The Progress., 1894-03-03

mothers face is urvrr homo
" to her BOYS and girls II is q VI.
damn in the picture ~aI.rrv nf ~.
memory. What a sympathetic f,oo =,
was, did YOU ever hlvca vandtb,t
face did not respond TO #, did vo,
aver have a Grief and no ,ra~~ ,ricl,i.L
down THAT maternal chr..' DID .,,,
over do q bad thing and ,nadow d;J
not cross it? Oh, if wa, sweet f,ro,
vhc spcctaclcs, with Iaruc r,nrd
Glasses through which size looked .,
Won how sacrcdIy they have L.o,,
kent in bureau or closet Your moth.
or $ face. your moth,~', ,mi,os
vour mothers tears VIVA, ~
nvcrpowcrng mcmory Thonrb
Won have come on to mIu'.fn. or cid
noe how Won would like n,t onco
more to bury your fac, in aor lap and
have a GOOD cry
But can tell You Of q more sympa.
thctic, and more tender and more
loving face than any Of 'hn face,
have mentioned. "No, youo can not"
savStsOmc one. can, and will II
4. the face Of Jesus Christ ~ lr was nm
earth and is now in heaven Whom
prcparing my Life Of C.ri~f. entitled
'FrOm Manager to Throne. ran
sacked the art galleries a9I port.
roliOs OF the world 20 find a picture If
our Saviors face that mgb' be most
expressive, and Saw il a. francesca
Erancia painted it Gin the sixteenth
century, and as tn" emerald ntooIio
Of the siN9h century presented il. and
rs frcsco in the catacomH. near Rome
preserved it. and as lo.puarDo ia Vinci
showed it in "Tbc las. sumner -
and | looked in the Imivrc and
9the LuXcmbourr. and the Vatican
and the Dresden. and the EorIin and
NeapoIitan. and0London galleries for
the most inspirin~ face Of Christ ana
MANY of the presentation, were won.
dcrful for pathos and mairstv o,a
mower. and execution. blt aIthonrb
selected that bv Arv S,chcfT,ras in so,ro
respects the most expressive. fcJtasve
al feel, that our Christ b,, never vot
been presented either in ,culnturo ~
paintinr, and that we will havo ~
wait until we rise to fine r,na, noIooo
where we shall see him rs ne is Wbot
a gentle face it must have been to in.
duce the babes to struor}e ont of
their mothers arms info b;. ou,,,o,
What an ovnrcssiva fooo :.
must have bpnn vbon oro
proving look of if threw staIvart
Peter into y fiji Of +eor.' What
pleading face il must have been 70
lead the Psalmi,J in PRAYER TO saw Of
it, 'Looll upon the face Of Thine An.
ointcd." What 4 sympatbrtic faca Il
must have been to ENCOURAGE tbe sick
woman who WAS bcvonl an,- holm from,
the doctors to touch fine hem Of bis
garment What a SUFFERING face if
must have been when suspended on
the perpendicular and horizontal
pieces OF the wood of laartVriOm and
his antagonists slapprG the naI,d
cheek with their rouyh hands and bp-
foulcd it with the saliva of their HAS.
phcmous lips. What = tremendous
face it must have been 10 cad Saint
John to describe it in the COMING iudp.
ment as scattering the universe when
he says, From whose face tine earth
and the heaven fed away."
Oh, Christ! Once the Nazarene, but
now the celestial. Once Of cross, but
now of throne. Once crowned with
bramble. but now coroneted
with the Jewels of ransomed empires,
Turn on us thy pardoninc face and
forgive us: thv svmDothptir face and
MS. tbv snifariro foco ond h.ua
tbv atonemonto ra;1 -'. .I,. . NV
tont faoa ND =" ".' - "'' ~ my onn'po-
s so0 az &c anu rescue US oh' what
la1o' 90 Scared SO lacerated' so re-
sPlehaent' SO overwhelmingly glorious
that the seraphim put wing to wing.
as ~ '''.'' I'nJoine" Pln'ohs keep