Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1894-03-15

and is now in Heaven. When prepai
| ing my Life of Christ, entitled. 'f'rorl
Manager to Throne, | ransaclSed the
art galleries and portfolios of the
world TO find a picture OF our Savior's
face that might be most expressive.
and | saw it as francesca Fraaeia
painted it in the sixteenth century,
and as the emerald intaglio of the sixth
century presented ii, and as a fresco in
the catacombs near Rome preserved It.
and as Leonardo Da Vinci showed it IN
The Last Supper and | looked in
the Louvre, and the Luxembourg and
the Vatican. and the Dresden. and the
Berlin, and Neapolitan, and London
galleries for the most inspiring face of
Christ. and many of the presentations
were wonderful for pathos, and majes-
ty. and power. and execution; but al
though | selected that by AIRY Scheifer
as in some respects the most express
sive. | felt as we all feel that our
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 re-
proving look Of it threw stalwart Peter
into a fit Of tears! What pleading
face it must have been to lead the
psalmist in prayer to say Of it: Look
upon the face of thine Amounted
What Sympathetic face il mus have
been to encourage the sick woman who
was beyond any help from the doctors
to touch the hem of His garment.
What a sufferiag face it must have
been when suspended on the perpen-
dicular and horizontal pieces of the
wood Of martyrdom, and His antago-
nists slapped the pallid cheek with
their rough hands, and befouled it
with the saliva of their blasphemous
lips! What tremendous face it must
have been to lead Saint John to de-
scribe it in the coming judgment as
scattering the universe when he SAYS:
From whose face the earth and the
heaven fled away"
o. Christ! Once the Nazarene, but
now the Celestial. Once Of cross, but
now of throne! Once crowned with
singing bramble, 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 suffering face and have
Thy atonement avail for Us; Thy ON
nipotent face and rescue us. Q, what
a face! So SCARED, so laeerated, SO re-
splendent, so overwhelmingly glorious
that the seraphim put wing to wing, |
and with their conioined pinions keep
off some of the luster that is too mighty |
even for eyes cherubic and archanRelic;
and vet this morning turning 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 come 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. ! think
my brother John. the returned foreign
missionary wing summer before last
at Bound Brook, caught a glimpse Of
that face of Christ when, in his dying
hour, my brother said Il shall be
satisfied when | awake in His like
ness" 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
Amenl