Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-11-03
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BuL tncft - q uoplcI.re aDOVc, 80 II
waa sung. Professor Browne presided at til
grand organ and. rendered q concerto in:l
fat by Handel Tho subject Of DR.. Til,
naage's discourse WINS .erhe Divine; Mission;c
Pictures. y His text was Isaiah, CHI pier Z
parts Of the twelfth niid siIteciiy verses:
dnylof, the lord Of lostss shall be upon al
PLEASANT pictures .n' - Ho snid 80 20
Pictures arc by some rsiegated TO theTealy
Of the trivia, nccid ental,, sentimental 70
world exits wa. that Sod sscrut
;:ni2es pictures, and etheis arei good:o
bad, whether used for rig or wrong puI
poses, Is a matter of divine Observation nm
arraignment. ~ "a ~ ~.
That the artists pencil and the engTaycr
{ knife have sometimes been made-aubscrvicn
to the kingdom Of the bad is frankly nd
United. After<thc ashes and ;scoria wero re
moved from Herculaneum and Pompeii !. Ia
walls OF those csies discovered to tho explor
els degradation in art which cannot I've ea
aggcrated. Satan and all his imps have al
ways wanted the lingering of the easel; they
would rather have possession of thatthnn thu
art of printing, for types are not so poteu
and quick for OWL as pictures. The powers
Of darkness think they have gaineda triumph
and thoy have, when in some respectable
parlor or public art gallery they can. hang 9
canvas embarrassing to the good, but FMS
cinating to the evil
1t is not in IL spirit of prudery, but backed
up by Gods eternal truth, when say thai
you have no right to hang in Your art rooms
or your dwelling houses that which. would
be offensive to good people il the figures pie
tured were olive in your parlor and the
guests of your household. a picture that
you have TO hang in somewhat secluded
place, or that i'll a public hall you cannot
with group of friends deliberately stand
before and discuss, ought toyhave knife
stabbed into 1t ut the top and cut clear
thrust III on the right side, ripping. clear
through to the left. Pliny, tho elder, lost
his lifo by going near enough TO zee
the inside Of Vcsuvius, and tho further
you4can stand OF from tho burning crater
OF sin, the better Never till tho Books Of
the Last Day are opened shall we know what
has been the dire harvest Of evil pictorials
and unbecoming art galleries. Dcspoil a
mans Imagination and ko becomes moral
carcass The shop windows Of English aud
American cities in which tue low theatres
have sometimes hung long lines Of brazcn
actors and actresses in style insulting 10 all
propricty havo niado broad path to death
for multitudes of people But so have all
the other arts been ut times suborned ofcvil.
How has music been bcdrnggledI Is there
my place SO low down in dissoluteness that
into it has not been carried Dayid's harp and
Handlers organ and Gottschalk's piano and
Ole Bulls violin and tho flute, -which though
named after so Insignificant thing as tho
S;cilian eel, which has seven spots Oil tho
side like flute holes, yet for thousands Of
years has had m exalted mission. Archi
lecture, born in the heart of Him who made
the worlds, under its arches and across its
-. ,'s, -; s~es.ssu ].
TINT they have been So led into CAM; ogtSs
not for Ahab my text Girls 5susrss. -
usesfn refar 10 your aealds5 a1id lrfye
when 1 ask II yUnr knewfadse Of tho Holy
Scriptures has not been nightly augmented
BIZ tho woodcuts or engravings in the
old family Bible, which father and
mother read out Of, and laid on the
table in the old homestead when you wcrc
boys and girls. The Biblo scenes which we
all carry in our minds were not gotten from
the Biblo typology, bat from Tho Bible
pictures. To provo tho truth of it i'll my
own case, tho other day took up tho old
family Bible which inherited. Surc enough,
what have carried in my mind OF Jacobs
ladder was exactly tho Bible engraving of
Jacobs ladder; aud SO with Samson carry
ing or the gates Of GAIA; Elisha restoring
the Summarizes son; the massacre OF the
innocents Christ blessing little children; tho
crucitixion and the last Judgment. Ny idea
of all these is that of the old Bible cngrav-
i.cs which l scanned before could read o
word. That is true with ninc-tentbs Of you.
If l could swing open tho door of your fore
heads would find that you arc walking pict-
urc galleries The great intelligence abroad
about the Bible did not como from the gen
eral reading OF tho hook, for the majority OF
the people read ii but little, il they read 1T
at all; but all tho sacred scenes have been
put before tho great masses, and notprinter's
ink. but tho pictorial art, must have the
credit Of the achievement First, painters
pencil for tho favored few, and then ell
graver's plate or wood cut for millions OH
millions! What overwhelming commentary
on the Diblc, what reinforcement for patri-
arcI,s. prophets, apostles and Christ, what
distribution OF scriptural knowledge OF NIL
nations, i'll the paintings and engravings
thcrefrom OF Holman Hunts "Christ i'll the
Temple,n Paul Vcronesc's "Magdalen Wash
ing the Feet of Christi llaphaeiS Michael,
tho Archangel," Albert Durcl's dragon OF
the Apocalypse" Michael Angeles "Plague
of the Fiery Scrpc1ts;" Tintorct's "Flight
into Esypt;n Iiubens' descent from. the
Crosse Leonardo Da vinci's 'Lass Supper;
Claudo-s Queen Of Sheba;" Bcllini'S ma
donna at Milan;' Orcagnns Last Judg-
nent," and hundreds CT miles or pictures ii
they were put in line, illustrating, display
irc, dramatizing, irrradiatinS BIble truths
until tho Scriptures are not today SO much
OH paper us OH canvas, not so much IN INK as
in oil the colurs of tho spectrum. In lS3t
forth from Strasburg, Germany, there came
n child that was to eclipse i'll speed and bold
ness and grandeur anything aud everything
that tic world had seen since the first colol
appeared on tho sky at tue creation, Eau
Gustav Dore. at II years Of age lie pub
lished marvellous Autographs OF his own
Saying nothing of what he did for Allitoni
paradise LOST cmblazoning i5 on the at
tcltion of tho world, he takes up tho BOOK
Books, the monarch of literature, the Bible
ard in his pictures, 1.-THE Creation OF Light,
"Thc trial of Abroham's Faith, nssThc Iuria
of Scrah,n "Joscph Sold by His Brethren,
"Thc Brazc,i Serpent" "Boaz and Ruth,
"David and Goliath, ".The TRANSPORTATION,
"The Marriage i'll Cana" "Babylon Fallen,
md COS ecripturll scenes i'll ell. with u bold
ness and q grasp and almost supci1laturE
ctactus that mako tue heart throb, cnd th
brain reel and tho tears start, an
the chccizs blanch, and the cntlfo nasus
quake with tho tremendous things OF Go
and eternity and the dead. I actually sta Ia
gered down the steps of the London ma. Arf e"
lery under the power of Dores Christ Lea
ing the Pretoriun,." Profess you TO , DC
Christian mau or woman, and see no eivll
mission in art, and Acknowledge you no % 10
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