Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1889-07-03

US of the beastliness of ancient art; and II
is fact now that many of the finest speci
mens-merely artisticall, considered-o1
sculpture and painting that are to be found
amidst those ruins are not fit to be looked
at, and they are. locked up. How Paul
must have felt when, standing amidst
those impurities that stared On him from
the walls and the pavements and the bazars
OF Corinth, he preached of the pure and
holy Jesus. The art of the world ON the
side of obscenity and crime and death.
In later days the palaces of kings were
adorned with pictures. But what to un.
clean Henry VIII. was beautiful picture
of the Madonna? What to Lord Jeffries.
the unjust judge, the picture of the "Last
Judgment" What to Nero, the unwashed.
q picture of the baptism in the Jordanp
The art of the world still on the side of su-
perstition and death. But that is being
changed now. The Christian artist goes
across the water, looks at the pictures, and
brings back to his American studio much
of the power of those old masters. The
Christian minister goes over to Venice.
looks at the "Crucifxion of Christ" and
comes back to his American pulpit to talk
as never before of the suferings of the
Saviour. The private tourist goes to
Rome and looks at Raphael's picture of the
f'Last Judgment" The tears start, and
he goes back to his room in the hotel, and
prays God for preparation for that day
when,
Shrivellin 3 like parched scroll,
The flaming heavens together roll.
Our Sunday-school newspapers and walls
are adorned with pictures of Joseph in the
court, Daniel in the Den, Shadrach in the
lire, Paul in the shipwreck, Christ on the
cross. Oh that we might, IL our families
think more of the power of Christian
pictures! One little sketch of Samuel kneei.
ing in prayer will mean more to your chill
dren than twenty sermons on devotion.-
One patient face of Christ by the hand Of
the artist will be more to your child than
fifty sermons on forhearance. The art of
the world is to be taken for Christ. What
has become Of Thorwaldsen's chisel and
Ghirlandajo's crayon? Captured for the
truth. ''There is none like that; give it
mew
So, remark, it is with business acumen
and tact. When Christ was upon earth,
the people that followed him, for the most
part, had no social position. There was
but one man naturally brilliant in all the
apostleship. Joseph, of Arimathea, the
rich man, risked nothing when he offered
hole in the rock for the dead Christ, How
many of the merchants in Asia Minor be-
frisnded Jesus? think of only one, Lydia.
How many of the castles on the beach of
Galilee entertained Christ? Not one. When
Peter came to Joppa, he stopped with one
Simon, tanner. What power had Christ's
bazars tof Oorinthp None Tha nroro;ront
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