The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1893-09-27

neauSmdn ak or hre. Wnere ID my
favorite of all arts, this art of sculp
ture, that 1t is not buster for Christ OF
that Its work is not better Appreciated
Let 1t come forth at the worlds jubilee
of the nativity. We want a second
Phidias to do for that new temple what
the first Phidias did for the Parthenon.
Let the marble of Carrara come to res
direction to celebrate our Lords res
direction. Let sculptors set up in that
auditorium Of Christ's celebration bas
relief and intaglio descriptive Of the
battles won for our holy religion.
Where are the Canovas of the nine
teenth century? Where are the Ameri'
can Thorwaldsens and ChantreysP
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 heathcn are nothing
but dumb idols, but our Lord made the
heavens" In marble pure as snow
celebrate Him, who came to make ua
whittier than snow" Let the chisel
as well as pencil and pen be put down
at the feet Of Jesus. tg..l
Yea, let painting do its best The
foreign galleries will loan for such a
jubilee their Madonnas, their Angeles,
their Rubens, their Raphaels, their
''Christ at the Jordan" or Christ
Coming at the Last Supper" )" or "Christ
Coming to Judgment" or Christ on
the Throne of Universal Dominion"
and our own Morans will put their PEN
ellis into the nineteen hundredth an
niversary, and our Bierstadts from
.sketching "The Domes Of the Yo-
semitic" will come TO present the domes
Of the world conquered for Emmanuel.
Added TO all this l would have a
floral decoration on scale never
equaled The fields and open gardens
could not furnish it, for 1t will be win
ter, and that season appropriately
chosen, for 1t was into frosts and DESC
lations OF winter that Christ immi'
grated when He came TO our world.
But while the fields will be bare, the
conservatories and lighthouses 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 Metro
politan opera house, New York, cele
brating the centennial Of Washington
Inauguration, where the rivers OF wint
drowned the sobriety Of so many sena
ators and governors and generals, but
banquet for the poor, the feeding o.
scores of thousands of people OF worlC
in which the majority Of the inhabit
ants have never yet had enough to eat
not banquet at which few favored
men and women of social and politica
fortune shall sit, but such banque
as Christ ordered when he told His serv
ants TO "go out into the highways ant
hedges and compel them to come In.
Let the mayors of cities and the gov
ernors of states and the president o
the United States proclaim a who'll
week of legal holiday, at least fror
Christmas day to New Years day.
Added to this let there be at tha
international, moral and religious eS
position a mammoth distribution o
sacred literature. Let the leading min
isters Of England, Scotland, Ireland
France, Germany, and the world, TAX
the pulpits of all these cities, and tel
what they know of Him whose brit
we celebrate. At these convocation
let vast sums Of money be raised 70
churches, for asylums, for schools, 10
colleges, all of which institutions wer
born in the heart of Christ. On tina
day and in that season when Chris
gave Himself TO the world, let tn
world give itself to Him.
Why do 1 propose America as tn
country for this convocation? Becaus
most other lands have state religion
and while all forms of religion may b
tolerated in many lands, America
the only country on earth where q
evangelical denominations stand on n
even footing and all would have equi
hearing in such an International exp,
sition. Why do select this cluster
seacoast cities? Answer: BY that tim
December 25, 1900, these four cities
New York, Brooklyn, Jersey City an
Hoboken, by bridges and tunnels, wi
be practically one, and with an aggr
gate population Of about four million
Consequently, no other part of Anne
lea will have such imnensity OF pop,
lation.
Why do now make this nominatio
OF time and place? Answer: Becaui
such a stupendous movement cann'
be extemporized. 1t will take seve
years to get ready for such an owe
towering celebration, and the wor
] ought TO begin speedily In churches,
colleges, in legislatures, In congresse
In parliaments, in all styles of nations
, assemblages, and we have no time
/ lose. It would take three years
make a programme worthy Of such
coming together. ..L.
Why do 1 take 1t upon myself
make such nomination Of time al
place? Answer: Because II so ha
: pens that. In the mysterious providen
. of God, born in o farmhouse and Of
royal or princely descent, the doors
! communication are opep to me eve
week by the secular and religio
printing presses, and have been op
! TO me every week for many years, wi
all the cities and towns and neighbc
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