Connecticut western news., 1902-06-12

Ion the intelligence of these mental giants has been made manifest in their | faces. \ Hugo, q Tennyson, Dante, | Milton, a Luther, a Calvin-all prove | by their physiognomy that this state ment Is true. So Christ must have had an intelligent face It was not, as some | artists have painted it, the face of an | impractical dreamer or of 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 intuitively feel Christ
 knows every thought and hope and 1 deed of our lives. He knows what we have done and what we would have
 liked to do.
 As little child, when I 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. I used to bury my head in the pillow and cover myself up
 completely with the bedclothes, yet I
 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 l mercy-faces such as you could easily | imagine Robespierre might have had
 or a Frankenstein or any of the great
 leaders of the inquisitionl Those were l 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 men
 like Prince Nawab, who drove 146'
 British prisoners into the Black Hole
 of Calcutta, a stifiing room only eight cen feet square, and left them there un- til 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 l fiend of Cawnpur, and women like | Catherine de Medici, the evil spirit of | St. Bartholomew's massacre, when 30.
 900 French Huguenots were slain in | one day, and by Deliliah, the betray | 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 CT, one of the strongest men the Amer ican pulpit ever produced. Dr. Plum CTS face was a sweet and tender and l loving face, although one of the stron- gest of faces. One day, as he was walking across Pittsburg park, lit | 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 forgiveness-the child asked, 'I say, | mister, are you GodY
 So we must not think of Christ's face I only as an intelligent face, a face of power, but also as a loving, sympa- l thetic, forgiving face, We must think | of him as having the same kind of a | face your earthly father may have had. You remember when, in the past, you did what your father had for ! bidden, you came to his side and | buried your face in his lap and cried, | | you remember how he took you up in his great, strong arms. What a sweet look came into his loving face! How his lip tremblOd and his eyes filled with tears as he said: My boy, my dear little son, was in hopes that you would come to me as you have done. My heart was almost breaking, my I child, because you did wrong. But it
 was breaking the more because my
 little son did not come to his father
 and ask to be forgiven" And then
 you found that the tears which tric-
 kled down your cheek were not those | which came from your eyes alone.
 Mingled with them were the tears
 which flowed from your earthly par ent's eyes. Yes, our Christ's face, al-
 though a strong face, was sympa-
 thetic face.
 | FoPRfveness In Christ's Face. | And my Christ's face must have been
 forgiving face because 1t was such we have done and suffered. He also
 we'll knows how hard some of us have
 struggled in our own strength to do
 right. He. knows how we have grap-
 pied each of us with his own besetting
 sin, which we dare not tell to any hu-
 man ear. He knows-yes, he knows
 how impossible 1t is for us to succeed
 in battling that sin in our own
 strength. So when we come to Christ
 to ask for help to resist the evil pres ent and to avert the evil future as well
 as to wipe out the eyil past, oh, then
 the strong face of Christ becomes a tender, sympathetic, forgiving face
 Our Saviour's eyes will i'll with tears
 of Joy. Our Saviour's lip will culver.
 Our Saviour's look will be one of par
 don and of unutterable love.
 Christ's face Is a scared face. "No,
 mo-" says some one; please do not tell
 me that my Christ's face is a scared
 face. I have. always thought of Jesus
 face as the most beautiful ever owned
 by man; I have always believed his
 face was as beautiful as the Christ
 face described in the exquisite portrait
 carved upon an emerald by the order
 of Tiberius Cesar: His forehead was
 plain and very delicate; his face was
 without spot or wrinkle, beautified with
 6. lovely red; his nose and mouth were
 30 formed that nothing could be repre-
 hended; his beard was thickish, in col
 or like his hair, not very long, but
 forked; his look was innocent and ma
 ture; his eyes were clear and quick.
 He was a man for his singular beauty
 surpassing the children of men,"
 But, my friends, that portrait of
 Christ's face which was carved upon