1902
It is related that two painters each painted a picture to illustrate his conception of rest. The first chose for his scene a still, lone lake among the far-off mountains. The second threw on his canvas a thundering waterfall, with a fragile birch tree bending over the foam. At the fork of the branch almost wet with the cataract's spray, a robin sat on its nest.
Henry Drummond, referring to the two paintings, so unlike in their make-up, said:
"The first was only 'stagnation;' the last was 'rest.' Christ's life was outwardly one of the most troubled lives that was ever lived; tempest and tumult, tumult and tempest, the waves breaking over it all the time, till the worn body was laid in the grave.
"But the inner life was a sea of glass. The great calm was always there. At any moment you might have gone to Him and found rest. And even when His enemies were dogging Him in the streets of Jerusalem He turned to His disciples and offered them, as a last legacy, 'My peace.'"
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Wednesday, July 11, 2007
Likeness of the Devil
1905
The hobby of the late Col. Blumenthal was "the collection of devils," says an English exchange. He devoted himself to collecting all sorts of representations of his satanic majesty, and he secured about 350 likenesses of the devil on canvas, and in marble, wood, bronze and ivory.
St. Patrick's Wondrous Faith
Nor was Patrick an ordinary Christian. Savages and cannibals surround him with threats and with assault. He knows not fear. Hunger and want stare him in the face. Idolatry and witchcraft oppose him. But his will is inflexible; his heart impregnable; his faith strong and mighty. Thus he labored on, making his own life a living proof of the reality of the gospel whereby he overthrew fetishism and heathenism and saved a mighty nation.
And here is the secret of it all, in his own words: "The love and fear of God more and more inflamed my heart. My faith and my spirit were enlarged, so that I prayed a hundred times a day, and nearly as much at night. Before the light I arose to my prayers, in the snow, in the frost, and in the rain, and experienced no evil at all. Nor was I affected with sloth, for the Spirit of God was warm in me."
The hobby of the late Col. Blumenthal was "the collection of devils," says an English exchange. He devoted himself to collecting all sorts of representations of his satanic majesty, and he secured about 350 likenesses of the devil on canvas, and in marble, wood, bronze and ivory.
St. Patrick's Wondrous Faith
Nor was Patrick an ordinary Christian. Savages and cannibals surround him with threats and with assault. He knows not fear. Hunger and want stare him in the face. Idolatry and witchcraft oppose him. But his will is inflexible; his heart impregnable; his faith strong and mighty. Thus he labored on, making his own life a living proof of the reality of the gospel whereby he overthrew fetishism and heathenism and saved a mighty nation.
And here is the secret of it all, in his own words: "The love and fear of God more and more inflamed my heart. My faith and my spirit were enlarged, so that I prayed a hundred times a day, and nearly as much at night. Before the light I arose to my prayers, in the snow, in the frost, and in the rain, and experienced no evil at all. Nor was I affected with sloth, for the Spirit of God was warm in me."
Tuesday, June 19, 2007
The Prophetic Gift
1908
That there are persons to-day who possess the somewhat uncanny gift of being able to predict future events is probably true.
The wife of the late Sir Richard Burton, the famous traveler and linguist, not to mention other instances of her weird gift, announced the very first time she saw Burton, at the time a perfect stranger whom she had met quite casually, that he would be her husband.
At the present moment, too, there is said to be in America a man who has manifested such an extraordinary faculty of predicting things that are about to take place that a number of medical men have purchased the reversion of his brain, in order that they may examine that organ after death to see if it shows any special development to account for its wonderful gift. — The Grand Magazine.
Diabolo In The Past
More diabolo discoveries. In the National Library at Paris are two prints, one entitled "The Game of Diabolo at the Beginning of the Last Century;" the other entitled "The Devil for Four (the old diabolo." Two couples are playing diabolo excitedly in a room; the furniture is upset and the mirrors broken.
Another design is entitled: "The Good Devil, How He Goes!" A young woman throws a big, simple fellow in the air, and from his pocket fall pieces of gold. In the same picture is another woman, with her diabolo cord round the neck of a man, with the inscription below: "See how we lead them!"
Diabolo raised a furor in France in 1812. It was then, according to the Figaro correspondent, imported from England, and an English caricature of a later date represents a great Wellington sending to St. Helena's a very little Napoleon riding on a diabolo.
Long before the revolution of 1789 some missionaries in Peking sent an exact reproduction of diabolo to a French minister of state who collected Chinese curiosities. The Chinese are always found to have forgotten everything we are beginning to learn! — Dundoo Advertiser.
That there are persons to-day who possess the somewhat uncanny gift of being able to predict future events is probably true.
The wife of the late Sir Richard Burton, the famous traveler and linguist, not to mention other instances of her weird gift, announced the very first time she saw Burton, at the time a perfect stranger whom she had met quite casually, that he would be her husband.
At the present moment, too, there is said to be in America a man who has manifested such an extraordinary faculty of predicting things that are about to take place that a number of medical men have purchased the reversion of his brain, in order that they may examine that organ after death to see if it shows any special development to account for its wonderful gift. — The Grand Magazine.
Diabolo In The Past
More diabolo discoveries. In the National Library at Paris are two prints, one entitled "The Game of Diabolo at the Beginning of the Last Century;" the other entitled "The Devil for Four (the old diabolo." Two couples are playing diabolo excitedly in a room; the furniture is upset and the mirrors broken.
Another design is entitled: "The Good Devil, How He Goes!" A young woman throws a big, simple fellow in the air, and from his pocket fall pieces of gold. In the same picture is another woman, with her diabolo cord round the neck of a man, with the inscription below: "See how we lead them!"
Diabolo raised a furor in France in 1812. It was then, according to the Figaro correspondent, imported from England, and an English caricature of a later date represents a great Wellington sending to St. Helena's a very little Napoleon riding on a diabolo.
Long before the revolution of 1789 some missionaries in Peking sent an exact reproduction of diabolo to a French minister of state who collected Chinese curiosities. The Chinese are always found to have forgotten everything we are beginning to learn! — Dundoo Advertiser.
Thursday, May 17, 2007
Spilled Salt in the "Lord's Supper" Picture
1900
Salt
Spilling salt was held to be an unlucky omen by the Romans, and the superstition has descended to ourselves. Leonardo da Vinci availed himself of this tradition in his famous picture of the "Lord's Supper" to indicate Judas Iscariot by the saltcellar knocked over by his arm.
Salt was used in the sacrifice by the Greeks and Romans and also by the Jews. It was an emblem of purity and of the sanctifying influence on others of a holy life. Hence our Lord tells his disciples, "Ye are the salt of the earth." The salt being spilt after it was placed on the head of the victim was considered a bad omen, being supposed to signify that the sacrifice was not accepted, and hence the superstition.
When we say of the shiftless fellow that he does not "earn his salt" we unconsciously allude to an ancient custom among the Romans. Among them a man was said to be in possession of a "salary" who had his "salarium," his allowance of salt money, or salt, wherewith to savor the food by which he lived. Thus salary comes from salt, and in view of the word how many there are who do not "earn their salt."
Salt
Spilling salt was held to be an unlucky omen by the Romans, and the superstition has descended to ourselves. Leonardo da Vinci availed himself of this tradition in his famous picture of the "Lord's Supper" to indicate Judas Iscariot by the saltcellar knocked over by his arm.
Salt was used in the sacrifice by the Greeks and Romans and also by the Jews. It was an emblem of purity and of the sanctifying influence on others of a holy life. Hence our Lord tells his disciples, "Ye are the salt of the earth." The salt being spilt after it was placed on the head of the victim was considered a bad omen, being supposed to signify that the sacrifice was not accepted, and hence the superstition.
When we say of the shiftless fellow that he does not "earn his salt" we unconsciously allude to an ancient custom among the Romans. Among them a man was said to be in possession of a "salary" who had his "salarium," his allowance of salt money, or salt, wherewith to savor the food by which he lived. Thus salary comes from salt, and in view of the word how many there are who do not "earn their salt."
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