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supernatural Aneni
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
headsinan's ak or fire. Where is my
favorite of all arts, this art Of sculp-
ture, that it is not buster for Christ or
that its work is not better appreciated?
Let it come forth at that Worlds jubi-
lee Of the nativity. We want second
Phidias to do for that new temple what
the the first Phidias did for the Parth-
enon. Let the marble of Carrara come
to resurrection To celebrate our Lords
resurrection. Let sculptors set up in
that auditorium of Christ's celebra-
tion bas-relief and intaglio descriptive
of the battles won for our holy relt-
gion. Where are the Canovas of
the nineteenth century? Where are
the American Thcrwaldsens and Chan
tfeys? Hidden somewhere, warrant
you. Let sculpture turn that place into
another 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 haryests than their
Ceres and foiises 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 eele-
brate HiiR, who tanie to iliakS tfa
whittier 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
foreign galleries will loan for such
jubilee their Madonnas, their Angeles,
their Rnbens, their Raphaels, their
Christ at the Jordan" or "Christ at
the Last Supper" or ''Christ Coming to
Judgment" or ''Christ on the Throne
of Universal Dominion" and our own
Morans will put their pencils into the
| nineteen hundredth anniversary, and
our Bierstad is, from sketching "The
Dontes Of the Yosemi BE-" will come to
present the doines of the world 6oh-
queted for Emmanuel.
Added to all this 1 would have
floral decoration on a scale never
equaled. The fields and open gardens
could not furnish it, for it will be win
ter. and that season appropriately
chosen, for it was into the frosts and
dssolatiops of winter that Christ inn
migrated when He came to our world.
But while the fields will be bare, the
Conservatives and hot houses within
two hundred miles would gladly keep
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matte during all the convocations.
Added to all, let there be banquets,
not like the drunken boitt at the Met
ropolitati opera house, New York,
celebrating the centennial of Washing
toms Inauguration, where the rivers of
wine drowned the sobriety of so many
senators and governors and generals,
but banquet for the poor, the feed
ing Of scores of thousands Of people of
a world in which the majority of the
inhabitants have never yet had enough
to eat; not banquet at which few
favored men and women of social or
political fortune shall sit, but such
banquet as Christ ordered when He
told His servants to go 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 pro-
claim a whole week of legal holiday,
at least from Christmas day to New
Years day.
Before the crossing of time on the
midnight between December 81, 1900,
and the 1st of January. 1901, many Of
us will be gone. Some of you will hear
the clock strike twelve of one century
and an hour after it hear it strike one
of another century but many Of you
will not that midnight hear either the
stroke of the city clock or of the old
timepiece in the hallway of the home
stead. Seven years cut q wide swath
through churches and communities
and nations. But those who cross from
world to world before Old Time in this
world crosses that midnight from CEN
tury to century, will talk among the
thrones of the coming earthly jubilee,
and on the river bank and in the house
of many mansions, until all Heaven
will know of the coming of that cele-
bration that will fill the earthly ma
tions with joy and help augment the
nations of Heaven. But, whether here
or there, we will take part in
the music and the banqueting,
if we have made the Lord our por-
ton. Oh, how l would like to stand
at my front door some morning or noon
or night and see the sky part and the
blessed Lord descend in person, not as
He will come in the last Judgment,
with fire, and hail and earthquake, but
in sweet tenderness, to pardon all sins
and heal all wounds, and wipe away
all tears, and feed all hunger, and
right all wrongs, and illumine all dark
ness, and break all bondage, and har-
1nonize all discords. Some think He
e-ill thus come, but about that COM
ing l have no prophecy, for
1 am not enough learned in the Scrip
lures as some of my friends are to an
nourfce a very positive opinion. But
this l do know, that it would be we'll
for us to have an international and an
inter-world celebration of the anniver>
sary of His birthday about the time OF
the birth of the new century, and that