Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1902-06-13

studies Of the great masters of the law,
of literature, music, sculpture or the
sciences-and almost without excep-
ton the intelligence of these mental
giants has been made manifest in their
faces. A Hugo, a Tennyson, a Dante,
q Milton, a Luther, a Calvin-all prove
by their physiognOmy that this state
ment is true. So Christ must have had
an intelligent face. 1t was not, as some
artists have painted it, the face Of an
impractical dreamer or of a fanatic
or Of an effeminate nonentity. His was
the face of one who had a masterful
mind. When we begin to study Christ's
face, we are impressed with the con-
victiOn that his eye was an Omniscient
eye, that the brain back Of that face
was an omnipotent brain, that the ear
was an all hearing ear. That face re-
/ vealed the fact that Christ knew all
from eternity past to eternity to come.
/ But what is more important to us per-
sonally when we look upon Christ's
! face is that we intuitiyely feel Christ
knows every thought and hope and
/ deed of our lives. He knows what we
have done and what we would have
liked to do
AS little child, when would be
sent to bed for having done wrong
could see in the darkness Of the bed
room the face of Christ lowering over
and watching me. | used to bury my
head in the pillow and cover myself up
completely with the bedclothes, yet l
could not blot out that Christ face.
A sympathetic Face.
Jesus Christ's face was also a SYM
pathetic and forgiving face. How many
men we have seen whose faces repre-
sented intelligent power but without
mercy-faces such as you could easily
imagine a Robespierre might have had
or Frankenstein or any of the great
leaders Of the inqulsition! Those were
the faces of men like Napoleon, who,
hearing a marshal Of France after q
bloody battle express regret over the
awful slaughter of human life, replied:
"Oh. that is nothing. In order to make
an omelet you must break a few
like Prince Nawab, who drove 146
British prisoners into the Black Hole
Of Calcutta, sitting room only eight
rem feet square, and left them there I'M
Ill the misery Of all but twenty-three
was ended by suffocation. Those were
the kind Of faces that must have been
possessed by men like Mana Sahib, the
fend of Cawnpur, and women like
Catherine de Medici, the evil spirit of
st. Bartholomew massacre, when 3d.
coo French HuguenOts were slain in
one day, and by Deliliah, the beray-
er of Samson. and Jezebel, the de-
stroyer of a Naboth.
But all strong faces are not evil
faces. Some of the strongest faces we
have ever seen have been the sweetest
, and most magnanimous. These faces
had love attracting power for the be-
holders, like the face of old DR.. Plum
, er, one of the strongest men the Amer
, lean pulpit ever produced. DR.. Plum
, er's face was a sweet and tender and
loving face, although one of the stron.
gest Of faces. One day, as he was
3 tie child ran up to him and took his
. hand; then, looking up into that great
! good face-a face that never had any
( bitterness against any one, but only
S forgiveness-the child asked 81 say
( mister, are you God?
So we must not think of Christ's fac,
only as an intelligent face, face Of
| Int q leo n mn
p thetic, fOrgiving face. We must thinl
J.. of him as having the same kind of ,
n face your earthly father may hav,
o had. You remember when, in the past
8 you did what your father had for
hidden, you came to his side ant
q buried your face in his lap and cried
r Father. will you forgive me" The
4 you remember how he took you up i
> his great strong arms. What Il swee
k look came into his loving face! HOY
v his lip trembled and his eyes file
q with tears as he said: 'My boy, m
d lear little son, was in hopes that 20
" would come to me as you have done
10 My heart was almost breaking, IN
is child, because you did wrong. But
d was breaking the more because m
81 little son Gid not come to his fathe
70 and ask to be forgiven" And the
you found that the tears which trit
" kled down your cheek were not thOs
If which came from your eyes alon,
,e Mingled with them were the teal
Il which flowed from your earthly pa
es ent's eyes. Yes, our Christs face. a
Il though a strong face, was a symp;
T. thetic face.
II Forgiveness In Christ's Face.
1t And my Christ's face must have bee