The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-05-10


quence on Bunker Hill, that rocking
Sinai Of che 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 eloquence and the
learning that have been on the other
side come over TO our side. Captured
for Godl There Is none like that;
give IL me-"
So also has il been with the picture
making of the world. We are very
anxious on 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
Gil. The antiquarian goes and looks
on pictured ruins or examines the chis-
eled pillars of Thebes and Nineveh
and Pompeh and then comes back TO
tell MS of the beastliness Of ancient
art, and II IL a fact now that many
Of the finest specimens-merely artis-
tically considered--of sculpture and
painting tibet are 70 be found amid
those ruins are not at 70 be looked at,
and they are looked 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
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,
q 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
tiers. The Christian minister goes
over 70 Venice, looks at the "Cruci.
flxion 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 Raphae's picture of the "La5i
Judgment" The tears start, and he
goes back TO his room in the hotel and
praye God for preparation for that
day when
Shrivehns like a perched scroll.
The flaming heavens together roll
Our Sunday school newspapers and
walls are adorned with pictures of DO.
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 picturesl One
little sketch OF Samuel kneeling in
prayer 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 sermons on forbearance. The
art Of the world Ia TO DO taken fol-
Christ. What has become of Thor
waldsen's chisel and Ghirlandajo's
crayon2 Captured for the truth
There Il none like that; give II me-"
So I remark II Is with business acu
men and tact. When Christ was upor
earth the people that followed Him FOR
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 moth
ing when he offered hole In the rocI
for the dead Christ. How many of the
merchants in Asia Minor befriended
Jesus2 I think of only one-Lydia
| How many of the castles on the beach
at GalHee entertained Christ? Not
one. When Peter came to Joppa he
stopped with one Simon, tanner
What power had Christ's name on the
Roman exchange or In the bazars OF
Corinth? None. Tho prominent men OF
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 mer
In our great cities to-day are the Chris
tian merchants and the Christian
bankers, and il tomorrow at the board
OF trade any man should get up and
malign the name of Jesus he would be
| quickly silenced or put out. In the
front rank of all our Christian work
ers to-day are the Christian merchants
ana the enterprises OF the world are
coming on the right side. There was
farm willed away some years ago
all the proceeds of that farm 10 go for
spreading infidel books. Somehow
matters have changed, and now all the
proceeds of that farm go toward the
missionary cause.
Now, If what have said be true
away with all downheartedness! II
science is to be on the right side anC
the travelling disposition of the world
on the right side and the picture max
ing on the right side and the business
acumen and tact of the world on the
right side, thine, o Lord, Is the king
doml Oh, fall into line, all We people
1t is q grand thing to be in such al
army and led by such a commander
and on the way TO such a victory. II
what I have said is true, then Christ
is going to gather up for Himself out
of this world everything that is worth
anything, and there will be nothing
| Int the anum left We have hoa,