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Title: The pathway of life ... to which is added a biography of Dr. Talmage
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Thomas De Witt Talmage
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Publisher: Historrical pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Gumberg Library, Duquesne University
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eir art into largeliberties and into wider circumference. They are at their old business yet, butwithout the fatigues, without the limitations, without the hindrances of theterrestrial studio. THE CELESTIAL ART GALLERY. Raphael could now improve upon his masterpiece of Michael, the archangel,now that he has seen him, and could improve upon his masterpiece of the HolyFamily, now that he has visited them. Michael Angelo could better present theLast Judgment after he has seen its flash and heard the rumbling battering-ramsof its thunder. Exquisite colors here, graceful lines here, powerful chiaro-oscurohere; but I am persuaded that the grander studios and the brighter galleries arehigher up by the winding marble stairs of the sepulchre, and that Turner andHolman, Hunt and Rembrandt, and Titian, and Paul Veronese, if they exercisedsaving faith in the Christ whom they portrayed upon the canvas, are painters yet,but their strength of facultj multiplied ten thousand-fold. The reason that God
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THE HOLY SIGN.It is said that when Constantine was opposing the Christian religion at the moment of engagingin battle with his brother-in-law, Maxentius, he perceived the shadow of a cros;; in the sky over■which were written the words, In hoc signo vinces^ With this sign you will conquer. He gainedthe battle and immediately adopted and established Christianity lu the Roman Empire. (407) 4o8 THE PATHWAY OF LIFE. took away their eye and their hand, and their brain was that He might give themsomething more limber, more wieldly, more skillful, more multipliant. Do not, therefore, be melanchol)^ among the tapestries, the bric-a-brac, and theembroideries, and the water-colors, and the works of art which your departedfriends used to admire. Do not say: I am sorry they had to leave all thesethings. Rather sa): I am glad they have gone up to higher artistic oppor-tunity and appreciation. Our friends who found so much joy in the fine arts onearth are now luxuriating in I^ouvres and I^uxembour

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