Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1901-05-08


while responding to Hayne nor when
he opened the batteries of his eIo-
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 eloquence and the
learning that have been on the other
side come over to our side Captured
for God. 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
a pictured ruins or examines the CHS
elcd pillars of Thebes and Nineveh
and Pompeii and then comes back TO
tell us of the beastliness Of ancient
art, and il is a fact now that many
of the finest spccimens-m merely arts
tically considcred-of sculpture and
painting that are to he 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 pavcmcnts 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 thu possession of the vicious
What to uhclean 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 unwa shed,
a 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
ters. The Christian minister goes
over to Venice, looks at the Cruel
fixion of Christ" and comes back to the
American pulpit 10 talk as never he
fore of the suffcrings of the Saviour.
The private tourist goes to Rome and
looks at Raphaefs 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 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 i'm our families think more of
the power of Christian pictures! One
little sketch of Samuel knecling in
prayer Will mean more to YOUR chill
drCn than 20 sermons on devotion. One
patient face of Christ by the hand of
the artist will be more to your child
than 80 sermons on forbcarance. The
art Of the world is to be taken for
Christ. What has become Of Thor
waldsenS chisel and Ghirlanda los
crayon? Captured for the truth.
There Is none like that give it me"
SO | remark 1t is with business acu-
men and tact. When Christ was upon
earth tho people that followed Him for
the most part had no social position.
There wa. but one man naturally bril-
| Arimathra, the rich man. riskcd moth
ing when he offered hole in the rock
for the dead Christ How many of tho
merchants in Asia Minor befriended
Jesus? l think of only one-Lydia.
How many of the castles on the beach
at Galilce entertained Christ? Not
one. When Peter came to JopDa he
stopped with ono Simon, n tanner.
What power had Christ's name on the
Roman exchange or i'm the bazars of
Corinth? None. The prominent men OF
the day did not want TO risk their reDu-
tation for sanity by pretending to be
one of His followers Now that is all
changed. Among the mightfest men
IN our great cities to-day are the Chris
| TAN merchants and the Christian
bankers, and if tomorrow at the board
OF trade any man should get up and
maiign the name Of Jesus he would be
quickly si'euccd or put out I'm 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
a farm villed away some wears ago.
all the proceeds of that farm to 90 for
I
| matters have changed. and now all the
proceeds of that farm go toward the
missionary cause.
Now. " what I have said be true
away with all downheartedness II
science is to be ON the right side and
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 kim
dom. Oh, fall into line. all We peonIet
1t is grand thing to be i'm such an
army and led by such commander
and ON the way TO such victory. II
what ! have said is true, then Christ
Is going 90 gather up for Himself OUT
Of this world everything that is worth
| anything, and there will he nothing
but the scum Ipff ". I..