The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-12


 friendship. and the deeper down geology can dig and the higher up astronomy can soar all the better for ns. The armies of the Lord Jesus Christ have stormed the observatories of the worlds science and from the highest towers have flung out the banner of the cross and Christian ity now. from the observatories at AL bany and Washington, stretches out its on, crying, There Is none like that; give 1t mel" I was reading of Herschel, who was looking at meteor through tele- scope. and when 1t came over the face of to avert his eyes. And 1t has been just so that many an astronomer has gone into an observatory and looked up into the midnight heavens and the Lord God has. on his vision. and the learned man cried out: "Who am I? Undone! Unclean! Have mercy, Lord God!'
 Let Christians Travel.
 Again. remark that the travelling dis position of the world, which was adverse to morals andreligion, is to be brought on our side. The man that went down to Jericho and fell amid thieves was a type of great many travellers. There is many man who is very honest at home who when he Is abroad has his honor f1lched and his good habits stolen. There are but Of an expedition. Six weeks at water ing place have ruined many man. In the olden times God forbade the travelling of men for the purposes of trade because of the corrupting influences attending it. A 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 day always go out to see the bullfghts. Plato said that no city ought to be built nearer to the sea than ten miles lest 1t be tempted to commerce. But this trav- djGnnaiffnn n a UnrlA q adverse to that which is good. is to be brought on our side. These mail trains why, they take our Bibles: these steam CTS. they transport our missionaries; these sailors, rushing from city to city all around the world, are to be converted into Chritian heralds and go 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 Siloam and Capernaum and Jerusalem, pointing out to us the lilies about which Jesus preach ed, the beach upon which Paul was ship wrecked. the lords at which Jordan was passed, the Red Sea bank on which were tossed the carcasses Of the drowned Egyp- tians. A man said: T vent to the Holy I could not help 1t"
 I am not shocked. as some have been, at the building of railroads in the Holy Land. I wish that all the world might go
 
 many who could not afford muleteers now easily buy tickets from Constantinople to Joppa. Then let Christians travel! God speed the rail trains and guide the steam ships this night panting across the deep in the phosphorescent wake of the shin ing feet of him who from wave cliff to wave cliff bestormed Tiberius. The Jap anese come across the water and see our civilization and examine our Christianity and go bac kand tell the story and keep that empire rocking till Jesus shall reign
 where'er the sun
 Does his successive journeys run. And the firearms with which the infidel traveller brought down the Arab horse- man and the jackals of the desert have reach forth our hand. crying. There is none like that; give 1t mel"
 f Religion Good for All.
 So it has also been with the learning and eloQuence of the world. People say, Religion Is very good for aged women, 1t is very good for children, but not for men," But we have in the roll of Christ's host Mozart and Handel in music; Ca nova and Angelo in sculpture: Raphael and Reynolds in painting; Harvey and Boerhaave in medicine; Cowper and Scott in poetry; Grotils and Burke in states manship: Boyle and Leibnitz in philoso- phy; Thomas Chalmers and John Mason in theology. The most brilliant writings of a worldly nature are all aglow with Scripturai allusions. Through senatorial speech and through essayist's discourse Sinai thunders and Cavalry speaks and Siloam sparkles.
 Samuel L. Southard was mighty in the courtroom and in the Senate chamber, but he reserved his strongest eloquence for that day when he stood before the ht- erary societies at Princeton commence ment and pleaded for the grandeur of our Bible. Daniel eWbGter won not his chief ~ta do xryht raQn0ndfnR tn HavnA nor when he opened the batteries of his elo- quence 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 Christian religion and eulogized the Bible. The elo- Quence and the learning that have been on the other side come over to our side. Captured for God! "There Is none ike that; give 1t men'
 So, also. has it been with the picture making os 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 engrav- CTS knife and the painters pencil. The antiquarian goes and looks at pictured ruins or examines the chiseled pillars of Thebes and Nineveh and Pompeii and then comes back to tell us of the beastli- ness of ancient art. and 1t Is fact now that many of the finest specimens, merely artisticaiIy considered. of sculpture and painting that are to be found amid those
 
 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 Corinth, he preached of the pure and holy Jesus! The art of the world on the side of ob- scenity 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 pie ture of the Madonna? What to Lord Jer- freys. the unjust judge, the picture of the Last Judgment?" What to Nero. the un- washed. a picture of the baptism in the Jordan? 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 pictures and brings back to his American studio much of the power of these old masters. The Chris tian 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 sufferings of the Sa- viour. The private tourist goes to Rome and looks at Raphaers 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 power of Christian pictures! One little skatch Of Samuel keeling in Dra yer will