The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1893-09-30

music. anu all churches, and all great halls
would be needed. there should hs one great
auditorium erected 20 hold such an audience
as has never been seen on any sacred occa-
sion in America.
III Scribonius Curio, at the cost OF king
dom, could build the first two vast amphi-
theatres, placing them back TO back, hold
ing great audiences for dramatic representa-
tion. and then by wonderful machinery
could turn them round with all their
audiences in them, making the two
auditoriums one amphitheatre, to witness n
g.sditorial contest, and yespasian could con-
struct the Coliseum with its eighty columns.
and its triumphs In three orders OF Greek
architecture, and a capacity 10 hold $1,000
people seated and $4,000 standing. and all
for purposes OF cruelty and sin. cannot our
glorious Christianity rear In honor OF our
glorious Christ a structure large enough TO
hold so, 600 OF It's worshipers?
III we go cropping now among the ruined
amphitheaters OF Verona and pompeii and
Capua and Puxsuoli and Tarraco. and then
stand transfixed with amaEement at their I'M
mense sweep that held from SO, 900 TO 100. 600
spectators gathered for carousal and moral
degradation. could not Christianity AFFORD
one architectural achievement that would
hold and enthrall Its 50, 900 Christian disci-
pies? Do You say no human voice could be
heard throughout such n buildingg All J
then you were not present when at the Bos-
ton peace jubilee Parepa easily with her voice
enchanted 80. 900 auditors.
And the time Is near at hand when in theo-
logical seminaries. whore our young mon are
being trained for tho ministry, the voice will
be developed, and instead OF the mumbling
ministers, who speak with 80 low n tone you
cannot hear unless you lean forward and
hold your hand behind your ear, and then
are able 10 guess the general drift of the Sub
ject and decide quito well whether II Is about
N.Aa.. al. N..ag ~
that you will have coming from the theologi-
cal seminaries all over the land young min
listers with voice enough 10 command the at
tention OF an audience OF 80, 900 people. That
is the reason that the Lord gives us two
lungs instead OF one. II Is the Divine way
OF saying physiologicajly. "Be heard |"
Thae IN the reason that the New Testament
In beginning the account OF Christ's sermon
on the mount describes our Lords plain
articulation and resound OF utterance by say
ing, "He opened his mouth" In that
mighty concert hall and preaching place
which suggest for this nineteen hundrodth
anniversary LEI music crown our Lord. Bring
all the orchestras, all tho oratorios, all the
Philharmonic and Handel and Haydn So
cieties.
Then give US Haydn's oratorio OF tho
Creation" for our Lord took part In uni
verse building and without him." says
John, was not anything made that was
made and Handel's "Messiah" and
Beethoven's Symphonies" and Mendels-
sohn's "Elijah." the prophet that typined
our Christ and the grandest compositions 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 orthunder the praises OF tho
Lord joined to all voices that can chant or
warble 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 amen
Yea, lot 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' AK or nre.
Where is my favorite OF all arts, this art OF
sculpture. that Il is not buster for Christ or
that its work Is not better appreciated? Let
II come forth at that worlds jubilee OF the
nativity. We want n second Phidias to do
for that now temple what the first Pbidias
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 intagio descriptive OF the bat
ties won for our holy religion. Where are
the Canovas OF tho Nineteenth Century?
Where are the American Thorwaldsens and
Chantreys? Hidden somewhere, / warrant
you.
Let sculpture turn that place into ano ther
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 greater harvests than
their Ceres, and raises 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 well ms pencil and pen be put
down at the feet OF Jesus.
Yea, let painting do its best Tho foreign
galleries will loan for such jubilee their
Madonnas. their Angeles, their Rubens, their
Raphaels, their "Christ Mt the Jordan" or
"Christ at the Last Supper, or "Christ Com
Ing to Judgment" or "Christ on the Throne
OF Universal Dominion, and our own Morans
will put their pencils into the nineteen hun
dredth anniversary, and our Bierstadts from
sketching "The Domes OF the Yosemite" will
come to present the domes OF the world con-
quered for Emmanuel.
Added TO all this I would have n floral
decoration on scale never equaled. The
fields and open gardens could not furnish II,
for II will be winter, and that season appro-
priately chosen, for II was into the frosts and
desolations OF winter that Christ immigrated
when he came to our world. But while the
fields will be bare, the conseryatories and
lighthouses within 200 miles would gladly
keep the sacred coliseum radiant and aro-
matte during all tho convocations.
Added 10 all let there be banquets, not
like the drunken bout NJ the Metropolitan
Opera House, New York. celebrating the
centennial OF Washington's inauguration,
where the rivers OF wine drowned the so
briefly Of so many senators and governors
and generals, but banquet for the poor, the
feeding OF scores OF thousands OF people OF
world in which the majority OF the inhabi-
tants have never yet had enough 10 eat, not
n banquet at which n few favored men and
women OF social or political fortune shall
sit. but such n banquet rs Christ ordered
when He told His servants TO ego out into
the highways and hedges and compel them
TO come in Let the mayors OF cities and
the governors OF States and the President OF
the United States proclaim whole week OF
legal bolIday-at least from Christmas day
TO New Years day.
Added 10 this let there be at that interna-
tlonal rss al and religious exposition n
mammoth distribution OF sacred literature.
Let tho leading ministers from England,
Scotland, Ireland, France, Germany and the
world take the pulpits OF all these cities and
tell what they know Of Him whose birth We
celebrate. At those convocations let vast
sums OF money be raised for churches, for
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