Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-03-22

abuse from all the art galleries of Eu-
rope. His paintings, which have since
won the applause CT all civilized ma
tons 1.-THE Fifth Plague of Egypt, y
Fishermen on a Lee Shore In Squally
| Weather, . .sCalais Pier, = The Sun
Rising Through Mist and Dido Build
ing Carthage then targets for
critics to shoot at In defense of this
outrageously abused man 8 young au-
thor Of "a years, just one year out of
college, came forth with his pen and
wrote the ablest and most famous essays
on art that the world ever saw or ever
| will see - John Ruskin's Modern
Painters. . For II years this author
fought the battles of the maltreated art
ist and after, in poverty and broken
heartedness the painter had died and
the public tried to undo their cruelties
toward him by giving him big funeral
and burial in ST. Paul's cathedral his
old time friend took out of a tin box
10, 900 pieces of paper containing draw
ings by the old painter, and through
many weary and uncompensated months
assorted and arranged them for public
observation. People say John Ruskin in
| his old days is cross, misanthropic and
morbid. Whatever he may do shat he
ought not to do and whatever he may
say that he ought not to say between
now and his death he will leave this
world insolvent as far as it has any ca
pacity to pay this authors pen for its
| chivalric and Christian defense Of a
poor painters pencil. John Ruskin for
| William Turner. Blood for blood Sub
] stitution!
What an exalting principle this which
leads one to suffer for another! Nothing
so kindles enthusiasm or awakens elo-
quence or chimes poetic canto or moves
nations The principle is the dominant
one III our religion-Christ the martyr,
Christ the celestial hero, Christ the
defender, Christ the substitute No
new principle, for it was as old as hu-
/ man nature, but now on a grander,
wider, higher, deeper and more world
resounding scale. The shepherd boy as
champion for Israel with sling top
/ pied the giant of Philistine braggadocio
in the dust, but here is another David,
who, for all the armies of churches mil
liant and triumphant, hurls the Goliath
of perdition into defeat, the crash of
his brazen armor like an explosion at
He'll Gate Abraham had at Gods COM
mand agreed to sacrifice his son Isaac,
and the same God just in time had pro-
! vided ram Of the thlcket as a SubStl-
/ tute. But here is another Isaac bound tic
the altar and no hand arrests the sharp
edges of laceration and death, and the
!, universe shivers and quakes and recoils
and groans at the horror.
Forsaking Throne.
hos
/ trying to tell whom this substitute was
like, and every comparison, inspired
and uninspired, evangelistic, prophetic,
apostolic and human falls short, for
Christ was the Great Unlike. Adam
type of Christ, because he came directly
from God; Noah a type of Christ, be-
cause he delivered his own family from
the deluge; Melchisedec a type of
Christ because he had no predecessor or
successor; Joseph q type of Christ, be-
cause he was cast out by his brethren;
Moses a type of Christ, because he was
deliverer from bondage; Samson a
type of Christ, because of his strength
to slay the lions and carry off the iron
gates of impossibility; Solomon a type
of Christ in the aff1uence of his domin-
ion; Jonah type of Christ, because of
the stormy sea in which he threw him
self for the rescue of others. But put to-
gether Adam and Noah and Melchisedec
and Joseph and Moses and Joshua and
Samson and Solomon and JONAH and
they would not make fragment of q
Christ, quarter of a Christ, the half of
Christ or the millionth part of
Christ.
He forsook a throne and sat down on
his own footstool. He came from the
top of glory to the bottom of humilia-
ton and changed circumference Sc
raphic for q circumference diabolic.
Once waited ON by angels, now Missed
at by brigands. From affair and high up
he came down; past meteors swifter
than they; by starry thrones. himself
more lustrous; past larger worlds to
smaller worlds; down stairs of firma-
ments, and from cloud to cloud and
through tree tops and into the camel's
stall, to thrust his shoulder under our
burdens and take the lances of pain
through his vitals, and wrapped himself
in all the agonies which we deserve for
our misdoings and stood on the splitting
decks of laundering vessel amid the
drenching surf of the sea and passed
midnights on the mountains amid wild
beasts of prey and stood at the point
where all earthly and internal hostilities
charged on him at once with their keen
sabers-our substitute!
When did attorney ever endure so
much for pauper client or physician
for the patient in the lazaretto or mother
for the child in membranous Group, as
Christ for us, as Christ for you, as
Christ for me? Shall any man or woman
or child in this audience who has ever
suffered for another find it hard to un-