Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-09-16

Miss KittiSh-"IVe ripped my bloot4ASA
waggish Mr., Bowser-"Let me see the s
characteristics of the three Ennperors
who reigned within four months over
Germany, Kaiser William, Frederick
and William II. The man OF the snow
said: KAISER William will be remem-
bered by his saying, I have no time 10
be weary. Emperor Frederick had
for characteristic utterance, 1t is well
to suffer without complaining. TIE
present Emperor will be known for his
familiar saying, Augusta pack the
trunks.'" For this disrespect the
Snowman was two months imprisoned.
After he had served his time in Jail and
had come out, he continued his show,
but with the following chtnge of re-
mark: Kaiser William will be remeE-
bered by his saying, / nave no time to
be weary Emperor Frederick by his
saying, 1t is well to suffer without
complaint But am not permitted 10
say what is the characteristic saying
of the present Emperor" Then thee
audience supplied the lacking informa-
tion by shouting, Augusta. pack the
trunks"
But Emperor William loses nothing
through this righteousness. There is an
earnest side to his nature which all
recognize. He preached a sermon on
his yacht few days ago, q mere ex-
tract going through the press, but my
learned and genial friend, Rev. Dir.
str of N
in Berlin, for whom | preached Sabbath
before last, has translated the Emper-
Or's sermon. which must have taken
three quarters of an hour in delivery,
and is very forecful and brilliant He
is the only emperor ever heard of who
preached, although King David provid-
ed texts for a great many sermons, but
why not kings and emperors take the
pulpit? They would surely have an
audience, and the impression made
would be deep and lasting.
But ] ann most impressed with the
fact that Germany is the home of pic
lures and music. You walk through
the palaces at Berlin and Pottsdam with
their glorifed walls. and the galleries
at Dresden, containing the best work
of the great masters dead and living,
and you study until you are bewild
cred with the battle-pieces, the mid
night-auroras, the dawnS, the dusks,
the shipwrecks, the repentanJ Magda-
lens, the temples, the cities, the noun
tain crags, the TRANSPORTED faces, the
dying Christs, and the Madonnas. But
/ care not whether you visit the room
in Dresden Gallery containing the
''Sistine Madonna first or last, you
will come again and again to look at
it. 1t is a picture from which you
never get away That face of Mary
contains so much OF motherly pang,
and expectation, such shadows of APP
prehension and such light of victory,
such eyes as never before or since
looked out from any other canvass,
tenderness and strength and love and
hope; eyes suggestive Of bitter memor-
les and holy ambitions, eyes that con-
tain the story of a cold manager in Beth
lehem caravansarie, and yet Of realiza-
iton that she held in her arms the
Redeemer of Nations; the faraway look
as though she saw thirty-two years az
ter would occur of abuse and torture
to the Divine Boy.
The curve of the mothers lip, the
slight imitation of the nostril, the
roundin GOT the chin, the poi9e Of the
neck, the harmony of all the features
make one think the work was divinely
inspired, for suppose painters pencil
may be inspired. as well as authors
pen, and there is such thing as
prophetic and apostolic work in colors
on canvas as well as prophetic and
apostolic work in ink and parchment
The Holy Child is healthy child. with
feet that might bound the playground
before it was spiked to the cross. His
hair 6ishevelled as a boys hair is apt
to be- He will pick wild flowers in the
field. and cause his mother some ankle
ties by bis climbing the rocks, and
from the hill back of Nazansth will
watch the sunset. Maternity and in
fancy nowhere else were ever so well
presented Some OF the colors. for ex-
pressiveness, seem mixture Of tears
and blood. There is on the canvas
enough light for a morning. and
enough shadows for a night She holds
the child not with too tight pressure,
as If she would not give him up. for
she will have to give him UP. nor with
too little grasp as though there were
anything lacking in affection. She
seems by her manner to say. Here is
the matchless child for which. The ages
have waited. God gave him to me,
gave him to the world
The child-how strong he is, Pro-
phetic of the fact that he will yet be
able to carry a world on MS shoulder.
the forehead by its shape implying that
he knew already the majesty of the mis-
sion on which he had entered the world,
yet thorough child, and not prema-
turely old, ohild's eye, child's arm,
child's foot, an infant handed out Of
the eternities, the most precious gift
that heaven ever lowered or the earth
ever took. al the great painters of
the German school and the Italian
school and the Dutch school. and the
French school and the English school
have made at least one attempt in col
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