Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-11-10
Ant AND ARTISTS
DR.. Talmage Discourses Oh
the Divine Mission Of
Artists.
The Kind Of Pictures That
Should Embellish the
Home.
Poverty Of Painters and the
Lack Of Appreciation
Of Their Work.
Pictures I'm Colors or Words as In
struCtors by Illustration.
THE DIVINE MISSION or rTcTUREs.

THE DIVINE MISSION or PICTURES.
BKeCKlYN. oct. 2S.-Thc Rev. +. De
Witt Talmsge, j.. d., preached at the
Tabernacle this morning. A vast cen.
gregation attended the service. The sub
ject Of Or. Talmagc's G~iscoursc was THE
Divine Bission Of Pictures" His text
was was Isaiah ca. 9, parts Of the 18th
and 1914 verses:
V'The Way Of thc Lordpf Hosts shall be upon
Gil pleasant p!ccures.'
He'said:
Pictures are by some relegatcd to the
realm OF the %tt,yial, accidental, senti-
mental or world, but my text shows
that God scrutinises pictures, and wheth-
.er they are good or bad, whether used
for right or wrong purposes, is a matter
of divine observation and arrangement.
The "Diyino Mission of Pictures is
my subject.
That the artists pencil and the cngrav
er's knife have sometimes been made
subservitnt'to the kingdom OF the bad 10
frankly aG1aitted. After the ashes and
scoria were removed from Herculaneum
and Pempe.i, the walls Of these cities
discovered % the explorers a degradation
in art witch annot be exaggerated.
Satan and oil his imps have always war
ed the lingering of Ike easel; they woe.d
rather har e possession of that than the
art Of Trinting, fer types are not 5000
tent and quick for exit 4s picgures. The
powers " darkness think they have
gained = triumph, and they have, when
in some respectable Farlor' OF public art
g~allerystley can hang o canvass cmbar-
RAISING TO the good, but fascinating to
the evi!
PICTURES EE II ROME.
II Is not ia q spirit of prude-y but
backed lp by Gods eternal truth when |
say tina. YOU have no right to beng in
your AZ roOmso or y0ar dwelling houses
that which would be offensive 10 good
peoplcjf The figures pictured were alive
in ypu- parlCr ana the guests o. your
househ ld. A pIct:rc that you have to
hang in "A sumeWha. scc5uied place, or
thar m 4. public hall y0u caupotwith a
group Hl friends deliberately stand etorc
and uie.us-. ought tC how" a tnife stab
bee irlo il 81 tnc top and ca. clear
thrnUa' 10 thc lPlt and q ton .inger
thrust IN or Tie Ilrpt side ripping clear
throuG. 10 the lelt. PlIGy, the~eldcr,
lost his life Ivy going near eRougl % see
the inside ot Neeuyias, and tho Qrther
vou CIR stand Of from The hErnin2C crater
OF a.n, The bcttpg. Never til the books
of the lat dsy arc Cpepcd Shell wo@tnow
wlat his been the Ore h~rveS 6 evl-
pictoYi2's md utAeConiug at galleries.
DcSpOi! . mans lglag.EsatIOn and Ea De
comes o moral c2.casv. The show win
dove of English and 4 nericin ca es az
which tLe low thCa!reG have sometimes
huag lorg lines of bra4tn aciArS au2 act
rcsses in style insgitng 10 all prufT ETY.,
have me lie IA broad ,pata - death for
multitudcS Of people. 1}ut s. haze all
the oths. arts been ut times suSornCGi OF
evil How has lC.SiC been hfdraggled!
Is thereaGly place 90 lcw DOVE IN d,sso-
~lutcness that into IL has not been carried
Dsvid's harp and HanGel's organ, and
G~ottsohalk's piano, and Ole Bulls violin;
and the flute. which though naW Ell after
Bo 81 sla y q thh@AE ~ N"G '
which has seven spots Oh the side Ike
flrte h0lee vet for thousands of years
has had on exalted mission. Architecture,
born in the heart of Linn who mode the
worlds, unler its arches and ACROSS us
floor what bacchanGlian ,rcvelrior have
been enacted. 1t is not against OF thsaG
arts that thcg have been SO led lnt0 cap
tivity. WihGt a poor world this would be
if il were not for gAat ,Ly tex Cells
pleasant p:cturcst' | refer 10 your
mem0ry uad mine when | ask i your
knowledge 81 the
HOY SCRIPTURES
has heea nightly Augmented by the.
woodcuts or o Ggravlngs Ia theosld family
Bible, which fa.hcr and naother read out
of, and laid en,tAe table ia the aid homo
stead when you were boys and girls. HE
Bible scenes VIII. IA we ali carry IN oar
minds were not K3tten from the typology.
but from the Eihte pictures. To prove
the truth Of it in Ey W case. the other
+. dayI took UP tDe, ED family Bible which
Inherited. Sure, enough. what ! have
carried in my mi6d,ef jacobs ladder was
exactly the Bible engraving Of Jacobs
ladder; and 50 Williamson carrying off
the gates " GAIA: Elisha restoring the
JAAxliAiiilAS " Cbb HAC '" N'S
inp0cents: Christ k~ieSsiog little children:
the. cuciixiCn and thcilast judgment. My
Sdea.af all these is that OF the old Bible
engrGvIngs wh' ch ! scanned before could
read q Svogd, That ia true with nine
tenthe,of YOU. If | could swing open the
door OF your fosaheads | world find tbat
Won are walking pictures. The great in
telligenca abroad. about the Etble did not
come FROM the general reading OF the
b ,ok. fo4 Use majority Of the people read
il but little. IL they read it at all; but all
the sacred goenes haze been pu. before
Che great masses, and not printer's ink
but the pictorial ait must have the crecit
of the achievement. First, painters
pencil for the favored few, and then En-
rrayer's plate or woodeW for millions on
millions Whist overwhelming comment-
ary on the Bible, what reinforcement for
patriarabs. prophets. apostles and Chrla
what distribution 81 scriptural kuowlengc
of all NATIONS, in the paintings ana en-