Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1893-09-30

our Lord made the heavens" In marble
pure as snow celebrate him who came
to make us "whiter 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 for
eign galleries will loan for such jubilee
their Madonnas, their Angeles, their
Rubens, their Raphaels, their "Christ
at the Jordan" or "Christ at the Last
Supper" or "Christ Coming to Judg-
ment," or Christ on the Throne of Uni
versal Dominion" and our own Morans
will put their pencils into the nineteen
hundredth anniversary, and our Bier
stadts from sketching The Domes Of the
Yosemite" will come to present the
domes Of the world conquered for In
manuel.
Added to all this would have q floral
decoration on scale never equaled. The
folds End open gardens could not fur
nish it, for it will be winter, and that
season appropriately chosen, for 1t was
into the frosts and desolations of winter
that Christ immigrated when no came
to our world. But while the fields will
be bare, the Conservatives and hot
houses within 200 miles would gladly
keep the sacred coliseum radiant and
aromatic 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 tho sobriety Of 50 many SEN
ators and governors pad generals, but a
banquet for the PEI, the feeding Of
scores of thousands Of people Of world
in which thu majority of the inhabitants
have noycr yet had enough to cat, not
banquet at which few favored men
and women Of social or political fortune
sail sit, but such a banquet as Christ
ordered when be told his servants to "go
out into the highways and hedges and
compel them to como in" Let the may
ors of cities and the governors of states
and the president of the United States
proclaim whole week OF legal holiday
at least from Christmas day to New
Years Cay.
Added to this let there be at that in
ternational moral and religious exposi-
ton mammoth distribution Of sacred
literature. Let the lssSipg ministers Of
religion from Eng Scotland, Ire
land, France, Germany and the world
take the pulpits Of all these cities and
tell what they know of him whose birth
we celebrate. At those convocations 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
day and in that season when Christ gave
himself to the world let the world give
itself to him.
Why do Propose America as the coun-
try for this convocation2 Because most
other lands have q state religion, and
while all forms of religion may be toler-
ated 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 suck
an international exposition. Why do I
select this cluster of seacoast cities2
Answer-By that time-Dec. 25, 1900
those four cites Of y eW Y ork J, Brook;
slsns nJ N
bridges and tune VIII be prac ca1iy
one and With an aggregate population
of about 100000. Consequently no
other part Of America will have such
immensely of population.
Why do I now make this nomination
Of time and place? Answer-Because
such stupendous movement cannot be
extemporized. 1t will take seven years
to got ready for such an oyertowering
celebration, and theworlz ought to begin
speedily in churches, in colleges, in leg
islatures, in congresses, in parliaments,
in all styles of national assemblages, and
we have no time to lose. 1t would take
three years to make programme wor-
thy of suoh coming together.
Why do I take it upon myself to make
such nomination of time and place?
Answer-Because it so happens that in
the mysterious providence of God, born
In farmhouse and of no royal or prince
ly descent, the doors Of communication
are open to me every week by the Sec
ular and religious printing presses and
have been open to me every week for
many years, with all the cities and
towns and neighborhoods Of Christen-
dom, and indeed in lands outside Of
Christendom, where printing presses
have been established, and feel that if
there is anything worthy in this PROPOSE
ton it will be needed and adopted. On
the other hand, if it be too sanguine, or
too hopeful, OF too impractical, I am sure
1t will do no harm that havo expressed
nv wish for such an international jubi-
lee. celebrative Of the birth of our In
manuel.
My friends, such q birthday celebra-
ton at the cleft one century and
reaching into q new century would be
something in which heaven and earth
could Join. 1t would not only BIO inter-
national, but intcrplanetary, interstel-
lar, MISREPRESENTATION. If you remem-
Der what occurred on the first Christmas
night, you know that it was not joy
confined to our world. The choir above
Bethlehem was imported from another
world, and when the star left its usual
sphere to designate the birthplace all
astronomy felt the thrill. If there be
anything true about our religion, it is
that other worlds are sympathetic with
this world and In communication with
it. The glorifed of heaven would Join
in such celebration. The generations
that toiled to have the world for Christ
would take part in such jubilation and
prolonged assemblage.
The upper galleries of Gods universe
would applaud the scene, whether we
heard the clap of their wings and the