The weekly examiner., 1901-05-18

ton commencement and pleaded for the grandeur of our Bible. Daniel
 Webster won not his chief gsrlandS while responding to Hayne nor when he opened the batteries of his e1o- quence Bunker Hill, that rocking Sinai of the American revolution, but
 on that day when in the famous Girard
 will case he showed his affection for the Christian religion and eulogized the Bible. The e1oquence and the learning that have been the oth CT
 side come over to our side. Captured
 give it me-"
 So also has it been with the picture
 making of the world We are very
 anxious this day to have the print
 ing press and the platform on the side
 of Christianity, but we overlook the
 engraver's knife and the painters pen
 cil. The antiquarian goes and looks
 at pictured ruins or examines the chis-
 eled pillars of Thebes and Nineveh
 and Pompeii and then comes back to
 tell us of the beastliness of ancient
 art, and it is a fact now that many
 of the finest specimens-merely artis-
 tically considered-of sculpture and painting that are to be found amid those ruins are not fit to be looked at,
 and they are locked up. How Paul
 must have felt when, standing amid
 those impurities that stared on him from the walls and pavements and
 bazaars of Corinth, he preached of the
 pure and holy Jesus. The art of the
 world on the side of obscenity and
 crime and death. 1r~
 Much of the art of the world has
 been in the possession of the vicious.
 What to unclean Henry VIII. was 8
 beautiful picture of the Madonna? :?
 What to Lord -Jefreys, the unjust
 ment?" What to Nero, the unwas shed,
 picture of the baptism in the Jor- dan? The art of the world on the
 wrong side. But that is being changed
 now. The Christian artist goes over to Rome, looks at the picture and
 brings back to his American. studio
 much of the power of these old mas ters. The Christian minister goes over to Venice, looks at the "Cruci- fixion of Christ" and comes back to the American pulpit to talk as never be- fore of the sufferings of the Saviour. The private tourist goes to Rome and looks at RaphaeTs picture of the Hast Judgment" The tears start, and he goes back to his room in the hotel and prays God for preparation for that day when
 shriveling like parched scroll. The flaming heavens together roll Our Sunday school newspapers and walls are adorned with pictures of Jo- seph in the court, Daniel in the den, Shadrach in the fire, Paul in. the ship wreck, Christ on the cross. Oh, that we might in our families think more of the power of Christian pictures! One little sketch of Samuel kneeling in prayer will mean more to your ehil- dren than 20 sermons on devotion. One patient face of Christ by the hand Of the artist lalI be more to 5y Our bik1s Isthan 50 sermons on forbearance. The art of the world is to be taken for I Christ. What has become of Thor waldsen's chisel and Ghirlandajo's $ crayon? Captured for the truth. There is none like that; give it me-" So remark it is with business acu-
 
 earthtthe people that followed Him for l the most part had no social position. There was but one man naturally bril- | liant in all the apostleship. Joseph of Arimathea, the rich man, risked noth- ing when he offered hole in the rock l for the dead Christ. How many of the merchants in Asia Minor befriended ] Jesus? I think of only one-Lydia. Al | ] at Galilee entertained Christ? Not one. When Peter came to Joppa he | stopped with one Simon, 8 tanner. What power had Christ's name on the l Roman exchange or in the bazars of l Corinth? None. The prominent men of l the day did not want to risk their repu- | tation for sanity by pretending to be | one of His followers. Now that is all | changed. Among the mightiest men in our great cities to-day are the Chris | tian merchants and the Christian l bankers, and if tomorrow at the board | of trade any man should get up and 1 malign the name of Jesus he would be | quickly silenced or put out. In the | front rank of all our Christian work CTS to-day are the Christian merchants, 1 and the enterprises of the world are
 coming on the right side. There was a farm willed away some years ago, all the proceeds of that, farm to go for spreading infdel books. Somehow matters have changed, and now all the proceeds of that farm go toward the
 missionary cause. ,-~ Now, if what I have said be true, away with all downheartedness! If science is to be on the right side and the travelling disposition of the world on the right side and the picture mak- ing on the right side and the business acumen and tact of the world on the right side, thine, o Lord, is the king dom! Oh, fall into line, all ye people! It is a grand thing to be in such an
 army and led by such a commander
 and on the way to such a victory. If what I have said is true. then Christ