Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-11-10

but | think this is the first sermon ever
preached that made a plea for the suiler-
ing men and women of American AT.
Their work is more true to nature ana NE
than any of the masterpieces that have be-
come immortal on the oth ersldeol thesea,
but it is the fashion of Americans 10 men
ton foreign artists; and to know niue or
nothing about our own Copley, and
Allston. and Imam, amp Greenough and
Kensett. Let the attucnt fling out OF
their windows and INFO The back yald
valueless daubs on canvas, and call IN
these splendid but unrewarded men, and
tell them to adorn your walls, not only
with that which shall please the taste,
but enlarge the mind, and improve the
morals. and save the souls Of those who
gaze upon them.
Anr GALLERIES NEEDED, ETC.
Brooklyn. and all other American
cities need great galleries of art, not only
open annually for a few days on eXhlbl-
ton, but which shall stand open all the
year round, and from early morning until
10 o'clock a. night, and free to all who
would come and 60. What a prepare
ton for the wear and tear Of the day a
five minutes look III the morning at some
picture hat will openthe door into some
larger realm than that ia which u pop
ulation daily drudge! Or what a good
thing the half hour Of artistic oppOriun-
ity on the way home IN the evening from
exhaustion ;hat demands recuperation for
mind and soul as well as body Who Will
60 for Brooklyn or the city where you
live what w. W. Corcoren did for Wash
lngton, and what | am told John Wann-
amakcr, by the motion of De Munkacsy
great picture, Christ before PLATE, IL
going to do for Philadelphia? Men of
wealth, If you are too modest to build
and endcw such a place during your life
time, why not 20 to your iron safe, and
take ont your last will and testament,
and make a codicil that shall build for
the city of your residence q throne for
| American art2 Take some of that money
that wOuld otherwise spoil your children,
and build an art gallery that shall ass0-
ciate your name forever, not OILY
WIKI the great masters Of paint
iGg, who are gone, but with
the great masters who are trying to live;
and also win the admiration and rove of
tens of thousands Of people, who, unable
TO have fine pictures of their own. would
DE advantaged by your hencfaction.
Build your own monuments, and not
leave it to the whim of others. Some of
the best people sleeping in Greenwood
/ have no monuments at all, or some
crumbling stones that ia a fee years will
let the rain wash ont name and cpitaph;
while some men, whose deG.h was the
abatement of q nuisaace, heve a pile of
,Aal,.l.I nlnnn Iiuh nta fny an
king, and euioCium enough to embarrass
"A seraph. Oh, man OF '.arge wealth,
instead of leaving TO the within of others
your monumental commenoration and
epitaphiology to be looke9 at when peo-
pie are going TO asd fro ct the burial Of
others, build right down in the heart OF
our great city, or the cityrNThere you live,
an immense free reading room, or a free
musical conservatory, OF a free art gal
lery, the 9ichesT, for scripture, and the
walls gbloom with the rise and fall OF
nations. ard lessons of courage for the
dishcartened, anG rest fcr the weary, and
life Tor the dead; and 100 years from new
you viii be welding Influences IN tkis
world fOV good emong those whose great
grandfather was your great ~grandcEfId.
How much better than white m8gble lLa'
chills ycd Ifyou put your hand OE i
whcn yOG touch il in Vie cemetery would
be n m8numcCt in c%olors, in heaminG
eyes. IL living possession, in splendor.
which gnder ,he chandelier w0ul1 be
glowing and warm, and looked Gt 10y
%syroliiNc groups with catalogue IL band
on the 5Gnuary night, when the nec7opo.
lis where the body Sleeps is al. showed
under