The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1898-04-15

standing between the furious populace
and the loathsomc imbecile. Substitu-
toni
In the realm of the dne arts there
was as remarkable an instance. A
brilliant but hypercriticised painter,
Joseph William Turner, was met by
volley Of abuse from all the art galleries
Of Europe. His paintings which have
since won the applause Of all civilized
nations, "The Fifth Plague Of Egypt"
"Fishermen on Lee Shore In Squally
Weather, calais Pier" THE Sun
Rising Through Mist" and "Dido
Building Carthage, were then targets
for critics to shoot at. In defense OF this
outragsously abused man, q young au-
thor of "a years, just one year out Of
college, came forth with his pen and
wrote the ablest and most famous essay
ON art that the world ever saw or ever
will see-John Ruskin q Modern Paint
era" For II years this author fought
the battles Of the maltreated artist and
after, in poverty and broken hearted
ness, the painter had died and the pub
lilo 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 Ia 900
pieces Of paper containing drawings by
the old painter. and through many
weary and uncompensated months as.
sorted and arranged them for public OBJ
servation. People say John Ruskin in
his old day is CROSS, misanthropic and
morbid. Whatever he may do that 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
ohivalrio and Christian defense of a
poor painters pencil. John Ruskin for
William Turnerl Blood for blood Sub
stitutioni
Suffering For Another.
What an exalting principle this
which leads one to suffer for another
Nothing so kindles enthusiasm or awak.
ems eloquence. or chimes poetic canto,
or moves nations. The principle is the
dominant one in our religion-Christ
the martyr, Christ the celestial hero,
Christ the defender, Christ the substi-
tute. No new principle, for it was old
as human nature. but now on grander,
wider, higher, deeper and more world
Yesounding scale. The shepherd boy as
q 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 mill
tant 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 command
agreed to sacrifice his son Isaac, and
the same God just in time had provided
q ram Of the thioket as a substitute, but
there is another Isaac bound to the al
tar, and no hand arrests the sharp edges
of laceration and death, and, the uni
verse shivers, and quakes, and recoils,
and groans at the horror.
All good men have for centuries been
| 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 a
type of Christ, because he came direct
ly from God; Noah type of Christ,
because he delivered his own family
from deluge; Melchisedec type Of
Christ, because he had no predecessor
or successor; Joseph type of Christ,
because he was cast out by his brethren;
Moses type of Christ, because he was
q deliverer from bondage; Joshua q
type of Christ because he was con-
queror; Samson type Of Christ. be-
cause of his strength to STAY the lions
and carry off the iron gates of impossi-
bility; Solomon type Of Christ, in the
aff1uence of his dominion; Jonah type
of Christ, because of the stormy sea in
which he threw himself for the rescue
Of others, but put together Adam, and
Noah, and Melchisedec, and Joseph,
and Moses, and Joshua, and Samson,
and Solomon, and Jonah, and they
would not make a fragment of Christ,
O quarter Of Christ, the half of a
Christ or the millionth part Of Christ.
He forsook throne and sat down on
his own footstool. He came from the
top of glory to the bottom Of humilia-
ton and changed a circumference Sc
raphic for circumference diabolio.
Once waited ON by angels, now Kissed
at by brigands From afar 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 agFnies which we deserve for
our misdoings, and stood on the split
ting 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 hostili-
ties charged on him at once with their
keen sabers-our Substituted
The Price of Freedom.
When did attorney ever endure 70
much for a pauper client, or physician
for the patient in the lazaretto, or
mother for the child in membranous