The Progress., 1893-12-30
BUSINESS or TODAY.
REV. THOMAS DIXON, JR., ON "THC
COURT OF HONOR"

Honor?
NEW YORK, Dec. 24.-Rev. Thomas
Dixon, Jr., surprised his audience iii
Association hall this morning by an
nouncing before the sermon that after
the first day of January he would stop
the publication of his sermons. He said
Il have Informed the American Press
Association that with the close of the
present series | will no longer furnisl.
my sermons for publication. | have two
reasons for this: am not yet 80 years
old am writing too much thus early
in life. | desire to spend several years
in study before writing more. Besides.
with my present methods of work and
study find the method of advance prep
aratIun of manuscript for the press an
intolerable drain on my time and ener-
gies"
The sermon this morning was on THE
Court of Honor, " the next to the last in
the series of the Prophecies of the
Worlds Fair" The text chosen was
from | Corinthians iii, 81, "All things
are yours.
But twice before in my life have
been SO profoundly moved as when |
stood for the first time within "Tho
Court of Honor of the fair-once when
| stood on the lofty summit of a grand
mountain peak and looked down upon
the great world God had made so beau
tiful, and once again when first climb
ed the sand dunes of my native state
and gazed upon miles of ocean breakers
as they rolled in from the infinite deep
and broke upon the beach with hiss and
boom and sullen roar.
couldn't keep back the tears-who
could that had soul?
THE COURT OF HONOR.
Julian Hawthorne has most beauti-
fully described that scene: THE pale
gilded dome of the Administration
building, the ranged columns of the
peristyle, the pinnacles and the Diana
dome, with the golden goddess floating
above 1t and forever aiming her arrow
at the winds eye; the mighty statue of
the republic, majestic with her uplifted
arms and severe drapery, dominating
the eastern end of the lagoon, and the
white splendor of the great fountain at
the other extremity, with that ravish-
ing figure of Liberty sitting divinely
erect in her chair on the poop of the
barge, her eight maiden gOndoliers oar
ing on either side, while Father Time |
steers on the stern, his scythe fastened !
to the tiller, and Progress alights on the |
bows, her trumpet in her hand; then |
the Venetian bridges that span the arms |
Of the lagoon, with Kemey's matchless |
bears and buffalos guarding them; the
mighty bulls and horses on the midway |
steps, the triumphal pillars marking the
corners of the vast quadrangle with
their slender white beauty, the exquis-
tie little Greek temples in the fore
ground of the peristyle, the glorious lift
and sweep, strength and spirituality, of
he whole stupendous conception. which,
iespite its infinite variety, is harmo-
Nous unit Of design, and finally the
cleaning, glancing lagoon itself, rhym-
ng with the beauty above and multi
'lying it and ripping round the deli
ate noses of the gondolas as they fit
loiselessly hither and thither with the
gallant figures of the Venetian oars
men in bow and stern. These things
make an era in our national aesthetic
ducation. and the development of our
,eople in the knowledge and love of
,eauty will date from this happy
'poch.
"ALI. THINGS ARE YOURS.
| could but feel the clash between
his scene of peace and beauty and glo-
y and the actualities of the business
world the walls of these palaces cover
'd. Will this great Court of Honor ever
)e really incarnated in our business?
)r is the conflict irrepressible and hope
ess between the divine and the rush for
rain?
"All things are yours, "even business,
md the business world, and a business
,areer. and a business life. Yet the
more see of modern business, as trans
Icted today, the sadder it makes me.
| never have to enter into business
transaction that calls me into direct
ouch with the supreme spirit Of our
modern commercial life, as at present
that it does not make me
leartsick. feel, when through with
{, as If wanted to get off somewhere
n desert and scratch out cave in
he side of hill and live on herbs in a
simpler, honest life. If there is in any
mans mind doubt as to whether the
modern spirit of successful business is
n harmony with the spirit of Jesus
Christ, all he has to do is first to know
What Jesus Christ taught, and then go
With that spirit in his heart into your
modern refrigerator of thoroughly up
o date. down to the last minute bust
less transaction.
3 Is successful business of today a field
a lcIiich a true Christian, desiring the
highest and noblest things, can enter and
iope to succeed, and at The same time
odd has Christian integrityg
Does the Court of Honor rule our bust
Iess world?