Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-09-25


by the superstition Of ages but would
see the Illumination. The difference OF
Chrlst's religion from all others is that
its one way Of dissemination is oy sim
pie telling" not argument, not skilful
exegesls, polemics or the science OF the
illogical fsticuff, but "telling." TELL
We the daughter Of Zion, Behold, thy
King cometh." "Go quickly and tell his
disciples that he has risen from the
dead" $50 home tC thy friends
and tell them how great things
the Lord hath done for thee"
"When he Is come, he will tell
US all things" A religion OF telling"
And 10 what way could all nations so
well be told that Christ had come as by
such an In irrational emphasizing OF
his nativity? All India would cry out
about such an affair, Tor you know they
have their railroads and teleSraphs;
| "What is going on 10 American" All
/ China would cry out: what Is that
great excitement In American All the
Islands OF the sea would come down to
the gang planks OF the arriving ships,
aud ask: What is IL that they are cell
ebrating 10 American" 1t would be the
mightiest missionary movement the
world has ever seen. 1t would be the
turning point in the worlds destiny. 1t
would Waken the slumbering nations
WITH ONE TOUCH.
Question the second How would you
have such an international jubilee con-
Quoted? Answer: All arts should be
mqrshalled, and art in its most attract
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lecture. While all academies OF music
aud all churches and all great halls
would be needed, there should be one
great auditorium erected TO hold such
an audience as has never been seen on
any sacred occasion in America. II
ScribOnious Curio, at the cost OF king
dom, could build the first two vast am
phitheatres, placing them back TO back,
holding great audiences for dramatic
representation, and then by wonderful
machinery could turn them round with
all their audiences ia them, making the
two auditOriums one amphitheatre, to
witness a gladitOrlal contest, and Yes
pasian could construct the Colosseum,
with its eighty columns and its tri-
umphs in three orders OF Greek archi-
+ lecture and a capacity to hold eighty
seven I ousand people seated and
fifteen thousand standing, and all for
purposes Of cruelty and sin, cannot our
glorious Christianity rear in honor OF
our glorious Christ structure large
enough 70 hold fifty thousand Of its
WorShippers? II we go cropping now
among the ruined amphitheatres OF
Verona, and POmpeii, aud Capua, and
PuzzuOli, and TsrracO, and then stand
transfXed with amaZement at their i'm
mense sweep that held from fifty to a
hundred thousand spectators gathered
for carOusal and moral degradation,
could not Christianity afford one archi-
tectural achievement that would hold
and enthrall its fifty thousand Chris
tian disciples? Do you say no human
voice could be heard throughout such
a building? All! then you were not
present when at the Boston Peace Jul
biee Parepa easily with her voice en-
HANGED fifty thousand auditors. And
the time is near az hand when In Theo-
logical Summaries, where our young
men are being
TRAINED FOR THE MINISTRY,
the voice will be developed, and instead
of the mumbling ministers, who speak
with so low a tone yOn cannot hear IN
less YOU lean forward, and hold your
hand behind your ear, and then are
able to guess the general drift OF the
subject, aud decide quite we'll whether
10 is about Moses or Paul or someone
else-instead OF that you will have
coming from the Theological Sem
inaries all over the land young ministers
with voice enough to command the at
tention OF an audience Of fifty thousand
people. That Is the reason that the
Lord gives US two lungs instead Of one.
IL is the Divine way of saying phySi-
logically, ''Be heard" That is the
reason that the New Testament In be-
ginning the account OF Christ'S sermon
on the mount, describes our Lords
plain articulation, and reSound or
utterance by saying, "He opened his
mouth" In that mighty concert hall
aud preaching place which l suggest
for this Ninteenth Hundred Anuiver-
sarv, let music crown our Lord. Bring
all the Orchestras, all the oratories, all
the Philharmonic and Handel and
Haydn Societies. Then give US Haadn's
oratorio Of the Creation, for our Lord
took part in universe-building, and
"without Him." says John, was not
ANYTHING made that was made" aud
HandePs Messiah" and BeethOyen's
"Svmphonies," and Men6elSsOhn's
Elijah" the prophet that typtfed our
Christ, and the grandest compositions
OF German and ERglish and American
masters,
LIVING Or DEAD.
An instruments that can hum or roll
or whisper or harp or flute or clap or
trumpet or thunder the praises OF the
Lord, Joined 20 all voices that can
chant or MARBLE or precentor multitud-
inous worshippers. What an arOusing
when fifty thousand join in Antioch or
Coronation or Ariel, rising into Halle
lujah, or subsiding into an almost sup
ernatural Amenl
Yea, let Painting do its best. The
foreign galleries will loan for such a
Jubilee their NIadonnaS, their Angeles,
their Reubens, their RaphaelS, their
"Christ at the Jordan" or "Christ at
the Last Supper" or "ChriSt coming to
Judgment" or Christ on the Throne
OF Universal Dominion" and our own
Morans will put their pencils into the
Ninteen huudredth anniversary, and
our Bierstadts from sketching "The
domes OF the Yosemite" will come 10
present the domeS Of the world con-
Quered for Emmanuel.
Added TO all this I would have q
floral decoration on scale never
equaled.
Added TO this let there be at that In
ternational moral and religious Exposi-
ton a mammoth distribution Of sacred
literature. Let the leading ministers OF
religion from England, Scotland, Ire
land. France. Germany and the world,