parepa easily with her voice en- chanted 50,0OO 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 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 5O, 1000 people. That is the reason that the Lord gives us two lungs instead of one. It is the Divine way of saying physiologically, 'fBe heardp'
 That is the reason that the New Tes- lament in beginning the account of Christ's serH2n on the mount describes our Lords plain articulation and re- sound of utterance by saying, "He open ed his mouth" In that mighty concert hall and preaching place which I sug- gest for this nineteen hundredth anni- versary let music crown our Lord. Bring all the orchestras, all the orato- rios, all the Philharmonic and Handel and Haydn societies.
 Then give us Haydn's oratorio of the Creation" for our Lord took part in universe building and without him." says John, twas not anything made that was made," and Handeps Messiah" and Beethoven's Symphonies" and Mendels- sohn's Elijah" the prophet that typi- fled our Christ and the grandest compo- sitions 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 trumpet or thunder the praises of the Lord joined to all voices that can chant or warble or precentor multitudinous worshipers. What an arousing when 50,000 join in Antioch" or Coronation" or "Ariel," rising into halleluiah or sub- siding 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 headsman's ax or fire. Where is my fa- vorite of all arts, this art of sculpture, that it is not buster for Christ or that it's 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's celebration bas-relief and intaglio descriptive of the battles won for our
 holy religion. Where. are the Canovas
 of the nineteenth century? Where are
 the American Thorwaldsens and Chan
 treys9 Hidden somewhere, warrant you.
 Let sculpture turn that place into an
 other Acropolis, but more glorious by as
 much as our Christ is stronger than their Hercules, and has more to do with the
 sea than their Neptune, and raises great
 CT harvests than their Ceres, and rouses
 more music 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
 pure as snow celebrate him who came | to make us "whiter than snow." Let the chisel as we'll as pencil and pen be put down at the feet of Jesus.
 Yea, let painting do it's best. The for. | eign galleries will loan for such jubilee | their Madonnas their Anpelos thei,