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TALMAGE’S SERMON.
The Eminent Divine’s Sunday
Discourse.
Subject: Art a Mi c lity Ager.cy For tlie Sal
vation of Mankind Pictures Potent
For Good or iTvil as the Subjects Are ]
Good or Bad—Praise For Our Artists.
[Copyright, Louis Klopsch, 1899.]
Washington, D. C. —Dr. Talmage shows
In this discourse how art may become one
of the mightiest agencies for the elevation
and salvation of the human race. The
text is Isaiah ii., 12, 16. “The day of the
Lord of Hosts shall be * * * upon all
pleasant pictures.”
Pictures are by some relegated to the
realm of the trivial, accidental, sentimen
tal or worldly, but my text shows that God
scrutinizes pictures, and whether they are
good or bad, whether used for right or
wrong purposes, is a matter of divine ob
servation and arraignment. The divine
mission of pictures is my subject. That the
artist’s pencil and the engraver’s knife
have sometimes been made subject to the
kingdom of tho bad is frankly admitted.
After the ashes and scoria were removed
from Herculaneum and Pompeii the walls
of those cities discovered to vthe explorers
a degradation in art whieh cannot be ex
aggerated. Satan and all his imps have
always wanted the fingering of the easel;
they would rather have possession of that
than the art of printing, for,types are not
so potent and quick for evil as pictures.
The powers of darkness think they have
gained a triumph, and they have, when in
some respectable parlor or public art gal
lery they can hang a canvas embarrassing
to the good but fascinating to the evil.
It is not in and spirit of prudery, but backed
up by God’s eternal truth, when I say that
you have no right to hang in your art
rooms or your dwelling houses that which
would be offensive to good people if the
figures pictured were alive in your parlor
and the guests oE your household. A pic
ture that you have to hang In a somewhat
secluded place, or that in a public hall you
cannot with a group of friends deliberately
stand before and discuss, ought to have a
knife stabbed into it at the top and out
clear through to the bottom, and a stout
finger thrust in on the right side, ripping
clear through to the left. Pliny the elder
lost his life by going aear enough to see
the inside of Vesuvius, and the farther you
can stand off from the burning crater of
sin the better. Never till the hooks of the
last day are opened shall we know what
has been the dire harvest of evil pictorials
and unbecoming art galleries. Despoil a
man’s imagination and he becomes a mere
carcass. The show windows of English
and American cities, in which the low thea
tres have sometimes hung long lines of
brazen actors and actresses in. style insult
ing to all propriety, have made a broad
path to death for multitudes of people. But
so have all the other arts been at times sub
orned of evil. How has music been be
draggled? Is there any place so low down
in dissoluteness that into it has not been
carried David’s harp, and Handel’s organ,
and Gottschalk’s piano, and Ole Bull’s vi<#
lin? and the flute, which though named
after so insignificant a thing as the Sicilian
eel, which has seven spots on the side like
flute holes, yet for thousands of years has
had an exalted mission? Architecture, born
in the heart of Him who made the worlds,
under its arches and across its floors, what
bacchanalian revelries'have been enacted!
It is not against any of these arts that they
have been so led into captivity!
What a poor world this would be if it
were not for what my text calls “pleasant
pictures!” I refer to your memory and
mine when I ask if your knowledge of the
Holy Scriptures has not been mightily
augmented by the woodcuts or engravings
in the old family Bible whieh father and
mother read out of and laid on the table in
the old homestead when you were hoys
and girls. The Bible scenes which we ail
carry in our minds were not gotten from
the Bible typology, but from the Bible pic
tures. To prove the truth of it in my own
case, the other day 1 took up the old family
Bible which I inherited. Sore enough,
what I have earned in my mind of Jacob’s
ladder was exactly the Bible engraving of
Jacob’s ladder, and so with Samson carry
ing off the gates of Gaza, Elisha restoring
the Shunammite’s son, the massacre of the
innocents. Christ blessing little children,
the crucifixion and the last judgment. My
idea of all these is that of the old Bible en
gravings which I scanned before I could
read a word. That is true with nine-tenths
of you. If I could swing open the door of
your foreheads, I would find that you are
walking picture galleries. The groat in
telligence abroad about the Bible did not
come from the general reading of the book,
for the majority of the people read it but
little, if they read it at all; but all the
sacred scenes have been put before the
great masses, and not printer’s ink, but the
pictorial art, must have the credit of the
achievement. First, painter’s pencil for
the favored few, and even engraver’s plate
or woodcut for millions on millions!
What overwhelming commentary on the
Bible, what re-enloreements for patri
arch’s, prophets,, apostles and Christ,
what distribution of Scriptural knowledge
of all nations, in the paintings and engrav
ings therefrom of Holman Hunt’s “Christ
in the Temple,” Paul Veronese’s “Mag
dalen Washing the Feet of Christ,” Ra
phael’s “Michael the Archangel,” Albert
Durer’s “Drugon of the Apocalypse,”
Michael Angelo’3 “Plague of the Fiery
Serpents,” Tintoretto’s. “Flight Into
Egypt,” Rubens’s “Descent (From the
■Cross,” Leonardo Da Vinci’s “Last Sup
per,” Claude’s “Queen of Sheba,” Bellini’s
“Madonna” at Milan, Orcagna’s “Last
Judgment,” and hundreds of miles of pic
tures, if they were put inline, illustrating,
displaying, dramatizing, irradiating Bible
truthsjuntil the Scriptures are not to-day
so much on paper as on canvas, not so
much in ink as in alt the colors of the
speotrum. In 1533, forth from Strassburg,
Germany, there.came a.child that was to
eclipse in speed and boldness anything and
everything that the world had ever seen
since the first color appeared on the sky at
the creation, Paul Gustave Dore. At eleven
years of ago he pmdished marvelous
lithographs of his An. Saying noth
ing of what he aid for Milton’s
“Paradise Lost,” emblazoniDg it on the at
tention of the world, he takes up the book
of books, the monarch of literature, the
Bible, and fn hi? pictures, “The Creation of
Light,” “The Trial of Abraham’s Faith,”
“The Burial of Sarah,” “Joseph Sold by
His Brethren,” “The Brazen Serpent,”
“Boaz and Ruth,” ’‘David and Goliath,”
“The Transfiguration,” “The Marriage In
Cana,” “Babylon Fallen” and 205 Scrip
tural scenes in nil, with a boldness and a
grasp and almost supernatural afflatus that
make the heart throb and the brain reel
and the tears start and the cheeks blanch
and tho entire nature quake with the tre
mendous things of God and eternity and
the dead. I actually staggered down the
steps of the London Art Gallery under the
power of Dore’s “Christ Leaving the Prae
totium.” Profess you to be a Christian
man or woman and see no divine mission
in art and acknowledge you no obligation
either in thanks to God or man?
Vprao more the word of God when put
i. n printer's Ink than by skillful
,! cqiors or designs on metal
lni\Dvl,i9lon or corrosion. What a
ids was presented by Hogarth,
DOI'fD-his two pictures, “The
j.nd “The Miser’s Feast,”
VlLcalls answered Isle’s engravings of the
jn Life” and the “Course
jfiicc in store liOi^p ur j) er >g “slave Ship.”
square. |st j n ar t; Patriarchs, j
■ ' < t -Me3 in art! Angels in
ABBE iI, u
yniirch ought to come
J3. PETE II Mon of the divine
Proprel the , floors of
11 en left to semi-
COLUMBUS W/k Urn painter, toiled
The llsmlr •.g a great skater,
llie IMnUj - i, d the acquaint
— oke English army,
who. through coming to admire West as a
clever skater, gradually came to appre
ciate as much that which be accomplished
by his hand as by his heel. Poussin, the
mighty painter, was pursued and had
nothing with which to defend himself
against the mob but the artist's portfolio,
which he held over his head to keep off the
stones hurled at him. The pictures of
Richard Wilson, of England, were sold for
fabulous sums of money after his death,
but the living painter was glad to get for
his “Alcyone” a piece of Stilton cheese.
From 1610 to 1643 there were 4600 pictures
willfully destroyed. In the reign of Queen
Elizabeth it was the habit of some people
to spend much of their time in knock
ing pictures to pieces. In the reign of
Charles I. it was ordered by par
liament that all pictures of Clirist be
burned. Painters were so badly treated
and humiliated in the beginning of the
eighteenth century that they were lowered
clear down out of the sublimity of their
art and obliged to give account's of what
they did with their colors. The oldest
picture in England, a portrait of Chaueer,
though now of great value, was picked out
of a lumber garret. Great were the trials
of Quentin Matsys, who toiled on from
blacksmith’s anvil till, as a painter, he won
wide recognition. The first missionaries to
Mexico made tno fatal mistake of destroy
ing pictures, for the loss of which art and
religion must ever lament. But why go so
far back when in this year olour Lord to
be a painter, except in rare occasions,
means poverty and negleot, poorly led,
poorly clad, poorly housed, because poorly
appreciated?
When I hear a man is a painter, I have
two feelings—one of admiration for the
greatness of his soul and tho other of com
miseration for the needs of his body. But
so It has been in all departments of noble
work. Some of tho mightiest have been
hardly bestead. Oliver Goldsmith had
such a big patch on the coat over his left
breast that when he went anywhere he
kept his hat in his hand closely pressed
over the patch. The world renowned
Bishop Asbury had a salary of SB4 a year.
Painters are not the only ones who hays
endured the lack of appreciation. Let
men of wealth take under their patronage
the suffering men of art. They lift no
complaint; they make no strike for higher
wages. But with a keenness of nervous
organization which almost always charac
terizes genius these artists suffer more
than any one but God can realize. There
needs be a conoerted effort for the suffer
ing artists cf America, not sentimental
discourse about what we owe to artists,
but contracts that will give them a liveli
hood; for i am in full sympathy with the
Christian farmer who was very busy
gathering his fall apples, and some one
asked him to pray for a poor family, the
father of whom had broken his leg, and
the busy farmer said: “I cannot stop now
to pray, but you can go down into the
cellar and get some corned beef and butter
and eggs and potatoes. That is all I can
do now.”
Artists may wish for our prayers, but
they also want practical help from men
who oan give them work. You have heard
scores of sermons for all other kinds of
suffering men and women, but we need
sermons that make pleas for the suffering
men and women of American art. Their
work is more true to nature and life than
some of the masterpieces that have be
come immortal on the other side of the
sea, but it is the fashion of Americans to
mention foreign artists and to know little
or nothing about our own Copley and Alls
ton and Inman and Greenough and Ken
sett. Let the affluent fling out of their
windows and into, the backyard valueless
daubs on canvas and call in these splendid
but unrewarded men. and tell them to
adorn your walls, not only with that which
shall please taste, but enlarge the
minds and improve the morals and save
the souls of those who gaze upon them. All
American cities need great galleries of art,
not only open annually for a few days on
exhibition, but whieh shall stand open all
the year round, and from early morning
until 10 o’clock at night and free to all who
would come and go.
What a preparation for the wear and
tear of the day a five minutes’ look in the
morning at some picture that will open a
door into some larger realm than that in
which our population daily drudgel Or
what a good thing the half hour of artistic
opportunity on the way home in the even
ing from, exhaustion that demands recu
peration for mind and soul ns well as
body! Who will do for the city where you
live whac W. W. Corcoran did for Wash
ington and what others have done for
Boston and Philadelphia and New York?
Men of wealth, if you are too modest to
build and endow such a place during your
lifetime, why not goto your iron safe and
take out your last will and testament and
make a codicil that shall build for the oity
of your residence a throne for American
art? Take some of that money that
would otherwise spoil your children
and build an art gallery that shall associate
your name forever, not only with great
masters of painting who are gone, but with
the great masters who are trying ‘to live,
and also win the admiration and love of
tens of thousands of people who, unable to
have fine pictures of their own, would be
advantaged. By your benefactions build
your own monuments and not leave it to
the whims of others. Some of the best peo
ple sleeping in Greenwood have no monu
ments at all, or some crumbling stones that
in a few years will let the rain wash out
name and epitaph, while some men whose
death was the abatement of a nuisance have
a pile of Aberdeen granite high enough,for
a king and eulogium enough to embarrass
a seraph.
Oh, man of large wealth, instead of
leaving to the whim of others your monu
mental commemoration and epltaphol
ogy, to be looked at when people are going
to and fro at the burial of others, build
right down in the heart of our great city,
or the city where you live, an immense
free reading room or a free musical con
servatory or a free art gallery, the niches
for sculpture abloom with the rise and fall
of nations and lessons of courage for the
disheartened and rest for the weary and
life for the dead, and 150 years from now
you will be wielding influences in this
world for good. How much better than
white marble, that chills you if you put
your hand on it when you touch it in the
cemetery, would be a monument in colors,
in beaming eyes, in living possession, in
splendors which under the chandelier
would be glowing and warm and
looked at by strolling groups with cata
logue in hand, on the January night when
the necropolis where the body sleeps is all
snowed under! The tower of David was
hung with 1000 dented shields of battle,
but you, oh man of wealth, may have a
grander tower named after you, one that
shall be hung not with the symbols of car
nage, but with the victories of that art
which was so long ago recognized In my
text as “pleasant pictures.” Oh, the power
of picturesl I cannot deride, as some have
done. Cardinal Mazarin, who, when told
that he must die, took his last walk
through the art gallery of his palace, say
ing: “Must I quit all this? Look at that
Titian! Look at that Correggiol Look at
that deluge of Caraocil Farewell, dear
pictures!”
As the day of the Lord of Hosts, accord
ing to this text, will scrutinize the pic
tures, I implore all parents to see that is
their households they have neither In book
nor newspaper nor on canvas anything
that will deprave. Pictures are no longer
the exclusive possession of the affluent.
There is not a respectable home in these
cities that has not specimens of woodcut
or steel engraving, if not of painting, and
your whole family will feel the moral up
lifting or depression.
Bibles Distributed lu Mexico.
During tne last twenty years the Ameri
can Bible Society has put into circulation
in Mexico 600,370 Bibles, Testaments and
portions of the Bible.
In certain Parisian restaurants a quae
ter is charged for the use of the table
cloth.
Is not often heard of,
dajs of skepticism the
would be denied by
many'orlaceounts of its discovery
would, at T >ieast, be received with ex
treme caution. That there have been
well-authenticated cases of complete
or partial albinolsm in tigers, however,
admits of no doubt; there is Major D.
Robinson’s specimen (11 feet
Inches), shot at Poona, and the skin
of one was exhibited, if we remember
rightly, some nine or ten years ago in
London, to go no further back for
records. Now we have another in
stance in the tiger recently shot in the j
Dibrughar District, Assani, by Mr.
Qrenish of Nahorkutia.
We have inspected the skin, and
are inclined to think that in this
latest instance we have probably the
most perfect specimen of tne white
tiger ever obtained. The hair is per
fectly white, the black stripes being
in the skin and only visible when the
hair is wet, like the body markings
on a fox terrier. The sldu measures
about 9 feet 6 inches from tip to top,
and evidently belonged to a fine young
tiger In good condition.—The Asian.
Traveling: in Alaska.
I have seen many pictures of the
manner in which the Eskimos travel,
and the man is generally seated com
fortably on the sled cracking a whip,
and the dogs are going at a smart
gallop; but we soon found that picture
to be a delusion and a snare., Journey
ing in the Arctic regions consists most
ly in pushing behind the sled, for the
poor little animals frequently have to
be helped over the rough places and
jn going up hill or any rise In the
ground. Whore there is no beaten
trail—as was the case most of the
distance we traveled —the dogs have
nothing to guide them, and one man
is obliged to run ahead. He generally
runs some distance, and then walks
until the head team comes up with
him, when he runs on again. When
the snow is hard and the road level,
the dogs, with an average load, will
maintain a trot which is too fast for
fi man to walk, and not so fast as he
Can run. By alternately running and
walking, one does not become greatly
fatigued. Natives who travel from
village to village are so accustomed to
this mode of travel that they can keep
It up all day without showing signs
of fatigue.—Harper’s Magazine.
Confession of a Millionaire.
A millionaire confessed the secret of his suc
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starting point—tho stomach and overcomes
nervousness, sleeplessness, dyspepsia r.nd
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Trnp contentment depends not upon
worldly prosperity.
“Durability is
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The 'wealth of the multi-millionaires is
not equal to good health. Riches without
health ate a curse, and yet the rich, the
middle classes and the poor alike have, in
Hood’s Sarsaparilla, a valuable assistant
in getting and maintaining perfect health.
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Grntnlton* Advice.
So many schools are studying Mil
lais’ beautiful picture, “The Angelus,”
In connection with the poem of the
same name, that It Is interesting to j
catch a glimpse now and then of the
great painter in some light that brings
him in closer touch with us, and here
Is a bright little story that well il
lustrates the fact that true greatness
is often unappreciated. One day,
while Millais was painting his famous
picture, “Chill October,” among the
reeds and rushes on the banks of the
RJver Tay, a man came up behind him
a*d stood looking first at the picture,
then at the surrounding landscape.
Finally he asked in broad Scotch
dialect:
“Man, did ye never try photog
raphy?”
"No, never," replied Millais, paint
ing slowly.
A pause. “It’s a hantle quicker,” said
the man.
“Ye-es, I suppose so,”
Another pause then the Scotchman
added thoughtfully: “An’ it’s mair
like the place.”—Cincinnati Enquirer.
Plantation Chill Cum is Guaranteed
The Pope Once In London.
The Pope, who has just entered on
his nineteenth year, is the only one in
tho long line of Sovereign Pontiffs who
lias strolled down Piccadilly. He was
in London for a month in the 'forties,
having a holiday at the close of Uls
term of office as Papal Nuncio to tho
King of the Belgians. He had apart
ments in what he described to Cardi
nal Manning as a “side street off
Piccadilly,” but its name he had com
pletely forgotten, and all Cardinal
Manning’s efforts to identify it or the
house in which he lodged were fruit
less. He was, of course, then simply
Monslgnor Pecci, and his name is
{inly briefly mentioned in tlie papers
pf the period as having been present
ed to the Queen, as having attended
a reception at Stafford House, and
as having officiated on Sundays at the
Sardinian Chapel, Lincoln’s Inn
Fields, and at St. Mary’s, Moorflelds,
which lafter is now about to be de
molished.—^Tit-Bits.
Where the Truth Is Harmful.
These are tho days when the ther
mometer habit is beginning to form.
If people exercise self-deniai enough
to refrain from ascertaining the exact
degree of their misery, much comfort
and happiness will be enjoyed that
now stands a good chanco of being
sacrificed.—Baltimore American.
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A number of girls out West have formed a
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We Want to Know If IVlany People
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is mailed free to anybody who sends his or
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To realize the real, a man must do his work
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And why give them a
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Better give them good
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The Summer Bath.
Nothing is more refreshing and invigor
ating in summer than a daily bath. But to
have It effectual soft water and good soap
must be used. Ivory Soap is the best for
the purpose; it is puro, dissolves quiekly,
sweetens and purifies the cutiole, gives a
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retiring at night, is the most favorable
time for bathing. Eliza B. Parker.
The Ralls.
This large and interesting family of
marsh-inhabiting birds contains about
one hundred and eighty members, of
which fourteen inhabit North America.
Eight species visi,t the regions of the i
great lakes and the Atlantic seaboard, i
and four of them are deemed worthy i
of the sportsman's attention. These ,
four species include the king-rail, the !
clapper rail, the Virginia rail and the
sora. The yellow rail and the little |
black rail are too rare and too small
to rank as game birds.
The sora, or Carolina rail, differs j
broadly in coloration from the sober
brown of its immediate relatives. It j
measures about nine inqhes in length,
and has rather striking markings
when in the full spring plumage. It is
a summer resident, its range including
“temperate” North America, most com
mon east of the great plains. It goes
south in the winter, to the West Indies
and northern South America. The
nest is made in cover upon the ground,
the eggs being drab with darker mark
ings. It breeds from the Middle States
northward. Its flesh Is rather dainty
In flavor. Among its more common
names, and It is a much-named bird,
are rail, rail-bird, Carolina crake, com
mon rail, sora rail, English ‘rail, chick
en-bill, and soree.
The most common method of shoot
ing this bird is at high tide from the
bow of a boat which Is poled through
the flooded cover by a man in the
stern. This sport lias many eager fol
lowers, but the shooting is almost too
easy for experts to enthuse over. A
light 12-gauge, or something smaller,
will answer all purposes. In the south
the negroes have fun and make a trifle
of money by “fire-hunting” for this
rail with torches of fat-pine and whips
of stiff brush.—Outing.
A Snake Stole the F.*r.
A farmer residing near Middletown
recently noticed a remarkable falling
off in the production of eggs at his
hennery, which he was unable to ac
count for. He concluded that an egg
tlilof was at work, aud established a
strict watch. The eggs continued to
disappear, and no clue to the thief
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than the yield of the hennery, and
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the absence of the genuine article.—
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