The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-05-09

traveller brought down the Arab horseman
and the jackals of the desert have been
surrendered to the. church, and we reach
fofth our hand, crying, There is none like
that; give it me-"
So it has also been with the learning and
eloquence OF the world. People say, "Reli-
gion is very good for aged women, it il
very good for children, but not for men"
But we have in the roll Of Christ's host
Mozart and Handel in music. Canova and
angelo IN sculpture; Raphael and Rey-
nolds in painting; Harvey and Boerhaave
IN medicine; Cowper and Scott in poetry: :
Grotius and Burke in statesmanship;
Boyle and Leibnitz in philosophy: Thomas
Chalmers and John Mason in theology.
The most brilliant writings of a worldly
nature are all aglow with Scriptural allu-
siions. Through senatorial speech and
through essayists discourse Sinai thunders
and calvary speaks and Sloan sparkles
Samuel u. Southland was mighty in the
courtroom and in the senate chamber, but
he reserved his strongest elouuence for
that day when he stood before the literary
societies at Princeton commencement and
pleaded for the grandeur of our Bible.
Daniel Webster won not his chief gar
lands while responding to Hayne nor when
ne opened the batteries of his eloquence
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 reii-
gion and eulogized the Bible. The elo-
quence and the learning that have been on
the other side come over to our side Cap
tured for Godl There is none like that;
give it mel"
So, also, has II 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 Christian.
ity, but we overlook the engraver's knife
and the painters pencil The antiquarian
goes and looks at pictured ruins or exam
ines the chiseled pillars of Thebes and
Nlneveh and Pompeii, and then comes
back to tell us of the beastliness of ancient
art, and il is fact now that many of the
finest specimens, merely artistically consid-
cred, of sculpture and painting that are to
be found amid those ruins are not fit to
be looked at, ard they are locked up.
How Paul must have felt. when. stand
ing amid these 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 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 beautiful pic
ture OF the Madonna What to Lord JEFF
thrfeys, the unjust Judge, the picture of the
nnwashed, 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
tan minister goes over to Venice, looks
at the "Crucifxion of Christ" and comes
back to the American pulpit to talk as
never before of the suferings of the Saw
iour. The private tourist 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
prrays God for preparation for that day
when
"Shriveling like parchcd scroll.
The flaming heavens together roll"
So, remark, it is with business acumen
and tact. When Christ was upon earth
the people that followed Him for the most
part had no social position. There was
but one man naturally brilliant in all the
apostleship. Joseph of Arimathea. the
rich man, risked nothing when he offered
Q, hole in the rock for the dead Christ
How many Of the merchants in Asia Minor
befriended Jesus? l think of only one
Lydia. How many of the castles on the
beach at Galilee 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 bazaars of Corinth?
None. The prominent men Of the day did
not want to risk their reputation for san
ity by pretending to be one OF His follow.
ers. Now that is all changed. Among
the mightiest men in our great cities to-
day are the Christian merchants and the
Christian bankers, and if 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,
and the enterprises of the world are com
ing, on the right side. There was farm
willed away some years ago, all the pro-
eeeds OF that farm to 60 for spreading in
iidel books. Somehow matters have
changed, and now all the proceeds of that
farm, go toward the missionary cause. One
OF the finest printing presses ever built
was built for the express purpose of pub
fishing intdel tracts and books. Now il
does nothing but print holy Bibles.
L believe that the time will come when
in commercial circles the voice of Christ
will be the mightiest of all voices and the
ships of Tarshish will bring presents and
the queen of Sheba her glory and the wise
men OF the East their myrrh and franklin
cense.
look off upon the business men of this
"hh anu itJolce hl inc prospect LndI Inelr
tact and ingenuity and talent are being
brought into the service of Christ. 1t is
one OF the mightiest Of weapons. There
IS none like that; give it mel"
Now, If what / have said be true, away
With all downheartedness! If science is to
be ON the right side and the travelling dis.
position of the world on the right side and
the learning of the world on the right
side and the picture making on the right
SIDE and the business acumen and tact OF
.he world on the right side, Thine, o Lord,
Is the kingdom! Oh, fall into line, all We
people! 1t is a grand thing to be in such
m army and led by such commander
and on the way to such victory. If what
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 but the scum left.
We have been rebels, but proclamation
If amnesty goes forth now from the throne
of God, saying, "Whosoever will, let him
,ome:" However long you may have wan
lave been, "whosoever will, let him come" |
Oh, that this hour could marshal all the |
world on the side of Christ! He is the |
lest friend a man ever had. He is so kind, !
lie so loving, so sympathetic. j cannot see |
low you can stay away from Him. Come
low and accept His mercy. Behold Him |
IS He stretches out the arms OF His saliva
ion, saying, Look unto Me, all ye ends
If the earth, and be yc saved, for / am
iod." Make final choice now. You will
,ither be willows planted by the water
'ourses or the chat which the wind driv-
th away.