Lancaster Standard and County Advertiser. — 1903-11-06 (Lancaster, Lancashire, England)

WWI. apate Irons our capuchly to apprecitds tht tech-1 • , Memo of a ninsician, might opted lo no as • !gnat extras:4;mi a the faith; musi, ehould be wedded to camel words thist .ht one migh'l. ever eugAst tip :Aber; mmdc that shoulti , win as no prephi r could win, pmmualle as no 'Grater, iimssal to the myriad of smile with re'lgloo. b.-tiled,. Store Hum!. I he. oratorio in England, musicians have wtoo,ir: whit seetioa of Scripture; they Inane dlitmaticed epochs. There 14 not only Elijah. Moses in buypt. Jonah, Ruth, Job, Judith, Saul, St Paul, Mary Magdalen, it.. daugh:er fA .111.irUN. Si. Pot,, SI. John, the IVoinan of Samaria, Ind lon tilt nate,. otplo I.rOlltu mit kings of Israel pp.l Putish almost in catatiogues of In ing and defunct muscled works, In sot the mine workill taw, the vein op guild exhaustedr one is inclined to ask. But she Mardi/ ct Elgar's oratorio moot entity Mite 'brought NMVitt., that the call iustion is ma at !he mils je-t; that 'ahem, tali be no poverty of material When lac ewer tile region of pub. For faith throws a light on ble, and life 111110.,. A light on faith. klioh age &minds its spetial initeprm tsiion the litspo:. We ottani.: live Olt dry bilosi. TM, M in "The Apathies" one "Leitmotiv" which ths musical ettitic M liable to overicok le the otil nattd by Dr. I.'igar hinmelt, Pin lip. h.-, panc wet.), resd IliA)01,11/1 ()PI alonant), tOpic geoid seircely note the hush at the end of the first motion willomo a conviction that the 1',.liner. EA, unciatonsely it may be, underetccil that lassie, Applause a Dr. E:it.p epa met out of it eV, II at the eltse of the walk, (Pt ix of teare cgavious that iii .11,11 a case -the 1111,-.Re IMF! rtme on-Mr eel ''-I'm as to the Mini 111 whieh it 1.. ti-Imprwl. The pr. arhur may wish to de:aver a message ever cc. true. lue L,W..AI. w.f. 4, worthy of Ids mesmg., he mots bc a master of his sprit! art. To enttr into quentens OS fiiim is wholly outside my pewit:e. I hove to deal with I sitar,-, to andristand the charactemc depleted, the choice Ms eat-,—tailurett sometime: noticeable in the rendering if the work, sometinits to le ceMli in the wonie of critics. For there are things hidden even fruit the Wise and prudent. It has Feel saIJ thst the work is ineenplets The work is ancempliste We were bitl rc,nirnine qtat foot tram the mbar, Bat mr al, is the _  fleepel ta,. Luke, whieb Dr. Muir moot b or Mlillotr, though it too end+ wi.h the .V...•00i0n. S.. Luke felt that it wis iIICOIII- and therefore wrote the I,ek ef the .le4a: but illeat in turn to inetwoul,te. Nod St. Lukr t then in hand to write the lite of Bt. Peter or `4. Puml he multi hare inuinded off ho w‘ok oith • 'injure of their martyrdom. But hio eobjee° o the inoomplotol konr.lem. . . .  , :Ford turf of "The .Ipowl.lew. wwt. for. It will 'kohlle. denim tfie day. ot ex. {mutation, the okwernt ef the Holy :wpirot the trtnaformation of the apostolO eharaetere, ho unitt4 prate-re. the twit,' .-ooeraments. their witneem without fear too the truth, their 111. tling out, in fulfilnornt of the oononanti, to, (he not*rotate parte of the- enrth—bat the "end is not  litn. other point. It has been objected That • the Apostles thernselfts ate itotetinet figures. Dui. main. Dr. Eigar's is the mothwi -r 'lOO and i• faithful to the trims, principles of art. The Evantralials who mead as eyes witnesses are wholly in the triokaround;ito dif•islails (nip •proar and disgimeir; each is seen ley the light ,f flit torch wh;elt ic hawk to another; them is no oontintmus hirtiry; all 11, conc.-mooted on tio- Cho, and il iili,lin,a ,;nth men. I have before drawn o between Dr. Eitrar and Holman Hunt. Clnse to the hall ow re "'The .%postlee" was heard Holman Hunt's "Christ in the Tentide" might Its town, lie, is the w kof one who had mnstered all the pewees of hitt an, all eanie•ilies of 1 draughisnianehip. all the joys of odour, all delights of line. There is no dotail nhwh bora not reveal loving study and tiptop knowledge; but all attention is conoentrited, no; en detalk. of architecture or of &Mar.,, not on the ticsis of Jolla. of St. Joseph. or of the Blesses! Virgin; ono thing a supreme—lite fae of the lilltl Christ. the recred of the first st.ken word. "Vitist yo not 'lint I mane bo oboe Mt Father's business?" The mane .levant aWeit, hi same unerring artist. instinot is sore in The Aro. Dem" mat...re all i. -mbordinate to the flirts* figure. Ono exenatton to this rosy be noted. I would fain us- a faller recognition or ths chat-atter of Pula«. He. "one of tho We've," alone ...capita a peisinal Pooiti'wh and that be, ennw. he soparattisf himself. ID personifies a people. the people- for whom (tie • settnntaltitg.lolock. In his suicide we hare theirs. I wart.- of thus master-work no; at all as a musician but , a Churclim in. I write in All age when unbelief is supposed to have enlistoi the intellect 414 the okay: when doubt fetter,. the affections and materialism limit- Cl,. visson; alien we need champions of the f oth. Siioh champions arics in each age they dc not Itio.t. gorily occupy plaints or minister in the Truatile, and thereto.- the Church is stow to •ecosnise them. SII4I no...meta were Hobert Brim wag and !Tolman Hunt; such si messenger in Faletir. The wooden in that when thsy spook the Chile+ should fail to eon-opt them ain ill :me raises! up by Cord.  OrArting Cards for foreign mail.—"Stan4a.ll" Other.