The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1894-05-02

t,activa women Of 209 years ago Icon-
clude the superiority OF the men and
women OF our time. Such looking peo-
pie Of tho past centuries aspainting and
sculpture have presented aszfne speci-
mems M beauty INC sdigmy would balm
our time considered deformity and re-
pulsiyeness complete. The fact that
many men mdwomen in antediluyian
times were 8 and i feet high tended to
make the human Q obnoxious rather
than winning Snch portable mountains
Of human heshdidn not add to the charms
Of the world
Tho Physical Christ.
But in no climate and in no age did
there ever appear any q who in phys
ical attractiyeness could be compared
% him whom my text celebrates thou
sands of years before he put his infan-
tile foot ON the hill back of Bethlehem
He was and is altogether lovely. The
physical appearance Of Christ is, for the
most part an artistic guess Some writ
ems declare him to have been a brunette
OF DARK conplexoneds and others a
blond or light complexioned st. John
d Damascus, writing !, 100 years ago,
and s much nearer than ourselves to
the time az Christ, ana hence with more
l;Lsl;hoo3 NJ accnrata tradition. renre-
aants him WITH heard black. and curly
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. and .yellow
comn,ax;na ana aonp AnreTs Ike his
rnosher An author. writing 1900.
vears aeo, represents Christ as q blond:
ssHishair ia the co4or Of wine and golden
nj 81 "a straisht and without lus-
ter INT fTorn tha level Of the ears, curl
;no and olossv. and divided down the
oantar AFTER the. fashion of the Naza-
pe,ea His forehead IS seven and smooth,
his face without hlemish and enhanced
bv : tempared bloom. his comtenance
inoen,ous and kind. Nose and mouth
ars 81 IA wav fau1tX. HIS beard is full,
Of the sane color as his hair and forked
In form. his eyes blue and extremely
hrirl;art -
M minion is. il was a Jewish face.
H;s mather was a Jewesu and there is
= woananhood on earth more beautiful
fhan .Iayrish Womanhood. Alas that he
lived soslonc bed6re the daguerrean and
~photooraphic arts were born, or we
might have known his exact features. I
know that sculpture and painting were
horn long befcreC Christ. and they might
haye Transferred from olden times to
oa,r times the forehead. the nostril the
ave. the Gns az or Lord.
tha sor1ntor nrs4 doun b;s
oh;so1 "a onchantmant. zoo y,ears before
CHIC came WIN did not some one
tata Nm that cb,aal and give ma The side.
faca ~ fn1I faca of onr Inrdp Po1veno-
49, tha na;nte- MT drwn hie nenci1
S . rasrs besora Ehr;st WIN aid NOT
some ma ale 4 m and oive ns al least
The snaM MrIard-the erve that SOW
ere;m ofsfhasfaces DNnnvsins. the Iterac
~ aTt;stsuha aaw at Halionolis. Eeypt
tho etra,sasJsTkenino ,of fine heavens at
tha t;,oa az Cbr;st,s crncifxion near :Je-
and not knowino What Is was
hn+ aeocr;h;no r. 40 ~necnliar eclinse
~ the snn and SAVING .tEitber +ba Del.
~ snTeu ~ svmnath;ze With some snf-
fsrer . that Dionysins might have mt
his nen TO the work and drawn the Dor
trait of our Lord. But. no; the fine arts
were busy perpetuating the form and
a-nnearanca Of the worlds fayoritas only.
and NOT tina form and appearance of the
among whom Christ appear
ed
Portraits Of Christ.
Il was not until the fifteenth century,
or until more than ], 400 years after
Christ, that talented painters attempted
by pencil TO give Us the idea Of Christ's
face. The pictures before that time were
40 offensive that the council at Constan-
tinople forbade their exhibition. But
Leonardo da Vinci. in the fifteenth CEN