Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1904-11-14

haloed with divine beauty. and. as
Ralph Waldo Urine has said. He is in
tune with the infinite" He becomes
part of the universal harmony, and his
thoughts are in spiritual symmetry
with the thoughts of God.
CoIeridGe's Definition.
We find an analogy for mans spir-
itual beauty in the painters brush
and the artists easel. According TO
Samuel Coleridge, the English poet and
literary critic, the true definition of
beauty" is multitude in unity"
When standing before a great picture
like that of Leonardo da Vincis Last
Supper" or MuTillOs Miracle of the
Loaves and Fishes" or Raphaers
greatest picture his Sistine "Madon-
IA. We find that there the many lights
and the shadows. the gold and the
silver and the green and the vel
low and the blue and the saffron and
the violet aud 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 the paint did
he do so without having one great idea
in his mind. Perfection is composed
Of many trifes," wrote he, but per-
lection in art is not trifle." great
picture is always "multitudes of diff
ferent coIors in blending unity" That
unity is the cause of beauty when
seen upon the canvas of the masters
of old and the masters of the present
day.
ga Multitude In Unity"
An artists beauty is multitude in
unity" We know that Samuel Cole
ridges definition in reference to the
painters easel is true. We see a "mul-
titude of colors in unity when Tur-
ner, the most brilliant artistic cOlorist
England ever produced, makes the sea
a creature of life. Now it is a beauti
full boulevard of gold, paving its way
to the throne of a setting sun; now a
perfect pandemonium of furies; now it
Is a burial scene when Sir David VIII
kie finds a sepulcher 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 a Sir Anthony Van
dyke and in the mighty mountain
peaks Of a Bierdstadt and in the pas
toral dreams of MilIet But, though
there may be many different tints
blending in the colors Of rainbow or
in the hectic flush of rose, did you
ever stop to realize that all colors come
from but three primal colors, just the
same as all nature? All the animal and
vegetable and mineral kingdoms have
but sixty-siX 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-the red, the yellow and
the blue Now, if God 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 it alb
surd to suppose that God can spiritual
ly make us artistically beautiful, no
matter how crude and sinful we may
be, if we only allow our thoughts and
lives to be combined in symmetry with
his thoughts and with Christ's life?
Oh, the beauty of blending colors!
From the brilliant pictorialS Of an au-
tumnal leaf let us learn the spiritual
lesson for nam 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, 'in tune with the in
finite" In the Epistle to the Romans
Paul writes, How beautiful. are the
feet of them that preach the gospel OF
peace and glad tidings of good things.
Aye, beautiful are the feet of the Cos
pei messengers, but beautiful are the
voices also, for today we find the sym
Dol Of mans thoughts in beautiful sym
metry with Gods thoughts, in the
sweet throat of singing thrush, If
the signing of the winds among the
leaves and in the harvest fields, in thu
meanings of the seas as we'll as in the
colors of its waters and in all thc
strange yet harmonious voices of the
woods, whether they be the calls O
the cuckoo, which musicians declar
sound the third note in music. or til,
shrill whistle of the bObwhite, which
like the voice of the fife is heard abov
every other instrument of the band. 0
the crOOningS of the wood dove. Whic
the California Indians used to ca
'majella.' whose song by day and b
twilight both to mate and young wa
one continuous whispering of Her
love! Love, here! Here. love! Low
here Oh. the beautiful voices c
blending harmomes heard in til
choruses of the woods. Who can eve
listen to them and not find a symb,
of mans spiritual beauty? In tun
with the intnite!"
.Tn Tune With the Infnite.''
But what, according to the law c
sound do we mean by being in. tun
with the infniteE" l went huntin
some time ago. AS | Law in a dugOJ