Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-10-23
4 BEAUTIFUL GIFT.
THE LELAND STAMFORD, JR., MEMO
RIAL WINDOW AT ST. PAUL's.
The Dedication Ceremonies Win Take
Place Sunday-One of the Most
Beautiful in America.

At II o'clock Sunday morning, the recently
completed Leland Stanford Jr., memorial win
dow will be unveiled at st. Paurs Episcopal
Church
special service, conducted by Rev. ]. F.
Won Herrlich, will be held in honor Of the
event.
This window is one of the most beautiful and
costly in America-probably in the world, and
is the gift of Mrs. Stanford.
The design throughout this memorial window
is wholly original in its conception and admir-
able in its execution. The application of the
study to the subject which it represents, crowns
it with interest not only to those to whom it
directly applies, but also to all who may fol-
low its application. The window is of the
Gothic order, consisting of three panels above
which, to maintain the Gothic outline, is a mass
of flowing tracery.
To read the history so charmingly written
upon those open tablets, it is necessary first to
direct the attention to the panel on the right,
where the angel of life with wings outspread
bears in its arms child toward earth. The an
gel points viii its finger toward the transient
abiding place of the corporate soul intrusted to
its care, and the child, endowed BIZ artistic, or,
rather, poetic license, with pre-exlstent in
telligence, is in sympathetic accord with It's
of its early existence. Above the hgureS Is
dial, upon which time is not yet begun to be re-
corded, and this, with its associate ideas. inci-
Gates period immedia ely prior to the advent
of human life In striking and painful con-
trast to this. the angel of death is represented
on the left, in the act of S3Vering from its par
ent stem fresh and blooming bud. The bowed
figure, the depressed wings, the yelled urn the
scythe, al betoken the departure of loved and
lamented soul, and upon the sphere which
sands above is represented the number Of years
of its stay upoa earth.
The grand central panel contains repre-
sentstiOn OF the angel of the resurrection bear
ing towards his eternal home, youth whose
ecstaiic gaze is fixed on the glOrleS which are
just beginning to burst upon his vision. The
grace and moJlOn GS well as the expression OF
those central figures are much TO be admired
The quiet restful face of the one, long accus-
toned TO those heavenly visions. is in beautiful
contrast to the rapt eXpectant expression or the
other. SO eager to pierce its hidden mysteries
Rays OF glory burst from the approaching para
disc upon the soul that is about to enter into its
eternal rest.
In the diamond shaped openings of the
tracery, angels with harp, took and voice are
welcoming with their seraphic music soul to
its eternal home; and finally the dove, repre-
senting the comforter occupies position in the
tracery Immediately beneath the apex.
Not only is the thought represented through
out the painted portions of the work, a beautl.
full and original one, but the composition and
architecture OF the Mosaics are broader, more
varied and artistic than is usual in recent pro-
ductions of similar character.
With sublime originality the artists brush
has written in eloquent characters the simple
story of human life, its advent. whence its
flight across time and its departure to the in
finite.
The window is the work of John Mallou, the
a Tm1 seI up IA
Crocker, and the memorial window contributed
by Hon Creed Raymond