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Title: Evangelists of Art
Picture-Sermons for Children

Author: James Patrick

Release Date: December 2, 2009 [EBook #30220]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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Produced by Al Haines

[Illustration: Cover art]

"Here, when Art was still religion, with a simple, reverent heart,
Lived and laboured Albrecht Duerer, the Evangelist of Art;

Hence in silence and in sorrow, toiling still with busy hand,
Like an emigrant he wandered, seeking for the Better Land."

LONGFELLOW, _Nuremberg_.

EVANGELISTS OF ART

_PICTURE-SERMONS FOR CHILDREN_

BY

REV. JAMES PATRICK, B.D., B.Sc.

COUPER UNITED FREE CHURCH, BURNTISLAND

"Could I have traced one form that should express
The sacred mystery that underlies
All Beauty, and through man's enraptured eyes
Teach him how beautiful is Holiness..."
Sir J. NOEL PATON

CINCINNATI

JENNINGS & GRAHAM

1903

_Printed by MORRISON & GIBB LIMITED, Edinburgh_

CONTENTS

I. CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE . . . . . . . . . _W. Holman Hunt_

II. LUTHER AT ERFUeRT . . . . . . . . . . . _Sir J. Noel Paton, R.S.A._

III. HERCULES WRESTLING WITH DEATH FOR
THE BODY OF ALCESTIS . . . . . . . . . _Lord Leighton, P.R.A._

IV. ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE . . . . . . . . . _G. F. Watts, S.A._

V. THE LAST SLEEP OF ARGYLL . . . . . . . _E. M. Ward, R.A._

VI. WISHART DISPENSING THE SACRAMENT
BEFORE HIS MARTYRDOM . . . . . . . . . _W. Q. Orchardson, R.A._

VII. THE RIDER ON THE WHITE HORSE . . . . . _G. F. Watts, R.A._

VIII. THE MAN WITH THE MUCK-RAKE . . . . . . _Sir J. Noel Paton, R.S.A._

CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE

BY W. HOLMAN HUNT

[Illustration: CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE. By permission of Mr. Holman Hunt,
and of Mrs. Holt, Liverpool]

CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE

_How is it that ye sought Me? Wist ye not that I must be in My
Father's house?_--LUKE ii. 49 (Revised Version).

The Bible story from which the text is taken has been illustrated by a