The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-02-26

10 her boys and girls. 1t is a Madonna in
the picture gallery of the memory. what
sympathetic face it was Did you ever
have 10y and that face did not respond
TO it, Did you ever have a grief and no
tears trickle down that maternal cheek
Did yoa ever do bad thing and a shadow
did not cross it, On, il was.a sweet face2
The spectacles with large. round glasses
through which she looked at you. how
sacredly they have been kept in bureau or
closet! Your mothers face, your mother s
smile, your mothers tears What an
overpowering memory, Though you have
come on 70 mid-life, or old age, how you
would ike Just once more to bury your
face in her lap and have a good cry.
But can tell YOU Of a more
sympathetic. and more tender, and more
loving face than any of the faces / have
mentioned. No, you cannot says some
one. can. aud l will. It is the face Of
Jesus Christ as he was on earth and is
now in heaven When preparing my Life
OF Chrlst, entitled From Mauger TO
IhpOne,h l ransacked the art galleries
and portfolios of the world TO find
picture Of our Saviour's face that might
be most expressive, and l saw it as Fran
ces-o krancia painted IL in the sixteenth
century, and as the emerald intaglio Of
the sixth century presented it, aud as
fresco N the catacombs near Rome pre-
served 1t, and as Leonardo da Vinci
showed it in The Last Supper"
and 1 looked in the Louvre, aud
the Luxem bourg, and the Vatican,
and the Dresden, and the Berlin, ana
Neapolitan, and London galleries tor the
most inspiring face of Christ, and many
OF the presen tations were wonderful for
pathos, and majesty, and power, and exc
cutlon; but although selected that by
AIRY Sehefer as in some respects the most
pYnrpSGi I fplt a va al faaI any.
Christ has never yet been presented
either in sculpture or painting, and that
we will have to wait until we rise to the
upper palace, where we shall see him as
he is. What gentle face it must have
been to induce the babes TO struggle out
OF their mothers arms into his arms
What an expressive face it must have
been when one reproving look of it threw
stalwart Peter into nit of tears What d
pleasing face 1t must have been to lead the
Psalmist in prayer to say oft, Look upon
the face of Thine Amounted" What a
sympathetic face it must have been to en-
courage the sick woman who was beyond
any help from the doctors to touch the
hem OF his garment. Whas a suffering
face it must have been when suspended on
the perpendicular and horizontal pieces of
the wood OF martyrdom, and his antago-
nists slapped the paid cheek with their
rough hands, and befouled it with the
saliva OF their blasphemous lips Whata
tremendous face it must have been to lead
Saint John TO describe it in the coming
judgment as scattering the universe when
he says, From whose face the 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 sting
ing bramb.e. but now coroneted with the
jewels of ransomed empires. Turn on US
thy pardoning face and forgive us; thy
sympathetic face and console US; thy
su Iering face and have thy atonement
avail for us; thy omnipotent face and
rescue US. Oh what a facel So Scared,
so lacerated. so resplendent, 80 overwhelm-
ingly glorious that the seraphin put wing
to wing, and with their eonioined pinions
keep of some of the luster that is too
mighty even for eyes cherubic or archan-
gelic; and yet this morning turned upon US
with a sheathed splendor like that
with which he appeared when he
said to the mothers bashful about
presenting their children, Suffer them
TO Gomez and to the poor waif of the
street, Neither do condemn thee" and
to the eyes of the blind beggar of the
wayside, BE opened" l think my
brother John, the retnrned foreign mis-
sionary, dying summer before last at
Bound Brook, caught glimpse of that
face of Christ when in bis dying hour my
brother said, II shall be satisfied when 1
awake in his likeness - And now unto
him that loved US, and washed US from
our sins in his own blood, and hath made
US kings and priests unto God and his
father, to him be glory and dominion,
forever and ever, amen and amen! Amen
and amen -t