The Bible in iron: . PREFACE. The art of making iron stoves decorated with pictures and designs illustra-ting the teachings of the Bible was brought from Germany to the Anglo-Ameri-can colonies and survived for half a century on American soil. Cast in low relief upon the flat and often polished sides of the old stoves,continually confronting the settler and his family at one of the centres of house-hold comfort in winter, the singular patterns, generally explained with inscrip-tions, telling of the Miracles of Christ and the Prophets, the beauty of Holiness,and the lessons of Vice and Virtue m
The Bible in iron: . PREFACE. The art of making iron stoves decorated with pictures and designs illustra-ting the teachings of the Bible was brought from Germany to the Anglo-Ameri-can colonies and survived for half a century on American soil. Cast in low relief upon the flat and often polished sides of the old stoves,continually confronting the settler and his family at one of the centres of house-hold comfort in winter, the singular patterns, generally explained with inscrip-tions, telling of the Miracles of Christ and the Prophets, the beauty of Holiness,and the lessons of Vice and Virtue must have impressed many minds. But theeffort of the writer has been rather to explain and describe the casters art whichthen, as an inheritance from Germany, gradually appeared and suddenly ceased,than to account for the influence of its teaching upon the lives of the colonistsand their descendants. Yet. within the last few weeks, a new and unexpectedsignificance has attached itself to these iron pictures, once so fu
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