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ful truth is breaking into our minds and our hearts. 



Michael Angelo painted a wonderful picture of 

 "The Judgment." Here, seated upon a throne, which 

 after all is only a magnificent chair, sits a venerable 

 figure of what is really but a nobly-proportioned 

 man, to whom the nations come for their final re- 

 ward. He separates the righteous from those who 

 must forever be sundered from their God. Seen 

 through the distant past it still remains a majestic 

 picture; but no painter would think of repeating its 

 conception to-day. 



Quite in the modern spirit is the beautiful lunette 

 which John Sargent placed in the Boston Library, 

 above his well known frieze of "The Prophets." It 

 represents "Jehovah confounding the gods of the 

 nations." The naked figure of suppliant Israel stands 

 before an altar of unhewn stones, on which burns 

 the sacrifice. The smoke ascends to Heaven. On one 

 side stands the mighty figure of Assyria with up- 

 lifted mace ready to strike its awful blow upon the 

 shoulders of helpless Israel. On the other side the 

 lithe, subtle form of Egypt, clasping the knout, 

 watches its chance to bring its treacherous thong 

 upon the helpless shoulders of suffering Israel. But 

 Jehovah may not appear, man may not look on God 

 and live. Jehovah is seen as a glory behind the cloud 

 of smoke shrouded by winged cherubim. From one 



