Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1901-05-25

Webster won not his chief gariauds
while responding TO Haync 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 fcr
the Christisa religion and euiogized
the Bible. The eioquence and the
learning that have been on the other
side come over 10 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 pen1
ell. The antiquarian goes and looks
at pictured ruins or examines the chis-i
eled pillars of Thebes and Ninevehl
and Pompeis and then comes backitoi
tell US of the beastliness OF ancidntl
art. and IL is a fact now that many
of the finest specimens-merely arts
tically considered-of sculpture an
painting that are TO be found amid
those ruins are not At 10 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 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. Ia
Much of the art OF the world has
| been in the possession of the vicious.
| What 70 unclean Henry VIII. was .
beautiful picture of the MadOnnAf
What TO Lord Jeffreys. the unjdst
Judge, the picture of the Last Judg-
ment?" What to Nero, the unwas shed,
picture OF the baptism in the Jor-
dan? The art OF the world on the
wrong side. But that IL being changed
now. The Christian artist goes orer
20 Rome, looks at the picture and
brings back 10 his American studio
much OF the power OF these old mas
tiers. The Christian minister goes
over 20 Venice. looks at the "Cruci-
Rxion OF Christ" and comes back TO the
| American pulpit 60 talk as never be-
fore of the sufferings OF the Saviour.
The private tourist goes TO Rome and
looks at RaPhRers picture OF the Last
Judgment" The tears start, aud he
goes back 20 his room in the hotel and
prays God for preparation for that
day when
Shriveling like a parehed 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 IA the ship
wreck. Christ on the cross. Oh, that
we might in our families think more OF
the power OF CHRISTIAN pioturesi One
little sketch OF Samuel kneslinG ia
prayer viii mean more 70 Jour chill
D dren than 20 sermons on devotion. Ons
n patient face of Christ by the hand q
the artist will be more 10 your chilC
than so sermons on forbearAncc. Tbs
art OF the world Is 20 be taken POI
Christ. What has become of Thor
waldsen's chisel and Ghirlanda io'
c crayon? Captured for the truth
= There IL none like that; give 1t me-
So remark IL is with business acu
q men and tact. When Christ was upo
earth the people that followed Him 70
the most part had no social position
There was but one man naturally bril-
liant in all the apostleship. Joseph Q
Arimathea, the rich man. risked moth
- ing when he offered hole in the roc
" for the dead Christ. How many of IA
~ merchants in Asia Minor befriende
- Jesus? l think OF only One-Lydia
, How many Of the castles on the beae
at Galllee entertained Christi Nc
one. When Peter came TO Joppa
stopped with one Simon. . tame
- What power had ChTist's name on III
Roman exchange or in the bREars {
"a Corinth2 None. The prominent men (
" the day did not want 70 risk tneir rep'
a tation for sanity by pretending Go
one OF His followers. Now that Is a
changed. Among the mightiest me
In our great cities to-day are the Chrf
tian merchants and the Christie
bankers, and IL tomorrow at the boar
~ of trade airy man should get up al
nc malign the name Of Jesus he would
40 quickly sileneed or pot out. In Il
front rank of all our Christian wor
AZ ers to-day are the Christian msrchsn nj
Is and the enterprises Of the world q
{" coming on the right side. There "
nc farm willed away some years ag
P> all the proceeds of that farm TO go
IN spreading inhdel books. Somehc
IN matters have changed. and now all q
10 proceeds of that farm go toward {
US missionary cause.
Now, If what have said be trs
~ away with ali northumberland! =
~. science Is TO be on the right side a
the travelling disposition of the wo,
on the right side and the picture mi