Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1894-03-03
your face ii her lap and have good


cry!
But can tell you Of more sympa-
thetic and more tender and more loving
face than any of the faces have lnen-
toned. No, you cannot. says some
one. can, and l will. 1t is the face
of Jesus Christ as ho was on earth and
is now in heaven. When preparing my
life of Christ, entitled From Manager
20 Throne. ransacked the art gal
leries and portfolios Of the world to find
q picture OF our Saviour Is face that
might be most expressive, and ! saw It
as Francesca Francia painted it in the
/ sixteenth century, and as the emerald
intaglio of the sixth century presented
it. and as a fresco in the catacomhs near
Rome preserved it, and as Leonardo da
]. yinci showed it in The Last Supper,
and looked ia the Louvre, and the
Luxembourg. and the Vatican, and the
Dresden, and the Berlin, and Neapoiitan
and Londen galleries for the most in
( spring face of Christ, and many OF the
I presentations were wonderful for pathos
and majesty and power and execution,
i but although | selected that by AIRY
i Sehefler us in some respects the most
4 expressive felt as We all feel-that cur
Christ has never yet been presented
either in sculpture or painting. and
that we viii have to wait until we rise
to the upper palace. where we shall see
him rs be is.
What gentle face it must have been
4 TO induce the babes to struggle out OF
their mothers arms into his arms.
What ain expressive face it must have
been when one reproving look OF 1t
threw stalwart Peter into tit of tears
What pleading face ii must have been
to lead the psalmist in prayer to say
of it. Look upon the face OF thine
anointed." What sympathetic face IT
must have been TO encourage the sick
woman who was beyond any help from
, the doctors to touch the hem Of his gar
menti What suffering face 1t must
have been when suspended on the per
pendieular and horizontal pieces OF tho
wood of martyrdom, and his antagonists
slapped the pallid cheek with theil
rough hands and befouled it with thu
saliva of their blasphemous lips What
a tremendous face it must have been t
lead ST. John to describe it in the com
ing Judgment as scattering the universe
when he says. From whose face thu
earth and the heaven fled away"
THE FACE oaNIPoTENT.
O Christ, Once the Nazarene, bu
now the celestial, Once of cross, bu
now of thronei Once crowned will
singing bramble, but now coronete'
! with the jewels of ransomed empires
, Turn on us thy pardoning face and for
: give us, thy sympathetic face and con
) sole us, thy suffering face and have IN
atonement avail for US, thy omnipoten
face and rescue us. Oh. what face! )
9 SCARED. SO laeerated, go rcsplendent, S
7 overwhelmingly glorious that the sera
! phim put wing TO wing and with thei
conjoined pinions keep off some OF tn
: inster that is too mighty even for eye
! cherubie or angelic, and yet this morn
: ing turning upon Us with sheathe
Q splendor like that with which be Al
9 peared when be said to the mother
4 bashful about presenting their children
. s.Suifer them to come, and to the poo
j. waif of the street, Neither do COZ
o denim thee. and TO the eyes of IL
S blind beggar OF the wayside, Be opel
7 ed. / think my brother John, the r
j turned foreign missionary, dying sun
Il mer before last at Bound Brook, caugl
n u glimpse eff that face of Christ wht
Y in his dying hour my brother said,
/. shall be satisfied when awake in b
IS likeness. And now unto him th
n loved MS and washed us from our ST.
o in his owl blood and hath made Us kin
a and pr ests unto God and bis Father,
him be glory and dominion for ever az
it ever. Amen and amen! Amen al
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