News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1893-09-28

their railroads anu UeleSrdpIlS. w Id
is going on in American" All Chin;
would cry out, ''What is that great ex
citement in American" All the islands
of the sea would come down to the gang
planl1s of the arriving ships and ask
"What is that they are celebrating il
American 1t would be the mighties
missionary movement the world has eve1
seen, 1t would be the turning point IL
the worlds destiny. 1t would walker
the slumbering nations with one touch.
Question the Second-How would you
have such an international jubilee con
Quoted? Answer-All arts should be
marshaled, 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 ditorium 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-
matte representation, and then by Won
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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 its so columns, and its tri-
umphs in three orders of Greek archi-
lecture, and capacity to hold $1,000
people seated and $4,000 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 $4,000 of its wor-
shippers?
If we go cropping now among It's
ruined amphitheaters of Verona and
Pompeii and Capua and Puzzuoi and
| Tarraco, and then stand transfixed with
amazement at their immense sweep that
held from $4,000 to 100000 spectators
gathered for carousal and moral degra-
dation, could not Christianity afford
one architectural achievement that
would hold and enthrall it's $4,000
Christian 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 en-
chanted so, 900 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 mumbing 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 ZOO people. That is the reason that
the Lord gives us two lungs instead of
one. 1t is the Divine way of saying
physiologically, "Be heardr'
That is the reason that the New Tes-
lament in beginning the account of
Christ's sermon 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 1 sug-
gest for this nineteen hundredth ami
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, was not anything made that
was made" and Handers Messiah and
Beethoven's symphonies" and Mendels-
sohn's elijah" the prophet that typi-
fed 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 MARBLE or precentor multitudinous
worshipers. What an arousing when
$4,000 join in antioch" or Coronation"
or "Ariel,' rising into halleluiah or sub
siding into an almost supernatural amen!
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 ak or fire. Where is my ia
vorite of all arts, this art of sculpture,
that it is not buster for Christ or that
its 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 Lord 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
treys? Hidden somewhere, l 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
er 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
OuI JIlt llcotf CllSs LII
pure as snow celebrate him who came
to make us ''whiter than snow" Let
the chisel as well as pencil and pen be
put down at the feet of Jesus.
Yea, let painting do its best. The for
eign galleries will loan for such jubilee
their Madonnas, their Angeles, their
Rubens, their Raphaels, their "Christ
at the Jordan" or ''Christ at the Last
Supper" or ''Christ Coming to Judg-
ment," or "Christ ON the Throne of Uni
versal Dominion" and our own Morans
will put their pencils into the nineteen
hundredth anniversary, and our Bier
stadts from sketching 1.-THE Domes of the
Yosemite" will come to present the
domes of the world conquered for I'm
manuel.
Added to all this l would have floral
decoration on a scale never equaled. The
fields and open gardens could not fur
nish it, for it will be winter, and that
season appropriately chosen, for it 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 Conservatives and hot
houses within 200 miles would gladly
keep the sacred coliseum radiant and
aromatic during all the convocations.
Added to all let there be banquets,
not like the drunken bout at the Metro
politan Opera House, New York, cele-
brating the centennial of Washington's
inauguration, where the rivers of wine
drowned tho sobriety of so many SEN
ators and governors and generals, but
banquet for the poor, the feeding of
scores of thousands of people of a world
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