Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1902-06-09

apples from an 0rcnaru Wnlcn grew up
on the top of that hill. So some mems
eyes are such intelligent. penetrative
eyes that they seem to have been
watching you even when you were
miles away.
Bayard Taylor relates a remarkable
incident of the power of Daniel Web
ster's eye and face. During the time
when the senator from Massachusetts
was being bitterly assailed in his own
state and abroad, in company with
James Russell Lowell and a party of
Harvard classmates Taylor went to a
Boston meeting with the avowed in
tention of interrupting Mr.. Webster's
speech and turning his remarks into
ridicule. when Mr.. Webster arose to
speak," wrote Bayard Taylor, ''he
turned his great eyes upon us students.
AS he did so he seemed to us to read
our very thoughts. The intelligence of
his face seemed to speak volumes, al
though his lips had not yet parted. We
college boys came to scott. We dared
not move, so subdued were we at the
sight of that great lawyers face"
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, Dante,
q Milton, a Luther, 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
face is that we intuitively 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 q little child, when l would be
sent to bed for having done wrong, l
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
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 a Frankenstein or any of the great
leaders Of the inquisition! Those were
the faces of men like Napoleon, who
hearing a marshal of France after a
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
eggs" Those were the faces of mel
like Prince Nawab, who drove lac
British prisoners into the Black Hole
of Calcutta, a sitting room only eight
cen feet square, and left them there un
It'll the misery of all but twenty-thret
was ended by suffocation. Those were
the kind CT faces that must have beer
possessed by men like Mana Sahib tht
fiend of Cawnpur and women like
Catherine de- Medici. the evil spirit O
st. Bartholomew massacre, when 80,
600 French HuguenOts were slain il
one day. and by Deliliah, the betray
| er of q Samson, and Jezebel, the de
strOyer of NabOth.
But all strong faces are not evi
faces. Some of the strongest faces w
have ever seen have been the sweetes
| and most magnanimOus. These face
!, 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
J ers face was sweet and tender an
, loving face, although one of the stroI
gest of faces. One day, as he wa
walking across Pittsburg park, lii
? tie child ran up to him and took hi
, hand; then, looking up into that grea
good face-a face that never had an
bitterness against any one, but onl
forgiveness-th child asked, 81 sa.
mister, are you GodY
So we must not think of Christ's fac
: only as an intelligent face, a face {
. power. but also as a loving, symp;
!, thetic. forgiving face. We must thin
of him as having the same kind of
9 face your earthly father may hay
had. You remember when. in the pas
you did what your father had 70
= hidden. you came to his side an
. buried your face in his lap and erie,
: 'Father. will you forgive meY The
:, you remember how he took you up
:. his great, strong arms. What a swe'
look came into his loving face! Ho
!, his lip trembled and his eyes file
: with tears as he said: my boy, III