Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1901-05-10

Gus, anu the Lord God has, through
some swinging world. famed upon his
vision. and the learned man cried out:
who am l? Undonei Uncleani Have
mercy. Lord God,''
Let Christians Travel.
Again. | remark that the travelling
disposition OF the world, which was ad-
verse to morals and religion, is to be
brought on our side. The man that
went down to Jericho and fell amid
thieves was type of great many
travellers There is many n man who
Is very honest at home who when he
is abroad has his honor filched and his
good habits stolen. There are but very
few men who can stand the stress OF
an expedition. Six weeks Mt water
ing places have ruined many a man. In
the oiden times God forbade the travel
Ing OF men for the purposes of trade
because OF the corrupting influences
attending IL. y good many men now
cannot stand the transition from one
place TO another. Some men who seem
to be very consistent here In the way
of keeping the Sabbath when they get
into Spain on the Lords day always
go out TO see the bullfights. Plato said
that no city ought to be built nearer to
the sea than ten miles lest il be tempt
cd 10 commerce. But this travelling dis
position of the world, which was ad-
verse to that which Is good, is to be
brought on our side. These mail
trains-why. they take our Bibles;
these steamers. they transport our mis-
EiOnnr thaSa Soilnrv r,,el,t.~ $780,
city to city all around the world, are
TO be converted into Christian heralds
and 60 out and preach Christ among
the heather nations. The gospels are
Infinitely multiplied in beauty and
power since Robinson and Thompson
and Burckhardt have come back and
talked TO us about Sloan and Caper-
naum and Jerusalem. pointing out to
us the lilies about which Jesus preach
ed. the beach upon which Paul was
shipwrecked. the fords at which Jor-
dan was passed. the Red sea bank on
which were tossed the carcasses of the
drowned Egyptians. A man said: 81
went to the Holy Land an iufidel. I
came back Christian. | could not
help it,"
am not shocked. as some have been.
ut the building of railroads In the Ho-
ly Land. | wish that all the world
might so and see Golgotha and Bethle-
hem How many who could not afford
nuleteers now easily buy tickets from
Constantinople to Joppa. Then let
Christians travcll God speed the rail
trains and guide the steamships this
night painting across the deep In the
phosphoreSceut wake OF the shining
feet of him who from wave cliff to
wave cliff bcstormed Tiberius. The
Japanese come across the water and
see our civilization and examine our
Christianity and go back and tell the
story and keep that empire rocking till
Jesus shall reign
Nhcrp'er the sun
Docs his successive journeys run
And the firearms with which the in
fdel traveller brought down the Arab
horseman and the jackals OF the des-
ert have been surrendered to the
church. and we reach forth our hand,
crying. There Is none like that; give
IL mer'
Religion Good For All.
So II has also been with the learning
and eloquence OF the world. People
say, Religion Is very good for aged
women. IL Is very good for children.
but not for men," But we have I'm the
roll or Cbrist's host Mozart and Han
del In music; Canova and Angelo In
sculpture; Raphael and Reynolds In
painting; Harvey and Boerhaaye In
medicine; Cowper and Scott I'm poetry:
Grotius aud Burke In statesmanship:
Boyle and Leibnitz I'm philosophy:
Thomas Chalmers and John Mason In
theology. The most brilliant writings
OF worldly nature are all aglow with
Scriptural illusions. Through senate
rial speech and through essaylst's dis
course Sinai thunders and Calvary
speaks and Sloan sparkles.
Samuel l.. Southland was mighty In
the courtroom and In the senate cham.
Der, but he reserved his strongest elo
quence for that day when he stood be-
fore the literary societies mt Princeton
commencement and pleaded for the
grandeur OF our Bible. Daniel Web
ster won not his chief garlands while
responding TO Hayne nor when he OPEN
eel the batteries or his eloqucncc on
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 Chris
tan religion and euloglzed the Bible.
The eloquence and the learning that
have been on the other side come over
to our side. Captured for Godi There
Is none like that; give II mer'
So, also, has IL been with the picture
making of the world. We are very anx-
lous on this day TO have the printing
press and the platform on the side OF
Christianity, but we overlook the en-
knife and the painters pencil.
The antiquarian goes and looks at pic
Iured ruins or examines the chi scIed
pillars of Thebes and Nineveh and
Pompeii and then comes back to tell
rs of the beastliness of ancient art.
ma ii Is factnow that many of the fin
est specimens, merely artistically con-
'idered, or sculpture and painting that
ire TO be found amid those ruins are
not fit TO be looked at. and they are |
ocked up. How Paul must have felt
when. standing amid those impurities |
hat stared on him from the walls and |
he pavements and the bazaars OF Cor
nth, he preached of the pure and holy |
Jesus! The art Of the world on the |
'ide Of obscenity and crime and death.
Power of Christian Pictures.
Much OF the art OF the world has
been in the possession of the vicious.
What to unclean Henry VIII was a
beautiful picture of the Madonna? |
What TO Lord Jenreys, the unjust
udge, the picture Of the Last Judg-
nenty What to Nero. the unwashed,
picture of the baptism in the Jor-
Ian? The art of the world on the
wrong side. But that is being changed
low. The Christian artist goes over to !
tome, looks ut the pictures and brings
Jack to his American studio much of
ne power OF these old masters. The
minister goes over to Venice.
ooks at the "Cruciixion of Christi
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