The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-09-25

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going on in America POS All China would
. cry out: what is the great excitement
| insAmerica,' All the islands Of the sea
/ would come down 10 the gang planks OF
I the arriving ships, and ask. What Is 10
that they are celebrating in America
| 1t would be the mightiest missionary
| movement the world has ever seen. 10
I would be the turning point in the world S
| destiny. IL would waken the slumOerlng
nations with one touch
Question the second How would YOU
have such an international jubilee con-
. Quoted Answer. all arts should be mar
/ shalled, and art in its most attractive and
/ impressive shape. First: architecture.
/ While all academies Of music and all
/ churches and all great halls would be
/ needed, there should be one great audltO-
| rum erected 10 hold such an audience as
/ has never been seen on any sacred occa-
] sion in America. If SCribOnius CurlO at
| the cost of kingdom could build the first
two vast amphitheatres, 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 amphl-
theater, to witness "a gladiatOrial contest,
and Nespasian could construct the COlOS-
| scum, with its eighty columns and its
| triumphs in three orders of Greek
architecture and a capacity TO hold 81,
900 people seated and 1900 standing, and
all for purposes of cruelty and sin, cannot
glorious Christianity rear in honor of our
glorious Christ a structure large enough
tol hold $4,000 of its wOrshipers2 If we
so cropping now among the ruined amphi-
theaters of Verona, and POmpeli, and
Capua, and PuzZuOh and IarraCO, and
then stand %ransfiXed with amazement al
their immense sweep that held from 80,
600 TO 100000 spectators gathered for ca
rousal and moral degradation, could not
Christianity afford one architectural
achievement that would hold and enthrall
its $4,000 Christian disciples DO you say
no human voice could be heard through
out such a building AM then YOU were
not present when at the Boston Peace
Jubilee, Parepa easily with her voice,
enchanted $4,000 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 be
hind your ear, and then are able to guess
the general drift of the subject, and de
eide quite well whether it is about Moses
or Paul or some one else instead of that
you will have coming from the theoiOg-
zeal seminaries all over the land young
ministers with voice enough TO command
the attention of an audience of fifty
thousand people That is the reason that
the Lord gives us two lungs instead of
one. 1t is the divine way of saying physi-
Ologically, BE heard !" That is the
reason that the New Testament in begin
ming the account of Christ's sermon on
the mount describes our Lords plain
articulation, and resound of utter
ance by saying, He opened his
mouth In that mighty concert hall
and preaching place which | suggest for
this nineteenth hundredth anniversary
let music crown our Lord. Bring all
the orchestras, all the orators, all the
Philharmonic and Handel and Haydn so
cieties. Then giveus Haydn's oratorio
of the Creation, for our Lord took part
in Observation-Disclosures without him.
says John, lis not anything made that
was made" and Handel's Messiah"
and BeethOven's symphonies and Men
delssohn's elijah the prophet that
typihed our Christ, and the grandest com
positions Of German and English and
American masters, living or dead. All
instruments that can hum or roll wills
per 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 worshippers.
What an arousing when fifty thousand
join in Antioch or Coronation or Ariel,
rising into Hallelujah, or subsiding into
an almost supernatural amen
Yea let Sculpture stand on pedcstals
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 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 a 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 in
taglio descriptive of the battles won for
our holy religion. Where are the Cano-
vas of the nineteenth century, Where
are the American Thorwaldsens and
Chantrcys} 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 harvests than their Ceres and
rouses more music in the heart of the
world than their Apollo. "The gods of
but Htdbutil are uOlullR Dub uuHlD luOlS,
but our Lord made the heavens" In
marble pure as snow celebrate Him, who
came to make us "whiter than sn ow. "
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
eigu galleries will loan for such n jubilee
their Madonnas, their Angeles, their
Reubens, their Raphaels, their Christ at
the Jordan or Christ at the Last Sup
| per-" 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 Bicrstadts from
! sketching The DOmes of the Yosemite"
/ will come to present the dOmeS of the
world conquered for Emmanuel
Added to all this. would have floral
! decoration on a scale never eQualled. The
fields and open gardens could not furnish
1t, 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 lighthouses within
200 miles would gladly keep the sacred
Colosseum radiant and aromatic during
all the ConvocatiOns.
Added to all, let there be banquets. not
like the drunken bout at the Metropoli-
tan opera house New York, celebrating
the centennial Of Washin@tons inaugur-
alton where the rivers OF wine drowned
the so5iety of so many senators and gov