Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-09-25

us all thinesn A religion OF telling"
And In what way could all nations 50
we'll be told that Christ had come ms by
such IN international emphasizing OF his
nativity All India would cry out abost
such an affair for you know they have
their railroads and telegraphs, What Is
going or In American All China would
cry out, "WhAt is that great excitement
In American All the islands OF the sea
would CONS down 10 the gangplanks OF
the arriving ships and ask, what is
that they are celebrating in American Il
would be the mightiest missionary move
ment the world has ever seen. II would
be the turning point in the worlds destiny.
It would waken the numbering nations
with one touch.
Question the Second How would you
have such an international Jubilee con-
ductedi Answer-All arts should be mar
shaled, 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 audi
torium erected to hold such an audience as
has never been seen on any sacred occasion
In America. II Scribonius Curio at the
cost OF kingdom could build the first two
vast anphithesters, 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
amphitheater, to witness u gladiatorial
contest, and Yespasien could construct the
Coliseum with It's so columns and its tri-
umphs In three orders Of Greek architec-
ture and capacity TO hold 81 600 people
seated and 1900 standing, and all for pur-
poses Of cruelty and sin, cannot our glorl-
GUS Christianity rear in honor of our glori-
Gus Christ a structure large enough to held
5000 Of its worshipers'
CONGREGATION OF 5000 PEOPLE.
II we go cropping now among the ruined
amphitheaters Of Verona and Pompeii and
Cspua and Puzzuoli and Tarraco, and then
stand transfxed with amazement at their
immense sweep that held from 5000 to
10000 spectators gathered for carousal and
moral degradation, could not Christianity
afford one architectural achievement that
would hold and inthrall its $1,000 Chris
tian disciplesf Do you say no human
voice could be heard throughout such a
buildingi Ali then you were not present
when at tho Boston peace jubilee Parepa
easily with her voice enchanted $1,000 au-
dit0rs.
And the time is near at hand when in
theological Summaries, where our young
men nro being trained for the ministry, the
voice will DO developed, and instead Of the
mumbling ministers, who speak with so
low tone you cannot hear unless you lean
forward and hold your hand behind your
ear, and then are able to guess the general
drift Of the subject and decide quite well
whether II Is about Moses or Paul or some
one else-instead OF that you will have
coming from the theological seminaries all
over the land young ministers with voice
enough to command the attention of an
audience OF 5000 people
That is the reason that the Lord gives us
two lungs instead OF one IL Is the divine
way Of saying physiologically, BE heardri
That Is the reason that the New Testament,
IN beginning the account Of Christs ser
mon on the mount, describes our Lords
plain articulatiGS md resound Of utterance
by saying, "He opened his mouth" In that
mighty concert hall and preaching place
which l suggest for this nineteen hun
dredth anniversary let music crown our
Lord. Bring all the orchestras, all the ora
tOrios, all the Philharmonic and Handel
and Haydn societies.
Then give US daydn's oratorioof the Gre
alton" for our Lord took part in universe
building, and without him." says John,
twas, not anything made that was made"
and lisndel's Messiah and Beethoven's
"Symphonicsn and Mendelssohn's "Eli.
iah," the prophet, that typiiied our Christ,
and the grandest compositions of German
and English and American masters, living
or dead. All instruments that can hum or
roll or whisper or harp or flute or clap or
trumpet or thunder the praises OF tho Lord,
Joined to all voices that can chant or war
BILE or precentor multitudlnous worshipers
What an arousing when 10000 Join in IAN
tioch" or Coronation or "Ariel,n rising
into halleluiah or subsiding into an almost
supernatural amenl
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 The headsman's
AK or Gre. Where Is my fayorite of all arts,
this art Of sculpture, that Is not buster for
| Christ, or that It's work Is not better ap.
preciated' Let 1t come forth ut that
worlds jubilee Of the nativity We want
o second phdias to do for that new temple
| what the first phidias did for the Far
thenou. Let the marble OF Carrara come
to resurrection to celebrate our Lords res.
! direction. Let sculptors set up In that
auditorium OF Christ celebration bas-relief
and intaglio descriptive Of the battles won
for our holy religion.
Where are the Canovas of the nineteenth
century, Where are the American T or
waldsens and ChantreysS Hidden some
! where, warrant you. Let sculpture turn
that place into another Acropolis, but moro
glorious by rs much as our Christ is
stronger than their Hercules, and has more
10 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 pade the heavens" In marble
pure rs snow celebrate him, who came to
make us whittier than snow Let the
chisel MS well az pencil and pen be put down
at the feet Of Jesus.
J PAINTING AND FLOWERS.
1 Yea, let painting do its best The foreign
galleries will loan for such u jubilee their
Madounas, their Angeles, their Rubens.
their Raphaels, their Christ at the Jor.
dan" or Christ at the Last Supper or
Christ Coming to Judgment" or Christ
on the Throne of Universal Dominion p
and our own Morans will put their pencils
into the nineteen hundredth anniversary.
and our Bierstadts from sketching THE
Domes OF the Yosemite will come to pre-
sent the domes OF the world conquered for