Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1904-09-03

ton. discord. but man redeemed. IS
haloed with divine beauty. and. as
Ralph Waldo Urine has said. lie is in
tune with the infinite" lie becomes
part of the universal l. lrmony. AMI his
thoughts are in spiritual symmetry
with the thoughts of God.
CoIeridge's Definition.
We find an an. i-:y for mans spir-
itual beauty in the painters brush
and the artists easel. According 10
Samuel Coleridge. the English poet and
literary critic the true definition Of
beauty" is multitude in unity"
When standing befc~c great picture
like that of Leonardo da Vinci's Last
Supper" or Murillos Miracle of the
Loaves and Fishes or Raphael's
greatest picture his Sistine "Madon-
na." we find that there the many lights
and the shadows. the gold and the
silver and the green and the yell
low and the blue and the saffron AMI
the violet and the purple. all blend in
one common purpose. Thousands. per-
haps tens Of thousands of times. Mi
chael Angelo. with his brush. may have
touched the wall in the Vatican where
today is seen his Last Judgment"
But not one of all of those thousands
of times when he laid on tie paint did
In his mind Perfection is composed
of many triiics." wrote he. hut per-
lection in art is not n triflc" \ great
picture is always "multitudes of diff
ferent colnrS in blending unity" Tint
unity is the cause of beauty when
seen upon the canvas of the masters
of old and the masters of the present
day.
"a Multitude In Unity
An artists beauty Is; II multitude in
unity" We know that Samuel Cole
ridges definition in reference TO the
painters easel is true. We see Il ''mul-
titudc of colors in unity" when Tur-
ner. the most brilliant artistic colorist
England ever produced. makes the sea
creature of life. Now il is heauti-
full boulevard of gold. paving its way
to the throne of Il setting: sun: now Il
perfect pandcmonium of furies: now 1t
is Il burial scene. when Sir David VIII
kie finds scpulcher in the mighty
deep. whose waves beat themselves in
to pieces on the Gibraltar crags. We
see an artists multitude In unity" in
the portraits of Sir Anthony Van
dyke and in the mighty mountain
peaks of Il Bicr,lstadt and In the pas
toral dreams of AIillet. But. though
there may be many different tints
blending in tie colors of II rainbow or
I'm tie hectic flush Of rose did you
ever stop to realize that I'll colorS come
from but three primal colors. just the
same as all nature: All the animal an
vegetable and mineral kingdoms have
but sixtysix different basic elements.
of which they are all composed. So
in the artistic world we find that all
colors originally come from but three
primary colorS- red. the yellow and
the blue Now. if Cod can form the
artistic beauty of the sky. the sea. the
land. out of the simple red. the simple
yellow and the simple violet. is il alb
surd To suppose that God can spiritual
matter how crude and sinful we may
be. if we only allow our thoughts and
lives to be combined in symmetry with
his thoughts ana with chriSt's life?
oh. the beauty of blendin. colors.
From the brilliant pictorials of an au-
tumnal leaf let us learn the spiritual
lesson for man that God hath made
and can make everything beautiful in
its time.
But the musicians Oratory and sym
metry of sounds have also their analo-
gies by which we can find man, in his
spiritual beauty. lin tune with the in
finite" In the Epistlc To the Romans
Paul writes. How beautiful are the
feet of them that preach the gospel of
peace and glad tidn.S of good things"
Aye beautiful are the feet of the gos-
pei messengers. but beautiful are the
voices also. for today we find the SYM
Dol of mans thoughts in beautiful sym
sweet throat of singing thrush. in
the signing of the winds among the
leaves and in the harvest fields. in the
meanings of the seas as well as in the
colors of its waters and in all the
strange yet harmonious voices of the
woods. whether they be the calls of
the cuckoo. which musicians declare
sound the third note in music. or the
shrill whistle of the bobwhitc. which.
like the voice of the fife. is heard above
every other instrument of Tie band. or
the croonings of the wood dove. which
the California Indians used to call
"majella," whose song by day and by
twilight both to mate and young was
one continuous Whispering of Here
love. Love. here. Here. love. Love
here Oh. the beautiful voices of
blending harmonics heard in the
choruses of the woods. Who can ever
listen TO them and not find n symbol
of mans spiritual beauty: In tune
with the infinite
elm Tune with the Infinite"
But what, according to the law of
sound, do we mean by being lin tune
with the infiniteT ! went hunting
some time ago. AS lay in IL dugout
by water hole. hidden by the leaves.
waiting for the birds To come down to