St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1901-06-01

ton commencement and PLEADED Iof
the grandeur Of cur Bible. Daniel
Webster won not his chief gariands
while responding to Hayne nor when
he opened the batteries OF his elo-
ouence on Bunker Hill, that rocking
Sinai of the American revolution, but
on that day when in the famous Glrard
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 it me-" nHn
So also has it 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
Gill; The antiquarian goes and looks
at pictured ruins or examines the chis-
eled pillars of Thebes and Nincveh
and Pompeii and then comes back to
| tell us of the beastliness of anclcnt
art, and it is a fact now that many
of the finest specimens-merelya arts
tically considered-of sculpture ana
painting that are to be found amio
those ruins are not fit to be looked AZ,
and they are locked up. How Paui
must have felt when, standing amid
those impurities that stared on him
from the walls and pavements ana
bazaars of Corinth. he preached OF the
pure and holy Jesus. The art OF the
world on the side of obscenity ana
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 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
tiers. The Christian minister goes
over to Venice, looks at the "Cruci-
fixion 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 Raphaers 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 q 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 in our families think more of
the power of Christian pictures! One
little sketch of Samuel kneeling in
prayer will mean more to your chill
dren than 20 sermons on devotion. One
patient face of Christ by the hand OF
the artist will be more to your child
than so sermons on forbearance. The
art of the world is to be taken for
Christ. What has become of Thor
waldsen's chisel and Ghirlandajo's
crayon? Captured for the truth.
''There is none like that; give it me-"
So I remark 1t 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 in all the apostleship. Joseph OF
Arimathea, the rich man, risked moth.
ing when he offered al hole in the rock
for the dead Christ. How many of the
merchants in Asia Minor befriended
Jesus? I 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 bazars of
Corinth? None. The prominent men OF
the day did not want to risk their repu-
tation for sanity by pretending to be
one of His followers. Now that is all
changed. Among the mightiest men
in our great cities to-day are the Chris
tian 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
coming on the right side. There was
q farm willed away some years ago,
all the proceeds of that farm to go for
spreading infidel books. Somehow
matters have changed, and now all the
proceeds of that farm go toward tho
cause.
Now, if what have said be true.
away with all downheartedness! If
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.
iom! Oh. fall into line, all We peopler
It is grand thing to be in such an
army and led by such a commander
and on the way to such a victory. If
what / have said is true, then Christ
is going to gather up for Himself ONT