The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1901-05-10

| ton commencement and pleaded for
the grandeur Of our Bible. Daniel
| Webster won not his chief garlands
while responding to Hayne nor when
he opened the batteries of his elo-
oncnce on Bunker Hill. that rocking
| Sinai of the American revolution, but
! on that day when in the famous Girard
will ease 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 hat;
give it me"
! So also has IL been with the picture
making Of the world. We are very
anxious on this day 10 have the print
/ inc press and the platform on the side
Of Christianity. but we overlook the
cnpravcr's knife and the painters pen
ell. The antiquarian goes and looks
at picturcd ruins or examines the CHS
elcd pillars Of Thebes and Ninevch
and Pompeu and then comes back to
/ tell us al the bcastline,s of ancient
/ art. and il is fact now that many
of the finest specimens merely arts
1 ficallv considerable sculpture and
/ painting that are 10 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 pavcmentS and
! bazaar, of Corinth, he preached of the
| pure and holy Jesus. The art of the
/ world ON the side of obsccniiy and
crime and death.
Much IF the art Of the world has
/ been in the possession of the vicious.
| What 20 unclean Henry VIII. was a
| beautiful picture of the Madonna?
/ What To Lord Jcffrcys, the unjust
! Judge. the picture of the Last Judg-
ment?" What 10 Nero. the unwashed,
| 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
tiers. The Christian minister goes
over 10 Venice. looks at the Cruel
/ fxion Of Christ" and comes back to the
American pulpit Ia talk as never be-
fore of the sufferingS of the Saviour.
/ The private tourist goes To Rome and
/ looks AT Eaphaers picture of the Last
| Judgment" The tears start. and he
/ goes back 10 his room in the hotel and
/ praIs God for preparation for that
/ day when
Shrv ling Ike a parched scroll.
The flaming heavens together roll.
Our sunday school newspapers and
wall, are adorned with pictures of Jo-
seph in the court, Daniel in the den.
, Shadrach I'm the fire. Paul in he 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 kneeling in
( prayer viii mean more TO your chill
} drcn Than 20 sermons on devotion One
I patient face of Christ by ;he hand =
thc artist viii he more TO your child
/ than % sermons ON forbcarance. The
art of thr world is 10 be taken for
/ Christ. What has become of Thor
/ waid~en's chiscl and Ghirlanda JOS
crayou: Captured for the truth.
1 II here l. none Ike that; give il me"
So remark II is with business acu-
men 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 bril-
liant i'm all the apoStie~hip. Joseph Of
Arinathca. the rich man. risked moth
! ing when he offered hole in the rock
for the dead Christ. How many of the
/ merchants in Asia Minor befriended
Jesus? ! think Of only one-Lydia.
/ How many of the castles on the beach
At Galilce cntertsIned 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. The prominent mer Of
the day did not want to risk their repu-
tation for sanity ny pretending to he
| one of His followers. Now that is all
| changed. Among the michticst men
in our great cities today are the Chris
/ ;lan merchants and the Christian
! bankers. and if tomorrow at the board
~ trade any man should gel up and
malign the name of Jesus he would be
| quickly si,cnced or put ont. In the
front rank of all our Christian work
ers to-day are the Christian merchants.
and the enterprises of the world are
coming on the right side. There was
a farm willed away some years ago.
all the proceeds of that farm 10 90 for
spreading infidel books. Somehow
matters have changed, and now all the
proceeds of that farm 90 toward the
missionary cause.
Now, If what | have said be true
away with all downheartedness, IL
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 king.
dom. Oh, fall into line, all We peoplei
1t Is a grand thing to be in such an
army and led by such a commander
and on the way TO such a victory. II
what | have said is true. then Christ
is going to gather up for Himself ONT
of this world everything that is worth
anything. and there VIII be NOTHING
but the scum left. We have been
| phals hut procl,