In his treatment of the subject matter, the artist has been most suecessful, The first impression is, perhaps, beauty of colouring rather than clearness of design, but, as one sits before it, figure after figure seems to appear until the picture stands out in bold relief. think Lam quite safe in saying there are few more beautiful window east of Suez, in harmonious blending of colour and design, in rich and finished workmanship. It is a credit to British art and craftsmanship and it will be one of our most trea~ sured memorials.
>It is -not "only, "however, beautiful' niemorlal to a generous benefactor of this Cathedral; a mossage—a message that will tinue to stir' men's hearts "when: feel will be'tl sohing vil both peewatont eect of this' window'as it "stands before F0-lus 'When we gather here for' wor- chow.
1 Hho sapexsof th Hight: depicting an angel upon a' sbietd, emtbosted, with the' Sacked Bread." "This isa Very, ancient sign representing the sueramient of the Holy Communion. {Phe cusp is the shape #0 often found in the wall-carvings. inthe seata~ combs at Rome. The bread is round in shiape;-the circle, a symbol eternity, teaches us that this is the bread of eternal life, 'The eust fom of making the Dread rund ames from early Chistian times, probably bearing in mind the un-Teavened Passover' cakes' used' by our Lord in the service of Instita-
At the'top of each side panel is the traditional Cross, and below fare the eight. principal emblems of the Passion, four in, each panel; 88 axe borne on shields embossed and supported "by angel figures. [hey ate inthe" order which follow:—Right—"The Ctown of horns." Left—Crossed, in traditional-form, "the Hammer and the Pincets;"' the' soldiers' roughly used the hénimer, while Nicodemus and 'Joseph are supposed to have'reverently used the pincers. Then' below see "The Thtee "Dice," with Which the soldiers east Jate for' the seamless robe (St. John XVI, 23). In the same light, again crossed, ate "the. Spear and the Sponge pon a 'Reed"—the sponge upoti a reed with which the soldier gave our Lord a Grink of, vinegar (St. Matt, XVII, 48,) and' the abear with which pierced the sacred side -of Jesus (St. John XIV, 31-84), Here, too, are the traditional three sails, one through either hand and one through the feet, which our Lord to the Gross, In adjoining lights on the lett, "the Searge" and the " Pillar—the lounge with its' thongs tipped with "lead, with which he whs beaten (Cwith—hia stripes we ere healed")
ind the pillar to which he was-tied duritig the terrible ordeal of scours completes:
Fate: two panels, bat the Jeston as'T seo it i—He who give th vision to the blind." "Who forg.veth all thine iniquities, who health all the diseases." ° By' His life, by His tenching, yes, and by His death and glorious resurrection, ""He' Giveth Light for the world." The contract figure in each panel is He who seid:—"T am the light of the world." "I am come a light into the world, that whose believeth in Me should not abide in darkness." Until the light shines in our heats we are in the and how great is' that Our state without Christ, when He means nothing usp when our life has place for Him, "is a hundredfold worse than that of blind Bar-timoes of the picture. -it is the darkness of those learned men of the other-panel, who, in spite of their warlly wisdom,' yes, and their knowledge of the law and the prophets, saw nothing in Him, rejected His loving offers and finally' eruciied Him upon the Cross of Calvary, the eyes of their understanding being darkened.
Now, there is nothing sadder in the world than lack of spiritual perception, the tragedy being. that it is self-imposed. "Eyes have they bat they see not." Just one illustration. Zoologists tell us that in the deep seas are creatures which have dwelt so.long in the darkness Jéhat' they have lost the power of vision; the origan-is there, but it has atrophied in the persistent "gloom. In'the same sutleas deeps are other animals with:¢yes of extraordinary Yowwér; they "have in some way' developed a light'ray which the darkness.
Inktead of making them blind, "has teered for, them eyes far more' splendid than rhode of their shallower water rela. tives.
Parable of Life it not a. parable of life? There fare. thousands of men and women about us who, finding life dark, difficult, and mysterious; have given eat: to wander blindly, following denpeir;" hey have: Been' cone
sd' their own lasts and-desires; they Re
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