Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-11-02
special to the Gazette.

//HgI@/ . rs. pastor eEpounded 3
mt ET// - = chaplef about taa
mr. [ i room OF iDsg3Fy il
w. E8aSiei stter which
i/...sea= y the hymn beginning:
T-aN-9 "Taine earthly Ssl-
ossns Lord We love, but there's = naal$r
rest above" was eung Profsssoc
Browne presided st the gIsnd orgaa4xpd
rendered Concerto IN ast ny HsGgsl
The su5i1ct Of DR.. Teluage's disoasrs
WISE ''Tne Divine Mission OF PicturSHS
His text was Iseiab, ca. ., paris CT &e
l2.h encle n verse;: "rne way OF IGa
Lord Of Il osts shall be 1pon ali plesssat
pictures :" he esid. v IA
Pictures AIS By some relegsId 70 md
tsi Or worldly, bn. Wy te1s Msws t1s,
God scrutirlzes pictures, aud whether
they are GOOD or bat, whe5nafsnset IN
right or wrong purposes, It's s8nstter Ct
Divine observation and arrangement.
The divine mission Of pic:rsss is ny
subject. "a
That the artists penssl' andstee en-
grGver's knife havesaaRStimes been made
5sG5serVient ia.tkeA fgdom CT the b,d is
FFsr k!y Sa5S2rted. f'er the aches ana
sgoria 8f{asDovsA from Herculaneu m
tsN P Hape5f3Ss Wits Of those cities dis
tEpMrS to tkaJn plorsrs degradation IL
At xTeh eas be exaggerated. Satan
grge ag CT the easel; they would rather
hAys Mesegsion OF thst than the srt Of
MnlSG for types are net so
Mtent end quick for evil es
Fsfctures. The powers CT darkness
Think they have gained triumph, and
they asve, when ia some respectable
par!or or public art gallery they can hang
g csuvase embarrassing to the coed but
fascinating to the evil.
It is not in
SPIRIT OF PRUDERY,
but backed up by God'5 eternal truth
when cay inst you have no right to hang
IL your ar. rooms or yCurdwelIing housed
that which would be offensive 20 good
people Il the figures pictured were alive
In your pGrlor, and the guests Ct your
household. A picture that you have TO
hang in G someH what eeClUded place, or
saat in 8 public hall yGu cannot with
group CT iiieLds deliberately STAND before
and discuss, ought 70 have knife
stabbed into it S. the top aId cut c,esr
through to the b9ttcT, sld stout frger
thrust II on the right SIDE. ripping clear
through to the left.
Pliny, ths elder, loss mis- LIE ny going
| lear enough TO gee tie inside CT Vesu-
vius, and the further you Can stsnd #
| from the burr ing crater Of sin, ihe bat
| ter. Nlvar It'll the booss CT tie Lass dsy
are opened shall we know what has been
! the dire harvest OF evil pict0rials ard uI-
| becoming art galleries. DeGpoii msn's
| Imagination and he becomes moral Csr-
csss. The show windows CT English ani
| American cities, in which tie low thea.
tecs have sometimes hung long lines Ct
| bTaZen actoFS and actresses il style Ia.
! sultilg to al propriety have made bread
path &c death for Inulitudes CT people.
! But go have I'll the other srts been St
| tines auborned Of evil. How mas musiC
! been b2dr2ggled? Is there any place SO
| low down in dissoIutergss that iIto it has
not been carried DaYid's harp. ara Han
tel's 0Fgar, spd Got!Echsk's pi.po, znd
! Ole Bulls vloilL: md The f1te,
which though named stser SO
! insigE.hcaDr thing as the
! sicilixH eel, which mas seven spots or tie
side liks fnte holes, yet for Thousands Of
years hss had an exalted mission. ArcA!-
tsctuIe, born il the heart OF Him who
made the worlds, under IS arckes snd
tc-oss It's floors what b,cchanclian Teyei-
rles have been enacted It is not agaiuat
any CT these sr.st at they hGye been SO
led into captivity. Whist
APooR WORLD
shis would be if it were not f.. what ny
text calls "plessapt pictuTes!n ( refer
to your memory and mine when I ssk il
your knowledge OF the Holy Scriptures
mss not been nightly augmented By ISe
woodcuts or ergravings in the old family
Bible, which father aud mother read Gu.
Of, nuT laid on the tsb'e in me OLD homes
stead when Bou were boYs oDd girls. The
Bible scenes which we all Gerry in our
m!HGs were not gotten from The Bible
typalogy, but from tce Biole pictures.
To prove the truth OF IL ia nay owl case,
the other day took up the old ismlly
Bible which 1 inherited. Sure enough,
what have carried in n7 mind Of Jscob's
ladder was exactly the Bible eneyevIrg CT
Jacobs ladder; and go with Samson car
rYing f the gates Of G.Zs; Elisha restor-
ing the Shunsmite'5 san; the massacre
OF the inuocents; Christ blessing little
children; the Crucifxion sud the Last
Judgment. by ides Ct all these
is that Of the old Bible epgrav-
ings which scanned before l
could read word. That is true with
piue-tenths Of you. L. could swing open
the door Of your forehesds Il would find
that you are walking picture galleries.
The great intelligence abroad Goout the
Bible did not come from the general
reading OF tho book, for the majority Of
the people read II but little,I III they read 1t
at sli; jail the FAC scenes have been
put before the grest misses, and not
printers ink, but the pictorial art must
haye the credit OF the achievement. FIRST,
painters pencil for the favored few, and
then eDgrsver's plates or woodcus for
millions on millions! What overvhelm-
ing commentary on the Bible, what reiu-
forcement fog pstrisrChs, prophets, epcs-
ties and Christ, what distribution OF
Scriptursl knowledge Of sill Dastcns n the
PAINTINGS AND RNGRAvNss
thereirom Of Holm.n Hunt's"Cbristi in the
Washing the Feet Of Christi" Rsphsel's
"Mlchsel the A,cn.ngel;" Albert Durer'a
"Drsson Of the apocalypse" Michsel
Augelo's "PI,gue Of the Fiery:serpsn's:"
TinsoreFs "Flight Into Egyps:" Ruben's
Vinci's Last Supper:" Clsade's 40 leen
lan;" Orcsgns's "Lsst Judgment" and
put in line, illustrating, displaying. dram
sitting, irradisti1g Bible truths until the
Scriptures are not to-day on paper as on
CANVAS, not SO much in ink as In all the
colors Of the spectrum. In 1888 forth
from Ssrssburg, Germany, there
Sfme child that was to
hAId >n n