DJL TALMJkGE ON ART.

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«£t h, cwu ‘rJ’X ! '>««= 3 no.u.oco Ef oovrr *0 tor tho, urn., .up «dm'utunr ot^kr wither tr.m«u '“»* » l' l * r •'wfitT-.u smultr blgb ^ ,|£{r hou«-l,ol.l.. »ud t.rro.l mol d.wd. 1 Bcttullr Moesorwl down thr ; ^“oueh to oml*m.«. V u „.rr luportatMC than plctur.-. M«p.of tho liJdon Art «U«T *»*'" i. l.!”!! 1" Tb ~«^ ruU ' 1 u ‘ u '

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hnnuio nufy Tbo tort In Iralab il. 12. 10. •TUo «Uy of the I»rt1 of lu»t* .hall be • • • upon .Il pl.-awint pottiro. - Picture, .re bj ■uuir relrpiled to the roaloi of the trivial. a.vMouiaL KUtlDiiuial or worhllj. but my lovt •bow. that tSod wmitiuia-. plcturr*. mul. whether they ore pood or bad. whether uwd for rlrlit or u rons purtt.® aodwrraliniiiii in. The divine adv wn lout to the kluKdoni of tbV- bad U frankly admllled. After the a-lie* and waria were remurrd from' Hereolaoeum and Pomi.-ll the wall, of tboae clllee dlacoVMvd lo the eiplor era a desradallou in art which cauiau lie exaggerated, "balan and all hi. linpa have alway. wanted tlie Oncer In* of the ra*el; they would rather bare poaaeaidou of that- than the art of priutluc. for typ-» are not <0 |e> liave caln.'l a triumph, nod they lave, when Is some re*i>ectal.le |arlor or puhllr art gallery they ran hang a i-au-raa raibarraulng to the good hut fa» eluatln* to the eiII. It la not In a aptrit of prudery, but backed up hy Ood. Menial truth, when I nay that you have no right to hang In yonr art room, or your dwelling bonne* thal wbleh wonkl be oBenalre to good people.tf tbe Ogure. pleturrd were alive In your parlor and the gueeta of your bonaebold. A pirtore that you liave to hang In a somewhat secluded place, or that In a public hall you cannot with a group of friend, deliberately .land lief ore and diwun. ought to have a knife ataldicd Into It at the top and rut dear through to the it flpgrr threat It

archa. propheta and a|w*tlea Id art!

Angela In art: Heaven In art! The world and the church ought to

come to the higher appreciation of the divine minion of pictures yet the

authors of them have generally

left

atauu 01 /sin the 1 - the last

day are Oiieued .hall we know

wuat baa 1-een the dire harvest of evl plrtorlals and unbecoming an gallrr lew fiewpoll a man's Imagination am be becomes a mere caecan. The show windows of Engl lab and American cit lea. In which the low theai.-r* ha..

line* of brant n style hi.ultiiu:

air been bedraggled! 1. then- any place ao low down In diasoluteiu-wi thal Into It has not been Carrie.! Da vlda harp- and llaodel-a organ, and CMtaetalk'a piano, and Ole Bull', vlo ■Inland the flute, which though named a thing a. Un-

read out of and laid on the table lo the old homestead when you were boys and girls Tbe Bible scene* which *<- all carry In our mind* were not gotten from tbe Bible typology, but from the Bible pictures. To prove the truth of It In my own caae. the other day 1 took up the old family Bible which 1 Inherited. Sure enough, what I hare car ried In my mind of Jacob's ladder wa* exactly tbe BlMr engraving of Jacob'* Udder, and ao with Samson carrying u Elislia restoring

ad alwnt the Bible did not come from the g.mrral reading of '■« book, for the majority of the poo ie rood it but little. If they read It at I; bot all the

k than by

yon no obligation either In

tjod or maul

It is no more the word of before u» In printer'a In skllifSTU) lug on of colors of deign* metal through loclalon or com.don tot a lesson In morals wa* pnwente.1 Irx Hogarth, tlie isilnter. In hi* two picture*. “Tbe Bake . I'rogrere. " and “The Wiser* roast.” and hy TI-Mua. . .. —'ojage of

Human Ub

■'hip-'

t gallery, the nl. be. f id the wall. abbiUlil with fall of nation* and lesson tbe dlslieartemvl ami

wild he a raining ey. splendon

■ding room ory or a fr for *eiilptti

the

grew! painter, tolled In jmapprvclatMi tin being a great skater, while on the •c he formed the ac.|ttalntanee of leneral Uow-e of the English anny. -ho, through coming to admire H ost r a clever abater, gradually came to

bl. heel.

sued and hadTm.ihing with which to id him—lV agalnat the mob hut irtl.fs portfolio, which he held bis liead to keep off tbe stone* .titled at him. The pictures of Bleb ard Wilson of Kurland were sold for ibnlous sums of money after hi* death, but the living painter was glad get for bis “Alcyone" wpiece of Stilton cbeeac. From 1G« to HH3 ,000 picture* wlUfnlly de stroyed. In the reign of Queen Eilta belli It was the habit of -me people lo spend much of their time In knocking pictures to pieces. In the reign of Charles I ly was ordered by par ■lament that all picture* of Christ be burned. I'aimer* were so badly trented and humiliated In the la-gin-ning of the eighteenth century that lowered clear down out of the sublimity of their art and obliged e accounts of what they dbl w-ltli color*. The oldest picture In England, a portrait of Chaucer, though ow of great value, was plck.il oui ot lumber garret. Great were the trial* I Quentin Malay*, who lolled on from blacksmith'* anvil till, a* a 'painter. wide recognition- The llrsi Mexico made the final mistake of destroying picture*, ior he loo* of which art and religion must ■ver lament. But why go ao far lack when In thi* year of our le.nl to be a painter, except In rare occasions. poverty and neglect poorly fed. poorly clad, poorly boosed, bw cause poorly apprerlnled? Talwe of Art Owllerle*. When I hear a man Is a painter. I . arc two feelings—oue of admiration for-the greatness of bis soul and the other of couimlseratlou for the need, of hi* body. But *0 It lm» been In all department* of noble work. Some of the mightiest have l.-en hardly be rer Goldsmith had such a big patch on the coat over hD left breast when be went anyw here he kept hat In bD hand dooely pressed • the patch. The world renown od Bishop Anbury liad a .salary of fcM Painters are not the only ones e endured the lack of appreciation. Let men of wealth take under their patronage tbe suffering men of They lift no complaint; they no strike for higher wage*. But with a keenness of nervous organization which almost always character Ire* genius these artist* suffer more than any one hut God can realize need* be a concerted effort for ifferiug artist* of America, not sentimental discourse about what we artist*, hut contract* that will gire them a lirellbood: for I am in full sympathy with tbe Christian farmer very busy gathering hi* fall apple*.-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, hut yon ran go down into the and get some corned beef and hotter and eggs and potatoes. That Is ly wish for our prayers, > want practical help from in gire them work. You s.-orrs of sermons for all if suffering men and worn pleas for the suffering men and women American art. ThHr ^vrort is be masterpieces that bare U-come uirtal on the other side of the —a. It Is the fashion of Atm-ricatu to uion foreign artists and to know-

Copley

Mon. and Inman and Gree ind Kettsett. Is*! the afllncnt

fling 01

backyard valueless . daub n to adorn

lie glowing and warm and look by strolling gn.u|i* wltb rata loguc In band, on tbe January night

ihirldt of battle, but you. oil n

: out with the symbols of caruagwltb the' victories of tbat at which was so long ago re-cognised I

levy of hi* palace, si all thUT Look at at that Correggio! if Cancel! 1

As tbe day of the 1-onl of hosts, accolding to this t«*t. will acnillnixe the picture*. I Imjd.tfe all parents to sec In their bonaebold* they have neither Jn hook nor newspaper nor on t* anything that will deprave. Picture* are no longer the exclusive ■slon of the afflnent. There Is not a respectable home In these cl tie* lias not specimens of woodcut or

^ the sixth *1 ■ i gallery of 1 j.cd .ploudol

I the thrilling *«’ ,! w*c and the ebure ; : in our earthly »

if all world, b

v charge!” -Ye. And do there seem to b dying ami doadr “Yes.” was swer. "Well. now. do you see from tlie wood* bifrsling n,

rheel o

nugh the ai at Titian! reweiL dm

blind 1

cyeiorama of Ch>ttysbnri an w ho lost his sight In lu li his child beard talking w

said the blind man. i ral on horseback lead | ■Yas.' sin* said. “Well. |

We do Calerins in

dilng d

n these

“Stop rigid tb “Tbat U the I earth! What

n 1 lust n

«uUy

•rer' said the hllnd man I a time il wa.. Jenny, j ;y eyesightr But when I

run. who hare found life a bard battle 1 very Gettysburg. Mia!! stand In tls- i wyal gallery of heaven, and with your ) lew vision begin lo see and uiwb-r oaiid tbat which In your earthly blind j less you could not see at all. you w ill •olut out to your celestial coiiirnd.- J perhaiis to your own dear chlldre-n I rbo have gone Isrfore-. Hie scenes of lie earthly conMcts lu n litcb you pn- | ■dilated, saying: There from tlial hill j t prosperiQr I was driven buck; lu I hat valley of humiliation 1 «a> | wounded, niere I lost my eyesight. | That was the way the world looked | when I last saw it." But wiiat a'grand ] thing to get celestial vision ami stand here before the cyeiorama of 1 “

... , “I . while Hie rider on the

* " '«e ••conquering and lo conquer.'

n under hi* fi-et and the sta

goes

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moral uplifting or depression. Hi 1 thing on your wall or In books Him wlH familiarise the young with •ocne* of cruelty and wassail. Have only sketches made by artists In ele rated moods and none of those scene*

product of artistic de ,

lirium tremens. Picture* are not duly

1 universal language. |

The human race 1* divided Into almuki j many language* a* there are ua | i*. hut the picture* may speak to 1 people of all tongue*. Volapuk many have hoped, with little reason, would become a worldwide language. Bui Hie pictorial I* alway* a worldwide language, and primer*' tyi»s have no empliasis compared w ith It. We say that children are fond of picture*: but notice any man when he take* up a book and you will see that Hie Ural thing that he look* at Is the pletore*. only those lo your house that ap to the better nature. Oue eu gruilug ha* sometimes decided an eternal deitiny. Under the title of

there have <N*jnc here from

France a class of picture* which

elaborate argument lias tried to prove . . . , Irreproachahle. They would disgrace jiVllllWOrK

barroom and they need to be cunflo ited. Your children will carry tlie pletup?* of their father'* boose wltb

the grave, and. pass

pillar, w ill take them

flinnigh eternity.

Furthermore, let all reformer*, and •II BahluUh —bool teachers and all .'hrlstiao worker* reAttae tliat. If they could be effective for good, they must make pictures. If not by chalk on rkboards. or kindergarten d.-signs,

or by pencil on canras.

hetlier

produce strongest

Christ wa* alway* telling

If in

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UBEHT GILBERT. H* 1 " 1 L*« GILBERT S LfiKE. House & Sign Painters. «I7 ANItl'KY AAKKIAo

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Painter and Glazier

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was a great picture gallery, begluulug | with a sketch of a “city on a hill Hun not lie hid" and ending with a ipest lieaUng against two houses, on Hie rock and tbe other on the sand. The parable of the prodigal son. picture: parable of the sower who went forth to sow. a picture: pa raid.of the unmrrelfnl servant, a picture: parable of the ten virgin*, a picture; parable of the talents, a picture. The world wants pictures, and the ap|.' Ute begins with the child, who con scut* to go early to lied if the mother will sit lieside him and rehear— a sto ry. which Is only a picture. When we nee bow much has been accomplished In —culsr directions by pictures - PbakeiqicareB tragedies. .1 picture: Vic lor Hugo's wrttlngs.'wll picture*; John Buskin'* and Tennyson'* and Ismgfellow'» w orks, all picture*—why not on list a* far as possliite for our churches and school* and reformatory work and evangelistic endeavor, the power of Hiouglit that can tie put Into word plq-. lure*. If not picture* In color! Ye*, why not all young men draw for them-. —Ire* on paper with pm or |«-nrif Ihett Miming career, of vlrfSt if they prefer

If Uiey "prefer that. After

making the picture pul It on the wall or paste It ou the fly lesfuf some favor Hr book tbat you may liave It before

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I read of a man who had lieen etc murder, and the Jailor found afterward a picture made on the wall of the cell by Hie asaassm * own hand, a picture of a flight of suits, ou the lowest step he had 1 “ obedience to parent*;'' "Kabiaih breaking:" on me

OSTHAITOBB A All HI I

e fifth ai

‘a gallows." If that

t picture before be took the first step, be Dcrrr would have Ukeu any of them! Oh. man. make another picture, a Irtight picture, an,evangelical picture ami I will help you make It! 1 suggest slg steps for this flight of stairs. On the flrst step write the lature changed by tbe Holy

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