Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1893-10-04

ment OF earthly dominionA
Thirty days of such celebration
would do more to tell tho world who
Christ is than any thirty years. Not q
land on earth but would hear of Il and
discuss it. Not an eye so dimIned by
the superstition of ages but would see
the illumination. The difference of
Christ's religion from all others - that
its one way of dissemination II by .
simple telling not argument not
skillful exegesis, polemics or the science
of theological fisticuffs, but telling"
Tell ye the daughter of Zion, Behold,
thy King cometh." Go quickly and tell
His disciples that He has risen from the
dead" Go home 20 thy friends and
tell them how great things the Lord
hath done for thee"
When He is come, He viii! tell US all
things" a religion of 'tellin, And
in what way could all nations - we'll
be told that Christ had come as by .-ach
an international emphasizing of His
nativity? All India would cry out
about such an affair. for you know
they have railroads and telegraphs.
What is going on IN American All
China would cry out: What Is that
great excitement in American" All the
islands Of the sea would come down to
the gang planks of the arriving ships
and ask: What is that they arc cele-
brnting in American" II would be the
mightiest missionary movement the
world has ever seen. II would DO the
turning point In the worlds destiny
IL would waken the slum boring ma
tons with one touch
Question the second: How would you
have such an international Jubilee con-
Quoted? Answer; An arts should be
marshalpd, and art in its most attrac-
tive and impressive shape. First: Arch
itecture. 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 rs has never been seen on
any sacred occasion in America II
Scribonius Curio at the cost of king
dom should build the first two vast
amphitheaters, placing them back 70
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 am
contest, and Vespasiun could construct
the Colosseum, with its eighty columns
and it's triumphS in three orders of
Greek architect"-- and a capacity to
hold $1,000 people seated and Is, 600
standing, and all for purposes of cruelty
and sin, can not our glorious Christian
ity rear In honor of our glorious Christ
a structure large enough to hold 30, 600
of its worshipers? II we are cropping
now among the ruined amphitheaters
OF Verona and Pompeii and Capua and
Puzzuoli and Tarraco, and then stand
transtiXed with amazement at their inn
mense sweep that held from so, 600 TO
100000 spectators gathered for carousal
and moral degradation, could not Chris
tianity afford one architectural achieve
ment that would hold and enthrall its
$4,000 Christian disciples? Do you say
no human voice could he heard through
out such "A building? All! then Won
were not present when at the Boston
Peace Jubilee Parcpa easily with her
voice enchanted fifty thousand audit
orS And the time is near at hand
when in theological seminaries. where
our young men are being trained for
opcd, uud instead OF the mumbling
ministcfs who speak with so low tone
You can not hear unless you lean for
ward and bend your hand behind your
car, and then are able 10 guess the
general drift of the subject, and decide
quite well whether it IS about Moses or
Paul os some one else instead of that
You VIII have coming from the theo-
Logical Leminaries 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 heardw Tint is the
reason that the New Testament in be-
ginning the account of Christs sermon
on the mount describes our Lords plain
articulation and resound Of utterance
by saying: lie opened his mouth. 4"
In that mighty concert hall and preach
ing place which ! suggest for this nine
teen hundrcdth anniversary let music
crown our Lord Bring all the orches-
tras, all the orators. all the Philhar-
monte and Handle. and Haydn societies.
AfNAA Ht'N vs. ia yum NI1LOElO OF
the creation, for our Lord took part in
universe building. and without him, 8"
says John, was not anything made that
was made and HandeTs Messiah. &"
and Bccthoven's symphonies" and
Mendelssohn's Elijah" the prophet
that typifcd our Christ, and the grand
est compositions OF German and Eng
lish and American masters, living or
dead; all Instruments that can hum or
roll or whistle or harp or flute or clap
or trumpet or thunder the praises Of
the Lord, Joined 20 all voices that can
chant or MARBLE or precenter multitu-
dinos worshipers. What an arousinR
when $4,000 join i'm Antioch or Corna-
ton or Ariel, rising into hallejah, or
subsiding into almost supernatural
amenl
Yea. let sculpture stand on pedsstals
all around that building. the forms Of
apostles and martyrs. men and women.
who spoke or wrought. or suffered by
hcadsman's AK or fire Where is my
favorito Of al arts, this art Of sculpture
that Is not buster for Christ or that its
work Is not appreciated2 Let it come
forth at the worlds jubilee OF the ma
tivity. We wanta second Phidias 90 do
for that now temple what the first
Phidias did for the Parthenon.
Let the marble Of Carrura come TO
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