South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1893-09-28

architecture, and u capacity to hold 81 900
people seated and Is 900 standing. and all
for purposes OF cruelty and sin. cannot our
glorious Christianity rear in honor Of our
glorious Christ n structure lmrgo enough to
hold $4,000 OF its worshipers?
III we go cropping now among tho ruined
nmphithcaters OF Verona and Pompcii and
CaDui and Puzzuoli and Tarraco, and then
stand transflxcd with amazement Mt their I'M
mense sweep that held from 80 900 to 100 600
spectators gathered for carousal and moral
degradation. could not Christianity afford
one architectural achievement TINT would
hold and cnthrall its so 900 Christian di..,i-
pies? Do You say no human voice could be
heard throughout such n building? An Z
then you were not present when mt tho Bos-
ton peace jubilee Parepa easily with her VOICE
enchanted $4,000 auditors.
And the time Is near at hand when in theo-
logical scminaries. where our young men ure
being traincd for the ministry. the voice will
ministers, who speak with so low n tone you
cannot hear unless you lean forward and
hold yonr hand behind your ear and then
are able to guess tho general drift of the SUBJ
ject and decide quite we'll whether II is about
Moses or Paul or some one clse-instead OF
that you will hive coming from tho theololi-
cal Summaries all over the land young min
listers with voice enough to command the Mt
tcntion OF IN audience OF sc, 900 people. That
Is the reason that the Lord gives US two
lungs instead OF one. It is tho Divine way
OF saying physiologicnlIy. "Be hear1Ir ~
Tint is the reason that tho New Testament
IN beginning the account OF Christs sermon
on the mount describes our Lords plain
articulation and resound OF utterance by suy-
Ing. ''Hc opened his mouth In that
mighty concert hall and preaching riacs
which suggest for this nineteen hundredtlr
anniversary let music crown our Lord. Bring
All the orchcstras. uil tho oratorios. all tho
philharmonic and Handel aud Haydn So
cieties.
Then give US Haydn's oratorio Of tho
Creation. !" for our Lord took part in uni
verse building und without him." SAWS
John. was not anything made that was
made. and Handlers Messiah" and
Bcethoven's Symphonies" and Mendels-
sohn's elijah the prophet that typiiled
our Christ and the srandest 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
Lord joined to all voices that can chant or
warble or prccentor multitudinous wor-
shippers. What an arousinE when $4,000
join in .Antioch" or Coronation" or
Ariel, rising into halleluian or subsid-
Ing into an almost supernatural amen !!
YEA, lot sculpture stand on pedestnls all
around that buildinS-the forms OF apostles
and martyrs, men and women, who spoke or
wrought or suffered by headsman's az or fire
Who're is my fayorite of all arts this art OF
sculpture. that it is not buster for Christ or
that IFS work Is not better appreciated? Let
1t come forth at that worlds jubilee OF the
nativity. We want n second Phidias 10 do
Tor that new temple what the first Phidias
did for tho Parthenon. Let tho marble of
Carrara come to resurrection TO celebrate
our Lords resurrection. Let sculptors set
up i'll that auditorium of Christ's celebration
bas-reief and intaglio descriptive OF tho bat.
the Cnaovns of tho Ninetcshta Century?
Where are the American Thorwaldsens aud
Chantrcys? Hidden somewhere, I warrant
you.
Lei sculpture turn that place into ano Their.
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 raises more music in the
heart OF the world than their Apollo. 1.-THE
idols, but our Lord made tho heavens In
marble pure rs snow celebrate Him who
came to make us whittier than snow" Let
the chisel as we'll as pencil and pen be put
down at the feet OF Jesus.
Yea. let painting do its best. Tho foreign
galleries will loan for such u jubilee their
Madonnas. their Angeles, their Rubens, their
Raphaels, their ''Christ ut the Jordan" or
Christ Mt the Last Supper, or ''Christ Com
ing to Judgment" or .'Christ on the Throne
OF Universal Dominion. " and our own Morans
will put their pencils into the nineteen hun
dredth anniversary, and our Biorstadts from
sketching 1.-The Domes OF tho Yosemite" will
come to present the domes OF the world con-
quered for Emmanuel.
Added to all this I would have q floral
decoration on scale never cqualed. The
fields and open gardens could not furnish it,
Tor it will be winter, and that season appro-
priately chosen. for 1t was into the frosts and
desolations Of winter that Christ immigrated
when he came to our world. But while the
fields will be- bare. the Conservatives and
lighthouses within 200 miles would gladly
keep the sacred coliseum radiant and aro-
matte during all the conversations.
Added to all let there be- banquets. not
like the drunken bout mt tho Metropolitan
Opera House, New York. celebrating the
centennial of Washington's Inauguration,
where the rivers OF wine drowned the SO.
briefly OF so many senators and governors
and generals, but II banquet for the poor, the
feeding OF scores OF thousands OF people OF n
world in which tho majority OF the inhabi-
tants have never yet had enough to eat. not
women Of social or political fortune shall
sit. but such banquet rs Christ ordered
when He told His servants to ego 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 proclaim whole week OF
legal holiday-at least from Christmas day
to New Years day.
Added to this let there be n: that intcrna-
tional moral and religious exposition n
mammoth distribution OF sacred literature
Let the leading ministers from England,
Scotland. Ireland. France. Germany and the
world take tho pupits OF all these cities and
tell what they know OF Him who's. birth we
celebrate. At those conversations lot 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 10 tho world let
the world give itself to Him.
Why do propose America rs the country
for this convocation? Because most other
lands have State religion, and while all
forms OF religion may DO tolerated in many
lands America Is the only country on earth
where all evangelical denominations stand
on an even footing. and all would have equal
hearing In such an international exposition.
Why do select this cluster OF seacoast cit
les? Answcr-By that time-December IS.
190O-thesc four cities Of New York, Brook
Ign, Jersey City and Hoboken. by bridges
and tunnels. will be practically one and with
nm aggregate population of abont G, 000, 900.
Consequently no other part OF America will
baye such an immensely Of population.
Why do now make this nomination OF
time and place? Answer-B,cause such n
stupendous movement cannot ts extonpor-
lied. 1t will take seven years to get ready