. Art life of William Rimmer, sculptor, painter, and physician / Truman Bartlett. . ached. He always rented apew in whatever church his family desired to attend. His own religious views werehigh and noble. He had no respect for priestcraft for its own sake, but held a clergy-man at what he was worth as a teacher by precept and example, and no more. Hehad a great love for the Bible, and Job was his ideal. He once remarked that it wasalways his desire to deal with Scriptural subjects in his work. Nothing could shake his faith in Providence, and the government of the world by 96 THE ART LIFE OF W
. Art life of William Rimmer, sculptor, painter, and physician / Truman Bartlett. . ached. He always rented apew in whatever church his family desired to attend. His own religious views werehigh and noble. He had no respect for priestcraft for its own sake, but held a clergy-man at what he was worth as a teacher by precept and example, and no more. Hehad a great love for the Bible, and Job was his ideal. He once remarked that it wasalways his desire to deal with Scriptural subjects in his work. Nothing could shake his faith in Providence, and the government of the world by 96 THE ART LIFE OF WILLIAM R1MMER. a divine Being; but this belief only came after long years of severe struggle andexamination. His knowledge and understanding of the constructive character of thingswere at times in violent antagonism with his imagination. The ideal creations of thelatter were not sufficient evidences of the reality of a spirit-world. The reconciliationof the religious part of his nature to those just mentioned formed an harmonious andperfect faith in a divine existence CHAPTER XVI. EXHIBITION OF DR. RIMMERS WORKS. 1880.
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