Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1893-09-30

worlds destiny. II would waken 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 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 n king
dom could build the first two vast am
phitheaters, placing them back to back,
holding great audiences for dramatic
representation, and then by wonderful
machinery could turn them round with
all their audiences in them, making
the two auditoriums one amphitheater,
to witness gladiatorial contest, and
Vespasian tould construct the Colos-
scum, with its eighty columns and its
triumphs in three orders OF Greek
architecture and n capacity to hold
81. 900 people seated and $4,000 stand
ing, and all for purposes of cruelty and
sin, cannot our glorious Christianity
rear in honor of our glorious Christ
structure large enough to hold 80, 900
of its worshipers.
If we go CROPPING now among the
ruined amphitheaters of Verona and
Pompeii, and Capua, and Puzzuoli, and
Tarraco, and then stand transfiXed
with amazement ut their immense
sweep that held from $4,000 to 100, 200
spectators gathered for carousal and
moral degradation, could not Christi
anity afford one architectural achieve
ment that would hold and enthrall its
$4,000 Christian disciples? DO You say
no human voice could be heard through
out such building? In that mighty
concert hall and preaching place which
suggest for this nineteen hundredth
anniversary, 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 oratoria of the Creation, for
our Lord took part in universe build
ing, and without Him." says John,
was not anything made that was
made" and Tiandel's Messiah" and
Beethoven's symphonies" and Men
delssohn's Elijah" the prophet that
typified Christ, and the grandest COM
positions of German and English and
American masters, living or dead.
What an arousing when $4,000 join in
Antioch or Coronation or Ariel, rising
into Halleluiah or subsiding into an
almost supernatural Amen.
Added to all, let there be banquets,
not like the drunken bout at the Met
ropolitan opera house. New York, cele-
brating the centennial of Washington S
Inauguration, where the rivers of wine
drowned the sobriety of SO many sena-
tors and governors and generals
but banquet for the poor,
the feeding of scores of thou
sands of people of world in which
the majority of the inhabitants have
never yet had enough to eat: not n
banquet ut which few favored men
and women of social or political for
tune shall sit, but such banquet as
Christ ordered when he told his serv-
ants to 'go out into the highways and
hedges and compel them to come in"
Added to this let there be at that in
tcrnational and religious exposition a
mammoth distribution of sacred litera-
ture. Let the leading ministers OF re-
ligion 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 asylums, for schools, for
colleges all of which institutions were
born in the heart of Christ. On that
day and in that season when Christ
gave Himself to the world let the world
give itself to Him.
Why do l propose America as the
country for this convocation? Because
most other lands have state religion,
and while all forms of religion may be
tolerated in many lands, America is
the only country on earth where all
evangelical denominations stand on an
equal footing, and all would have
equal hearing in such an international
exposition. Why do I select this clus-
ter of seacoast cities? Answer: BY
that time, December %, 1900, these
four cities of New York. Brooklyn,
Jersey City and HobolSen, by bridges
and tunnels, will be practically one,
and with an aggregate population OF
about 1900, 600. Consequently no other
part of America will have such inn
mensity of population.
Why do now make this nomination
of time and place? Answer: Because
such stupendous movement cannot be
extemporized. 1t will take seven years
to get ready for such an overtowering
celebration, and the work ought to be-
gin speedily in churches, in colleges, in
legislatures, in congresses, in parlia-
r,anfc IN al efvlae of national assem-