The Red Cloud chief., 1894-03-09

wcat? WELL you say. III she had lived,
she would havo been 10 years old now or
- or 60 years" Gu does not that infant
face still b,ve tender supremacy over your
entire naturc' During many an cventidc
does IL not look at yons In your dreams do
you not SEQ It? What u sanctifying, hal
lowing influence it has been in your lifel
You can say in the words Of the poet, Bet
ter TO have loved and lost than never To
have loved at ALL"
Or IL may have been u sisters face. Per.
haps she was the invalid OF che family.
Perhaps she never went nut except on very
clear days, and then she had TO he carried
down the stairs to the piazza, or for n short
ride, but she was 80 patient and cheerful
under it all. IA that face looks at you
through the years with what an elevated
and heavenly emotion you are tlllcdl
Or was IL a fathers facet The storms OF
life had somewhat roughened II. A good
deal Of the brightness Of the eye had been
quenched, aud the ear was turned with the
hand behind 1t In order to hear at all. But
you remember that face so wildly that II
you were an artist you could put Il on can
vas. and II would mean 70 you more than
any face that Rembrandt ever sketched.
That face, though long x yelled from hu.
man sight, Is as plain In -FOUR memory AZ
though you this moment saw IL moving
gently forward and back ward in the rock
Ing chair by the stove In the old farmhouse
Or was II your mothers faces A good
mothers face is never homely to her boy,
and girls. 1t Is . Madonna in the pictur,
gallery ofthe memory. What a sympathetit
face II wasl Did you ever have a 10Y, and
that face did not respond to itf Did yor
ever have a grief, and no tears trickled dowr
that maternal cheekt Did you ever do Z
bad thing, and a shadow did not cross III
Oh. 1t was a sweet facet The spectaclcs
with large, round glasses, through which
she looked at you, how s,credly they hav,
been kept in bureau or closeti Your moth
er's face. your mothers smile. your moth
er's tears' What an o~verpowering memory
Though you have come on to midlife or ole
age, how you would like just once moro Il
bury your face in her lap and have a good cry
But l can tell you Of u more sympathetic
and more tender, and more loving face thar
any Of the faces l have mentioned. "No
you cannot" says some one. / can, and
will. II IL the face Of Jesus Christ as h,
was on earth and is now In heaven. Whei
preparing my life Of Christ, entitled "Fron
Manager to Throne ransacked the ar
galleries and portfolios Of tho world to fin,
q picture Of our Saviour's face that Nigh
be most expressive. and I Saw II AZ Fran
cesco Francia painted 1t In the sixteenth
century, and as the emerald intaglio of tn,
sixth century presented II, and n n fresc,
In the catacombs near Rome preserved Il
and a Leonardo da Vinci showed Il II
THE Last Supper" and I looked in tn,
Louvre, and the Luxembourg, and the Vail
can, and the Dresden, and the Berlin, ant
Neapolitan and London galleries for tn,
most Inspiring face Of Christ, and many O
the presentations were wonderful for pa
thos and majesty and power and execution
but, although ] selected that by AIRY Schef
fer as In some respects the most expressive
/ felt, Us we all feel, that our Christ ha
never yet been presented either In sculptur,
or painting, and that we will have to wal
until we rise to the upper palace. where ",
shall see him as he Is.
What n gentle face 1t must have been Z,
induce the babes to struggle out Of thei
mothers arms into his armsi What an OK
pressive face 1t must have been when on
%reproving look Of 1t threw stalwart Pete
into n fit Of tearsi What q pleading face 1
must have been to lead the psalmists 4
prayer to say Of 1t, Look upon the face @
thine anointed!' What a sympathetic fac
It must have been to the sicI
woman who was beyond any help from tn
doctors to touch the hem Of his garmentl
What a suffering face IL must have bee
when suspended on the perpendicular an,
horizontal pieces Of the wood of martyrdom
and his antagonists slapped the pallid chez
with THAR rnt,Uh hanAs and hor.,Iol
with the saliva OF their blasphemous LID.
What a tremendous face 1t must have bee
to lead st. John to describe II In the com
ing Judgment as scattering the univers
when he says, From whose face the cart
and the heayen fed away"
THE SAVING FACE.
0 Christ! Once the Nazarene, but nov
the celestial! Once Of cross, but now O
throne! Once crowned with singing BRAN
BILE, but now cor0netsd with the Jewels O
ransomed empiresl Turn on US thy par
doning face and forgive US; thy sympathet
ic face aud console US; thy suffering fac,
and have thy atonement avail for US; tn
omnipotent face and rescue US.
Oh, what a face! So SCARED, no lacerated
so Respondent, 80 overwhelmingly Rloriou,
that the seraphim put wing to wing, snt
with their conjoined pinions keep of som,
Of the luster that Is too mighty even 10
eyes chorubic or ~archangelic, and yet thi
morning turning upon us with a sheathe,
splendor like that with which he appsaret
when he said TO the mothers bashful abou
presenting their children. Suffer them I,
come" and to the poor waif Of the street
Neither do ] condemn thee" and to tn,
eyes OF the blind beggar Of tho wayside
'Be opened"
l think my brother John. the returne,
foreign missionary. dying summer befor
last at Bound Brook, caught q glimpse o
that face Of Christ when In his dying hou
my brother said, II shall be satisfied whe,
] awake In his likeness" And now unit,
him that loved us and washed US from on
sins In his own blood and hath made u
kings and priests unto God and his Father
to him be glory and dominion forever ant
ever. Amen and amenl Amen and amen
Liquid Salol.
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