The Atlanta constitution., 1894-02-27

lily name Will make MIN ana MS ldIlllly.
Kindness! 1t makes the face to shine Will
life lasts, and after death puts a summe
sunset between the still lips and tn
smoothed hair, 1l,fiat makes me say some
times at obsequies. "She seems too beauti
full to bury"
But here comes another chisel and it
name is hypocrisy. Christ with one terri
bic stroke in his sermon on the noun
described this character: when we fas
tenance; for they ~ disfgure e their faces tha
they may appear unto men to fast" lily
inocIlsy h.s.ing taken possession of the sou
II Immediately appears in the countenance
tEpocr1teS are always solemn. They carr.
;T ;STyveral country graveyards in Their faces
cry about. and in their prayers they catcl
Tor their breath. and have such genera
doiefulness that they disgust young peopi
with religion. We had one of them in op
OF my churches. When he eXhorted h
Always deplored the low state of religion
IN other people and when he prayed 1t wa
paroxysm of obs and abs that seemed t.
demand resuscitation. He went on in tha
way until we had to expel him iron
church for stealing the property entrusted
to him as administrator, and for other vice
that will not mention. and he wrote nj
SeVera! letters not at all complimentary!
praying for my everlasting destruction
A man cannot have hypocrisy in his hear
without somehow showing il in his face
All Intelligent people who witness it know
1t is nothing but n dramatization.
Here comes another chisel and that be
longs to the old-fashioned religion. 1t hrs
takes possession of the whole soul. washing
out its sins by the blood of the Lamb anf
starting heaven right there and then Thl
done deep down in the heart Religion says
Now let me go UP into the windows aa>
front gate of the face and set up some
signal that ] have taken possession of this
castle l will celebrate the victory by a,
Illumination that no one can mistake.
have made this man happy and now | viii
make him look happy. | will draw the cor
drawn down. I will take the contemptuous
curl away from the lip and nostri. [ viii
make his ewes flash and his cheeks glow al
every mention OF Christ and heaven. | viii
make even the wrinkles of his face look
like burrows plowed for the harvests of JOY
| will make what we call the crows 1eet
of peace has been alighting there There
may be signs of trouble on that face, but
they will be scars of campaigns won.
Now says some one, Il know very SoOc
people who have no such religion in their
faces" My friend. the reason probably is
1;f tat they were not converted Unit until iate II II
with their chisels on that face Tor thirty
or forty years, and grace, the DIVINE
sculptress, has been busy wth her chise
only five or ten years. Do not be SURPRISED
that Phidias and Greenough with their flnf
chisels cannot in short while remove al
the marks of the stonemason's crowbai
which has been busy there for 4 long while
I say to all the young. If you would nav
sympa thetic face hopeful face, courageoul
Hest possible moment, by the grace of God
have planted in your soul sympathy, anG
hope. and courage. and good cheer, anH
kindness. No man ever INDUCED d graCioi
feeling or was moved by a righteous ndi;
nation. was stirred by a benevolent il
pulse but its effect was more or less ind.
Gated in the countenance; while David no
ticed the physlo%nomic effect Of a bad dlspo
sition when he said. "A wicked man harden
eth his face" and Jeremiah must hays s,,, no
have made their faces harder than a rock. .
Oh, the power of the human face! | war
rant that You have known faces so magnet
ic aud impressive that though they van
isbed long ago they still hold YOU with I;
holy spel How long since your child
went? "Well,' you say. 'if she had lived
she would have been ten years old nov
or twenty. or thirtv years" But docs ~
that infant face still have tender .suprena
cy over your entire nature? During mist
an eventide does it not lock at vow ha-
your dreams do you not see it? Wtape
sanctfying. hallowng influence it hafUfs
the poet: "Retter to have loved 81 4
than never to have loved at allof
she she was as the invalid Of the fami,ls
she never went out except ma
days, and then she had to =
the stairs to the piazza oSgs
it ali. AS that ,sse'i face ic4e has til
the years with what northern
{athsr's So faSss1 '$s1 me n p PaylRs i
n3N
hind it in order to i ather3
remember that face 50 s: "
We're an artist you couf 9:
and it would mean to S ae
face that Rembrandt eve2 602l
face. though long ago veiIed s."
sight, is as plain in your memorya
YOU this moment saw it moving 6N
ward and backward in the rocky
by the stove in the old farmhou
was 1t your mothers face? A goote =
crs face is never homely to her boz, of
girls. 1t is a Madonna in the picturt"ip
lerY of the memory. What a sympaths
face it was. Did you ever have Joy ar
that face did not respond to it? Did so.
ever have a grief and 10 tears trickle;
down that maternal check? Did YOU eve
90 bad thing and a shadow did not eros
I? oh it was a sweet face! The spectacle
with large, round glasses through whici
she looked at you. how sacredly they hay
been kept in bureau or closet! Your moth
er'S face. your mothers smile, your moth
er's tears! What an overpoWerin@ memory
Though You have come on to mid-life or Ok
age, how you would like Just once more t
bury your face in her lap and have a goo'
cry.
But ! can tell you of a more sympathetic
and more tender and more loving face thar
any of the faces | have mentioned. "No
you cannot, says some one can and
WIS on eartn and is now in heaven. WheI
preparing my Life of Christ, entitled "Fron
Ma3Inger to Throne,n | ransacked, the ar
a picture of our Saviors face that Nigh
be most expressive, and | saw it as Fran
ctScO FTdHcld painted II IN the sixteenth
century ard as the emerald intaglio of tn,
sixth century presented, and as a freScO il
the catacombs near Rome preserved it. ant
as Leonardo Da Ninci showed il in "Th,
Last Supper and ! looked in the LouVr
and the Luxembourg, and the Vatican an,
the Dresden, and the Berlin and NeapOltal
ana London galleries for the most inspirin:
face Of Christ, and many of the presenta
tions were wonderful for pathos and majes
ty, and power and execution: but although
! selected that by AIRY Scheffer as in SOM
respects the most expressive, | felt as W.
ell feel, that our Christ has never vet beer
presented. either in sculpture or painting
and that, we will have to wait until W.
rise to the upper palace. where we shall
see Him as He is. What a gentle face
must have been to induce the babes t.
struggle cut of their mothers arms into Hi
arms! What an expressive face it mus
have been when one reproVing look Of i
threw stalwart Peter into fit of tears
What a pleading face it must have beer
to lead the Pselmist in prayer to say of it
Look upon the face of Thine Anonted
What a sympathetic face it must have beel
to encourage the sick woman who was be
yond any help from the doctors to toucl
the hem of itis garment! What a sufferin,
face it must have been when suspended ol
the perpendicular and horizontal pieces o
the wood of mart vrdom, and His antagonist
slapped the pallid cheek with their rougl
hands and befouled it with the saliva o
their blasphemous lips! What tremendou
face it must have been to lead ST. Joh1
20 describe it In the coming Judgment a
"Trom whose face the earth and the heav
ep fed awaV.'
Oh Christ, Once the Nazarene, but nov
the celestiali Once of cross. but now o
throrei Once crowned with singing BRAN
bic, but now coronetnd with tho jewels o