Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-09-29

laws, and Christian conquerors
should tell what Christ had
done in the conquest of nations,
and Christian rulers of the earth
would tell what Christ had done in the
gov rnment of earthly dominions.
| Thirty day S of such celebration would
do more TO tell the world who Christ
is than any thirty years. Not a land
on earth but would hear of il and dis
cuss il. Not an eye so dimmed by the
superstition of ages but would see the
illuminat on. The difference of Christ's
religion from all others is that is one
way of dissemination is by simple
"telling;" not argument, not skilful
eXegesis, polemics or he science of
theological fisticufis, but telling 4"
"Tell we the daughter of Zion, behold,
thy king cometh." go quickly and
from the dead" $50 home to
things the Lord hath done for thee.
when he is come, he wi tell
us all things" A religion of tell
ing" And in what way could all ma
tions so we'll b. told that Christ had
come as by such an international en-
phasizing of his nativity? All India
would cry out about such an affair,
for you know they have their railroads
and telegrapbs: what is going on in
American" All China would cry out:
what is that great excitement in
America All the islands of the sea
would come down TO the gang planks
of the arriving ships and ask; "What
is it that they are celebrating in Amer
: leap 1t would be the mightiest mis-
sionary movement the world has ever
seen. 1t would be the turning point
in the worlds destiny. 1t would
walIen the slumbering nations with
one touch.
Question the second: How would you
have such an international jubilee
conducted? Answer: all art should
be marshalled, and art in its most at
tractivr and impressive shape First:
architecture Whilr all academies OF
music and all churches and all grea'
halls would be needed, there should
be one great auditorium erected TO
no d such an audience as has never
been seen on any sacred occasion in
America. If Scribonious Curio at the
cost of kingdom could build the first
two vast amphitheaters, placing them
back TO back, holding great audiences
for dramatic representation, and then
by wonderful machinery could turn
them round with all their audi
enles in them, making the
two auditoriums one amphitheater
TO witness gladiatorial con
test, and Nespasian could construct
the Colosseum, with its eighty columns
and its triumphs in three orders of
Greek architecture and capacity TO
hold eghty-seven thousand people
seated and fifteen thousand standing,
and all for purposes of cruelty aud
sin, cannot our e orious Christianity
rear in honor of our glor Gus Christ
structure large enough to hold fftv
thousand of its wor hipers? If we go
cropping now among the ruined amphi
theaters of Verona, and Pompeii, and
Capua, and PuzZuoli, and Tarraco, and
I hen stand trunsfXed with amaze.
ment at their immense sweep that
held from fifty to a hundred thousand
spectators gathered for carousal and
moral degradation, could not Chris
tianitv afford one architectural
achievement that would hold and en-
thrall its fifty thousand Christian
disciples Do you say no human
voice could be heard throughout such
building? All! then you were
not present when at the Boston
peace jubilee Parepa easily with her
voice en- hante $4,000 auditors. And
the time is near at hand when in
theological seminaries, where our
young men are being trained for the
ministry, the voice will be developed
and instead of the mumbling minis
tiers, who speak with SO low a tone
you cannot hear unless you lean for
ward, and holdyou hand behind your
ear, and then are able to guess the
general drift of the subject, and de-
eide quite well whether it is about
Moses or Paul or some one else-in-
stead of that you will have coming
from the theological Summaries all
over the land young ministers with
voice enough to command the atten-
ton of an audience of $4,000 people.
That is the reasoc that the Lord gives
MS two lungs instead of one. 1t is the
divine way of saying physiologically
"Be heard" That IS the reason that
the new testament in beginning the
account of Christs sermon on the
mount, describes our Lord plain
articulation, and resound of utterance
by saying, "He opened his mouth.
In that mighty concert hall
and preaching place which l suggest
for this nineteenth hundredth ami
versary, let music crown our Lord.
Bring all the orchestras all the
oratories, all the Philharmonic and
Handel and Haydn societies. Then
give VS. Haydn's oratorio of the Crea-
ton. for our Lord took part in universe
building and without him." saws
John, was not anything made that
was made" and Handel's Messiah"
and Beethoven's symphonies and
Mendelssobn's "Elijah,' the prophet
that typifed 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 the Lord, joined to all voices
that can chant or MARBLE or precent
multitudinous worshipers What an
arousing when $4,000 join in Antioch
or Coronation or Ariel, rising into
Hallelu all, or subsidiAg into an al
most supernatural Amen!
Yea, let sculpture stand on pedes-
calls a Il around that building, the forms
of apostles and martyrs, men and
women, who spoke or wrought, or SUI
fered by headsman's ak or fire. Where
is my favori of all arts. this art of
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