Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1901-05-06

Ster won not his chief garlandS while
responding to Hayne nor when he open
ed the batteries of his eIoQuence 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 eulOgiZed the Bible.
The eloquence and the learning that
have been on the other side come over
TO our side. Captured for God! There
is hone like that; give it mel"
So, also, has it been with the picture
making of the world. We are very anX
ious on this day to have the printing
| press and the platform on the side Of
Christianity, but we overlook the en-
graver's knife and the painters pencil.
The antiquarian goes and looks at pic
tured ruins or examines the chiseled
pillars of Thebes and Nineveh and
Pompeii and then comes back to tell
us of the beastIiness of ancient art,
and it is q factnOW that many of the fin
est specimens, merely artistically con-
sidered, 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
the pavements and the bazaars of Cor
NTH, he preached of the. pure and holy
Jesus! The art of the world on the
side 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 Jeffreys, the unjust
judge, the picture of the Last Judg-
ment?" What to Nero, the unwashed,
a picture of the baptism in the Jor-
dan? The art of the world on the
wrong side. But tina is being changed
now. The Christian artist goes over to
Rome, looks at the pictures and brings
back to his American studio much of
the power of these old masters. The
Christian minister goes over to Venice,
looks at the "CrucifiXion of Christ"
and comes back to the American pulpit
to talk as never before of the suffer-
ings of the Saviour. The private tour
list goes to Rome and looks at RaphaePS
picture of the Last 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 a 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 kneeIing in
will mean more to your chill
dren than 20 sermons on devotion; one
patient face of Christ by the hand of
the artist will be more to your child
than so N on forbearance. The
art of the world is to be taken for
Christ. What has become of Thor
waldsen's chisel and ~Ghirlandajo's
crayon? Captured for the truth. There
is one like that; give it me-"
Mightiest of Voices.
So, | remark, it is with business
acumen and tact. When Christ was
upon earth, the people that followed
for the most part had no social
position. There vas but one man nat
Irally brilliant in all the apOstleship.
Joseph of Arimathea, the rich man,
nothing when he offered a hole
the rock for the dead Christ. How
of the merchants in Asia Minor
Defriended Jesus? l think of only one
Lydia. How many of the castles on
beach at GaIilee entertained
Not one. When Peter came
% JOppa, he stopped with one Simon, a
,anner. What power had Christ's name
)n the Roman exchange OF in the ba-
zaars of Corinth? None. The promi-
lent men of the day did not want to
'isk their reputation for sanity by pre-
ending to be n of his followers.
that is all changed. Among the
nightiest men in u great cities today
Ire the Christian merchants and the
bankers, inc if tomorrow, at
he board Of trade, any man should get
Up and malign the name of Jesus, he
would be quickly silenced or put out.
n III front rank of all our Christian
workers today are the Christian mer-
Inc the enterprises of the
world are coming on the right side.
There was a farm willed away some
7ears ago, all the proceeds Of that
arm to go for spreading infidel books.
somehow matters have changed, and
low all the proceeds Of that farm go
oward the missionary cause. One of
he finest printing presses ever built
vas built for the express purpose of
publishing infdel tracts and books.
Iow it does nothing but print Holy
Bibles. I believe that the time will
,ome when in commercial circles the
'oice of Christ will be the mightiest of
III voices and the ships of Tarshish
will bring presents and the queen Of
,heba her glory and the wise men of
east their mYrrh and rankin-