The Burke County news. [volume] (Morganton, N.C.) 1899-1901, 1899-07-07

1OIP-, IL ILth NFIC ptl LII AN
displaying, dramatizjDg, irradiating Bible
truths until the Scriptures are not to-day
so much on paper as on canvas. not 50
mucn in ink as in all the colors of the
spectrum. In 1888, forth from StrassburG,
GERMANY. there came a child that was to
ecliI Sc in speed and holiness anything anu
everything tnaC the world bad ever seen
since the first color appeared onthe sky at
the creation. Paul Gustave Dore. At eleven
wears of age he published marvellous
Autographs OF his own. Saying moth
ing of what he did for Millions
paradise Lost, elnblazoninG 1t on the at
tention Of tho world, he takes up the book
OF books. the monarch Of literature. the
Bible. and in his pictures, The Creation OF
Lisht. . The Trial OF Abraham's Faith
The Burial Of Sarah Joseph Sold by
His Brethren The Brazen Serpent
'Boaz and Ruth David and Goliath,
"The TRANSPORTATION, The Marriage In
Cana, Babylon Fallen and POS Scrip
tural scenes in al, with a boldness and a
grasp aud almost supernatural aflatus that
make tie heart tbrob. and the brain reel
and the tears start and the cheeks blancA
and the entire nature quake with the tre-
meudous things Of God and eternity and
the dead. l actually staggered down the
steps of the LondoI Art Gallery under the
Eower OF Dore's "Christ Leaving the Prae-
torium.' Profess you to be a Christian
man or woman and see no divine mission
In art and acknowledge you no obligation
either in hanks to God or man?
1t is no more the word Of God when put
before US In printers ink than by skillful
LAYING on Of colOrs or designs IN metal
through incis.On or corrOsion. What 4
lesson in morals was presented by HOgarth,
the painter. in his two pictures. Tine
Rake's Progress and The Miser's Feast"
and by Thomas Coles cngraVings Of the
"Voyage of Human Life" and the Course
OF EMPIRE and Turner's "Slave Ship"
sod in art. Christ in art! Patrlarcns,
prophets and apostles in art! Angels in
art. Heaven in art.
The world and the church ought to come
to the higher appreciation Of the divine
mission Of pictures, yet the authors OF
them have generally been left to semi
starvation. West, the great painter, toiled
in interpretation till. being a great skater,
while on the ice he formed the acquaint-
pnce Of Genera! Howe, Of the English army,
who. through coming to admire West as 4
clever skater. gradually came to appre-
ciate as much that which he accomplished
by his hand as by his heel. Poussin, the
nothing with which to defend himself
against the mob but the artists portfolio,
which be held over his head to keep off the
stones hurled at him. The pictures OF
Richard Wilson, of England, were sold for
fabulous sums OF money after his death,
u AAC vi poIlttI VIE SIiu ~ Rcl 1OE
his "Alcyone' a piece Of Stilton cheese.
From l640 to 1913 there were 1900 pictures
willfully destroyed. In the reign Of Queen
Elizabeth it was the habit of some people
to spend much OF their time in knock
ing pictures to pieces. In the reign Of
Charles I. it was ordered "y oar
lament that all pictures Of Christ be
burned. Painters were SO badly treated
and Inundated in the beginning of the
eighteenth century that they were lowered
clear down out Of the sublimity Of their
art and obliged to give a~ccou Its Of what
they did with their colors. The oldest
picture in England, a portrait Of Chaucer
though now of great value. was picked out
Of a lumber garnet. Great were the trials
OF Quentin Matsys, who toiled on from
blacksmlths anvil till, rs Il painter. he won
wide recognition. The first missionaries to
Mexico made the fatal mistake Of DESTROY
ing pictures. for the loss Of which art and
religion must ever lament. But why so SO
far back when in this year -four Lord to
be a painter, except in rare occasions,
means poverty and neglect, poorly fed.
poorly clad, poorly housed, because poorly
appreciated:
When / hear 4 man is a painter, l have
two f~eelinGs-one Of admiration for the
greatness OF his sou and the other OF com
miSrratiOn for the needs of his BODY. But
50 i has been in all departments Of noble
work. some Of tho m!Shticst have been
hardly bestead. Oliver Goldsmith had
such a big patch on tie coat over his lef.
breast that when he Wen. anywhere he
kept his hat in his hand closely pressed
over the pa ch. The world renoWne1
Bishop Asbury had p salary OF :6l n year
Painters are not the Only ones who have
endured the lack of appreciation. Let
men OF wealth fake under their patronage
the suffering men OF arr. They lift nc
complaint; they make 10 strike for higher
wages. But with q keennoss OF nervous
organization which aim - always caa-ac
seriZa5 genius these artists suI.r -aor,
than any one but God can real ze. Their,
deeds be 4 concerted effort for the sura