The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1893-11-18


: heavens" In marble pure as snow cels
+ brate Him, who came to make q
whittier than snow.r Let the chisel a
well as pencil and pen be put down a
the feet of Jesus.
Yea, let painting do its best. TIL
foreign galleries will loan for such
Jubilee their Madonnas, their Angeles
their Rubens, their Raphaels, thei
} ''Christ at the Jordan" or Christ q
the Last Supper" or s'Christ Coming T.
Judgment" or ssChrist on the Thron
J of Universal Dominion and our owl
Morans will put their pencils into tn
nineteen hundredth anniversary, ant
our Bierstadts, from sketching 9TH,
Domes of the Yosemite, will come Il
present the domes of the world con
lquered for Emmanuel.
Added to all this / would have I
equaled The fields and open garden,
could not furnish it, for it will be win
ter. and that season appropriately
chosen, for it was into the frosts ant
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 keer
the sacred Colosseum radiant and arc
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,
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 a banquet at which few
favored men and women of social or
political fortune shall sit, but such a
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 tho
president of the United States pro-
claim whole week of legal holiday,
at least from Christmas day to New
Years day.
Added to this let there be at that in
ternational and religious exposition q
mammoth distribution of sacred liter
allure. Let the leading ministers of
religion from England, Scotland, Ire
land, 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 convoca-
tions 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 I 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'exposi
ton. Why do select this cluster of
seacoast cities? Answer: BY that
time. December %, 1900, these four
cities Of New York, Brooklyn, Jersey
City and Hoboken, by bridges and
tunnels, will be practically one, and
with an aggregate population of about
four millions. Consequently no other
part of America will have such i'm
mensity of population.
Why do now make this nomination
of time and place? Answer: Because
such stupendous movement can not
be extemporized. 1t will take seven
years to get ready for such an overflow
ering celebration, and the work ought
to begin speedily in churches, in col
leges, in legislatures, in congresses, in
parliaments, in all styles of national
and we have no time to
ose. 1t would take three years to make
a programme worthy of such coming
together.
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 wide swath |
through churches and communities |
md nations. But those who cross from
world to world before Old Time in this
world crosses that midnight from CEN
Jury to century, will talk among the
thrones of the coming earthly jubilee, |
ind on the river bank and in the house
If many mansions. until all Heaven
will know of the coming of that cele-
,ration that will fill the earthly ma
ions with joy and help augment the
lations of Heaven. But, whether here
" there, we will take part in
he music and the banqueting,
t we have made the Lord our por-
ion. Oh, how / would like to stand
It my front door some morning or noon
II night and see the sky part and the
blessed Lord descend in person, not as
lie will come in the last judgment,
With fire, and hail and earthquake, but
n sweet tenderness, to pardon all sins
md heal all wounds, and wipe away
ii tears, and feed all hunger, and
light all wrongs, and illumine all dark