The Grenada gazette., 1888-04-21
TIE TRUE SHEkiNAH.


Pictures
As with pictures. SO with poems
The poets office is to be voice. moi
of one crying in the wilderness to $
knot of already magnetized acolytes,
but singing amid the throng OF men
and lifting their common aspirations
and sympathies $50 first clearly re.
vealed to themselves) on the wings OF
his song to q purer ether and wider
reach of view. In the great poets
there is an exquisite sensibility both
of soul and sense that sympathies like
gossamer sea moss with every move
ment of the element in which it floats.
but which is rooted on the solid rock
of our common sympathies Paint US
an angel, If you can, with a floating
violet robe. and face paled by the
celestial light; paint us vet oftener
Madonna. turning her mild face up.
ward and opening her arms to wei.
come the Divine glory; but do not i'm.
pose on us any aesthetic rules which
shall Danish from the region Of ar,
those old women scraping carrots with
their work-worn hands, those heavy
clowns taking holiday in a
dingy pot-house, those rounded
backs and stupid weather beaten
faces that have bent over the spade
and done the rough work of the
world, those homes with their tin
pans their brown pitchers, their
rough ours and their clusters Of
onions. In this world there are so
many of these common, course peo.
pie. who have no picturesque sen tie
mental wretchedness! It is so needful
we should remember their existence,
else we may happen to leave them
quite out OF our religion and
philosophy and frame lofty theo ries
which only fit world of extremea
Therefore let art always remind us
of them; therefore let lis always have
men ready to give the loving pains Of
life to the faithful representing of
common things-men who see beauty
in these commonplace things and do.
light in showing how kindly the light
of Heaven falls on them. And such
men will always represent the higher
art of their day. 1t is in vain that
we look for genius to reiterate its
miracles in the old arts; it is its
instinct to find beauty and holiness
in new and necessary facts, in the
field and roadside, in the shop aud
mill. Proceeding from religious heart
it will raise to divine use the rail-
road, the insurance office, the joint
stock company, our law, our primary
assemblies. our commerce, the galvanic
battery, the electric jar, the prism
and the chemists retort, in which we
seek now only an economical use.
What more than regal mystery en-
circles the poorest of souls for use!
Well said St. John Chrysostom. with
his lips of gold: The true Shekinab
is Man." There is but one temple in
the world, and that is the body OF
HAL. bchdiiS beiolo HAL ID u io'oA-
ence done to this revelation in the
flesh. We touch Heaven when we lay
our hands on a human being. The
greatest of the works of man is less
thing than the meanest man, for the
mcanest man has within hlm passions
and emotions and high longings and
strivngs which no art can fully inter-
pret. The real value of the lliad or
the TRANSPORTATION is as signs OF
power; pillows Or ripples they arc Of
the stream # tendency; tokens OF the
everlasting effort to produce, which
even in its worst estate The soul be-
trays -LippincoWs Magazine.