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.' } . THE MISSION OF ART A Potent Factor In Uplifting the Human Race. REV. T. DeWITT TALMAGE Preaches on the Influence of "Pleasant Pictures" In the Development of Ghristian Character. l>r. Talmage shows in this discourse how art uiny become one of tho mightiest agencies for the elevation and salvation of the human race. The text is Isaiah, ii, 12, 1(>, "Theday of the Lord of hosts shall ho upon all pleasnnt iiintnrfiv Pictures aro l>v somo relegated to the realm of the trivial, accidental, sentimental or worldly, but my text shows that God scrutinizes pictures, and whether they are good or had, .whether used for right or wrong purposes, is a matter of divine observation and arraignment. The divino mission of pictures is my subject. '1 hat the artist's pencil and the engraver's knife havo sometimes been made subservient to the kingdom of the bad is frankly admitted. After the ashes and scoria wcro removed from llcrculancum and Pompeii, the walls of those cities discovered to the explorers a degradation in art which cannot be exaggerated. Satan and all his imps have always wanted the lingering of the easel. They would rather have possession of that than tho art of printing, for types arc not so potent and vuick for evil as pictures. The powers of darkness think they have gained a triuuipp, and they have when in some respectable parlor or public art gallery they can hang a canvas embarrassing, to the good, but fascinating to the evil. It is not in a spirit of prudery, but backed up by God's eternal truth, when 1 say that you have no right to hang in your art rooms or your dwelling houses that which would be oiTousivo to good people if the figures pictured were alive in your parlor and the guests of your household. A picture 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 bofore and discuss ought to have a knife stabbed into it at the top and cut clcur through to the bottom and a stout lingor thrust in on the right side, ripping clear through to the left. Pliny tho elder lost his life by going near enough to seo the inside of Vesuvius, and the farther you can star.d off from the burning crater of sin the better. Never till the books of tho last day are opened shall wo know what has been tho dire harvest of evil pictorials and unVinonminCI ?? * . ?tv 6?IIC1HJD, Despoil a man's imagination, and he becomes a mere carcass. The show windows of English and American cities, in which the low theaters have sometimes hung long lines of brazen actors and actressos in style insulting to all propriety, have made a broad path to death for multitudes of people. Hut so have all the other arts been at timos suborned of evil. How has music been bedraggled? 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 Hull's violin, and tho ilutc, which, though named after so insignificant a thing as the Sicilian eel, which has seven spots on the side, like llutc holes, yet for thousands of years has had an exalted mission? Architecture, born in the heart of him who made tho worlds under its arches and across its floors, what bacchanalian revelries havo 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 piotures!" I refer to your memory and mine when I ask if your knowledge of the Holy Scriptures has not been mightily augumentcd by the woodcut* or engravings in tho old family Hible which father and mother read out of and laid on the table in tho old homostead when you were boys and girls. The Hible scenes which we all carry in our minds were not got from the Hiblo typology, but from the Hible pictures. To prove tho truth of it in my own case, the other day 1 took up the old family Hible which I inherited. Sure enough, what I have carried in my mind of Jacob's ladder was exactly tho Hible engravings of Jacob s ladder, and so with Samson carrying oil the gates of - ' ? " u?/.a, rjiiHua restoring me Miunammite's son, the massacre of the innocents. Christ blossing little children, the crucifixion and the last judgment. My idea of all these is that of the old Bible engravings, which I scanned before 1 could read a word. That is true with nine-tenths of you. If 1 could swing open the door of your foreheads, I would find that you- are walking picture galleries. The great intelligonco abroad about the Bible did not como from the general reading of tho book, for the majority of the pooplo read it but little, if thev read it at at all, but all the sacred scenes have been put before the great masses, and not printer s ink, but tho pictorial art, must have tho credit of the achievement. First, painter's poncil for the favored few and then engraver's plato or woedcut for millions on millions! What overwhelming commentary on tho Bible, what re-enforcement for patriarchs, prophets, apostles and Christ, what distribution of Scriptural knowl edge of all nations in the paintings and engravings therefrom of liolman Hunt's "Christ In the Templo," Paul Veronese's "Magdalen Washing the Feet of Christ, ' Raphael's "Michael the Archangel,'' Albert Durer's "Dragon of the Apocalypse," Michael Angelo's "Plague of the Fiery Serpents," Tintoretto's "Flight Into Kgypt," Rubens' "Descent From the Cross," Leonardo Da Vinci's "Last Supper," Claude s "Queen of Shcba," Bellini's "Madonna," at Milan; Oroagna's "Last Judgment" and hundreds of miles of pioturcs, if they wore put in lino, illustrating, displaying, dramatising, irradiating Bible truthf until the Scriptures are not today so much on paper as on canvas, not so much in ink as in all the colors of the spectrum. Jn 1S33 forth from Strasburg, Germany, there camo j > a urt<i?niTfc??>???,* I ?iinyi>i>n I mm, & child that was to eclipse In speed and boldness anything and everything that the world had ever scon since the tirst. eolor appeared on the sky at tho creation, Paul Gustavo Pore. At 11 years of ago ho published marvelous lithographs of his own. Saying nothing of what ho did for Milton's "Paradise Post," emblazoning it on the attention of the world, ho takes up tho book of books, the monarch of literature, the Biblo, and in his pieturos, "The Creation of Light," "Tho Trial of Abraham's Faith," "The burial of Sarah, "Joseph Sold by His Hrothren," "The lira re n Serpent," "Hoaz and llnth," "Pavid and Goliath," "Tho Transfiguration," "Tho Marriage In Cana," "Babylon Fallen" and 205 scriptural scenes in all, with a boldness and a grasp and almost supernatural afllatus that mako the heart throb and the brain reel and tho tears start and tho checks blanch and the entire nature quake with the tremendous things of God ami eternity and the dead. 1 not nnllu eta irunrn/l a..., 4 1. ~ j nvn^< IIM Ulinil tliv 0VU|>9 Ui lilt: London Art gallery under the power of Dora's "Christ Leaving the Prratorium." Profess you to be a Christian man or woman, and see no divine mission in art, and acknowledge you no obligation cither in thanks to Cod or man? It is no more the word of Cod when put beforo us in printer's ink than by skillful laying on of colors or designs on metal through incision or corrosion. What a lesson in morals was presented by Hogarth, the painter, in his two pictures, "The Lake's Progress' and "Tho Miser's Feast,'' and by Thomas Cole's engravings of the "Voyage of Human Life" and tho "Course of Kmpiro" and by Turner's "Slave Ship!" Cod in art Christ in ait' Patriarchs, prophets and apostles in art! Angels in art! Heaven in art. The world and the church ought to come to the higher appreciation of tho divine mission of pictures, yet the authors of them have generally been left to semistarvation. Wost, tho great painter, toiled in unapprooiation till, being a great skater, while on the ice he formed the acquaintance of Ccncral Howe of the Hnglish nrmy who through coming to admire West as a clcvor skater, gradually came to appreciate as much that which he 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 lie held over his head to keep ofT tho stones hurled at him. Tho pictures of Kichard Wilson of Kiu ' were sold for fabulous sums of in t.e> after bis death, but the living pa; iter was glad to get for bis "Alcyon j" a piece of Stilton cbooso. From 1<?I > to 1(5411 there were 4,(500 pictures willlully destroyed. In the reign of Queen Elizabeth it was tho habit of some people to spend much of their time in knocking pictures to piocos. In tho reign of Charles I it was ordered by parliament that all pioturcs of Christ be burned. Painters were so badly treated and humiliated in the beginning of the eighteenth contury that they were lowered clear down out of tlie sublimity of their art and obliged to give accounts of what they did with their colors. Tho oldest picture in England, a portrait of Chaucer, though now of great value, was picked out of a lumber garret. Croat were the trials of Quontin Matsys, who toiled on from blacksmith anvil till, as a paintor, he won wide recognition. The first missionaries to Mexico made the fatal mistake of destroying pictures, for the loss of which art and religion must ever lament. Hut why go so far back when in this year of our Lord to be a painter, except in raro exceptions, means poverty and neglect, poorly fed, poorly clad, poorly honaed, bocauso poorly appreciated? When 1 hoar a man is a painter, 1 have two feelings?one of admiration for the greatness of his soul, and the other of commiseration for the needs of his body " Hut so it has been in all departments of noble work. Some of the mightiest have been hardly bestead. Oliver Goldsmith had such a big patch 011 the coat over his left breast Qthat when lie went anywhere he kept his hat in his hand closely pressed over the patch. The world renowned Bishop Asbury ha da salary of $.>1 a year, l'aintcrs arc not the only ones who have endured the lack of appreciation. Let men of wealth tako undor their patronage the suffering men of art. They lift 110 complaint, they make 110 strike for higher wages Hut with a keenness of nervous organization which almost always characterizes genius these artists suffer more than any one but God can realize. There needs to be a eoneortcd effort for the suffering artist of America, not sentimental diseourso about what wo owe to artists, but contracts that will give them a livelihood, for i am in full sympathy with the Christian farmer who was very busy gat .cring his fall apples and some one asked him to pray for a poor family, the father of which had broken his leg, and the busy farmer said: "1 cannot stop now to pray, but you ean go down into the eellar and get some corned beef and butler and eggs and potatoes; that is all 1 can do now." Artists may wish for our prayers, but they also want practical help from men who can 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 moro true to nature and life than some of the masterpieces that havo become immortal on the other side of the sen but it is the fashion of Americans to mention foreign artists and to know little or nothing about our own Copley and Allston and Inman and Grecnough and Kensett. Let tho alllucnt fling out of their windows and into the hack yard valueless daubs on canvass and call in theso splendid but unrewarded men and tell them to adorn your wails not only with that which shall please the tasto, but enlarge the minds and improve the morals and save the souls of thos? who gaze upon thorn. All American cities need great gallories of art, not only open annually for a few days on exhibition, but which shall stand open all tho year round, and fromoarly morning until 10 o'olook at night, and free to all who would come and go. What a preparation for tho wear and tear of tho 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 drudges. Or what a good thing tho half hour of artistic opportunity on the way ii - - ? home in the evening from exhaustion that demands recuperation for inind and bouI as well as body! Who will do for tho city where you livo what W. W. Corcoran did for Washington and what others have done for Philadelphia and HostonandNcw York? Men of wealth, if you aro too modest to build and endow such a place during your lifetime, why not go to your iron safe and take out your last will and testamout and make a codicil that shall build for the city of your rosideneo athrono for American art? Take some of that money that would otherwiso spoil your ohrildreri and build an art gallery that shall associate your name forever not only with tho great masters of painting who arc gone, but with the great masters who are trying to live, and also win tho i dmiration and love of tons of thousands of people, who, unable to have fine pictures of their own, would be advantaged. My your benefactions build your own monuments and not leave it to the whim of others. Some of the best people stooping in Orccnwood have no monuments at all orsomo crumbling stones that in a few years will let the rain wash out name and epitaph, while some men, whoso death was the abatement of a nuisance, have a pile of Aberdeen granite high enough for a king and eulogies enough to embarrass a seraph. Oh, man of largo wealth, instead of leaving to the whim of others your monumental commemoration and epitaphology, to bo looked at when people are going to and fr> at the burial of others, build right down in tho heart of our great city, or the city where you live, an iinmeusc free reading room, or a free musical conservatory or a free art gallery, tho niches for sculpture and the walls 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 inlluences in this world fur good. How much better than white marble, that chills you if you put your hand 011 it when you touch it in tho cemetery, would bo a monument in colors, in beaming eyes, in living possession, in splendors which under the chandelier would be glowing add warm, and looked at by strolling groups with catalogue in hand on the January night when the necropolis where tho body sleeps is all snowed under! Tho tower of David was hung with 1,000 dented shields of battle, but you, oli man of wealth, may have a grander tower named after you, one that shall be hung not with the symbols of carn.-go, but with tho victories of that art which was so long ago recognized in my text as "pleasant pictures." Oh, the power of pictures! I cannot deride, as some have done, Cardinal Mazarin who, when told that lie must die, took his last walk through the art gallery of his paiacc saying: "Must I quit all this? Look at that Titian! Look at that Corroggio! Look at that deluge of Caraceil Farewell, doar pictures!" As the day of the lord of hosts, according to this text, will scrutinize the pictures, 1 implore all parents to sic that in 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 aOlucnt. There is not a respectable home in these cities that has not specimens or woodout or steel engraving, if not of painting, and your whole family will feel the moral uplifting or depression. Have nothing 011 your wall or in books that will familiarize the young with scenes of cruelty and was sail; have only those sketches inado by artists iu elevated moods and none of tlnso scones that seem the product of artisticdelirium trcmons. Pictures arc not only a strong but a universal language. The human race is divided into almost as many languages as thero arc nations, but the pictures may speak to people of all tongues. Volapuk many have hoped, with little reason, would become a worldwido language; but the pictorial is always a worldwide language, and printers' types have 110 emphasis compared with it. Wo say that children are fond of pictures; but notice any man when lie takes up a book, and you will see that the lirst thing that he looks at is the pictures. Have only those in your house that appeal to the better nature. One engraving has sometimes decided an oternal destiny. Under tho title of fine arts there have come here from France a class of pictures which elaborate argument has tried to prove irreproachablo. They would disgrace a barroom, and they need to bo confiscated. Your children will carry the pictures of their father's house with them clear on to the grave, and, passing that marble pillar, will take them through eternity. Furthermore, let all reformers and all Sabbath school teachers and all Christian workers realize that, if they would be cllcctivc for good, they must mako pictures, if not by chalk 011 blackboards 1 1 ui Kiuuurgurion ucsigns or oy pencil on canvas, then bywords. Arguments arc soon forgotten, but pictures, whether in language or in colors, arc what produce stronger cllects. Christ was always tell ing what a thing was like, and his sermon on tho mount was a great picture gallory, beginning with a sketch of a "city on a hill that cannot be hid," and ending with a tempest beating against two houses, one on tho rock and the other on the sand. The parable of the prodigol son, a picture; parable of the sower, who went forth to sow, a picture; parable of the unmerciful servant, a picture; parablo of the ten virgins, a picture; parable of the talents, a picture. Tho world wants pictures, and the appotitc begins with the child, who consents to go early to bed if the mother will sit beside him and rehearse a story, which is only a picture. When wo seo how much has been accomplished in sooular directions by pictures?Shakespeare's tragedies, a picture; Victor Hugo's writings, all pictures; John Kuskin's and Tennyson's and Longfellow's works, all pictures? ui li n a! mil iat n a fow ocj ?\aaoil?l/? uvw ouunv, an mi ao |/unoiuiU| 1U1 our churohcs and schools and reformatory work and evangelistic endoavor tho powor of thought that can be put into word pictures, if not pictures in color? Yea, why not all young rnon draw for thomsolvcs on paper, with pen or pencil, thoir coming caroer, of virtue if they profor that, of vice if thoy prefer that? After making tho picturo, put it on tho wall or pasto it on tho tly leaf of somo favorito book, that you may havo it biforo >ou. I read of a man who bad been exeoutcd for murder, and the jailer found aftorwaad a pioturo made on the wall of tho coll by tho assassin's own hand, a picturo of a flight of stairs. 0a the lowest stop he had wrltton, "Disobcdionco to parents; on . the second, "Sabbath breaking;" on the third, "Drunkenness aud gambling," on the fourth, "Murder," and on the fifth and top stop, "A gallows. If that mun had made that picture before ho took the first step, he never would havo taken any of Ili3tn! Oh, man, make another picture, a bright picture, an evangelical picturo, and I will help you ntako it! 1 suggest six steps for this flighr of stairs. On tho first step write the words, "A nature changed by the Holy (Jhost and washed in the blood of tho Lamb;" on tho seoound stop, "Industry and good companionship;" on the third step, "A (Jharistian home with a family altar;" on tho fourth step, " Kvcr widening usefulness;" on the fifth step. "A glorious departuro from this world;" on the sixth stop, "Heaven, I I' * Urj, . \ . i iiuuveu; ?> rue u tlircc tiuios, anil let the letters of the one word be mado up of banners, llie second of coronets and the third of thrones! 1'romise mo that you will do that, and 1 will promise to meet you on the sixth step, if the Lord will, through his pardoninggraco, bring me there too. And hero 1 am going to say a word of cheer to people who have never had a word of consolation on that subject. There are men and women in this world by hundreds of thousands who have a lino natural taste, and yet all their lives that taste has been suppressed, and, although they could appreciate the galleries of Dresden and Vienna and Naples far more than nine hundred and ninety-nine people out of a thousand who visit them, they may never go, for they must support their households, and bread and schooling for their children arc of more importance than pictures. Though fond of music, they are compelled to live amid discord, and, though fond of architecture, they dwell in clumsy abodes, and, though appreciative of all that engravings and paintings can do, they arc in perpetual deprivation. You arc going, after you get on tho sixth step of that stair, just spoken of, to find yourselves in tho royal gallery of tho universe, the concentered splendors of all worlds before your transported vision. In some way all tho thrilling scenes through which wo and tho church of God have passed in our earthly state will be pictured or brought to mind. At a cycloratua of Gettysburg a blind man who lost his sight in that battle was with his child heard talking whilo standing before that picture. The blind man said to the daughter, "Arc there at tho right of tho picture some regiments marching up a hill?" "Yes," she said. "Well," said tho blind man, "is there a general on horseback leading them on?" "Yes," she said. "Well, is there rushing down on theso men a cavalry charge?" "Yes," was tho reply. ""And do thcro seem to bo mauv dvintr and dead?" "Vn?. " wn? 1 the answer. "Well, now, do you see a shell from the woods bursting near the wheel of a cannon?" "Yes," she said. "Stop right thoro!" said the blind man. "That is the last thing I ever saw on earth! What a time it was, Jenny, when I lost my oyosight!" Hut when you, who have found life a hard battle, a very Gettysburg, shall stand in the royal gallery of heaven and with your now vision begin to seo and understand that which in your earthly blindness you could not seo at all, you will point out to your celestial comrades, perhaps to your own dear children who have gone before, the scenes of the earthly conflicts in which you participated, saying: "There from that hill of prosperity I was driven back, in that valley of humiliation I was wounded. There 1 lost my eyesight. That was tho way the world looked when I last saw it. Hut what a grand thing to get celestial vision and stand here before the cyclorama of all worlds while tho rider on the white horse goes on 'conquering and to conquer,' tho moon under his feet and the stars of heavon for his tiara!" A Good Hot Weather Item. Something new in trusts is the liquid air trust, for which articles of incorporation have been tiled in Delaware on a capital of $10,000,000. Few of us had supposed that the liquid air business had reached that stage. It is only a ? step to an air trust that shall control the atmosphere and rent air meters to go with every pair of lungs. The liquid air chaps, it may be added, propose to supplant tho ice dealers. One gallon of the liquid air is equal to a ton of ice, one ton will keep a house down to 00 degrees on the hottest days. Such is the talk of the incorporation. A gallon or two of the stuff would have been a great boon to us during the recent hot wave. Is it the best? Taste and see. Host in taste, best in results. 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C. ? -LIFE-"- ( t vcgotablo for Mild, ureforLiv- the Pleasant, r, Kidney & LIVER Sure, tcmaeh troubles, and 25,50, $1. ^ -KIDNEYS- J old wholosale by? ntL % " '? * * i no i>iurray I'rug Co., Columbia. I Or II Brior, Ohnrln<?tnn. R (I ' 5crrin32u?xsaHSS8S2ffi2ffl I Machine fbg Mara, JUVxl witk otttifally <>nua' mm if machin* HI $*4.00 MekiMa ^ |M what y#w wast. ? tare, Staves, ttfiMB Bfl M?clia?s, The Padgett Furr ?ad Street, * * Sinning Machinery. o 'he Smith Pneumatic Suction Elevating, Ginning and Packing System ) the simplest and most efficient on the market. Forty-eight complete outfits in South Carolina; each one giving absolute satisfaction. . toilers and ^Engines; Slide ,r ' ralve, Automatic anil Corliss. >ty Light and Heavy Log Beam Saw [ills cannot bo equalled in design, ofciency or price by any dealer or manuicturer in tbo South. Write f<?r prices and catalogues. V. C. Badliam & Co., 1320 Main Street, COLUMBIA, S. 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Price 50c TIE MURRAY DRUG CO., ~ CO Till vtur \ ; i. mwMmmmmmmtmrnto iAIN?! I this eljsq^t I io. 8 COOKING STWE I Only flaa 17x17 inch oven, fooT'^itck B t holes; large flues and gfckttm- B i<l a good baker. We St this B ove up with forty pieo*a ot wave B -7 ' Eluding the latest stove was*. ' ; To advertise our *> IV 11 sell this No. 8 ('ook^H^S#**, ted with 40 piece* of ware for S10.00 CASH. ! liture Co. I Augusta, Ga. || I I i