The pathway of life ; Intended to lead the young and the old into paths of happiness, and to prepare them for a holy companionship with him whose kingdom is as boundless as his love . 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 A
The pathway of life ; Intended to lead the young and the old into paths of happiness, and to prepare them for a holy companionship with him whose kingdom is as boundless as his love . 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 Tunier 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 faculty multiplied ten thousand-fold. The reason that God. THE HOLY 1^ ^ that when Constatitine was opposing the Christian religion at the moment of engagingin battle with his brother-in-law, Maxentius, he perceived the shadow of a cross in the sky overwhich were written the words, In hoc signo vinces— With this sign you will conquer. He gainedthe battle and immediately adopted and established Christianity in the Roman Empire. (407) 4o8 THE PATHWAY OF LIFE. took away their eye and their hand, and their brain was that He might give thetasomething more limber, more wieldly, more skillful, more multipliant. Do not, therefore, be melancholy 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}:
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