Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1893-10-12

| apostles and martyrs, men and women
who spoke or wrought or suffered by
headsman's ak or fire. Where is my
favorite of all arts, this art of sculp-
ture, that it is not buster for Christ or
that its work is not better appreciated?
Let it 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 Chantreys?
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 heather are nothing
! but dumb idols, but our Lord made the
! heavens" In marble pure as snow
celebrate Him, who came to make Us
whittier than snow" Let the chisel
as well as pencil and pen be put down
/ at the feet of jesus.
Yea. let painting do its best The
foreign galleries viii loan for such
/ 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 viii put their pen
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niyersary. and our Bierstadts from
Stretching THE Domes of the fo-
semitic" will come 10 present the domes
of the world conquered for Emmanuel
Added to all this i would have
floral decoration on scale never
could not furnish it. for it will be win
ter and that season appropriately
chosen, for il was into frosts and desc
lations of winter that Christ immi-
grated when He came 10 our world.
But while the fields will be bare, the
Conservatives 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's
inauguration. where the rivers of wine
| drowned the sobriety of so many sena-
ators and governors and generals. but
a banquet for the poor, the feeding Of
scores OF thousands of people of a world
| 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 political
fortune shall sit, but such a banquet
IS Christ ordered when he told His serv-
lnts to Ego out into the highways and
hedges and compel them to come in.
I Let the mayors of cities and the gov
arnors of states and the president OF
| the United States proclaim a whole
week of legal holiday. at least from
! christmas day TO New Years day.
Added to this let there be at that
international moral and religious ex-
/ position mammoth distribution Q;
sacred literature Let the leading min
.sters of England, Scotland. Ireland
| France. Germany. and the world, take
/ The pulpits of all these cities, and tel
i what they know of Him whose birth
4 we celebrate. At these conversations
! let 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
| lay and in that season when Chris
| gave Himself TO the world, let the
1 world give itself to Him.
Why do | propose America as the
ountry for this convocation? Because
I most other lands have state religion
/ and while all forms of religion may be
tolerated in many lands, America is
the only country on earth where all
evangelical denominations stand on an
/ wen footing and all would have equa
hearing in such an international expo
ton. Why do | select this cluster o.
,eacoast cities? Answer: BY that time
December 25 1900, these four cities 81
| New York, Brooklyn, Jersey City and
Hobolken, by bridges and tunnels. vii!
be practically one. and with an aggre-
rate population of about four millions
Consequently, no other part of Amer
Ca will have such immensely of popu-
/ lation.
WHY do now make this nomination
II time and place? Answer: Becaus,
,uch a stupendous movement canno
be extemporized. 1t will take sever
ears to get ready for such an over
covering celebration, and the work
ought to begin speedily in churches, in
colleges in legislatures, in congresses
IN parliaments, in all styles of nationa
acknowledgement we have no time t
lose 1t would take three years &c
malSea programme worthy of such