The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1901-05-11

ton commencement ana pledueu ALL
the grandeur of our Bible. Daniel
Webster won not his chief g%arlands
while responding to Hayne nor when
he opened the batteries of his elo-
! orence on Bunker Hill, hat rocking
, Sinai OF the American revolution, but
on that day when in the famous Girard
will EAST he showed his affection for
the Christian religion and eulogized
the Bible. The e~loquence and the
learning that have been on the other
| side come over to our side. Captured
for God! There is o m like that;
give it me-"
So also has 1t 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
at pictured ruins or examines the CHS
eled pillars of Thebes and Nineveh
and Pompeii and then comes back to
tell us of the beastliness of ancient
art, and it is a fact now that many
of the finest SUPPLEMENTARY artis-
tically considered-of sculpture n
painting that are to be found amid
those ruins are not fit to be looked at,
and they are locked up. How Paul
must have felt when, standing mid
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 o~bscenity 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 a
beautiful picture Of the Madonna?
What to Lord Jeffreys, the unjust
Judge, the picture of the Last Judg-
ment?" What to 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
ters. The Christian minister goes
over to Venice, looks at the "Cruci'
fxion of Christ" and comes back to the
American pulpit to talk as never be-
fore of the sufferings of the Saviour.
The private tourist goes to Rome and
looks at Raphacl's picture of the LAS
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 10
seph in the court, Daniel in the den
Shadrach in the fire, Paul in the ship
wreck, Christ on the cross. Oh, tina
we might in our families think more O.
the power of Christian pictures! Ont
little sketch of Samuel kneeling il
prayer will mean more to your chill
! dren than 20 sermon on devotion. ON
l patient face of Christ by the hand o,
} the artist will be more to your chile
: than so sermons on forbearance. TIT
7 art of the world is to be taken TO
: Christ. What has become of Thor
. waldsen's chisel and Ghirlandajo'
crayon? Captured for the truth
IutIt Is uOnC llhC thdts SlNS NV
I So I remark it is with business acu
men and tact. When Christ was upol
S earth the people that followed Him TO
the most part had no social position
I There was but one man naturally bril-
liant in all the apostleship. Joseph o
Arimathea, the rich man, risked moth
u ing when he offered a hole in the roc
o for the dead Christ. How many of tn
q merchants in Asia Minor befriende
u Jesus? l think of only one-Lydi'
y How many of the castles on the beac
e at Galilee entertained Christ? Nc
one. When Peter came to Joppa h
o stopped with one Simon, a tame,
q What power had Christ's name on tn
3 Roman exchange or in the bazars c
II Corinth? None. The prominent men {
&c the day did not want to risk their rep
tation for sanity by pretending to
u n of His followers. Now hat is a
D changed. Among the mightiest me
lie in great cities to-day are the Chri
d tan merchants and the Christia
bankers, and if tomorrow at the boar
H. of trade any man should get up ar
lie malign the name of Jesus he would l
ia quickly silenced or put out. In IL
front rank of all our Christian wor
l. ers to-day are the Christian merchant
Us and the enterprises of the world a
coming on the right side. There WI
ne a farm willed away some years ag
ps all the proceeds of hat farm TO go f,
IN spreading infdel books. Someho
matters have changed, and now all Il
10 proceeds of that farm go toward Il
Is missionary cause.
Now, if what l have said be trr
N away with all downheartedness!
=. science is to be on the right side a.
N the travelling disposition of the wor
on the right side and the picture ma
ing on the right side and the busine
acumen and tact of the world on I
IN right side, thine, o Lord, is the kin
dom! Oh, fall into line, all we peopl
es- 1t is a grand thing to be in such
he army and led by such a command
a. and on the way to such a victory.
i've what / have said is true, then Chr
is going to gather up for Himself G