The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1893-10-06

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
headsmans ak or fire. Where is my
favorite of all arts, this art of sculp-
ture, that it is not buster for Christ OF
that its work is not better appreciated
Let il come forth at that Worlds jubi.
lee of the nativity. We want a 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 reli-
gion. Where are the Canovas of
the nineteenth century? Where are
the American Thorwaldsens and Cham
treys? 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 the heather are nothing
but dumb idols, but our Lord made the
heavens. In marble pure as snow cele-
brate 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
foreign 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 t'Christ Coming to
Judgment" or s'Christ on the Throne
of Universal Dominion" (" and our own
Morans will pat their pencils into the
nineteen hundredth anniversary, and
our Bierstadts, from sketching 1.-THE
Domes of the Yosemite" will come to
present the domes of the world con-
quered for Emmanuel.
Added to ALI this / would have
floral decoration on 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
desolations of winter that Christ i'm
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
the sacred Colosseum radiant and aro-
matte during all the convocations.
Added to all, let there be banquets,
not like the drunken bout at the Met
ropolitan opera house, New York,
celebrat ting 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-
at least from Christmas day to New
Years day.
Before the crossing of time on tic
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 near either the
stroke of the city clock or of the old
timepiece in the hallway of the home
stead. Seven years cut wide swatb
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 / 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
nd Io,
ness, and break all bondage, and har-
monize all discords Some think He
will thus come, but about that COM
ing have no prophecy, for
am not enough learned in the Scrip
lures as some of my friends are to an
nounce a very positive opinion. But
this | do know, that it would be well
for us to have an international and an
inter-world celebration of the anniver-
sarv of His birthday about the time of
the birth of the new century, and that
it will be wise beyond all others wis
dom for US to take Him as our pres
ent and everlasting coadjutor, and if
that Darling of earth and Heaven will
only accept you and me, after all our
lifetime of unworthiness and sin, we
can never pay Him what we owe,
though, through all the eternity to
come, we had every hour new song
and every moment new ascription of
homage and praise. For you see we
were far out among the lost sheep that
the Gospel hymn so pathetically de-
scribes:
out in the desert He heard its cry.
Sick ana helpless and ready to die;
But all through the mountains. thunder riven.
And up from the rocky steep,
There rises a cry TO the gate of Heaven: