Milford chronicle., 1905-12-01


= armament. Aleteorlike new star has
flashed its light over the western bori-
zon. A new star has come to lead us
down to the manger of Bethlehem Of
Judaea. What General Lew Wallace
has done with the novelists pen young
Byam Shaw is doing with the painters s.
brush. The Indiana author and the
young English artist, the latter born
IN Madras and educated in European
studios, have both been bold strong,
powerful and Independent Interpreters
Of religious themes. Lew Wallace's
"Ben-Hur," ''The Prince of India" and
@'The Boyhood Of Christi teach lessons
similar to those Of Byam Shaw's "The
Comforter" "The Outcast" and 'Nei-
ther Hath He Power In the Day Of
Death" With the touch of true mas
ters the inspired novelist and the in
spired artist both teach that the only
true comforter in times of earthly trou-
ble is that Saviour whom we lovingly
call "Jesus, the Prince of Peace"
But, though Byam Shaw has painted
many pictures; there is one, based upon
the book of Ecclesiastes, which has
specially impressed me. It is one IL
Illustrating the theme of my text. The
young artist in his original way seems |
10 open for us one Of the rooms of the |
British museum. In the foreground Of !
his picture he places a Londoner, a |
British aristocrat, dressed in the height
of fashion Of the time Of Disraeli.
Then he seems to surround this man,
clothed in kid gloves, silk hat and i'm
maculate linen, with the mighty Brit
ish library of over 100000 volumes,
In which are recorded the scientific and
social triumphs of past ages. As you
gaze on that picture in Imagination
you seem to hear the whistle of fac q
tory, the click of trowel, the signal Of {
the railroad engine, and the hoarse c
voice of the great Cunarder's fog horn '
sending her warning call among the '
mists of Newfoundland, and the ring !
Ing Of the telephone bell, and we seem t
to see the flash Of the electric spark. p
Then, under this powerful picture with Il
Its up to date Bible application the a
young English artist has written the n
words Of my text, 80 this only have 1 Il
found that God hath made men up OF
tight, but they have sought out many
INVENTIONS" Never did these Solomon is
c words burn themselves into my mind ia
md heart more deeply than when 1 saw hi
hem in the brilliant colOrs of Byam W
'haw's strange and yet powerful and &C
tartling picture. ga
Modern Inventions. Ill
But when studying that picture 1 mi
sked myself these questions do all su
MODERN inventions truly make men try
7retched and miserable, as King Solo tn
ION implies? Did King Solomon him We
elf mean that all modern inventions We
ere bad? OF course the greater op- biz
Ortunities of life, which come through thi
le revolving wheels of machinery and fol
le concentration of capital, do nat WI
rally offer greater opportunities for the
licked men to do evil, but are all the
'eat inventions agents Of evil?' mo" tos
answered. "As greater opportunities hal
life offer greater evils for wicked taR
en-, so greater opportunities Of ma thli
Iinery and inventions afford greater GUS
'portunities of good for good men," mar
aus on this Sabbath preceding our con
-tional Thanksgiving day 1 will cata- mar
que some of the blessings which, in tho
good sense, come to good men from ana
e sewing machine the railroad, the
ctory, the telephone, the typewriter, II
2 printing press and from all the frol
Ter inventions that have made the 1000
st century the most remarkable, in a Syd
entific sense, Of all the ages. ram
lost blessed Of inventions, in the bits
r,1, Z and
Ong which we class the sewerage the
res, by which a great city is kept ereu
re and clean, and the great aque- anu
It's through which it is supplied with ing
giving water to drink What Vip- gooO
ius Agrippa tried to do when he ana
1t the famous aqueduct of Mines, S"P'
ich brought the water of the FOun- VI -, ~
l D'Eure, twenty miles away, to the MiI
hs Of Diana; what the Emperor anu
udius did when he carried the water Gaps
n the Alban hills down to the cap. ~ !
Of the Caesars, which aqueduct - - -
bears his name; what King Solo "
! did when he built his three IA =,
ls pools, from which reservoirs he 80,
led the water by subterranean pas go
es to the city of Jerusalem; what 10 =
quinius Priscus did 600 years be- tbo .
Christ when he built the famous 1oros
al Cloaca Maxima, the oldest and POD
most famous drainage canal in the yorl,
ID and which is still used to carry g.,its
refuse out Of the city of Rome to cisco
Tiber the great engineers on an seal
rged scale are doing for our own taura
S. These engineers may not have from
title M D." affixed to their names, derfu
they are the greatest Of all prevent Ma,
Of disease. Truly they have done Than
work we'll ned
Underground Works. cred
you do not realize how well they caugl
succeeded, then study under made
nd New York or Chicago or Phil Ohio
)hia or st. Louis or Boston A1ar and
ls staggering. wonderful and al dressi
uncomfortable are the sights you nois.
can witness. Some years ago it Engla