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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 
