{"1": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3472", "width": "2335", "jp2-path": "realstoneface00baco_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3249", "width": "2142", "jp2-path": "realstoneface00baco_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3249", "width": "2142", "jp2-path": "realstoneface00baco_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3249", "width": "2142", "jp2-path": "realstoneface00baco_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3249", "width": "2142", "jp2-path": "realstoneface00baco_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3127", "width": "2041", "jp2-path": "realstoneface00baco_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "THE REAL STONE FACE\\nOR\\nSUFFERING DEPICTED BY NATURE\\nEUGENIA JONES BACON,\\nAtlanta, Ga\u00e2\u0080\u009e U, S. A,\\nATLANTA, GA.:\\nTHE FOOTE DAVIES COMPANY,\\nPrinters and Binders.\\n1899.", "height": "3127", "width": "2041", "jp2-path": "realstoneface00baco_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": ",12 s\\n49411\\nCopyright, 1899,\\nBy EUGENIA JONES BACON.\\nAll rights reserved.\\nTWO COPIES RECEIVED.\\n]vwi S. J J,", "height": "3127", "width": "2041", "jp2-path": "realstoneface00baco_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "Dedicated to the Memory of my Son,\\nEDWIN JONES BACON.", "height": "3127", "width": "2041", "jp2-path": "realstoneface00baco_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3127", "width": "2041", "jp2-path": "realstoneface00baco_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "PREFACE.\\nHawthorne wrote of \u00e2\u0080\u009cThe Great Stone Face\u00e2\u0080\u009d; it is\\nmy privilege to give to the world \u00e2\u0080\u009cThe Real Stone\\nFace,\u00e2\u0080\u009d which for pathetic outline has not its equal.\\nThe look of wonder in the eyes of children and of\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009csavants\u00e2\u0080\u009d connected with the largest museums of Eu\u00c2\u00ac\\nrope and America tells its own story. I am sure the\\ndeepest and truest emotions of the human heart have\\nbeen stirred when examining this product of nature.\\nThis singular portrayal on a dew-wrought fragment\\nfrom the Kopfel overhanging Ober-Ammergau recalls\\nto mind \u00e2\u0080\u009cThe Old, Old Story\u00e2\u0080\u009d of suffering borne with\\npatience. It has been my most cherished possession in\\nyears of travel from Alaska to Russia, and has brought\\nme in touch with learned men who have examined it\\nwith powerful magnifiers and unhesitatingly affirmed\\nthat, \u00e2\u0080\u009cNo tool of man has touched its surface.\u00e2\u0080\u009d Its\\nnaturalism precludes the possibility of superstition.\\nIt was largely due to the influence of the late Dr.\\nBradley, of St. Agnes, New York, who expressed the\\nwish that the stone should be widely exhibited, that I\\ndecided to show it publicly. If his untimely death\\nhad not prevented, the value of these pages would have\\nbeen enriched by a contribution from his pen on \u00e2\u0080\u009cThe\\nFootsteps of Christ.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nIf this book awakens an interest in nature\u00e2\u0080\u0099s God, it\\nwill have fulfilled its mission.\\nE. J. B.\\nSeptember 24, 1899.", "height": "3127", "width": "2041", "jp2-path": "realstoneface00baco_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3127", "width": "2041", "jp2-path": "realstoneface00baco_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "CONTENTS.\\nCHAPTER. PAGE.\\nI.\u00e2\u0080\u0094Visit to Ober-Ammergau ..13\\nII. \u00e2\u0080\u0094The Passion Play as I Saw It .23\\nIII. \u00e2\u0080\u0094The Stone from the Mountainside\u00e2\u0080\u0094 How it Was\\nDiscovered.36\\nIV. \u00e2\u0080\u0094Nature and Superstition 50\\nV. \u00e2\u0080\u0094Are the Portraits of Christ Authentic The\\nSymbol of the Cross.61\\nVI. \u00e2\u0080\u0094Opinions of \u00e2\u0080\u009cThe Real Stone Face\u00e2\u0080\u009d .77", "height": "3127", "width": "2041", "jp2-path": "realstoneface00baco_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3127", "width": "2041", "jp2-path": "realstoneface00baco_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "\u00e2\u0080\u009cWONDERFUL.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0098\u00e2\u0080\u0098His name shall be called Wonderful.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\u00e2\u0080\u0094I saiah ix. 6.\\nOh, wondrous life! for thirty years to wait,\\nWhile, year by year, dull winter\u00e2\u0080\u0099s weary gait\\nGives way to budding springtime\u00e2\u0080\u0099s quicker pace\\nAnd summer\u00e2\u0080\u0099s bloom and autumn\u00e2\u0080\u0099s onward race.\\nTo stand inactive while the seasons rolled,\\nWhose soul, above all others, might unfold,\\nAnd show itself responsive to the song\\nThat nature sings to all the noble throng\\nOf poets, sages, heroes ev\u00e2\u0080\u0099rywhere\\nWhose minds interpreted the lessons there;\\nWhose arms were nerved anew for battle strife\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nAntaeus-like\u00e2\u0080\u0094by touch of earth and life.\\nBut there was One who drew from nature\u00e2\u0080\u0099s breast\\nMore life than any man, and yet repressed\\nAnd suffered not the fires of youth to burn\\nFor once too high or low, and quenched in turn\\nAmbition, restless zeal, intemp\u00e2\u0080\u0099rate haste\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nNor squandered pow\u00e2\u0080\u0099rs in idleness or waste.\\nYea, wondrous life! for thirty years to stand\\nIn blank obscurity when ev\u00e2\u0080\u0099ry land\\nHad lesser lights that shone in palace halls,\\nAnd weaker arms that battered down their walls,\\nAnd feebler tongues that swayed men\u00e2\u0080\u0099s minds and hearts,\\nAnd duller minds that practiced subtle arts.\\nTo stand aside while men went on in life\\nWith nothing higher than this ceaseless strife,\\nWhile he could tell them of a nobler goal,\\nThe grander, truer mission of the soul\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nTo stand and wait till summoned far away\\nTo face the tempter\u00e2\u0080\u0099s snares by night and day,", "height": "3127", "width": "2041", "jp2-path": "realstoneface00baco_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "And in the fullness of his time begin\\nThe thankless war on each man\u00e2\u0080\u0099s darling sin.\\nThe babe, the lad of twelve and nothing more!\\nThat silence speaks\u00e2\u0080\u0094those unwrit struggles bore\\nThe greater witness. What a man was he!\\nThe lowly peasant there in Galilee.\\nAnd wondrous life! in thirty years to sow,\\nAnd then in scarce a tithe of that to grow,\\nThe seed that springs to-day in million hearts,\\nThe deathless life that faith in him imparts.\\nFrom Jordan\u00e2\u0080\u0099s banks to Calv\u00e2\u0080\u0099ry\u00e2\u0080\u0099s quaking brow\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nA span of time\u00e2\u0080\u0094three years or more\u00e2\u0080\u0094that now\\nThe briefest course in college walls would be!\\nEnough for that Young Man of Galilee\\nTo train the twelve and send the seventy;\\nRebuke the fever; cleanse the leprosy;\\nRelease the captive soul; awake the dead;\\nAnd still the storm; and give the hungry bread;\\nTo preach the tidings to the multitude,\\nOr, one by one, to pure in heart or lewd;\\nTo batter down the walls of sin, and build\\nThe living fortress; to explain, fulfilled,\\nThe oracles of God, the prophecies,\\nThe expectation of the centuries!\\nOh, wondrous life! but tell with bated breath\\nThe tragic story of the wondrous death!\\nYes, death, and at the hands of those he blessed\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nA willing death to shield the murd\u00e2\u0080\u0099rers\u00e2\u0080\u0099 breast!\\nHe knew no sin, yet bore the sinner\u00e2\u0080\u0099s guilt.\\nThe Son of God it was whose blood they spilt.\\nEnough! enough! those blessed bleeding hands\\nPoint back to that one life that still withstands\\nWithout a loss the vandal heel of time,\\nThe critic\u00e2\u0080\u0099s shaft, the vile reviler\u00e2\u0080\u0099s slime.\\nThrice wondrous life and death\u00e2\u0080\u0094a work complete\\nThat brings at last all nations to his feet!", "height": "3127", "width": "2041", "jp2-path": "realstoneface00baco_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "For now he lives again forevermore,\\nHis death atones for sin\u00e2\u0080\u0094his life, before\\nSo full of toil on earth, now lived above,\\nIs calling us to deeds of patient love.\\nHis foes go down in hopeless hope so dim;\\nHe lives, and lives in me\u00e2\u0080\u0094and I in him!\\nLouisville Ky., i8gg.\\nJohn Lake.", "height": "3127", "width": "2041", "jp2-path": "realstoneface00baco_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3127", "width": "2041", "jp2-path": "realstoneface00baco_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "JroTn t?ie. Ti orn aTfovt,\\nSwax. Electric Engraving L\u00e2\u0080\u0099:\\nC op rigit.", "height": "3127", "width": "2041", "jp2-path": "realstoneface00baco_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3127", "width": "2041", "jp2-path": "realstoneface00baco_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "THE REAL STONE FACE.\\nCHAPTER I.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cMany shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.\u00e2\u0080\u0099\u00e2\u0080\u0099\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094Daniel xii. 4.\\nA love-day in May, 1875, we weighed anchor and\\nglided out of New York harbor, steering toward the\\nrising sun. We waved our moist handkerchiefs to\\nfriends whose forms grew dimmer and dimmer as the\\nlovely shores of America receded, yet we nursed a feel\u00c2\u00ac\\ning of joy over anticipated pleasures in the Old World.\\nne coast of Ireland never looked more beautiful than\\n.t that hour when, after eight days tossing of the old\\nship Russia, we first heard the call from the masthead,\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cLand, ahoy! land!\u00e2\u0080\u009d During many years of travel\\nmemory continues to recall the scene when passen\u00c2\u00ac\\ngers hugged the ship\u00e2\u0080\u0099s rail, peering into the distance\\nfor a glimpse of the Emerald Isle. More than one\\nwoman had prayed earnestly to lie in the ocean\u00e2\u0080\u0099s quiet\\nbed, with seaweed and coral-reefs for a couch.\\nWe went abroad with no wish to rush from scene to\\nscene merely for the satisfaction of saying we had done\\nthis or that. We longed to study the works of art as\\nconceived and guarded by man through ages of change,\\nand to delve into the workshop of the God of the uni\u00c2\u00ac\\nverse, who hangs the firmament over our head like a\\ncurtain spangled with stars. Rocky mountains and\\ncalm, peaceful valleys alike filled our minds with sub\u00c2\u00ac\\njects for thought and joy. The peasant spending his\\n13", "height": "3127", "width": "2041", "jp2-path": "realstoneface00baco_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "14\\nTHE REAL STONE FACE.\\nlife shut away from the world with his cows, pigs, and\\nnumberless children all living under the same roof\\nfascinated us, as did royal personages sitting in seats\\nof power and majesty. Man fashioned diamonds and\\njewels for crowns, but the laborer drove pick and axe\\ninto the earth to find these jewels.\\nIn this nineteenth century we have become almost in\u00c2\u00ac\\ncapable of feelings of astonishment, therefore it is dif\u00c2\u00ac\\nficult to relate anything new or startling. Electricity,\\nwith its powerful forces, and talking-machines would\\nhave alarmed our grandparents; we deem them essen\u00c2\u00ac\\ntial to our daily comfort. As new and marvelous in\u00c2\u00ac\\nventions come to the front, we bestow a passing glance,\\nthen rush on in search of other forces to conquer.\\nThe story this little book relates will make one think;\\nperhaps produce a feeling of wonder, not more in\u00c2\u00ac\\ntense, however, than that which dwells in the mind of\\nthe writer herself.\\nTo make this narrative clear, let me say that it is my\\ncustom to bring from every place visited a souvenir;\\nit may be small or it may be great. Like the \u00e2\u0080\u009cold\\nwoman in the shoe,\u00e2\u0080\u009d for over twenty years I have lived\\nin my trunk, that trunk in most part filled and refilled\\nwith a medley of old brass candlesticks, copper kettles,\\ngeological specimens, pressed flowers, and even a\\nfeather from one of the white peacocks of Warwick\\nCastle.\\nIn far-away Finland I gathered richly veined gran\u00c2\u00ac\\nite in Alaska, gold-bearing quartz; and on the precipi\u00c2\u00ac\\ntous ledges in Norway dry and chippy tufts of\\nreindeer-moss, which supplies nourishment to thou-", "height": "3127", "width": "2041", "jp2-path": "realstoneface00baco_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "THE REAL STONE FACE.\\n15\\nsands of magnificent creatures with wide-spread\\nantlers. Beside the ruins of the old Kremlin tower at\\nMoscow, I stood and looked wistfully upon that big\u00c2\u00ac\\ngest of bells that lies toneless (much like to some lives).\\nThere was not the smallest fragment to bring away for\\nmy museum. In the monastery of Troitsk, Russia, I\\nfilled a bottle with holy water drawn from St. Sergius\u00e2\u0080\u0099s\\nwell; and with my own hand gathered acorns from a\\ntree overhanging the house Peter the Great himself\\nconstructed. The carpenter who was repairing the\\nfloor of this small shanty gave me a fragment of the\\noriginal flooring.\\nFrom both Sweden and Norway I have samples of\\nthe national bread so much enjoyed during our stay.\\nThe Norwegian is thin enough to be enfolded between\\nthe leaves of a book.\\nThe sunny lands of Italy and Sicily enticed me to\\nleave many dollars in their curio-shops, in exchange for\\nfaded bits of silk or rare carvings, also a genuine\\npainting by Murillo of \u00e2\u0080\u009cSt. John and the Lamb.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nLast, but by no means least, I mention two insignifi\u00c2\u00ac\\ncant fragments of rock taken from the side of the\\nmountain \u00e2\u0080\u009cKopfel,\u00e2\u0080\u009d or \u00e2\u0080\u009cChristus Kopf,\u00e2\u0080\u009d that over\u00c2\u00ac\\nhangs the quaint old town of Ober-Ammergau in Bava\u00c2\u00ac\\nria. Neither piece measures more than one inch and\\ncould be encased within the shells of an English wal\u00c2\u00ac\\nnut. The first question to be answered is, Why did I\\nselect such small specimens Why did I Merely to\\nadd them to a collection begun by my thirteen-year-old\\nson and continued in memory of him.\\nThese silicious yellowish-hued fragments have no", "height": "3127", "width": "2041", "jp2-path": "realstoneface00baco_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "1 6 THE REAL STONE FACE.\\nmarkings or veins of colour on their surface, are not\\ntransparent, and do not sparkle like the great Kohinoor\\nin the English crown. Eminent scientists give as the\\ncomponent parts an admixture of limestone with chert\\nor flint. After careful examination under powerful\\nglasses they concur in one opinion as to their\\ngenuineness. Skilled cameo-cutters of Rome, Italy,\\ndeclare were they paid a fortune, with a life\u00c2\u00ac\\ntime wherein to work, they could not reproduce\\nthe fine undercuts wrought out by the subtle, hidden\\nforces of nature. The wonder in connection with one\\npiece is, held to the right or below the light, a face is\\nseen in correct anatomical drawing. It portrays deep\\nlines of suffering, counterbalanced by resignation. To\\nsee it once, is to recall it ever. The story I tell has\\nnever been told by any one, and its details are different\\nfrom anything written.\\nIn the summer months of 1880 the Passion Play was\\nbeing enacted at Ober-Ammergau. My friend, Miss\\nRebecca Monteith, of Edinburgh, Scotland, and myself\\nwished to see the performance and, after hesitating for\\nmonths, suddenly set out for the town of Innsbruck,\\nfrom which point we took a diligence up the mountain.\\nWe instinctively shuddered at the thought of a mere\\nman\u00e2\u0080\u0099s attempt to portray the divine tragedy, the scenes\\nfrom Calvary, yet we did go, and never regretted the\\njourney.\\nAt five a.m. on Friday, September tenth, we made\\nready for the day\u00e2\u0080\u0099s drive, taking with us only a hand\u00c2\u00ac\\nbag. With lines in hand, the driver blew a long blast\\non his bugle, as a signal that he wished to be on his\\nway. My friend had secured a seat in the coupe, I one", "height": "3127", "width": "2041", "jp2-path": "realstoneface00baco_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "THE REAL STONE FACE.\\n17\\nbeside the door of the interior. This latter I found oc\u00c2\u00ac\\ncupied by a German frau, her husband vis-a-vis smok\u00c2\u00ac\\ning his pipe. Again the bugle sounded. I stood on\\nthe step, holding to the door-handle, with no intention\\nof squeezing into the one remaining seat at the furthest\\ncorner. After a short delay a sepulchral voice from\\nbehind the pipe-handle said, \u00e2\u0080\u009cFrau, move up, it is late\\nnow. Americans claim everything, even here in our\\nown country.\u00e2\u0080\u009d To the left of the door I was securely\\nwedged in.\\nChanging horses at a station, I bought a basket of\\nfruit and in a neighborly way offered the frau a\\npeach. She looked greatly embarrassed, but like a du\u00c2\u00ac\\ntiful, well-trained wife she asked her husband\u00e2\u0080\u0099s per\u00c2\u00ac\\nmission before accepting it. Removing his pipe, he en\u00c2\u00ac\\nveloped my head with a cloud of smoke, then nodded\\nhis consent to his wife. Returning my attention, he\\nsnapped open a handsome silver snuff-box and stuck it\\nunder my nose. More than once it had been the\\nrounds of the passengers, but this was my first offer of\\na pinch.\\nThe day wore on apace as we climbed higher and\\nhigher; meanwhile heavy clouds arose and obscured\\nthe setting sun, and ere we reached the summit of\\nMount Ettal, a downpour of rain made a mountain\\npass at best difficult almost impassable.\\nPassengers were requested to dismount and climb\\nthe mountain on- foot in a drenching rain. A fuzzy\\npeach saved me a good ducking, for the husband of\\nthe woman who ate it insisted that his wife and I\\nshould remain seated. We did.", "height": "3127", "width": "2041", "jp2-path": "realstoneface00baco_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "i8\\nTHE REAL STONE FACE.\\nThe clouds lifted in time to give us a passing view of\\nthe beautiful Ampherthal, with a monastery perched on\\nthe brow, but crumbling from disuse. Like a sentinel,\\nit guards the valley below. Passing Ammergau, then\\nUnter-Ammergau, with its shining white houses barely\\ndiscernible in the fading twilight, we approached Ober-\\nAmmergau, with its church-tower outlined against the\\nevening sky. At the entrance to the village is a large\\nmarble group representing the moment when Christ\\nsaid to His mother, \u00e2\u0080\u009cBehold thy son!\u00e2\u0080\u009d and to the be\u00c2\u00ac\\nloved disciple, \u00e2\u0080\u009cBehold thy mother!\u00e2\u0080\u009d This was erected\\nby the order of Ludwig II., of Bavaria.\\nWe had not secured seats for the play, nor, indeed,\\nsleeping accommodations; and thousands were en\\nroute, so lessening our chances. On dismounting at\\nthe post, my newly acquired German friend was asked\\nby a diminutive man if he wished a room with two beds\\nat four marks each a day. His negative reply gave me\\nan opportunity, and without more ado I said, \u00e2\u0080\u009cI will\\nengage your room.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nWith the energy of a Caesar that wee mite of a dwarf\\nlaid hold of my hand-bag and made for his home. My\\nfriend was not yet down from the coupe, but as my\\nsatchel contained every cent of money for the trip, it\\nwas natural for me to follow as best I could, for my\\nhost either did not, or would not, understand my poor\\nGerman, gasped out in broken sentences. It was dark\\nand the rain pelted unmercifully as I trudged on. Oc\u00c2\u00ac\\ncasionally a voice called from the distance, \u00e2\u0080\u009cKomm an,\\nFrau; komm an.\u00e2\u0080\u009d After what appeared to be a long,\\nbut was really a short walk, my guide entered the open", "height": "3127", "width": "2041", "jp2-path": "realstoneface00baco_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "THE REAL STONE FACE.\\n19\\ndoor of a neat white cottage built low on the ground.\\nWithin was a picture never to be forgotten. To the\\nright horses, cows, and chickens tried in vain to snatch\\na wink of sleep; to the left, lying on a straw-covered\\ndoor, were twelve or fifteen peasants taunting an old\\nwoman with her tardiness in preparing their evening\\nmeal; she, poor soul, was bending over a blazing fire\\ndoing her best. My host opened a door in the rear and\\nentering, bade me do the same. Three flaxen-haired\\nchildren, sleeping in three wooden cradles, already had\\npossession, while a tiny mother rocked her infant to\\nsleep.\\nMy American spirit now made itself known. \u00e2\u0080\u009cThese\\nare the two beds you offer my friend and me\u00e2\u0080\u0094here\\nin the midst of your family?\u00e2\u0080\u009d for at a glance I noted\\nno door led out of this apartment. \u00e2\u0080\u009cEven these are\\ndear at eight marks a day.\u00e2\u0080\u009d Complacently he smiled;\\nthen placing his feet on a ladder in the corner and like\\na squirrel reaching the topmost round, touched a spring\\nin the ceiling, and through a trap-door disappeared,\\nstill gripping my bag. Peeping down, coaxingly he\\nsaid, \u00e2\u0080\u009cKomm an, Frau; komm an.\u00e2\u0080\u009d I stood still.\\nWith a soft lullaby on her lips, the dwarf mother\\ntucked her mite of a baby under the corner of a fluffy\\nred feather down and followed her husband. This\\ngave me courage to do likewise. In that upper cham\u00c2\u00ac\\nber, hung about with bits of fine carving, were two\\nspotlessly clean beds. Our host, it seems, supported\\nhis family with the skill of his knife-blade, and these\\nwalls were his storage-place. He now went for my\\nfriend, and from his wife I learned his part in the Pas-", "height": "3127", "width": "2041", "jp2-path": "realstoneface00baco_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "20\\nTHE REAL STONE FACE.\\nsion Play was to bear the bowl of water when Christus\\nwashes the disciples\u00e2\u0080\u0099 feet.\\nEarly next morning we were astir, and fortunately\\nsecured two seats for the play on Sunday. True, they\\nwere on a rough-hewn log; we were grateful had it\\nbeen but standing room in that vast auditorium. Com\u00c2\u00ac\\nfortably settled, we arranged to remain a part of the\\nweek, that we might mingle with the natives in their\\nhomes and so study their lives in connection with the\\nwonderful drama. Had we left on Monday, with the\\nsightseeing multitude, this book would never have been\\nwritten and the small fragment of stone it describes\\nmight have lain for centuries on the mountain-way\\nfrom which I stooped and took it. Neither would I\\nhave had those many enjoyable moments spent in con\u00c2\u00ac\\ntemplation of its portrayal, nor those varied experiences\\nwhen brought in touch with learned men and women\\nwho were deeply interested in this rare work of nature.\\nWe found the natives with little idea of progress;\\ntheir church, built long, long years ago, remains un\u00c2\u00ac\\nchanged. These devout worshipers dress still in the\\nquaint old styles of their ancestors, the men wearing\\nhigh black satin stocks and, on festive occasions, richly\\nembroidered white silk waistcoats.\\nThe women wore identically the same style of cos\u00c2\u00ac\\ntume, allowing little scope for heartburnings or jeal\u00c2\u00ac\\nousy. Their gold earrings were of the selfsame de\u00c2\u00ac\\nsign. The skirts measured five yards and were not\\ngored; plump or thin, each woman contrived to pucker\\nthe fullness into the waist-line. A low bodice of a\\nblac* material much like undressed kid had \u00e2\u0080\u009cleg-o\u00e2\u0080\u0099-", "height": "3127", "width": "2041", "jp2-path": "realstoneface00baco_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "THE REAL STONE FACE.\\n21\\nmutton\u00e2\u0080\u009d sleeves; it was overtopped with white and fin\u00c2\u00ac\\nished in front with a handsomely embroidered velvet or\\nsilk shield, on the cuffs a peacock pattern in gay-col\u00c2\u00ac\\noured silks. I tried to buy one of these bodices, but\\nthe owner declared it had been in the family for fifty\\nyears, and naturally she disliked to part with so dura\u00c2\u00ac\\nble a \u00e2\u0080\u009cfriend.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nThe women\u00e2\u0080\u0099s hats are of black felt, and have no\\nplumes plucked from the body of a sweet songster\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nonly a black ribbon and buckle.\\nBut for the Passion Play, Ober-Ammergau would\\nnot be visited or even known by the outside world.\\nThere is a prototype of this play in Spain called \u00e2\u0080\u009cThe\\nQueen of Elche.\u00e2\u0080\u009d This, however, is enacted every\\nyear instead of every ten, and as its name suggests,\\ndeals more with the Virgin Mary than with the life of\\nher Son.\\nThe origin of it is somewhat on this wise: Decem\u00c2\u00ac\\nber 20, 1370, the statue of a beautiful woman was\\nwashed ashore with the sheets of a cantata of music,\\nunimpaired by the surging waves. It was believed to\\nbe of miraculous origin and its fame spread. The sick\\ncame to be healed, the blind and halt to bow before it.\\nFinally it was placed in the lovely Cathedral of Elche.\\nWhen the music is played and sung, the church is\\ntransformed into a theatre and those who receive the\\nsacrament are presented with an azure-blue lace fan,\\nwith golden sticks. The Virgin is represented by a\\nyoung girl of ten, robed in a long blue silken garment,\\nwith an aureola about her head. While the choir sings,\\nMary kneels and there descends a blue globe, or Man-", "height": "3127", "width": "2041", "jp2-path": "realstoneface00baco_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "22\\nTHE REAL STONE FACE.\\ngrana. This seeming fruit opens and from the centre\\ncomes forth an angel who scatters coin among the pop\u00c2\u00ac\\nulace and presents Mary with a golden palm-leaf.\\nThe Virgin, now about to die, asks to see the apostles,\\nand they pass her couch in adoration. The Mangrana\\ndescends once again and Mary\u00e2\u0080\u0099s soul (an exquisite doll\\nrobed in richest silk and covered with gems) is taken\\nby the angel to heaven.\\nFor two days the recumbent figure, with a death\\nmask, lies on view; the natives with lighted tapers pass\\naround it and into the street. The archbishop and\\nclergy file out of the vestry, the apostles lift the cush\u00c2\u00ac\\nion with the figure clothed in heavy brocade with dia\u00c2\u00ac\\nmond ornaments, and, wrapping it in a silken grave-\\ncloth, they entomb it beneath the altar, which repre\u00c2\u00ac\\nsents a sepulchre.\\nThe heavens now apparently open and through the\\nillusion of a golden shower is seen the Trinity. The\\nmiraculous mirage slowly ascends in the glory of its\\nbrocades and jewels and a crown lights upon the head.\\nThe people weep, pray, and applaud, during which time\\nthe chorus sings a glorious anthem.", "height": "3127", "width": "2041", "jp2-path": "realstoneface00baco_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER II.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cThat I may build an altar therein unto the Lord that the\\nplague may be stayed from the people. I Chron. xxi. 22.\\nOber-Ammergau and its remarkable Passion Play\\nfor a decade has been the theme of writers, both in Eu\u00c2\u00ac\\nrope and America. In every hamlet and town lectures\\nhave been delivered, and children are now conversant\\nwith its every detail.\\nTo appreciate this unusual performance with the pa\u00c2\u00ac\\nthos of the play, one must look upon it with their own\\neyes, and hear it with their own ears, not in city or the\u00c2\u00ac\\natrical hall, but in that far-away mountain village\\nwhere it had its origin; in the midst of the homes of\\nthe simple folk who live their lives in the fastnesses of\\nhigh mountains whose bold outlines lift the mind to\\nthe Ruler of the universe, ^who created heaven and\\nearth.\\nThe Passion Play was first rendered in the year 1633,\\nand the legend as to its origin is somewhat on this\\nwise: A pestilence prevailed in the mountains of the\\nBavarian Alps, depopulating town after town. A\\nworkman employed in one of these infected spots re\u00c2\u00ac\\nturned to his family in Ober-Ammergau, sickened and\\ndied, after which the scourge spread rapidly. A grave\u00c2\u00ac\\ndigger, with two assistants, opened graves by day and\\nby night, then were barely able to supply the demand.\\nFrom a little cottage nestled beneath the shadow of\\nthe Kopfelspitze, wife and children had been borne to\\n23", "height": "3127", "width": "2041", "jp2-path": "realstoneface00baco_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "24\\nTHE REAL STONE FACE.\\ntheir last resting-place. Weary of his lonely home, the\\nfather, with a heartbreaking voice, prayed that he too\\nmight die.\\nIt was night, the room was dark; suddenly in front\\nof him there loomed into view the outline of a wooden\\ncross, the figure of Christ hanging there with an ex\u00c2\u00ac\\npression of agony and resignation on His face. A\\ngentle voice seemed to say, \u00e2\u0080\u009cMy son, are you weary?\\nAre you heavy-hearted? Do you weep? Remember\\nmy agony; I have endured -more than thou.\u00e2\u0080\u009d This\\nclear manifestation to him of his crucified Lord soothed\\nhis heartache and fired his soul with fresh zeal and a\\nstrange resolve. Out into the night he rushed and on\\nto the village church.\\nThe priests had laid by their vestments; no candles\\nburned on the altar; overhead flickered a faint red fire\\nthat never goes out. Groping in the dark, he grasped the\\nbell-rope and pulled vigorously. The silver-toned metal\\nrang out a call that was quickly answered by both priest\\nand parishioners, wondering who could have rung\\nthe church-bell at so untimely an hour. No one noted\\na kneeling figure beneath the still swaying bell-rope\\nuntil he arose and with a tremor in his voice addressed\\nthe people: \u00e2\u0080\u009cFriends, the sword of revenge hangs over\\nour village; numbers of our loved ones have been cut\\ndown by the hand of death. Who of us will be called\\nhence ere the morning sun rises? Only a moment ago,\\nweary of my desolated home, I knelt and implored the\\ndeath-angel to choose me for his next victim. With\\nthis wicked prayer upon my lips Christ himself drew\\nnear. I saw Him hanging on the accursed tree, but", "height": "3127", "width": "2041", "jp2-path": "realstoneface00baco_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "THE REAL STONE FACE.\\n25\\nHis face became radiant with love and pity as He bade\\nme remember His agony. Friends, I have hasted\\nhither to implore you to join with me in a solemn vow\\nto enact here in our village the wonderful scene that\\ntranspired on Calvary. Our dear Master is never deaf\\nto a cry of anguish; peradventure He may withdraw\\nthe hand of death from our homes.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nPriest and parishioners fell upon their knees,\\nthen and there avowed their desire to carry out\\nthis thought. The resolve soon took definite form.\\nTradition states from that hour the plague was stayed;\\nthe sick became convalescent; the grave-diggers\u00e2\u0080\u0099 tools\\nrusted, and once more the cottages resounded with\\nsongs of merriment. This vow made nearly three hun\u00c2\u00ac\\ndred years ago, has been handed from father to son and\\nfaithfully kept. The lives of these simple villagers\\ngrow into the spirit of the performance and the church\\nis really the training-school where its members are in\u00c2\u00ac\\nstructed in the scenes that go to make up the drama.\\nPastor Daisenberger, who died in 1882, taught his peo\u00c2\u00ac\\nple faithfully. He it was who purified the play of its\\ninharmonious passages, such as the \u00e2\u0080\u009cdance of the Devil\\nbefore Judas.\u00e2\u0080\u009d He introduced the music of the Pas\u00c2\u00ac\\nsion Play in the schools, selecting the best voices of\\nboth boys and girls for the choir. Assisted by forty\\nhouseholders, the pastor always selects those fitted to\\ntake active parts and the rehearsals are on fete days,\\nsuch as Palm Sunday or Corpus Christi. For three\\nyears before the public performance the hair and beard\\nof actors are unshorn. Each individual is required to\\nlive a consecrated life; unbecoming conduct, and they", "height": "3127", "width": "2041", "jp2-path": "realstoneface00baco_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "26\\nTHE REAL STONE FACE.\\nare dropped from the roll. Out of a community of\\nseven hundred inhabitants, no less than five* hundred\\npersons take an active part. Surely the influence is\\nfelt. A close study of the life of Christ with its sweet\\nembodiment of faith and love must permeate the minds\\nof both young and old.\\nTyrolian peasants are accustomed from infancy to\\npictorial and sculptural portrayals of Christ on Cal\u00c2\u00ac\\nvary. In their sleeping-rooms and cottages, on the\\nroadside and in mountain pass we find carved figures in\\nemaciated form and blood-stained face. These repre\u00c2\u00ac\\nsentations generate no feelings of reverence in our\\nminds, yet the natives bow before the shrine of the Ma\u00c2\u00ac\\ndonna and Child to pray, or in passing an image of\\nChrist they make the sign of the cross in token of their\\nlove.\\nScenes then so sacred to us are to these mountain\\npeople no more than our form of worship, or the repeti\u00c2\u00ac\\ntion of the church creed. It is woven into their relig\u00c2\u00ac\\nious life as a part of the church service.\\nNo one can witness the Passion Play as given at\\nOber-Ammergau without realizing that men, women\\nand children perform their parts in a spirit of true de\u00c2\u00ac\\nvotion.\\nWe of this enlightened age naturally shrink from be\u00c2\u00ac\\nholding a mere man assuming the form, attitudes, and\\nwords of Christ.\\nMy friend and I forgot our opposition on that memo\u00c2\u00ac\\nrable twelfth day of September, 1880, when from eight\\nin the morning to six in the afternoon we sat on a\\nrough-hewn log (with no back support) listening to", "height": "3127", "width": "2041", "jp2-path": "realstoneface00baco_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "THE REAL STONE FACE.\\n27\\nwords recorded in the Bible, and touchingly exempli\u00c2\u00ac\\nfied by living, moving figures.\\nAt five o\u00e2\u0080\u0099clock on Sunday morning the village can\u00c2\u00ac\\nnon boomed the signal for mass in the church. Each\\nactor in the Passion Play receives the sacrament, and\\nby eight o\u00e2\u0080\u0099clock they march in a body to the arena,\\nwhich is twenty thousand square feet and accommo\u00c2\u00ac\\ndates five or six thousand persons. Overhead, birds\\nflew hither and thither, mingling their twitter with the\\nvoices of the actors. The sun does not always shine,\\nbut if it rains umbrellas are not allowed open. There\\nis no diminution, however, in the ardor and devotion of\\nthe players, even when their garments are drenched.\\nA small portion of the stage is covered and cur\u00c2\u00ac\\ntained, that the tableaux may be arranged, while the\\nchorus is being sung by eighteen voices led by one\\nstyled \u00e2\u0080\u009cThe Choragus.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nThe various coloured robes are overtopped with\\nwhite tunics, bordered with gold fringe. Over all\\nflows a brilliant mantle. They are crowned with gold\u00c2\u00ac\\nen crowns. In a clear voice the Choragus announces\\nthe prologue, and while sweet strains of music float\\nthrough the air, we look upon the tableau that fore\u00c2\u00ac\\nshadows the scene in the New Testament, thus inter\u00c2\u00ac\\npreting and explaining the shadow with the substance,\\nthe type with its fulfilment; man\u00e2\u0080\u0099s fall and God\u00e2\u0080\u0099s plan\\nof redemption. From our uncovered seats we gazed\\nupon beautiful scenery beyond; the flower-grown val\u00c2\u00ac\\nley. of Ammergau, the white houses of Unter-Ammer-\\ngau, and the cross-crowned Kopfel.\\nI was unable to detect the slightest move of body in", "height": "3127", "width": "2041", "jp2-path": "realstoneface00baco_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "28\\nTHE REAL STONE FACE.\\nthese living personators of Old Testament characters.\\nThis is the more surprising, as children of two years\\ntake part.\\nMrs. Howitt relates her impression in these words:\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cWhilst they sang, our hearts were strangely touched,\\nour eyes wandered away from those singular peasant\\nangels and their peasant audience up to the deep, cloud\u00c2\u00ac\\nless sky. We heard the rustle of the trees and caught\\nglimpses of the mountains; all seemed a strange poeti\u00c2\u00ac\\ncal dream.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nMayer, who personated the Christ, studied well his\\npart; his every word, every pose separates him from the\\ncrowd, a hooting populace. Strangely fascinated, we\\nseem to be in the streets of Jerusalem listening to im\u00c2\u00ac\\nprecations hurled at one central figure whose intona\u00c2\u00ac\\ntion depicts the purity of the life he has prepared him\u00c2\u00ac\\nself to delineate; his soul comes in touch with hearts\\nbowed with sorrow.\\nIn this hubbub of a motley mass of Jewish men,\\nwomen and children not for a moment did Christus\\nfail to maintain a supreme dignity.\\nAdam and Eve driven from Paradise (the serpent\\nwound about the tree of life) is followed by the shouts\\nof a multitude coming from behind the scenes singing,\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cHail to Thee, Hail to Thee, Son of David.\u00e2\u0080\u009d This\\nsurging crowd, Galilean pilgrims and dwellers in Je\u00c2\u00ac\\nrusalem, herald the approach of the prophet of Naza\u00c2\u00ac\\nreth. Hebrews with their families throng the street.\\nFive hundred persons of all ages are in this scene, many\\nwaving palm-branches or singing hosannas.", "height": "3127", "width": "2041", "jp2-path": "realstoneface00baco_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "THE REAL STONE FACE.\\n29\\nThe crowd opens. Mary\u00e2\u0080\u0099s son riding upon an ass\\nmoves slowly to the front of the stage. This was in\u00c2\u00ac\\ndeed realistic.\\nFar out on the plains of Dothan, Joseph in a coat of\\nmany colors is hid; afterwards disrobed and sold to\\nthe Egyptian merchants.\\nThis plan of selling an innocent youth artfully fore\u00c2\u00ac\\nshadows the betrayal of Jesus by Judas. As the music\\nceased we beheld one of the most impressive tableaux.\\nTobias, a small lad, is seen in the act of leaving his fath\u00c2\u00ac\\ner\u00e2\u0080\u0099s home accompanied by the archangel; his mother\u00e2\u0080\u0099s\\nagony over the separation is depicted, but not spoken.\\nThis demonstrates Christ\u00e2\u0080\u0099s willingness in giving.His\\nlife a ransom for mankind.\\nThree flaxen-haired children in flowing white gar\u00c2\u00ac\\nments cling to a wooden cross in adoration, bringing to\\nmind the message of salvation in the New Testament.\\nIn a beautiful garden the Bride of the Canticles, sur\u00c2\u00ac\\nrounded by her bridesmaids, chosen from the Jewish\\ngirls, awaits the coming of her beloved; they bewail his\\nabsence. In like manner the church longs for the com\u00c2\u00ac\\ning of the Bridegroom.\\nAt the house of Mary and Martha, in the banquet-\\nhall, Magdalen pours costly ointment upon the Mas\u00c2\u00ac\\nter\u00e2\u0080\u0099s feet and Judas exclaims, \u00e2\u0080\u009cThree hundred pence\\nmight have been gotten for this ointmeqt and given to\\nthe poor.\u00e2\u0080\u009d The words of Christ were never better\\nrendered by any living actor than by Mayer, \u00e2\u0080\u009cLet her\\nalone; the poor always ye have with you, but me ye\\nhave not alway.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nThe repudiation of the haughty Queen Vashti and", "height": "3127", "width": "2041", "jp2-path": "realstoneface00baco_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "30\\nTHE REAL STONE FACE.\\nthe gracious selection of Esther brings to mind the re\u00c2\u00ac\\njection of Christ by the Jews, and the calling of His\\nchosen people.\\nWhen Christ took leave of His mother there were\\nfew dry eyes in that vast assemblage.\\nThe bribe and struggle of Judas with his guilty con\u00c2\u00ac\\nscience touched rflany a heart, inclining them to forsake\\nthe downward course of the transgressor.\\nOn the plains and in the wilderness are seen a dense\\ncrowd of Israelites\u00e2\u0080\u0094mothers with babes in their arms\\nand on every side innocent children with upturned\\nfaces and spread aprons, catching the sweet manna-\\nfood as it floats toward the earth. Never have I wit\u00c2\u00ac\\nnessed a more effective tableau.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cThe Last Supper,\u00e2\u0080\u009d spread in the house of Mark,\\ndemonstrates the fullness and freeness of Christ\u00e2\u0080\u0099s re\u00c2\u00ac\\ndemption. This portrayal was a reproduction of Leo\u00c2\u00ac\\nnardo da Vinci\u00e2\u0080\u0099s famous painting on the wall of an old\\nmonastery near Milan.\\nAdam and Eve are again in evidence, surrounded by\\na family of children numerous enough to make a fath\u00c2\u00ac\\ner\u00e2\u0080\u0099s stout heart quake .at the thought of giving them\\ndaily bread. Adam, however, courageously forces his\\nspade into the ground; by the sweat of his brow he\\nmust live. Sharing the curse with their father, his\\nsons with bleeding hands pull up the thorns and this\u00c2\u00ac\\ntles that cover the land. Poor Eve has a more difficult\\ntask than her husband. While hushing the wails of an\\ninfant, seven little girls tug at her dress and beg for a\\nmorsel of bread. The loaf is small, but the mother dis\u00c2\u00ac\\ntributes it equally.", "height": "3127", "width": "2041", "jp2-path": "realstoneface00baco_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "THE REAL STONE FACE.\\n31\\nIn full view looms up the Mount of Olives and the\\nGarden of Gethsemane. In the foreground Peter and\\nJohn embrace each other, and bewail the fate of their\\nbeloved Master. Peter avows his determination to fol\u00c2\u00ac\\nlow Him, even unto death. Alas! for poor frail man\u00e2\u0080\u0099s\\nmost earnest resolve! Peter soon turns his head and\\ndenies that ever he knew the Lord.\\nAt noon the cannon announced the hour for lunch\u00c2\u00ac\\neon. We seemed riveted to our places; the thought of\\nphysical enjoyment was forgotten in the mind-food that\\nsatisfied our mental appetite. However, for a time\\nmen and women who had enacted sublime parts laid\\naside their royal robes or golden crowns and assumed\\nthe homely duties of waiters and housewives, earnestly\\nlooking after the welfare of their guests.\\nOur waiter, Jak Helt (Peter), with a ring of merri\u00c2\u00ac\\nment in his voice, gave no intimation of the contrition\\nof mind he was to suffer. John, the beloved disciple,\\nwas a young man of singular dignity of character and\\nmanner.\\nAfter an hour of rest and refreshment the cannon\\nagain gave the signal for the play to be resumed.\\nWe now found two thrones on the stage, occupied by\\nAhab, king of Israel, and Jehosaphat, king of Judah,\\neach in royal array. Micaiah and Baal are questioned\\nas to the advisability of the armies of the king going\\nup against Ramoth-Gilead. Micaiah\u00e2\u0080\u0099s reply not being\\nin accord with the desire of the king, Zedekiah smites\\nhim on the cheek. See the captive Nazarene before\\nAnnas, His cheek still red from the blow of a soldier\u00e2\u0080\u0099s", "height": "3127", "width": "2041", "jp2-path": "realstoneface00baco_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "32\\nTHE REAL STONE FACE.\\nhand; hear the memorable words, \u00e2\u0080\u009cIf I have spoken\\nevil, bear witness of the evil; but if well, why smitest\\nthou me\\nThe wicked Queen Jezebel looks on at the stoning\\nof innocent Naboth, and the wife of Job, attended by a\\nretinue of servants, haughtily reproaches the afflicted\\npatriarch, bidding him \u00e2\u0080\u009ccurse God and die.\u00e2\u0080\u009d Turn\u00c2\u00ac\\ning from these humiliating scenes in which two wom\u00c2\u00ac\\nen take part, we see the \u00e2\u0080\u009cPrince of Peace\u00e2\u0080\u009d standing\\nbefore the high priest Caiaphas. In the hallway Peter\\nwarms himself and again denies all knowledge of the\\nbound captive.\\nMayer portrayed this, one of the most trying scenes,\\nwith touching pathos, signally so, when with an expres\u00c2\u00ac\\nsion of pity, He fixes his gaze upon the conscience-\\nstricken disciple. Peter implores forgiveness, not in\\nword, but in manner, as he stretches forth his arms\\ntoward his Master driven with scourges.\\nThe sentence passed upon the Innocent One by Pi\u00c2\u00ac\\nlate is foreshadowed in the Old Testament by the mur\u00c2\u00ac\\nder of Abel, and the casting of Daniel into the den of\\nlions corroborates the final order for the \u00e2\u0080\u009cKing of the\\nJews\u00e2\u0080\u009d to be crucified.\\nA forcible illustration of the ability of the Head of\\nthe church to save fallen man is exemplified when blind\\nSampson lays hold of the pillars of the temple and\\nthey topple about him like wooden pins. Father Abra\u00c2\u00ac\\nham binds his beloved Isaac for the sacrifice, when sud\u00c2\u00ac\\ndenly an angel springs into view and stays his hand,\\npointing to a lamb caught in the brambles, typical of\\nthe crown of thorns plaited for the King of kings. Ut-", "height": "3127", "width": "2041", "jp2-path": "realstoneface00baco_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "THE REAL STONE FACE.\\n33\\nterly forsaken by His followers, He stands alone, await\u00c2\u00ac\\ning His sentence.\\nIn the distant background the pyramids loom up.\\nEgyptians again crowd the streets. Joseph crowned\\nand regally arrayed rides in a triumphal chariot, dem\u00c2\u00ac\\nonstrating the resurrection, when the Bridegroom of\\nthe church will return to be with His chosen people.\\nIn harmony with the remaining scenes of condemna\u00c2\u00ac\\ntion and crucifixion, the chorus appear in garments of\\nmourning. Ignominy is now heaped upon the \u00e2\u0080\u009cLord\\nof lords,\u00e2\u0080\u009d upon Him \u00e2\u0080\u009cwho holds the keys of hell and\\nof death,\u00e2\u0080\u009d \u00e2\u0080\u009cwho is the brightness of the Father\u00e2\u0080\u0099s\\nglory.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nThe closing scenes of the Passion Play can not be\\ndepicted. Two crosses stand erect, their living bur\u00c2\u00ac\\ndens with arms thrown over the cross-beams, pros\u00c2\u00ac\\ntrate upon the ground the centre cross with Mayer\\n(who personates the Christ) stretched thereon. Appa\u00c2\u00ac\\nrently the nails are driven through the tender flesh, a\\nheavy thud and the accursed tree is in position.\\nThere is a slight support about the arms and waist,\\nunder the feet an artificial sole; yet with an opera-glass\\nI was unable to detect the merest semblance of them.\\nMayer\u00e2\u0080\u0099s body, limp and seemingly lifeless, is lowered\\nby the aid of a long linen cloth. One mistake and his\\nlife is sacrificed to the religious ardor of the Ober-Am-\\nmergau peasants.\\nHanging there for twenty minutes, we realized what\\na strain he endured, and felt that only with Christian\\nzeal could the Passion Play be performed or even\\nlooked upon.", "height": "3127", "width": "2041", "jp2-path": "realstoneface00baco_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "34\\nTHE REAL STONE FACE.\\nFrom the entrance of Christus into Jerusalem, rid\u00c2\u00ac\\ning upon an ass, until the supreme moment when he\\nbows his head, saying, \u00e2\u0080\u009cIt is finished,\u00e2\u0080\u009d there is a sol\u00c2\u00ac\\nemn hush that rests upon every heart. We left the\\nauditorium solemnized, under a spell as it were; no idle\\nword could we speak.\\nThe clouds that threatened now broke forth in a del\u00c2\u00ac\\nuge of rain. Unsophisticated peasant men, women and\\nchildren in that high mountain village taught us a les\u00c2\u00ac\\nson never to be forgotten. The late Edwin Booth wit\u00c2\u00ac\\nnessed the play the day we did and I heard him say,\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cNever on the stage have I seen better acting nor finer\\nconception of character than that of Mayer and Pilate.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nPilate, who wore the robes of a king on Sunday, the\\nnext morning appeared in the garb of a wagoner with\\nheavy overtop boots, making ready to take the post-bag\\nto Murnau.\\nFor Judas we felt sincere pity. He said he detested\\nthe spirit of the money-loving apostate, yet earnestly\\nhe portrayed the greed and avarice of the traitor.\\nMayer, sadly in need of rest, sought quiet in an ad\u00c2\u00ac\\njoining town away from autograph fiends who would\\ngive him no peace.\\nWood-carving is the chief occupation of the village\\nfolk, many of whom do fine work, yet are unable to\\ndraw on paper. Mayer had a room full of crucifixes\\nand madonnas. We talked with many of the men,\\nseated at their benches carving; startled sometimes in\\nasking their names to have the bland reply, \u00e2\u0080\u009cI am the\\napostle James\u00e2\u0080\u009d or \u00e2\u0080\u009cthe high priest Caiaphas. On the\\nmountainside we watched Adam\u00e2\u0080\u0099s children making\\nmud cakes.", "height": "3127", "width": "2041", "jp2-path": "realstoneface00baco_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "THE REAL STONE FACE.\\n35\\nNot alone do the inhabitants of Ober-Ammergau\\nshow devotion to the enactment of the sacred drama,\\nbut from surrounding districts peasants come with a\\nfervor born in their honest hearts. Men and boys,\\nwearing a feather or flower in their hats and women\\ncuriously costumed, on entering the village, kneel be\u00c2\u00ac\\nside the marble group and without the leadership of\\npriest or pastor repeat in concert the church creed,\\nand there in the open air chant a song. Scenes\\nfrom Bible history furnish painters and sculptors\\nwith subjects, but the Passion Play brought us in\\ntouch with realistic scenes in the days of Christ\\ntnat the mirror of life will keep before our eyes\\nuntil the sun goes down the hill of existence\\nnever more to rise for us. The patient suffering, the\\ncalm endurance, blended with the furrowed brow,\\nteaches that although we must suffer we can be patient,\\nfor under all the provocations that surrounded him,\\n.Mayer never showed impatience. With a ring of pa\u00c2\u00ac\\nthos in his voice, he looked toward the Jewish city:\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cO! Jerusalem, Jerusalem! How often would I have\\ngathered thy children together, even as a hen gather-\\neth her chickens under her wing and ye would not!\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nA keen thrill of pain shot through my heart. Had I\\nhelped to bring that Innocent One before Pilate, helped\\nto nail His body to the tree? Rebuking Peter with a\\ngentle rebuke, looking upon his disciples with a calm\\nbut troubled face, flashed into my soul a realization of\\npardon, and I believe I cried aloud, \u00e2\u0080\u009cO Master, for\u00c2\u00ac\\ngive", "height": "3127", "width": "2041", "jp2-path": "realstoneface00baco_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER III.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cThou sawest that a stone was cut out of the mountain without\\nhands.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Daniel ii. 45.\\nThe day afer the Passion Play numbers of peasants\\nclimb the mountain Kopfel, familiarly termed \u00e2\u0080\u009cChristus\\nKopf,\u00e2\u0080\u009d \u00e2\u0080\u009cChrist Head.\u00e2\u0080\u009d They go as pilgrims to touch\\na metal-covered cross perched on the topmost point.\\nThere is a belief among the natives that if this cross\\nfalls it will be a visible symbol that the Passion drama\\nshall be discontinued.\\nSo it was that on Monday, September thirteenth.\\nMiss Monteith and I followed men, women and chil\u00c2\u00ac\\ndren wending their way up the mountain. We were\\ngratifying our curiosity. Physically and mentally we\\nhad endured a tremendous strain the day before, and\\nour energy in climbing flagged and we turned to retrace\\nour steps. There and then with no thought of selection-\\nI stooped and took from beside my feet two fragments\\nof the mountain formation, merely as geological speci\u00c2\u00ac\\nmens, or mementoes of the place and play. I do not\\nrecall bestowing upon them more than a passing glance.\\nMy trunk in Innsbruck was overweighted with just\\nsuch specimens, and my friend urged me to cast these\\naside.\\nFortunately, I did not. As a mineral it is of no con\u00c2\u00ac\\nsequence, but as an object-lesson this limestone stands\\nalone, single and unrivaled.\\nEight years now intervene. I crossed and recrossed\\n36", "height": "3127", "width": "2041", "jp2-path": "realstoneface00baco_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "THE REAL STONE FACE.\\n37\\nthe ocean three times, and while visiting friends on the\\nHudson, New York State, a telegram from Atlanta no\u00c2\u00ac\\ntified me of the burning of the Young Men\u00e2\u0080\u0099s Library\\nbuilding, where my boxes of curios were stored.\\nFinding that water had done more damage than fire,\\nit seemed wise to relabel ere the ink faded altogether.\\nSeated in front of my table and thus occupied, a singu\u00c2\u00ac\\nlar revelation flashed out before my eyes. The clock\\nhad just tolled the hour before midnight when I held\\nthe two small bits of stone in the palm of my left hand\\nwhich in its natural position should have been to the left\\nof the lamp. What unseen influence caused me to\\ncross my left hand to the right of the lamp and then and\\nthere to touch one piece with my right forefinger? It\\nrolled over and startled me with what appeared to be\\nan apparition. Memory, that subtle force, darted\\nacross the great ocean and up the mountain to the sim\u00c2\u00ac\\nple village where eight years before I had seen a face\\nvery like to one lying on the palm of my left hand.\\nWords can give no idea of the thrill of emotion which\\nheld me speechless. Realistic as had been Joseph May\u00c2\u00ac\\ner\u00e2\u0080\u0099s acting, surrounded as he was with accessories con\u00c2\u00ac\\nnected with the Passion Play, the lifeless rock with its\\nface of agony which now for the first time attracted my\\nattention, overpowered me. I looked and looked and\\nwondered. I was quite sure that I held an uncarved\\nbit of stone, yet there was the face, almost more attract\u00c2\u00ac\\nive than I have ever seen it. Since that moment of su\u00c2\u00ac\\npreme surprise thousands have held it in their own\\nhands and have gone away awed by its vivid portrayal.\\nOne must study this work of nature to be able to appre-", "height": "3127", "width": "2041", "jp2-path": "realstoneface00baco_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "38\\nTHE REAL STONE FACE.\\ndate it, this \u00e2\u0080\u009cthat hath no form, nor comeliness, nor\\nbeauty that we should desire it.\u00e2\u0080\u009d By actual measure\u00c2\u00ac\\nment the surface is but one inch long, yet the anatomi\u00c2\u00ac\\ncal drawing is in just proportion, with no detail miss\u00c2\u00ac\\ning. The surface is a mass of excrescences that cast\\ntheir shadows to form the face; thus the eyelash is\\nthe shadow from a fine projecting point, the mous\u00c2\u00ac\\ntache that of shadow beside shadow with lines of light\\nbetween that simulate strands of hair. A boy of ten\\nsummers first detected that the eyes opened and closed.\\nI remonstrated, assuring him there was no miracle\\nwrought. The little lad\u00e2\u0080\u0099s voice trembled as he replied,\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cI did see the eyelash move as you tilted the box.\u00e2\u0080\u009d He\\nwas correct, for photography catches these different ef\u00c2\u00ac\\nfects the lens tells the truth. These right angles or\\nacute angles then, make the eye close as if in an eter\u00c2\u00ac\\nnal sorrow, the mouth drooped or more drooping, the\\nbrow ploughed deeply with the furrows of pain, the\\nnostrils grown thin through lack of breath, the whole\\nface weary and worn; recalling another of the Ober-\\nAmmergau representations when Christus lay pros\u00c2\u00ac\\ntrate on the ground in the garden of Gethsemane, his\\nlocks wet with the dew of heaven.\\nIt is remarkable to find human features on the folds\\nof nature\u00e2\u0080\u0099s mysterious book, the everlasting rock; but\\nthis \u00e2\u0080\u009cReal Stone Face\u00e2\u0080\u009d with its .furrowed brow yet\\ncalm expression of resignation is enough to thrill every\\nhuman heart. Were our senses not dull, many other\\nsecrets of the inanimate world would be entrusted to\\nour keeping and stranger things brought to our knowl\u00c2\u00ac\\nedge. The stone the builders reject might become the\\nheadstone of the corner.", "height": "3127", "width": "2041", "jp2-path": "realstoneface00baco_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "Rough Heart-shaped Surface.", "height": "3127", "width": "2041", "jp2-path": "realstoneface00baco_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3127", "width": "2041", "jp2-path": "realstoneface00baco_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "THE REAL STONE FACE.\\n39\\nI often wonder why I should have stooped and\\npicked up that particular piece from the midst of myr\u00c2\u00ac\\niads round about, then, that after the lapse of eight\\nyears it should suddenly flash on my consciousness the\\nsemblance of a face that has appealed to the finer in\u00c2\u00ac\\nstincts of thousands. Chance plays a great part in our\\nlives, but surely this was not chance.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cThere is a divinity which shapes our ends,\\nRough hew them how we will.\\nOn my return to America after many years\u00e2\u0080\u0099absence I\\nam surprised to note the height of new buildings in our\\nlarge cities. It is a simple thing to put into position\\nupright beams of iron or steel, then to fill in with brick\\nand mortar. The formation of this \u00e2\u0080\u009cReal Stone Face\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nis more to be wondered at than the architecture of the\\nhighest building in the world.\\nNature is indeed a silent teacher to those who appre\u00c2\u00ac\\nciate her lovely plants. The delicate veining of leaves,\\nthe exquisite colour of flowers, or the rainbow tints on\\na seashell as clearly reveal the brush-marks of the ideal\\npicture-maker as does the western sky with its tints of\\ngold and purple. There must be a supreme power, yet\\nsome men in more abstruse paths seek for the truth,\\ncalmly asserting that the works of God are merely reno\u00c2\u00ac\\nvated matter.\\nWithout rain, dew and sunshine, there would be no\\nbeauty, and my opinion is these three, as factors, have\\ncombined to produce the roughness that, by its shad\u00c2\u00ac\\nows, brings into view this singular representation.\\nHowever, it is possible that in breaking the rocks\\nfor the roadway it may have assumed its present shape.", "height": "3127", "width": "2041", "jp2-path": "realstoneface00baco_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "40\\nTHE REAL STONE FACE.\\nThis face in stone is not after the manner of faces\\nfashioned by art, its wonder increases when studied\\nthrough a magnifying glass.\\nMineral substances are affected by winter\u00e2\u0080\u0099s rain or\\nsummer\u00e2\u0080\u0099s sun and so undergo a process of disintegra\u00c2\u00ac\\ntion, else we would have the \u00e2\u0080\u009cPhilosopher\u00e2\u0080\u0099s Stone.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nThe \u00e2\u0080\u009cReal Stone Face\u00e2\u0080\u009d shows unmistakable signs of\\nweathering, yet no geologist has essayed to compute\\nits age. With due deference for Darwin\u00e2\u0080\u0099s learning, he\\nhimself could not affirm whether it had rested on the\\nmountainside for centuries or for a day. As the years\\nroll by, will this small fraction of silicious rock disinte\u00c2\u00ac\\ngrate? Will the sharp excrescences which produce the\\nfurrowed brow chip off and so leave the face placid?\\nThere is neither neck, shoulders or body, only the pro\u00c2\u00ac\\nfile with a pathetic expression.\\nAlthough found in an atmosphere of religious fer\u00c2\u00ac\\nvor, no taint of superstition or even undue reverence\\nclings to this dew-wrought bit of sculpture. When\\nhandwritten parchment was the only means of dissem\u00c2\u00ac\\ninating knowledge, miracles were needed and Christ\\nhimself performed them, converting a few little fish\\ninto many. The forces of science written about in\\ninnumerable books does away with this need of occult\\npower.\\nThe foaming waters of Niagara will continue to awe\\nus, the growth of trees in the Yosemite amaze us, but\\nin the contemplation of this singular portrayal with\\nthe poet, we say, there are\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cTongues in trees, books in the running brooks,\\nSermons in stones, and good in everything.", "height": "3127", "width": "2041", "jp2-path": "realstoneface00baco_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "THE REAL STONE FACE.\\n41\\nThis \u00e2\u0080\u009cReal Stoiie Face\u00e2\u0080\u009d now has a world-wide rep\u00c2\u00ac\\nutation. Thousands, both rich and poor, have studied\\nit with interest mingled with amazement.\\nIn London a cabman had heard of it from my cook;\\nhe rang my bell one evening and asked if he might see\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009chow God had painted the face of His Son?\u00e2\u0080\u009d I re\u00c2\u00ac\\nplied, \u00e2\u0080\u009cYou are as welcome to see the stone as the\\nQueen herself.\u00e2\u0080\u009d Understand clearly that I do not\\nclaim that this inanimate object resembles the Christ.\\nI, a mere mortal, would not dare to make such an as\u00c2\u00ac\\nsertion, when the Bible distinctly says, \u00e2\u0080\u009cBlessed are\\nthey who have not seen, and yet have believed. We\\nsee the type of features generally accepted, nothing\\nmore. One must establish the authenticity of the\\nChrist pictures before coming to such a broad conclu\u00c2\u00ac\\nsion. In the Borghese, Rome, is a \u00e2\u0080\u009cDeposition from\\nthe Cross\u00e2\u0080\u009d that has a sad, patient face. Guardabassi\u00e2\u0080\u0099s\\nrepresentation of the \u00e2\u0080\u009cRisen Lord Meeting the Three\\nMarys,\u00e2\u0080\u009d has a similar expression. This is in St. Lu\u00c2\u00ac\\ncas, Rome. Ruben\u00e2\u0080\u0099s noted canvas in Brussels of the\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cDead Savior\u00e2\u0080\u009d has the closed eye, and \u00e2\u0080\u009cThe Entomb\u00c2\u00ac\\nment,\u00e2\u0080\u009d in Antwerp, by Vandyke has the hollow cheek.\\nIn Amsterdam I noted De Crayer\u00e2\u0080\u0099s \u00e2\u0080\u009cDescent from the\\nCross,\u00e2\u0080\u009d with a short nose, the face in profile much like\\nthe form we see on the stone when held at a right\\nangle with the light.\\nThe greatest men are without doubt the most simple\\nin their manner. Having a cup of tea with us in our\\napartments at Oxford, England, Professor Max Mtil\u00c2\u00ac\\nler exclaimed when he saw the little curio, \u00e2\u0080\u009cThe\\nchapter of accidents is much larger than we imagine.\u00e2\u0080\u009d", "height": "3127", "width": "2041", "jp2-path": "realstoneface00baco_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "42\\nTHE REAL STONE FACE.\\nThese words from his heart, yet warm upon his lips,\\nwere written by my request and are more prized than\\npages thought out by even such a great man as he. I\\nhave a hundred or more letters from learned men and\\nwomen who have examined the rare stone from the\\nKopfel, but transcribe only a few well known in the\\nscientific and literary world. Rev. Alexander Cargill,\\nD.D., a noted archeologist of Edinburgh, Scotland, in\\na recent letter says, \u00e2\u0080\u009cYour find is a far more enthralling\\nstory than any that tells of the discovery of any of the\\ngreat diamonds of the world, from the ancient Kohi-\\nnoor, or great Mogul of Shah Isham, to the Orlofif, or\\nstar of the South; each of inestimable value. There\\nmay be many other diamonds yet to be discovered, but\\nit would be a miracle indeed if there is another \u00e2\u0080\u0098Stone\\nPortrait\u00e2\u0080\u0099 such as you had the amazing good fortune\\nto find. How I envy you its possession!\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nAgain Canon Duckworth, of Westminster Abbey,\\nsays: \u00e2\u0080\u009cI .can not sufficiently wonder at the strange\\nchance by which you happened to place it, eight years\\nafter, in the light which disclosed the extraordinary\\nresemblance it reveals to the traditional portraits of\\nour Lord in his death agony. No cameo engraved by\\nthe best artists could have presented a more impres\u00c2\u00ac\\nsive picture of the sacred head surrounded by crown\\nof piercing thorns.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nA gentleman from the House of Lords called three\\ntimes at my hotel in London. He wished the Duke of\\nNorfolk to own this curio. I replied, \u00e2\u0080\u009cIt is not for\\nsale.\u00e2\u0080\u009d Both these men are ardent Roman Catholics.\\nWhen the lovely Queen of Italy examined it she ex\u00c2\u00ac\\nclaimed, \u00e2\u0080\u009cHow beautiful it is", "height": "3127", "width": "2041", "jp2-path": "realstoneface00baco_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "THE REAL STONE FACE.\\n43\\nThe Duchess of Albany looked, then with a sweet\\nforeign accent said, \u00e2\u0080\u009cI see a. rough bit of rock.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nDirectly the position was changed she whispered, \u00e2\u0080\u009cIt\\nis a clearly defined face.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nIn Chigwell, made memorable by the scenes in one\\nof Dicken\u00e2\u0080\u0099s works, I had the honour of a seat at a\\nlunch party next to Lord Hugh Cecil (Lord Salisbury\u00e2\u0080\u0099s\\nson). He had seen the rock face and he assured me\\nhe was amazed with the reality of its delineation.\\nThe Rector of St. Giles, Cripple Gate, London, in\u00c2\u00ac\\nvited a number of friends to meet me at tea, and they\\nwere each deeply impressed. A daughter of the late\\nArchdeacon Hale, of the old Charter House, honoured\\nme in like manner; and Lady Dyce Duckworth also in\u00c2\u00ac\\nvited me to tea, as Sir Dyce wished to see my posses\u00c2\u00ac\\nsion. One of the most distinguished and busy sur\u00c2\u00ac\\ngeons of London, Sir Dyce yet spared the time to drive\\naway in search of one of the Queen\u00e2\u0080\u0099s surgeons, who\\nwrote in my book, \u00e2\u0080\u009cA most remarkable stone.\u00e2\u0080\u009d The\\nBishop of Ripon and Mrs. Boyd Carpenter invited me\\nto lunch at the old Palace of Ripon, that his lordship\\nmight carefully study this formation. He had with\\nhim a well-known Oxford professor. Their opinions\\nare in accord with every one who has ever seen the\\nface in its best expression. Visiting at the charming\\nhome of Sir John and Lady Jennings, at Reigate, their\\nfriends and neighbors each expressed a deep interest\\nin my treasure, and during the three* weeks that I was\\nthe guest of Honorable Reginald Yarde-Buller, from\\nfar and near they came to the rectory to look and\\nwonder. I could lengthen this list, but these are suf-", "height": "3127", "width": "2041", "jp2-path": "realstoneface00baco_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "44\\nTHE REAL STONE FACE.\\nficient to prove how others regard this work of na\u00c2\u00ac\\nture. My autograph book is now most valuable.\\nOne week before Miss Francis Willard passed from\\nearth, I called at her hotel. She was not strong enough\\nto see me, but she asked if the little velvet case could\\nbe brought to her bedside. Rarely do I entrust it to\\nanyone, but Miss Gordon, her secretary, returned with\\nthis message: The little rock bears the sweetest ex\u00c2\u00ac\\npression of the Christ face I have ever seen.\u00e2\u0080\u009d Cardi\u00c2\u00ac\\nnal Gibbons wrote in my book, \u00e2\u0080\u009cA remarkable expres\u00c2\u00ac\\nsion of the Man of Sorrows.\u00e2\u0080\u009d Bishops and digna-\\ntaries of the church have looked and shown their sur\u00c2\u00ac\\nprise. Dr. Lyman Abbott stated from his pulpit in\\nBrooklyn that he had examined this rock formation\\nand knew it to be a perfectly natural one. Major J.\\nB. Pond, of the lecture bureau of New York, invited a\\nnumber of distinguished men and women to hear me\\ntell of my finding the curio. In the parlors of his\\nhome in Jersey City, Marion Crawford, Hall Caine,\\nand others gave their first lectures in America.\\nMajor Pond said, and afterwards wrote me, \u00e2\u0080\u009cThe\\nstory you tell is the most thrilling I ever listened to,\\nand I shall recommend your lecture to committees far\\nand wide.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nThe head of the Civil Service College in London sent\\nto the classroom for a small boy to bring his pencil and\\npap,er to his office. \u00e2\u0080\u009cSit down,\u00e2\u0080\u009d said he, \u00e2\u0080\u009cand draw me\\nwhat you see.\u00e2\u0080\u009d The lad went studiously to work and\\nproduced a pencil drawing strangely typical of the ac\u00c2\u00ac\\ncepted Christ pictures. A young man in Devonshire\\nabout to enter the ministry lay ill unto death. To", "height": "3127", "width": "2041", "jp2-path": "realstoneface00baco_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "THE REAL STONE FACE.\\n45\\nthose about him he frequently said: I see that sweet\\nface; it is so small, but its expression of patience bids\\nme be resigned and patient under my suffering.\u00e2\u0080\u009d It\\nappears the last day he was up and about I had told\\nhim the simple story of the \u00e2\u0080\u009cReal Stone Face.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nIn Rome, Italy, Professor J. Russell Forbes, Ph.D.,\\nthe archeologist, sent for his little six-year-old boy,\\nwho was at play. \u00e2\u0080\u009cWhat do you see, my son?\u00e2\u0080\u009d The\\ninnocent child studied it for a moment, then looking\\ninto his father\u00e2\u0080\u0099s face said, \u00e2\u0080\u009cPapa, it is Jesus.\u00e2\u0080\u009d Dr.\\nForbes turned to me with the words, \u00e2\u0080\u009cOut of the\\nmouth of babes and sucklings Thou hast perfected\\npraise.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nOnly a few weeks ago, in Columbia, South Carolina,\\na boy, after looking at the miniature, accompanied his\\nmother home, and when repeating his evening prayer\\nat her knee, surprised her with these words. \u00e2\u0080\u009cDear\\nJesus, I am glad that I saw that face, I will try and not\\nbe an impatient boy again. I will remember the pa\u00c2\u00ac\\ntient look on the \u00e2\u0080\u009cReal Stone Face.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nA clergyman, after his parishioners had seen the\\ncurio and heard my lecture, wrote me: \u00e2\u0080\u009cNever has\\nanything impressed me more than the sight of that\\nface, so full of dignity and resignation, of agony and\\npeace.\u00e2\u0080\u009d A distinguished lawyer of New Jersey while\\nlistening to my narration of the discovery of this nat\u00c2\u00ac\\nural curio, remarked to his wife aside, \u00e2\u0080\u009cHow like a\\nwoman, to be carried away by her imagination.\u00e2\u0080\u009d Di\u00c2\u00ac\\nrectly he too examined the stone, he exclaimed, \u00e2\u0080\u009cWhy,\\nnot the half has been said! It is worth a trip to Cali\u00c2\u00ac\\nfornia to study it.\u00e2\u0080\u009d", "height": "3127", "width": "2041", "jp2-path": "realstoneface00baco_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "46\\nTHE REAL STONE FACE.\\nThese personal experiences are given with the hope\\nof adding to the interest in this work of the great Cre\u00c2\u00ac\\nator. I remember that when visiting at the lovely home\\nof Dr. and Mrs. Loudon at Hamilton, Scotland, the\\nDoctor gave me a few strands of hair cut from the head\\nof Livingstone (the great explorer) after his body was\\nbrought to England by his faithful African boys. Dr.\\nLoudon was the physician and personal friend of\\nLivingstone. These strands of brown hair would be\\nof no value, but for the knowledge we have of his ex\u00c2\u00ac\\nploits in the jungles of Africa.\\nBefore leaving England, Mr. Grenfell, of Oxford,\\nsent me a copy of his book entitled \u00e2\u0080\u009cThe Saying of our\\nLord.\u00e2\u0080\u009d He has been at work in the Lybian desert un\u00c2\u00ac\\nder the auspices of the \u00e2\u0080\u009cEgyptian Exploration Fund.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nThe papyrus, a translation of which he gives, has eight\\nsayings, or Logion of our Lord, five of which are to be\\nfound in the Bible; but we are not familar with the re\u00c2\u00ac\\nmaining three, one of which reads \u00e2\u0080\u009cJesus saith, where\\nthere is one alone I am with him. Raise the stone\\nand there thou shall find me, cleave the wood and there\\nam I.\u00e2\u0080\u009d This would indicate that Christ is to be found\\nin everything. Under the arid sands of the desert this\\npapyrus has been hid away for centuries, only now\\nto be brought to the light of the present day by the\\nfriendly touch of two young Englishmen.\\nAbout this curious piece of stone a new field of\\nthought has developed. A friend in New York sent\\none of my books, with photographs, to an inmate of\\nBloomingdale Asylum. He, a man of brilliant but\\ndiseased mind, wrote to say that he had discovered the", "height": "3127", "width": "2041", "jp2-path": "realstoneface00baco_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "THE REAL STONE FACE.\\n47\\nletters J. C. and the head of Aristotle on the photo\u00c2\u00ac\\ngraphs. In a spirit of curiosity I sought to find the\\nforms he had seen, and lo! there loomed into clear out\u00c2\u00ac\\nline numbers of resemblances that suggest Biblical\\ncharacters.\\nChildren recognize the form of two small fish, sym\u00c2\u00ac\\nbolical of early Christians; the head of a wolf, and of a\\ngoat with a collar about the neck; a horse with a cherub\\nabove it, an owl, a lion and a lamb. \u00e2\u0080\u009cThe lion and the\\nlamb shall lie down together and a little child shall lead\\nthem.\u00e2\u0080\u009d Under a canopy is the form and figure of a\\nwoman seated, holding an infant in her arms. This\\ncertainly is not unlike the pictures we see in Europe\\nof the Madonna and child. The entombment is real\u00c2\u00ac\\nistic. In a cave a figure robed in white lies prostrate,\\nnot the slightest effort of the imagination being re\u00c2\u00ac\\nquired to see the rigid outlines of death. In the left-\\nhand upper corner are three distinctly outlined crosses,\\non two of which figures hang, with the arms over the\\ncrossbeams. Invert them, and one simulates a man\\nin white Eastern costume clinging to the rock above his\\nhead, as if to say, \u00e2\u0080\u009cRock of ages, cleft for me.\u00e2\u0080\u009d The\\nother cross inverted clearly represents a man seated,\\nwith his head resting against the tomb, evidently\\nasleep. Is this not a poem in stone? We need but to\\nread it with intelligent minds.\\nThe entire surface of the stone is in the shape of a\\nhuman heart, riven through the centre. Turn it up\u00c2\u00ac\\nside down and many exclaim, \u00e2\u0080\u009cThe lion of the tribe of\\nJudah J\u00e2\u0080\u009d The face of a lion is there, unmistakably.\\nAs to the origin of this curio I am as ignorant as I", "height": "3127", "width": "2041", "jp2-path": "realstoneface00baco_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "48\\nTHE REAL STONE FACE.\\nwas the night on which it flashed into view. The great\\nminds that have studied it have shed no light to illu\u00c2\u00ac\\nmine my eyes. The Supreme Creator who brought\\ninto existence and fixed the laws of nature so that at\\nthe ebb and flow of tides the ocean bed is not emptied;\\nstars move as suns to other planets, and the moon, obe\u00c2\u00ac\\ndient, follows in the path of the sun, was He not skill\u00c2\u00ac\\nful enough to cut jagged edges that cast shadows to\\nform a face The discovery was intended to open our\\nreceptive minds to a more appreciative knowledge of\\nHis power over nature. With a distinguished clergy\u00c2\u00ac\\nman, I would say, \u00e2\u0080\u009cIf nature sympathized with Him\\nin His death, and the rocks were rent, is it at all\\nstrange that He should leave His impress upon the\\npages of her mysterious book?\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nJust here a quotation from one of Professor Max\\nM idler\u00e2\u0080\u0099s books seems suitable: \u00e2\u0080\u009cThere are few sensa\u00c2\u00ac\\ntions more pleasant than that of wondering. We have\\nall experienced it in childhood, in youth, and in our\\nmanhood, and we may hope that even in our old age\\nthis affection of the mind will not entirely pass away.\\nIf we analyze this feeling of wonder carefully,* we shall\\nfind that it consists of two elements. What we mean\\nby wondering is not only that we are startled or\\nstunned\u00e2\u0080\u0094that I should call the merely passive element\\nof wonder. When we say T wonder\u00e2\u0080\u0099 we confess that\\nwe are taken aback, but there is a secret satisfaction\\nmixed up with our feeling of surprise, a kind of hope,\\nnay, almost of certainty, that sooner or later the won\u00c2\u00ac\\nder will cease, that our senses or our minds will re\u00c2\u00ac\\ncover, will grapple with the novel impression or expe-", "height": "3127", "width": "2041", "jp2-path": "realstoneface00baco_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "These pictures are to be found on the surface of the rough stone; suggesting to my mind\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\n1. Father Abraham.\\n2. Portrait on the wall.\\n3. Child\u00e2\u0080\u0099s face.\\n4. Girl with lily.\\n5. Esther and the King.\\n6. Virgin and Child. 12.\\n7. Ram\u00e2\u0080\u0099s head. 13.\\n8. Wolf and scapegoat. 14.\\n9. Horses\u00e2\u0080\u0099 heads. 15.\\n10. Asleep beside the tomb. 16.\\nxi. Simon of Cyrene.\\nRock of Ages cleft for me.\\nThree crosses.\\nAn open sepulchre.\\nThe Entombment.\\nThe Ascension.", "height": "3127", "width": "2041", "jp2-path": "realstoneface00baco_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3127", "width": "2041", "jp2-path": "realstoneface00baco_0060.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "THE REAL STONE FACE.\\n49\\nrience, grasp them, it may be, throw them, and finally\\ntriumph over them. In fact, we wonder at the riddles\\nof nature, whether animated or inanimated, with a\\nfirm conviction that there is a solution to them, even\\nthough we ourselves may not be able to find it.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nSuppose we gather from the roadside a number of\\nbits of limestone or granite, and then put them before\\na photographer\u00e2\u0080\u0099s lens. From a thousand plates, one\\nmay suggest a human form or face. The small rock\\nfrom the Kopfel at Ober-Ammergau is but one inch\\nlong; it has been stamped on glass by the aid of a\\nsnap-camera, and on the photograph which shows\\nthe mere rough excrescences, I have already discov\u00c2\u00ac\\nered over forty portrayals that require no effort of the\\nimagination to see.\\nThis curio has been entrusted to my keeping. I\\nhope a study of its formation will stimulate others to\\ndelve into the deep and hidden secrets of nature, thereby\\nunfolding the leaves of her book, the everlasting rock.\\nSurely it will repay an earnest student.", "height": "3127", "width": "2041", "jp2-path": "realstoneface00baco_0061.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER IV.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cWhat else is chance but the rude stone which receives its life\\nfrom the sculptor\u00e2\u0080\u0099s hand? Providence gives us chance, and\\nman must mould it to his own designs.\u00e2\u0080\u0099\u00e2\u0080\u0099\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Schiller.\\nNature is a curious workshop. Effects produced\\nin organic life may be that of design, because of her\\npower of reproduction. Inorganic life suggests\\nchance, notwithstanding the philosophical fact that in\\nnature there is no chance or accident. We speak of\\nchance as an event that happens without being con\u00c2\u00ac\\ntrived, intended, or foreseen. The rending of a rock,\\nthe breaking of a stone, or the splintering of a tree\\nmay be accident or chance, but we find marks of order\\non the broken surface, and we exclaim, \u00e2\u0080\u009cWhere can\\none lay hand on accident with assurance and say we\\nhave located it.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nYear by year unwritten books of nature are being\\nread, yet her problems are unsolved. Why is a poppy\\nred? Has an alchemist ever answered that question?\\nGrass-blades cover the earth, violets perfume the air\\nin their season, and the fruits of autumn ripen. Her\u00c2\u00ac\\nbert Spencer calls this \u00e2\u0080\u009ceternal energy.\u00e2\u0080\u009d Surely, this\\neternal energy must have something eternal to sus\u00c2\u00ac\\ntain it.\\nEverything in nature is made up of minute particles\\nor molecules. We think of the stones of the fields as a\\ncompact mass, but Sir Robert Ball, the great scientist,\\nwho is an authority on astronomy as well, tells us that\\nthe molecules of a diamond are always in rapid and\\ncurious, motion: \u00e2\u0080\u009cWere our powers for seeing mag-\\n50", "height": "3127", "width": "2041", "jp2-path": "realstoneface00baco_0062.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "THE REAL STONE FACE.\\n51\\nnified sufficiently we would note that each molecule is\\nswinging to and fro, quivering from the shock it re\u00c2\u00ac\\nceives from others of its kind. Its very hardness\\ncomes from the tiny particles hammering at whatso\u00c2\u00ac\\never touches it.\u00e2\u0080\u009d Could our finite minds delve into\\nand decipher the lessons that surround us the world\\nwould not contain the books that would be written.\\nFrederick Dixon says, \u00e2\u0080\u009cEvery fossil, as well as recent\\nbeing, is the record of the will of God.\u00e2\u0080\u009d Inanimate\\nnature preceded man, God\u00e2\u0080\u0099s highest work. Job was\\nasked, \u00e2\u0080\u009cWhere wast thou when the foundations of the\\nearth were laid, and the corner-stones thereof\\nWe instinctively inquire into the works of the Al\u00c2\u00ac\\nmighty Creator, and lovers of nature gladly give her\\nhandiwork a place in the world\u00e2\u0080\u0099s gallery of art, mean\u00c2\u00ac\\nwhile impressed by her varied forms and fancies seen\\nin sky, smoke, or on mountain-peak.\\nArtists have had their keenest inspiration from some\\nshadowy vision outlined at twilight.\\nColeridge wrote\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cOh! it is pleasant with a heart at ease,\\nJust after sunset, or by moonlit skies,\\nTo make the shifting clouds seem what you please.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nStudy the embers on your own hearthstone. Faces\\nand forms loom up in realistic outline, endure but a\\nmoment, then crumble, as do our air-castles or day\u00c2\u00ac\\ndreams. If the farmer would lift his eyes from his\\nfurrows he would often see pictured in floating clouds\\ngolden sheaves, designed by one who giveth rain for\\nthe parched earth, or sunshine for growing plants.\\nNatural curiosities add to our enjoyment and cer-", "height": "3127", "width": "2041", "jp2-path": "realstoneface00baco_0063.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "52\\nTHE REAL STONE FACE.\\ntainly stimulate our imitative minds. We have art-\\nlessons on glass of a cold and frosty morning far sur\u00c2\u00ac\\npassing in delicacy the touch of man or woman.\\nBuilding is exemplified by the Agassiz rock in Cal\u00c2\u00ac\\nifornia as it stands poised on a broken ledge. I felt,\\nin gazing at it, that one touch would send it on and on\\ndown the dizzy height. In truth, the world seems a\\nkind of gigantic \u00e2\u0080\u009ckindergarten.\u00e2\u0080\u009d Before ever there\\nwas a lamb to bleat, a shoulder of mutton was pre\u00c2\u00ac\\nfigured; ere a leg of man to wear a boot, Italy fur\u00c2\u00ac\\nnished the pattern for a cobbler.\\nThe outer crust of the earth is composed of two\\nleading types of structure, crystallite and fragmental.\\nWhen this shell bends or shrinks after the upheaval of\\nhot rock from subterranean movement, we have what\\nis termed an earthquake. Since the beginning of this\\ncentury no less than fifty-two islands have arisen out\\nof the sea. Nineteen have since disappeared, but ten\\nare now inhabited. Scientists are deeply interested in\\nthese fierce furnace fires. The growth of the tiniest\\nflower is as mysterious and deep a problem, but famil\u00c2\u00ac\\niarity leads us to pass it by, as only a perishable plant.\\nDarwin specifies three hundred millions of years as\\nthe time necessary for the accumulation of salt, coal,\\nor mineral\u00e2\u0080\u0094a mere man daring to limit the power of\\nthe Almighty to a fixed period.\\nChemical compounds of minerals, called agate, min\u00c2\u00ac\\ngle in a haphazard way and frequently delineate minia\u00c2\u00ac\\nture trees, rocks and mountains, rarely the outlines of\\na face. Weird and grotesque forms are chiseled by\\nthe wear of time, but not so definite as to impress one\\nwith the idea that it is the handiwork of man.", "height": "3127", "width": "2041", "jp2-path": "realstoneface00baco_0064.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "THE REAL STONE FACE.\\n53\\nTravelers are familiar with the couchant lion in\\nCorsica, guarding the port of Bastia; off the straits of\\nMessina the bear, and in Scotland a cobbler gives his\\nname to the mountain on which he sits. Conway has\\nits white horse, and Bettws-y-coed, Wales, the \u00e2\u0080\u009cGrand\\nold man\u00e2\u0080\u009d of the nineteenth century.\\nAt Grasmere, England, our thoughts were en\u00c2\u00ac\\ngrossed with memories of Wordsworth, the gifted\\npoet who wrote\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cIn spots like these it is we prize our memory\\nAnd feel that she hath eyes.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nWe forgot to inquire where the lion and lamb could\\nbe seen outlined on the topmost point of a mountain.\\nThe sun burnished the western sky with brilliant hues,\\nwhen we chanced to walk to a point of vantage; there\\nwe caught sight of the king of beasts couched, with a\\nlamb between his forepaws, as if about to partake of\\nhis evening meal; a realistic, natural picture this,\\nwith a gorgeous sunset for a background. Some dis\u00c2\u00ac\\ntance on the road toward Keswick these identical\\nboulders of rock change their form and simulate a\\nwoman playing upon an organ. Closer examination\\nshowed a mass of granite boulders lying in wild con\u00c2\u00ac\\nfusion.\\nShakespeare wrote\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cSometimes we see a cloud that s dragcnish\\nA vapour sometimes like a bear or lion,\\nA towering citadel, a pendant rock,\\nA forked mountain, or blue promontory\\nWith trees upon it, that nods into the world,\\nAnd mocks our eyes with air.\u00e2\u0080\u009d", "height": "3127", "width": "2041", "jp2-path": "realstoneface00baco_0065.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "54\\nTHE REAL STONE FACE.\\nNear Schwalbach, Germany, there is a wood giant\\ncrowned with living green leaves. The natural effect\\nis ruined by an artistically chiseled mouth. Tun\u00c2\u00ac\\nbridge Wells, England, has a fine specimen of a toad\\nrock, and in Derbyshire, a lion\u00e2\u0080\u0099s face beside a running\\nstream. In crossing the Furka pass, Switzerland, I\\ndiscovered a well-defined face of a clown on the moun\u00c2\u00ac\\ntainside. Our coachman expressed surprise that on\\nhis weekly trips, year by year, he had failed to notice\\nit.\\nThe late poet-laureate speaks of\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cThe face that men\\nShape to their fancy\u00e2\u0080\u0099s eye from broken rocks\\nOn some cliff side.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nIn America we have a \u00e2\u0080\u009cCrowing Cock\u00e2\u0080\u009d and a\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cSleeping Beauty.\u00e2\u0080\u009d This latter rests upon a stone\\ncouch; it may be of minerals, gold, silver, or iron.\\nEvery one has read of \u00e2\u0080\u009cThe Mount of the Holy Cross\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nin the Rocky mountains. With high peaks on the\\nright and left, on a mountainside, is a tremendous\\ncross, as white as snow. It appears to be snow drifted\\ninto gullies that cross at right angles. Again, in the\\nFranconian Notch, New Hampshire, we find a \u00e2\u0080\u009cGreat\\nStone Face,\u00e2\u0080\u009d with Indian features. There, two thou\u00c2\u00ac\\nsand feet above the sea level, this massive head appears\\nto gaze down the valley through a misty veil of cloud\\nand sky. The story is that over eighty years ago two\\nhunters, searching for wild game, chanced to get into\\nexact position to discern this resemblant form. Three\\ndisconnected boulders of granite, each about forty feet", "height": "3127", "width": "2041", "jp2-path": "realstoneface00baco_0066.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "THE REAL STONE FACE.\\n55\\nhigh and twelve hundred feet above the placid mountain\\nlake, have tumbled into line to form \u00e2\u0080\u009cThe Old Man of\\nthe Mountain,\u00e2\u0080\u009d but a few feet to right or left the ap\u00c2\u00ac\\npearance is spoiled. Should even a fraction of these\\nboulders crumble or break, the giant that has weath\u00c2\u00ac\\nered the storms of centuries will be lost to view, even\\nas frail man bows his head and is no more. An In\u00c2\u00ac\\ndian chief is said to have called a solemn conclave and\\nso it was decided to give this visible manifestation of\\nthe Great Spirit a place in the worship of the valley\\ntribes.\\nOn a spur of the Cordilleras is the outline of the\\nbody and spire of a cathedral, visible at a distance of\\nsixty miles.\\nIt has been a matter of great surprise to me, in visit\u00c2\u00ac\\ning the museums of Europe and America, to find so\\nfew and imperfect representations of the human form\\nor face in stone or in wood.\\nIn 1665 I find, a Jesuit priest, professor of mathe\u00c2\u00ac\\nmatics in the Roman college, compiled and had printed\\nin Amsterdam a series of engravings which he claims\\nto have found on stone, also the entire alphabet, John\\nthe Baptist, the Virgin Mary, and Christ crucified.\\nJudging from the reproductions, both author and artist\\ndrew upon their imagination, which was born and\\nfostered by superstition, a characteristic of the time in\\nwhich they lived.\\nIn the Pitts-Rivers Collection, Oxford University\\nMuseum, is a flint singularly like the head and neck of\\na pigeon; the eye, however, has been artificially chis\u00c2\u00ac\\neled. This was picked up at Brandon, Suffolk, Eng-", "height": "3127", "width": "2041", "jp2-path": "realstoneface00baco_0067.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "S6\\nTHE REAL STONE FACE.\\nland. Streeter, a Bond street, London, jeweller,\\nshowed me with pride a rough diamond which, by the\\naid of the imagination, suggests the face and head of\\nLord Salisbury. During a recent visit in South Dev\u00c2\u00ac\\nonshire, England, Colonel and Mrs. F. sent me for\\nlunch an enormous crab. In breaking one claw, quite\\naccidentally I discovered the representation of a stork\\nstanding over a coiled snake. This old crab was cov\u00c2\u00ac\\nered with an incrustation of the serpula, and these\\nstonelike molecules chanced to assume a realistic form.\\nNumberless outlines in greyish granite are found in\\nthe Clifton quarries. South Kensington has the\\nChaucer head. The upper portion is good, but from the\\nnose downward it is chaotic nothingness. This bit of\\nbrown jasper, it appears, was thrown by a native of\\nCairo at his tired donkey to spur its movements; it\\nmissed the poor brute, struck a wall and split in two.\\nAn Englishman, eye-witness to this brutality, picked\\nup one half to fling at the owner, but caught sight of\\nthe resemblance to a face and sent it to England in\u00c2\u00ac\\nstead. The, late Sir A. W. Franks, of the British Mu\u00c2\u00ac\\nseum, allowed me to handle the flint with a fairly de\u00c2\u00ac\\nfined head of \u00e2\u0080\u009cPitts, the Great Premier of England.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nHe also pointed out the black paper that outlines the\\nhead on which is printed in gold letters, \u00e2\u0080\u009cOh! my\\ncountry.\u00e2\u0080\u009d Dr. Geinitz, of the \u00e2\u0080\u009cGreen Vault\u00e2\u0080\u009d in Dres\u00c2\u00ac\\nden, showed me German sausage in stone, but he\\nwould not vouch for its genuineness; and Dr. Grun-\\nling, of the Royal Museum of Munich, took great de\u00c2\u00ac\\nlight in a \u00e2\u0080\u009cGhost Hand.\u00e2\u0080\u009d This dainty five-fingered\\ncrystal was in the centre of a Geode. On the banks of", "height": "3127", "width": "2041", "jp2-path": "realstoneface00baco_0068.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "THE REAL STONE FACE.\\n57\\nthe Mississippi there was picked up a Geode with a\\nfinely shaped cross of purest crystal. I saw in a mon\u00c2\u00ac\\nastery in Russia a moss agate elaborately mounted\\nin gold and pearls. The veining of the stone repre\u00c2\u00ac\\nsents an upright cross with a figure nailed to it; in\\nfront kneels a monk in flowing robes. Not being al\u00c2\u00ac\\nlowed to scrutinize it left me in doubt as to its being\\nentirely a work of nature. Semeria, a wealthy Gen\u00c2\u00ac\\noese, presented to Louis XIV., of France, a pearl\\nweighing a hundred grains. Its shape is that of the\\ntorso of a man. This pearl is mounted artistically.\\nThe head and arms are made of hammered gold tacked\\nto the pearl with gold nails, the helmet and plumes of\\ngold and diamonds, the sash and cloak of blue enamel\\nstudded with \u00e2\u0080\u009cfleur-de-lis,\u00e2\u0080\u009d the lance of gold with a\\nsolitaire diamond in its head. The pedestal, bordered\\nwith thirty-two large diamonds, rubies and topazes, is\\nsupported by four golden sphinxes. This pearl came\\nfrom the Indies and was the wonder of the French\\ncourt. We often miss curious freaks, for the reason\\nthat we appear indifferent to them. In passing a\\npiece of damp black velvet across the tin flue of my\\nkerosene stove, the colouring matter deposited delin\u00c2\u00ac\\neates a figure walking ankle deep in water, the arms\\noutstretched. This has been photographed.\\nIn England there is grown the \u00e2\u0080\u009csacred clover,\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nwhich has on each leaf a blood-red spot. The dry\\nseed-pod, when unwound, forms a perfect crown of\\nthorns, and it always contains seven seeds and a long\\nfibre like a rope. The legend in regard to it is that it\\ngrew at the foot of the cross on Calvary. I have cul-", "height": "3127", "width": "2041", "jp2-path": "realstoneface00baco_0069.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "58\\nTHE REAL STONE FACE.\\ntivated it and had it photographed. A collection of\\nthese chance pictures would form an interesting study.\\nVisiting from museum to museum during my ram\u00c2\u00ac\\nbles over the world, I was deeply interested in meteor\u00c2\u00ac\\nites. The largest weighs eighty tons and was\\nbrought from Greenland by Lieutenant Peary, in 1897.\\nAt one period the worship of these and other stones\\nwas a widespread cult; however, its worshipers have\\ndisappeared, as has the \u00e2\u0080\u009cBlack Fetich,\u00e2\u0080\u009d so greatly\\nprized and reverenced at Rome.\\nThese gods resemble Geodes, and were received as\\ndirect gifts from heaven. The ancient altars of sacri\u00c2\u00ac\\nfice were built of unhewn stone, and tables written\\nwith the finger of God contained the law of His chosen\\npeople. One is surprised at the number of references\\nin the Bible to rock or stone as a simile of Christ.\\nSamuel says, \u00e2\u0080\u009cThe Lord is my rock;\u00e2\u0080\u009d David speaks\\nof \u00e2\u0080\u009cGod my rock,\u00e2\u0080\u009d \u00e2\u0080\u009cLead me to the rock,\u00e2\u0080\u009d \u00e2\u0080\u009cFor thy\\nservants take pleasure in her stones\u00e2\u0080\u009d; Isaiah takes up\\nthe simile, \u00e2\u0080\u009cI lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a\\ntried stone,\u00e2\u0080\u009d \u00e2\u0080\u009cThe eyes of them that see shall not be\\ndim; and the ears of them that hear shall hearken\u00e2\u0080\u009d;\\nthen Job tells of how \u00e2\u0080\u009cThe waters wear the stones,\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cThe rock is removed out -of his place,\u00e2\u0080\u009d \u00e2\u0080\u009cFor thou\\nshalt be in league with the stones of the field;\u00e2\u0080\u009d and the\\nsweet singer of Israel takes up the refrain, \u00e2\u0080\u009cWho is a\\nrock save our God \u00e2\u0080\u009cThou hast made us to drink the\\nwine of astonishment. Thou doest wondrous things.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nAmong imaginative races and in wild and mountain\u00c2\u00ac\\nous regions the power of nature is still worshiped,,\\nand in this enlightened age pilgrimages are made to", "height": "3127", "width": "2041", "jp2-path": "realstoneface00baco_0070.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "THE REAL STONE FACE.\\n59\\nsuch places as the fountain of Lourdes in France. On\\nFebruary 25, 1858, it is claimed, the Virgin Mary ap\u00c2\u00ac\\npeared to two peasant girls, there assuring them the wa\u00c2\u00ac\\nter would cure every human malady. A costly church\\nhas been erected over the grotto, and in 1876, in the\\npresence of thirty-five cardinals of the Romish church,\\nit was consecrated. In one year as many as twenty\\nthousand pilgrims have visited the spot; the water is\\nalso sold in large quantities. There is still a belief\\nthat personal influence assists in the formation of cer\u00c2\u00ac\\ntain natural phenomenon, and men and women will\\naffirm that marks of intelligent development are to be\\nfound in the atoms of which the world is built.\\nThe Jew has a great regard for every stone in the\\nold wall of Solomon about Jerusalem. To this wall\\nthey confide their sorrows; their fathers had gone to it\\nfor solace, and now it links the past with the present\\nand gives them comfort. In Germany are many storied\\nspots around which cluster legends, and in Ireland the\\npoetess Catherine Tynan has pictured the \u00e2\u0080\u009cLegend\\nof the Christ of Unternach.\u00e2\u0080\u009d It runs somewhat on\\nthis wise: A knight, after a life of sin, grows weary\\nand resolves to strive after better things. He sets his\\nvassals free and gives his wealth to the poor and to\\nthe building of a monastery. He enters the church\\nand dons the robes of gray. Long years after, in mak\u00c2\u00ac\\ning confession of his sins to the Bishop, he was refused\\nabsolution with the words, \u00e2\u0080\u009cWhen thy staff shall bud\\nand bloom fair lilies I will speak thy pardon\u00e2\u0080\u009d; out on\\nthe snowy way he then walked, until he reached a cru\u00c2\u00ac\\ncifix, where burned a tiny lamp. In loving pity the", "height": "3127", "width": "2041", "jp2-path": "realstoneface00baco_0071.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "6o\\nTHE REAL STONE FACE.\\nface of the crucified seemed to look upon him. With\\nhis lips pressed to the blood-stained feet he swooned,\\nstill grasping his stick. In the morning he was found\\ncold and stiff, but his pilgrim\u00e2\u0080\u0099s staff was covered with\\nblooming lilies.", "height": "3127", "width": "2041", "jp2-path": "realstoneface00baco_0072.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER V.\\nCHRIST IN ART.\\nO sacred head, once wounded,\\nWith grief and pain weighed down.\\nHow does that visage languish\\nWhich once was bright as morn.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094Gerherd.\\nChrist, the name used for the Saviour, is of Greek\\norigin and signifies \u00e2\u0080\u009cAnointed;\u00e2\u0080\u009d it corresponds with\\nthe Hebrew word Messiah. This appellation given\\nJesus of Nazareth really intimates that He is the Sav\u00c2\u00ac\\niour promised to the house of Jacob. The word Jesus\\nmeans, \u00e2\u0080\u009cHe shall save his people from their sins.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nThe birth of Christ is fixed before the Christian era,\\nbut the precise date can not be determined, nor yet the\\nyear of His death. Christ was not born at the end of\\nDecember, for shepherds were watching their flocks\\nin the fields when the star arose that was to lead them\\nto the manger where the young child was cradled.\\nThe doctrine of Christianity depends on the person\u00c2\u00ac\\nality of our Lord. Early heretics contend that His\\nbody was not a real body, but a visionary appearance;\\nothers that He was a mere man. Christians regard\\nChrist as the Godman in two distinct natures but one\\nperson, the incarnate second person of the Godhead.\\nThe horror entertained for the idols of the pagans\\ninclined early Christians to look with disfavor upon\\n61", "height": "3127", "width": "2041", "jp2-path": "realstoneface00baco_0073.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "62\\nTHE REAL STONE FACE.\\nany image or pictorial delineation of their risen Master.\\nAs paganism disappeared, the followers of the meek\\nand lowly Man of Galilee longed for some ideal, some\\ntangible thought on paper or canvas of His face and\\nform; and I believe those who had seen the Lord in the\\nflesh tried to portray His features. The very ugliness\\nof the first pictures helps rather than otherwise to\\nprove that the work was the work of His followers, al\u00c2\u00ac\\nthough they had little knowledge of art. What more\\nnatural than for Peter, whose heart was swelling with\\nlove and his mind overwhelmed with contrition, to\\nattempt to put on paper the counterpart of that face\\nthat was ever before his mind\u00e2\u0080\u0099s eye, with its expression\\nof compassion for him and his guilty denial; then, for\\nhim in his impulsiveness to pass it to some one more\\nversed in the use of pencil or brush, begging that he\\nwould portray a more spiritual face. With this clue\\nwe can imagine the first artists striving constantly to\\nembellish and make the face more harmonious and\\nbeautiful, never deviating, however, from the type of\\nfeatures. The very homeliest portrayal has a deeper,\\na stronger hold upon our hearts than imaginative pic\u00c2\u00ac\\ntures painted by the gifted artists of a later age.\\nTheir works may be works of art, but not truthful de\u00c2\u00ac\\nlineations from the life. It is difficult for us to accept\\na preconceived idea of Christ in colour or form. He\\nwho gave His life that men might live inspires us with\\na lofty idea too sublime for human fingers to portray.\\nHis life was not marred by sin, His face should there\u00c2\u00ac\\nfore be incomparably beautiful. His divinity no man\\ncan depict. When the son of Joseph and Mary went", "height": "3127", "width": "2041", "jp2-path": "realstoneface00baco_0074.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "THE REAL STONE FACE.\\n63\\nfrom city to city doing good, there was a law that for\u00c2\u00ac\\nbade the making of pictures. Art as we know it\\nscarcely had an existence.\\nHowever, we have representations of St. Peter and\\nSt. Paul that have been accepted, then why may we\\nnot credit the likenesses of Christ, imperfect as they\\nare? When we speak of the likeness of Christ we do\\nnot designate any particular picture, referring rather\\nto the cast of features painters have kept in their\\nmind\u00e2\u0080\u0099s eye as a type ever since the moment when the\\nfirst artist attempted to put on canvas or in mosaic\\nthe counterpart of that \u00e2\u0080\u009cvisage that was marred, so\\nmarred more than any man\u00e2\u0080\u0099s.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nNot one of these so-called representations of Christ\\nsatisfied \u00e2\u0080\u009cthe old masters.\u00e2\u0080\u009d Each one in his turn\\nstrove zealously to conceive a higher ideal, a more\\nspiritual face.\\nPaintings of Christ or of the Virgin Mary, no mat\u00c2\u00ac\\nter how well executed, do not impress us as a thing to\\nbe worshiped or adored. Professor Max Muller, of\\nOxford, says, \u00e2\u0080\u009cIf at the sight of a portrait of a be\u00c2\u00ac\\nloved and venerated friend no longer existing in this\\nworld our heart is filled with sentiments of love and\\nveneration, if we fancy him present in the picture, still\\nlooking upon us with his wonted tenderness and affec\u00c2\u00ac\\ntion, and then indulge our feelings of love and grati\u00c2\u00ac\\ntude, should we be charged with offering the greatest\\ninsult to him\u00e2\u0080\u0094that of fancying him to be none other\\nthan a piece of painted paper?\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nIt is surprising that even zealous Christians held\\nthe earliest pictures of Christ in veneration, for they", "height": "3127", "width": "2041", "jp2-path": "realstoneface00baco_0075.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "6 4\\nTHE REAL STONE FACE.\\nare ugly in the extreme. On the arch of triumph at\\nthe church of St. Paul\u00e2\u0080\u0099s, without the walls of Rome, is\\na face repulsive, with a short beard and heavy mous\u00c2\u00ac\\ntache, large and staring eyes and long hair falling over\\nthe shoulder. This was a gift from the Empress Galla\\nPlacidia, in 450. There is another almost identical\\nwith this in the Baptistry at Revena, also a gift of the\\nEmpress. On her tomb, however, the Shepherd of\\nIsrael is represented as a beardless youth.\\nThere are two portraits that at least have the merit\\nof antiquity and date from the first century. One is\\ncut on an emerald it is supposed by the order of the\\nEmperor Tiberius. It fell into the possession of the\\nTurks and was stored in the treasury at Constantino\u00c2\u00ac\\nple. In 1483 the Sultan gave it to Pope Innocent the\\nVIII. as a ransom for his brother. The Veronica\\nhandkerchief is presumably a reproduction from this.\\nThe second delineation is a brass medallion found in\\nAnglesca, Wales, in 1702. The inscription reads,\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cThis is a picture of the prophet Jesus.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nIn the time of Nero, not long after our Lord\u00e2\u0080\u0099s as\u00c2\u00ac\\ncension, His followers took refuge from prosecution in\\nthe Catacombs of Rome, which measure seven hun\u00c2\u00ac\\ndred and fifty miles. Under the city and Campagna is\\nhollow with them. About those subterranean passages\\nand corridors the infant church kept alive its cherished\\nreligious ceremonies. It is not surprising that the\\nwalls and grave ornaments have painted on them por\u00c2\u00ac\\ntrayals of Bible scenes in which the \u00e2\u0080\u009cCarpenter\u00e2\u0080\u0099s Son\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nfigures. Lord Lindsay says the earliest efforts\\nemerged \u00e2\u0080\u009cabove ground about the time of Constan-", "height": "3127", "width": "2041", "jp2-path": "realstoneface00baco_0076.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "THE REAL STONE FACE.\\n65\\ntine\u00e2\u0080\u009d; before that, they were hid away in the Cata\u00c2\u00ac\\ncombs. Christ is there represented as a \u00e2\u0080\u009cGood Shep\u00c2\u00ac\\nherd,\u00e2\u0080\u009d with pastoral pipe, seeking the lost sheep, or\\nleading his flock beside cool streams in grassy mead\u00c2\u00ac\\nows again, feeding five thousand, or blessing little\\nchildren. One artist will depict Christ as an ideal\\nyouth in the bloom of health, another as a bearded\\nman in the glory of manhood. In the Museo Chris-\\ntiano of the Vatican is a fresco removed from the Cata\u00c2\u00ac\\ncombs that represents Christ in profile and with a full\\nbeard. The beautiful Calixtine portrait from the Cal-\\nixtine cemetery is almost destroyed by dampness and\\nthe smoke of tapers. It represents the oval face,\\nstraight nose, arched eyebrow and high forehead. The\\nbeard is thin and unshaven, the hair parted on the fore\u00c2\u00ac\\nhead, falling over the shoulders in curls. The expres\u00c2\u00ac\\nsion of the face is mild and earnest.\\nPublius Lentulus was the predecessor of Pilate, and\\nhis letter to the Roman Senate describing the Naza-\\nrene probably influenced many of the artists in their\\nconception of the face and form of Christ. This is a\\ntranslation of his description:\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cThere lives at this time in Judea a man of singular\\ncharacter, whose name is Jesus Christ. The barba\u00c2\u00ac\\nrians esteem him as a prophet, but his followers adore\\nhim as the immediate offspring of the immortal God.\\nHe is endowed with such unparalleled virtue as to call\\nback the dead from their graves, and to heal every kind\\nof disease with a word. His person is tall, elegantly\\nshaped; his aspect amiable and serious. His hair\\nflows in those beautiful shades which no united colours", "height": "3127", "width": "2041", "jp2-path": "realstoneface00baco_0077.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "66\\nTHE REAL STONE FACE.\\ncan match, falling into graceful curls below his ears,\\nagreeably couching on his shoulders, parting on the\\ncorner of his head, like the head-dress of the sect of\\nthe Nazarites. His forehead is smooth and his cheeks\\nwithout a spot, save that of lovely red. His nose and\\nmouth are formed with exquisite symmetry. His\\nbeard is thick and suitable to the hair of his head,\\nreaches a little below his chin, and parted in the mid\u00c2\u00ac\\ndle like a fork. He rebukes with majesty, counsels\\nwith mildness, and invites with the most tender and\\npersuasive language, his whole address, whether in\\nword or deed, being elegant, brave, and strictly char\u00c2\u00ac\\nacteristic of so exalted a being. No man has seen him\\nsmile, but the whole world has seen him weep; and so\\npersuasive are his tears that the multitude can not\\nwithhold their tears. In short, whatever this phe\u00c2\u00ac\\nnomenon may be in the end, he seems at present a\\nman of excellent beauty and divine perfection, every\\nway surpassing the children of men.\u00e2\u0080\u009d The compiler\\nadds, \u00e2\u0080\u009cTo us who live in the later ages of the world it\\nmust be a high gratification to know what were the\\nform and features of our beloved Master.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nAbout the eighth century, John of Damascus gives\\nanother description which he claims to have gathered\\nfrom an ancient author. \u00e2\u0080\u009cChrist has beautiful eyes,\\nthe eyebrows meeting, a regular nose, flowing locks, a\\nblack beard and sandy hair, with a creamy complexion\\nlike his mother.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nDuring the reign of Constantine, 306-337, the Chris\u00c2\u00ac\\ntian religion was first recognized; the pagan basilicas\\nwere then appropriated to Christian worship, and Con-", "height": "3127", "width": "2041", "jp2-path": "realstoneface00baco_0078.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "THE REAL STONE FACE.\\n67\\nstantine ordered copies made of the accepted Christ\\npictures to adorn the walls. Christendom was now di\u00c2\u00ac\\nvided into the Latin and Greek churches, yet they each\\nadhered to the same type with slight differences. The\\nLatin portraits have the hair divided and smoothly\\npainted in an arch over the brow. The Greeks have a\\nlock falling from the center of the forehead.\\nConstantine, under the inspiration of his mother,\\nHelena, ascertained the sites of the various events in\\nthe \u00e2\u0080\u009cPassion of our Lord\u00e2\u0080\u009d and had churches or other\\nmemorials built. These different places became then\\nobjects of veneration to pilgrims who came from other\\nChristian churches. Jerusalem is the seat of sacred\\nassociation. The Via Dolorosa is the route our Lord\\ntook on his sorrowful procession from the \u00e2\u0080\u009cHall of\\nJudgment\u00e2\u0080\u009d to Mount Calvary.\\nThe church of the Holy Sepulchre is in the Latin\\nquarter, the building Byzantine, and in a spacious\\ncourt under the great dome is the sepulchre, an oblong\\nform fifteen feet by ten, surmounted by a rich ceiling\\ndecorated with gold, silver, and precious marble.\\nThis church is a common meeting-ground for Chris\u00c2\u00ac\\ntians, Syrians, Copts, Greeks, Latins and Armenians.\\nOne also sees the tomb of the Virgin, the Mount of\\nOlives, the Pool of Bethesda, and the Potter\u00e2\u0080\u0099s Field.\\nAs we come on down the centuries we find Hadrian\\nL, 772-795, issued an order or decree that Christ\\nshould be represented in as beautiful form as art could\\ndepict; not one of these artists discarded that type of\\nfeature that long since had been received.\\nJohn VII., 705, who was a Greek, built St. Maria", "height": "3127", "width": "2041", "jp2-path": "realstoneface00baco_0079.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "68\\nTHE REAL STONE FACE.\\nin Cosmedia, and there we find a precious fragment of\\na picture from \u00e2\u0080\u009cold St. Peter\u00e2\u0080\u0099s.\u00e2\u0080\u009d In a fresco at St.\\nClement\u00e2\u0080\u0099s, Rome, Christ is represented releasing Adam\\nand Eve from hell; this is the earliest painting with\\nfair hair and beard. In St. Marco, Venice, we have\\nanother done in the time of Gregory, 833. These were\\nprobably the work of Greek artists.\\nThe ninth century produces a pleasing figure of\\nChrist in St. Constantia, Rome. War now oppressed\\nthe country; the Byzantine artists left Rome, but be\u00c2\u00ac\\nginners in art adhered to the preconceived type.\\nChrist was born an Eastern Jew and was portrayed\\nwith dark hair, but not with Jewish features.\\nWhat matters the exact outline of the Head of the\\nChurch; his hair auburn or black, his nose that of a\\nJew or a Gentile? We know He was the purest man\\nthat ever lived, a true son of his people; His heart\\naflame with desire to restore the law, and bring the\\nKingdom of Heaven to the children of earth. His\\nevery word was a sermon to men engaged in quarrels\\nand contentions.\\nOccasionally we see a picture of the Virgin Mary or\\nof the Saviour that is attributed to the work of a su\u00c2\u00ac\\npernatural agency. The artist is supposed to sit in a\\nstupor of unconsciousness holding the brush and pal\u00c2\u00ac\\nette while an unseen hand portrays the face and form.\\nI was present when one of these noted Madonnas was\\nunveiled in Florence, Italy, by order of the Pope, that\\nthe long-continued rain might cease. This canvas\\nhad not been seen by the public for fifteen years.\\nFrom far and near devotees of the Romish church", "height": "3127", "width": "2041", "jp2-path": "realstoneface00baco_0080.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "THE REAL STONE FACE.\\n69\\ncame, bringing gifts of rare jewels, precious stones,\\nand gold, as thank-offerings for restoration from ill\u00c2\u00ac\\nness or sudden death. This picture was studded about\\nthe neck, arms, and feet with magnificent diamonds,\\nrubies, and pearls. In like manner with others, I had\\na half-dozen rosaries touched to the feet of this \u00e2\u0080\u009cHoly\\nMother\u00e2\u0080\u009d for gifts to Roman Catholic friends not pres\u00c2\u00ac\\nent.\\nThe centuries continued to roll by and artists abated\\nnot one atom their endeavor to beautify the face of\\nChrist. It is a question constantly in my mind, why\\nFra Angelico, with his heart aglow with love for the\\nMaster, did not invent a more soul-inspiring picture?\\nWith his sympathy for fallen man, he has given us a\\nChrist with an expression of tender pity; he, like his\\npredecessors, however, adhered to the type. This\\nconvinces us all the more of the truth of Sir Wyke\\nBayliss\u00e2\u0080\u0099s opinion that \u00e2\u0080\u009cthe representations of Christ all\\nemanate from the same source, even as the petals of a\\nflower spring from the life of a flower.\u00e2\u0080\u009d Not one per\u00c2\u00ac\\nson is satisfied with any picture, even the best, by Ti\u00c2\u00ac\\ntian or others. In some particular they would have\\nit changed. I have copied and studied many of the\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cold masters,\u00e2\u0080\u009d but not one ever prompted the exclama\u00c2\u00ac\\ntion, \u00e2\u0080\u009cMy Lord and my God!\u00e2\u0080\u009d We do stand in mute\\namazement before many superb pictures, the produc\u00c2\u00ac\\ntion of immortal genius, traced by mortal fingers with\\nperishable material, but keenly we feel the insuffi\u00c2\u00ac\\nciency of a mere man\u00e2\u0080\u0099s attempt to depict the Divine,\\nthe agony of the crucifixion, or the transcendent glory\\nof the ascension. From the thirteenth century we", "height": "3127", "width": "2041", "jp2-path": "realstoneface00baco_0081.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "70\\nTHE REAL STONE FACE.\\nhave the wonderful creations of Giotto, the best of\\nwhich are in Florence in Santa Croce. Titian, in the\\nsixteenth century, changed somewhat the old type to a\\nmore youthful face with neither beard nor moustache,\\nand a complexion beautiful to behold, but that por\u00c2\u00ac\\ntrayal that sprang from the Catacombs was unmistak\u00c2\u00ac\\nably retained. Rembrandt, with a master hand, massed\\nstrong shadows and lights, and Van Dyke delineated\\nwith such feeling the scenes of the \u00e2\u0080\u009cCrucifixion on\\nCalvary\u00e2\u0080\u009d that even in the present day when one looks\\nupon his canvas, tears unbidden rise. Again, Leo\u00c2\u00ac\\nnardo da Vinci in his \u00e2\u0080\u009cLast Supper\u00e2\u0080\u009d delineates a tender,\\nloving host, giving a morsel toi Judas, who was about to\\nbetray his Lord. Stand a child of the nineteenth cen\u00c2\u00ac\\ntury before that, or in fact any of the representations\\nof Christ painted by Rubens, Munkacsy, or Dore and\\nthey will single out the figure intended for the Christ.\\nWhy? Because, with acknowleged skill in the use of\\npigments and tools, no artist, no sculptor, ever loses\\nsight of the original, the long-accepted type that was\\ncoriceived or designed by who?\\nThis question has never been answered. For cen\u00c2\u00ac\\nturies on centuries when art appeared dead, this first\\nconception of the crucified one- \u00e2\u0080\u009clived on and on.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nWith the individual strength of character found in\\nthe work of Raphael, Correggio, Titian, and others,\\nwe admit that they were willing to cast aside their orig\u00c2\u00ac\\ninality of design and without a question adopt the type\\nof features that had come from no one knew whither.\\nCaesar\u00e2\u0080\u0099s likeness on coin dates to a known period.\\nWhen Paul wrote to Timothy sending greetings to the", "height": "3127", "width": "2041", "jp2-path": "realstoneface00baco_0082.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "THE REAL STONE FACE.\\n7 1\\nbrethren, did he not have some authentic knowledge\\nof the face that men called that of his risen Lord?\\nImagine Pilate standing before any one of the delin\u00c2\u00ac\\neations of Christ. Would he exclaim, \u00e2\u0080\u009cYes, that is the\\nprisoner I delivered to be crucified?\u00e2\u0080\u009d Would Mary in\\nthe bitterness of her soul sob, \u00e2\u0080\u009cIt is my son ye dragged\\naway\\nAs the years roll by, our cathedrals and churches re\u00c2\u00ac\\nproduce in stained glass this picture of the \u00e2\u0080\u009cGreat\\nShepherd of the Sheep\u00e2\u0080\u009d; the walls of schoolrooms are\\nhung about with prints of \u00e2\u0080\u009cHim who is the same yes\u00c2\u00ac\\nterday, to-day, and forever\u00e2\u0080\u009d; the preachers and teach\u00c2\u00ac\\ners teach the story of the cross.\\nNotwithstanding the discussion as to the verity of\\nthe Christ pictures, no one has found a pen portrayal\\nin the Bible of the features of the \u00e2\u0080\u009cBabe of Bethle\u00c2\u00ac\\nhem.\u00e2\u0080\u009d We read, \u00e2\u0080\u009cThe child grew and waxed strong\\nin spirit,\u00e2\u0080\u009d \u00e2\u0080\u009cHe was full of grace and truth,\u00e2\u0080\u009d \u00e2\u0080\u009cBehold\\none who did no sin.\u00e2\u0080\u009d Look on that touching tableau\\nin Gethsemane, \u00e2\u0080\u009cMy soul is troubled,\u00e2\u0080\u009d and beside the\\ntomb of a friend, \u00e2\u0080\u009cJesus wept.\u00e2\u0080\u009d \u00e2\u0080\u009cHe was seen of an\u00c2\u00ac\\ngels and crowned with honor.\u00e2\u0080\u009d \u00e2\u0080\u009cAnd many were as\u00c2\u00ac\\ntonished.\u00e2\u0080\u009d \u00e2\u0080\u009cHis visage was so marred more than any\\nman.\u00e2\u0080\u009d \u00e2\u0080\u009cAs the shadow of a great rock in a weary\\nland.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nDr. Stroud thinks Christ died of a broken heart.\\nThe \u00e2\u0080\u009cold masters\u00e2\u0080\u009d must have held a like opinion, for\\nmany of their portrayals have a heart-broken expres\u00c2\u00ac\\nsion. Did He fear a physical collapse before reaching\\nCalvary For it is said in the days of His flesh he of-", "height": "3127", "width": "2041", "jp2-path": "realstoneface00baco_0083.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "72\\nTHE REAL STONE FACE.\\nfered up prayers and supplications with stroilg crying\\nand tears unto Him who was able to save Him from\\ndeath, and was heard in that he feared. The answer\\nto His cries came when an angel swept down the\\nexpanse beneath the star-lit sky, and with radiant\\nhands lifted Him from His prostration, speaking\\nwords of encouragement. With this strength made\\nperfect in His weakness, \u00e2\u0080\u009cHe faced the trial,\u00e2\u0080\u009d saying\\nto His disciples, \u00e2\u0080\u009cArise, let us be going.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nPictures of Christ date from the earliest period, and\\nas many other things have been preserved, one is dis\u00c2\u00ac\\nposed to believe in the verity of these portraits.\\nPere Scheil, a Frenchman and student of Assyrian\\nliterature, discovered a Babylonian account of the del\u00c2\u00ac\\nuge older than that of Moses. One authority says Mo\u00c2\u00ac\\nses incorporated the Hebrew statement in Genesis.\\nBorosus, a Babylonian historian, gives another descrip\u00c2\u00ac\\ntion, and George Smith found in the library at Nine\u00c2\u00ac\\nveh an Assyrian tablet with the account written on\\nclay while yet soft. This was presumably six hundred\\nyears before Christ. These three resemble, but are\\nnot identical. It is believed by some that the story was\\nborrowed from Babylon at the time of the Captivity.\\nPere Scheil, however, claims, that this precious bit of\\nclay has a poetical account of it written seven centuries\\nbefore Moses, or about the time of Isaac and Jacob,\\nthat is, over two thousand years before our Lord\u00e2\u0080\u0099s\\nbirth. Other writers affirm that Noah buried the rec\u00c2\u00ac\\nords of the world\u00e2\u0080\u0099s antediluvian history in Sippara,\\njust before the flood; at any rate it was at Sippara\\nthat the fragment was found.", "height": "3127", "width": "2041", "jp2-path": "realstoneface00baco_0084.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "THE REAL STONE FACE. 73\\nChrist\u00e2\u0080\u0099s portraits may have been preserved, if these\\nfragmental writings are genuine.\\nChristianity is to-day in a state of disruption and\\nready to unite into any form that will best supply it\\nwith power to fulfil its work or mission in the world;\\ncertainly we know more about the origin of the Bible\\nthan any man of the first century, nay more than Paul\\nhimself.\\nWe needed the coming of the Christ to show us the\\nFather, the Word to reveal the Son, and the Holy\\nSpirit to understand the Word and if we but study the\\nOld Testament aright, it will be the seed of the New,\\nfrom which is matured the flower of the Old.\\nEven Sir Moses Montifiore, a strong-minded Jew,\\nonce asked, \u00e2\u0080\u009cWhy can not we remove the title page be\u00c2\u00ac\\ntween the two Testaments?\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nIs it not conclusively proven that both Protestant\\nand Roman Catholic denominations have accepted the\\none type, or delineation of the \u00e2\u0080\u009cPrince of Life?\u00e2\u0080\u009d In\\nthe words of the Bishop of Ripon, let me say, \u00e2\u0080\u009cThe\\nreligion of the future will neither be Protestant nor\\nCatholic, but simply Christian.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cThere is a green hill far away,\\nWithout a city wall\\nWhere the dear Lord was crucified\\nWho died to save us all.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nThe cross, symbolic of Christianity, will always be\\ndear to us, no matter what our creed or denomination,\\nand we should be interested in its origin. It antedates\\nthe Christian era, for in heathen mythology we find a", "height": "3127", "width": "2041", "jp2-path": "realstoneface00baco_0085.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "74\\nTHE REAL STONE FACE.\\nmention of this mystic emblem. Mr. Flinders Petrie,\\nof the Egypt Exploration Fund, gives in his history of\\nEgypt interesting details of the early form of the ankh,\\nor cross.\\nThe labarum borne before the Emperor Constantine\\nafter his conversion to Christianity has three initial\\nletters of the name Christ. The P is above the inter\u00c2\u00ac\\nsection of the lines forming the X, and the I is below.\\nA picture of this may be seen in Smith\u00e2\u0080\u0099s Dictionary of\\nthe Bible. This Constantine cross first- came into use\\nearly in the fourth century, and one is impressed with\\nthe fact that no other form of the tree on which our\\nLord was crucified is to be found in the Catacombs un\u00c2\u00ac\\ntil a century later on. Baring-Gould claims that the\\nlabarum of Constantine was to be seen in connection\\nwith Christian inscriptions at Phile, and that the\\nheathens used it to represent their religion. The\\nEgyptians held it sacred as the symbol of life; to us it\\nis typical of the life to come.\\nWhen Moses lifted the brazen serpent in the wilder\u00c2\u00ac\\nness, he prefigured the cross; and Justin Martyn tells\\nus the sign of the cross is impressed upon the whole of\\nnature. It forms a part of man himself, when he\\nraises his hands in prayer.\\nEarly explorers found a cross of stone on the island\\nof Cozumel in the Carribean sea, and among the ruins\\nof Yucatan it is also seen. Part of the tablet of the\\ncross of Palmyra is now in the National Museum at\\nWashington and is classed as a fine work of art. A\\ncrucifix of iron was dug from a mound in West Vir-", "height": "3127", "width": "2041", "jp2-path": "realstoneface00baco_0086.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "THE REAL STONE FACE.\\n75\\nginia, showing the mound-builders had it. However,\\nthis may have belonged to a Frenchman or Spaniard,\\nand been found by a nomadic chief. The peculiar\\nform of the cross of Calvary is wholly speculative, as\\ncrosses were the common property of all Eastern na\u00c2\u00ac\\ntions, and many legends are in circulation in regard to\\nthe true cross or tree which stood on Calvary. Christ\\nwas represented nailed to the outstretched beams with\\nfour nails, but to make the crucifixion harmonize with\\nthe doctrine of the Trinity, only three are now used.\\nThe Roman gibbet has really no symbolic value other\\nthan that given to it by the Martyr of Calvary. Bar-\\ning-Gould thus describes it: \u00e2\u0080\u009cMalefactors were some\u00c2\u00ac\\ntimes fastened to a simple upright stake and so left to\\ndie, or they were impaled upon it, and to this upright\\nstake the Latin name crux (cross) was originally ap\u00c2\u00ac\\nplicable. Innumerable relics of the true cross are\\nshown in the sanctuaries of Europe. It was believed\\nthat when a fragment was chipped off it had the power\\nof growing, so as to keep it intact. Indeed it must\\nhave reproduced itself many times to have supplied the\\nchurches with the smallest section.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nHelena, mother of Constantine the Great, was bap\u00c2\u00ac\\ntized into the Christian church after the victory gained\\nby her son over the pagan forces; and in her desire to\\nsee the sepulchre where the Lord was entombed she\\nvisited Jerusalem in 326. She thought she was able\\nto distinguish the true cross from the other two, be\u00c2\u00ac\\ncause an ill woman was cured by merely touching its\\nsurface.", "height": "3127", "width": "2041", "jp2-path": "realstoneface00baco_0087.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "76\\nTHE REAL STONE FACE.\\nIn Russia I found the peasant houses with crosses\\npainted on the threshhold, for by their belief neither\\ndevil nor witches can cross this symbol. In the pres\u00c2\u00ac\\nent day we hang up an old horseshoe for good luck.\\nThis, too, was handed down from a remote period.\\nA-", "height": "3127", "width": "2041", "jp2-path": "realstoneface00baco_0088.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER VI.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cThat in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be\\nestablished.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Matthew xviii. 16.\\nI\\nWith permission I quote from a large collection of\\nletters.\\nOf course not one of the authorities quoted are in\\nany way responsible for my views, or for anything in\\nthis booklet, beyond their own opinions. These letters\\nshow how men and women in other lands and of dif\u00c2\u00ac\\nferent religions are impressed by this singular forma\u00c2\u00ac\\ntion in nature.\\nBy request, the \u00e2\u0080\u009cReal Stone Face\u00e2\u0080\u009d was submitted\\nto her Majesty, the Queen of Italy, at the Royal Pal\u00c2\u00ac\\nace in Rome, on the twenty-third day of April, 1894.\\nAn extract from a letter from Sir Arthur Bigge,\\ndated at Windsor Castle, England, during the Jubilee,\\nexplains why I have not had the honor of submitting\\nit to Her Majesty, Queen Victoria.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cI fear it will not be possible to carry out your wish\\nto show the Queen the stone you so much prize. But\\nI feel sure you will also realize the heavy duties and\\noccupations which daily devolve upon Her Majesty.\\nIt is those that preclude her from undertaking to carry\\nout many suggestions such as that which you have\\nmade.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nMrs. U. S. Grant, Grand Union Hotel, Saratoga\\nSprings, wrote in August, 1891:\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cThe beautiful, pathetic face wonderfully portrayed\\n77", "height": "3127", "width": "2041", "jp2-path": "realstoneface00baco_0089.jp2"}, "90": {"fulltext": "78\\nTHE REAL STONE FACE.\\non the stone is so constantly before me that I feel I\\nmust again thank you for giving me the privilege of\\nviewing it.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nMrs. Caroline Scott Harrison invited me to the Ex\u00c2\u00ac\\necutive Mansion, Washington, D. C., on February 22,\\n1892. She examined the curio and wrote in my book:\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cI desire to express my appreciation of the wonderful\\nstone which gives a pathetic view of a face.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nJoseph Mayer, who took the part of \u00e2\u0080\u009cChristus\u00e2\u0080\u009d in\\nthe Passion Play, wrote me on July 31, 1892, and I\\ngive this extract: \u00e2\u0080\u009cI find the photograph of the stone\\nvery remarkable; it will not be found a second time.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nW. T. Gavidson, Surgeon to the Queen, London,\\nJune 6, 1895 \u00e2\u0080\u009cA very remarkable stone.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nFrom hundreds of letters I glean a few opinions of\\nmen qualified to judge of the stone as a mineral.\\nDr. R. Garnett, British Museum, May, 1892: \u00e2\u0080\u009cA\\ngreat natural curiosity, more curious than anything of\\nthe same nature with which I am acquainted, and the\\nhistory of its discovery is more curious still.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nSir W. H. Fowler, British Museum (Natural\\nHistory), June, 1895: \u00e2\u0080\u009cA small fragment of stone,\\nthe broken surface of which, in some lights, shows a\\nstriking resemblance to a human face.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nMr. J. Hen Middleton, South Kensington Museum,\\nMarch, 1894: \u00e2\u0080\u009cIt is wholly the work of nature and a\\nvery curious freak of considerable beauty.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nProf. F. J. H. Merrill, State Geologist, Albany,\\nN. Y., October, 1890: \u00e2\u0080\u009cThe material is limestone,\\nveined with chert, and the colors of the two substances", "height": "3127", "width": "2041", "jp2-path": "realstoneface00baco_0090.jp2"}, "91": {"fulltext": "THE REAL STONE FACE.\\n79\\ncontrast in such a manner as to delineate with much\\nexactness a human face. No tool appears to have\\ntouched it; the surface is entirely due to fracture and\\nabrasion.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nDr. Geinitz, Museum (Green Vault), Dresden, Au\u00c2\u00ac\\ngust, 1892: \u00e2\u0080\u009cIt is a product of nature, and in no case\\na work of man.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nL. Fletcher, British Museum (Natural History),\\nJune, 1895: \u00e2\u0080\u009cThe \u00e2\u0080\u0098portrait stone\u00e2\u0080\u0099 presents very cu\u00c2\u00ac\\nrious effects of light and shade, and is quite natural.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nJ. Sparkes, Natural Art Training School, Depart\u00c2\u00ac\\nment of Science and Art, South Kensington, June,\\n1895: \u00e2\u0080\u009cAmong the many natural curiosities which I\\nhave seen, it is I think the most remarkable.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nDr. E. Klementz, Museum Royal, Brussels, July,\\n1892: \u00e2\u0080\u009cI find it to be in its natural state, and not arti\u00c2\u00ac\\nficially chiseled.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nDr. Grunling, Professor of Mineralogy, Royal Mu\u00c2\u00ac\\nseum of Munich, August, 1892: \u00e2\u0080\u009cThe stone with the\\nhead of a man is a product of nature.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nProf. E. S. Dana, Science Journal, New Haven,\\nConn., February, 1891: \u00e2\u0080\u009cI have no doubt that the\\nform of the surface of the rock fragment has been\\ngiven to it by natural fracture only, and hence that the\\ncurious resemblance to a human face which it exhibits\\nin certain lights is purely accidental.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nProf. J. S. Newberry, Columbia College, New York,\\nNovember, 1890: \u00e2\u0080\u009cI have examined the stone. It\\nhas not been fashioned by art.\u00e2\u0080\u009d", "height": "3127", "width": "2041", "jp2-path": "realstoneface00baco_0091.jp2"}, "92": {"fulltext": "8 o\\nTHE REAL STONE FACE.\\nProf. J. M. Clarke, Assistant State Paleontologist,\\nAlbany, N. Y., October, 1890: \u00e2\u0080\u009cThe face in the little\\nfragment of rock is certainly a most striking coinci\u00c2\u00ac\\ndence. No play of the imagination is required to see\\nit.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nH. M. Platnauer, The Museum, York, England, Au\u00c2\u00ac\\ngust, 1893: \u00e2\u0080\u009cIt is almost startling to find so faithful\\na representation of a human face due to purely natural\\ncauses.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nProf. Eugene A. Smith, State Geologist, University,\\nAla., May, 1899: \u00e2\u0080\u009cI have closely examined your\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0098Real Stone Face/ and consider it a remarkable natu\u00c2\u00ac\\nral curiosity, in which the arrangement of the chert\\nveinings on a broken or fractured surface of the stone\\nproduces in certain lights a most striking resemblance\\nto a human face seen in profile/\u00e2\u0080\u0099\\nProf. Henry Balfour, Pitts Rivers Collection, Uni\u00c2\u00ac\\nversity Museum, Oxford, England, 1893: \u00e2\u0080\u009cI would\\nrank this little natural sculpture amongst the highest\\nachievements of the impressionist school.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nNot geologists only, but clergymen and men of\\nscience have carefully examined the tiny bit of lime\u00c2\u00ac\\nstone, many seeing in its portrayal the type we asso\u00c2\u00ac\\nciate with the face of the \u00e2\u0080\u009cMan of Gallilee.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nF. Max Muller, Oxford, November, 1893: \u00e2\u0080\u009cThe\\nchapter of accidents is much larger than we imagine.\u00e2\u0080\u0099\u00e2\u0080\u0099\\nW. W. Story, Palazzo Barberini, Rome, April, 1894:\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cA thousand eyes might have looked and seen nothing,\\nbut you discovered in this pebble a new world and an\\nextraordinary and interesting head.\u00e2\u0080\u009d", "height": "3127", "width": "2041", "jp2-path": "realstoneface00baco_0092.jp2"}, "93": {"fulltext": "THE REAL STONE FACE. 8 l\\nThe Right Rev. Canon R. Duckworth, of Westmins\u00c2\u00ac\\nter Abbey, November, 1894: \u00e2\u0080\u009cNo cameo engraved\\nby the best of artists could have presented a more im\u00c2\u00ac\\npressive picture of the \u00e2\u0080\u0098sacred Head surrounded by\\ncrown of piercing thorns/\\nSir Wyke Bayliss, Royal Society of British Art\u00c2\u00ac\\nists, June, 1895: \u00e2\u0080\u009cIn some positions the resemblance\\nto the commonly received likeness of Christ is aston\u00c2\u00ac\\nishing. It is remarkable also that the expression re\u00c2\u00ac\\nminds one of the best pictures and not of the worst.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nThe Rev. J. R. Macduff, D.D., Ravensbrook, Chisle-\\nhurst, Kent, November, 1892: \u00e2\u0080\u009cIt is to me an ideal\\nface, more satisfying in its simple pathos (pre-emi\u00c2\u00ac\\nnently the \u00e2\u0080\u0098Man of Sorrows\u00e2\u0080\u0099) than the often laboured\\nconceptions of medieval painters.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nJ. Russell Forbes, Ph.D., Rome, March, 1894:\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cThere can be no question as to its similarity to the\\nportraits of our Lord as He is represented in early\\nChristian art. On seeing it, my little son exclaimed,\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0098Why, that is Jesus/ \u00e2\u0080\u0098Out of the mouth of babes and\\nsucklings Thou hast perfected praise/ \u00e2\u0080\u0098The stones\\nwill cry out/\\nJ. Cardinal Gibbons, Baltimore, Md., February,\\n1892: \u00e2\u0080\u009cA striking expression of \u00e2\u0080\u0098the Man of Sor\u00c2\u00ac\\nrows.\u00e2\u0080\u0099\\nCardinal Rompolla, Vatican, Rome, April, 1894:\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cThe little stone is truly worthy of observation.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nProf. Enrico Ridolfi, Director of the R. R. Galler\u00c2\u00ac\\nies and Museums of the Uffizi and Pitti, Florence,\\nMay, 1894, admires the graceful natural sketch, which\\nis certainly remarkable.", "height": "3127", "width": "2041", "jp2-path": "realstoneface00baco_0093.jp2"}, "94": {"fulltext": "82\\nTHE REAL STONE FACE.\\nThe Rev. Wm. C. Winslow, Vice-President Egyp\u00c2\u00ac\\ntian Exploration Fund, Boston, Mass., September,\\n1891: \u00e2\u0080\u009cIf the stones ever preach sermons, surely this\\npreaches the most unique and tender of them all.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nThe Rev. S. F. Smith, D.D., author of \u00e2\u0080\u009cMy Country\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0099Tis of Thee,\u00e2\u0080\u009d Newton Centre, Mass., 1890: \u00e2\u0080\u009cIt re\u00c2\u00ac\\nquires no effort of the imagination to see in it the head\\nof the suffering, dying Christ, vivid in form and ex\u00c2\u00ac\\npression.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nThe Rev. Robert Wood, The Vicarage, Brickley,\\nKent, 1892: \u00e2\u0080\u009cThe beautiful natural sculpture lives\\nand will live in my memory. It is curious that that\\nwondrous face should have been revealed to you after\\nmany years, and I like to think it would not have re\u00c2\u00ac\\nvealed itself except to one who had thought much upon\\nit with a loving and holy reverence. It lived in your\\nheart before it lived in the stone. In one sense you\\nhave found it, but in anothe r we shall always be seek\u00c2\u00ac\\ning it, until the sorrow has faded alike from His face\\nand ours, and we shall see Him as He is, face to face.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nThe Rev. James Turner Leftwich, LL.D., Baltimore,\\n1892: \u00e2\u0080\u009cThe little fragment of rock gives a better rep\u00c2\u00ac\\nresentation of my conception of that visage that was so\\nmarred more than any man\u00e2\u0080\u0099s than I have found in\\nworks of art by the old masters.\u00e2\u0080\u0099 I have known Mrs.\\nBacon over twenty years, and know no one in whose\\ncharacter and statements I have more implicit confi\u00c2\u00ac\\ndence.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nThe Rev. John Hall, LL.D., Fifth Avenue Church,\\nNew York, 1890: \u00e2\u0080\u009cA remarkable accidental repro-", "height": "3127", "width": "2041", "jp2-path": "realstoneface00baco_0094.jp2"}, "95": {"fulltext": "THE REAL STONE FACE.\\n83\\nduction of the human face. I have known Mrs. Ba\u00c2\u00ac\\ncon for many years. She is a zealous Christian\\nworker, in whom confidence may be placed.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nBishop John H. Vincent, Chautauqua, N. Y., 1898:\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cA remarkable resemblance to the traditional face of\\nChrist.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nThe Right Rev. J. S. Johnston, Bishop of West\\nTexas, 1898: \u00e2\u0080\u009cI have looked in wonder upon the por\u00c2\u00ac\\ntrait in stone. I have seen the most famous paintings\\nof the Christ, but not one has so impressed me as this.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nThe Rev. Thomas L. Hastings, D.D., Theological\\nSeminary, New York, 1898: \u00e2\u0080\u009cExceedingly interest\u00c2\u00ac\\ning and wonderfully comprehensive and suggestive.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nCanon J. R. T. Eaton, England, 1895: \u00e2\u0080\u009cA truly\\nmarvelous instance of the sympathy of nature with the\\ndivine.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nThe Rev. John Lake, Young Men\u00e2\u0080\u0099s Christian Asso\u00c2\u00ac\\nciation, Johnston, S. C., 1899: \u00e2\u0080\u009cA most wonderful\\nproduction of nature, its value enhanced a thousand\u00c2\u00ac\\nfold by the time and place at which it was found.\\nSomething that will probably stand without a parallel\\nuntil we see the King in His glory.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nMajor J. B. Pond, Lecture Bureau, Everett House,\\nN. Y., 1899: \u00e2\u0080\u009cYour account of the finding of \u00e2\u0080\u0098The\\nReal Stone Face\u00e2\u0080\u0099 is the most thrilling I ever listened to.\\nI shall recommend your \u00e2\u0080\u0098talk\u00e2\u0080\u0099 to committees far and\\nwide.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nThe Rev. Alexander Cargill, LL.D., Edinburgh,\\nScotland, 1897: \u00e2\u0080\u009cA far more enthralling story than\\nany that tells of the discovery of any of the great dia\u00c2\u00ac\\nmonds of the world.\u00e2\u0080\u009d", "height": "3127", "width": "2041", "jp2-path": "realstoneface00baco_0095.jp2"}, "96": {"fulltext": "8 4\\nTHE REAL STONE FACE.\\nThe Rev. Charles L. Thompson, LL.D., New York,\\n1890: \u00e2\u0080\u009cSurely you will interest and do good by giv\u00c2\u00ac\\ning people a chance to see it.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nThe Rev. Arthur Chillon Powell, Baltimore, 1892:\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cThis weeping stone has deeply moved me. A drop\u00c2\u00ac\\nping tear alone is wanting to give it reality.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nThe Honorable and Rev. R. J. Yarde-Builer,\\nThurlestone, South Devonshire, England, 1894: \u00e2\u0080\u009cAll\\nshould examine this remarkable stone more than once.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nThe Right Rev. Isaac Lea Nicholson, Bishop of Mil\u00c2\u00ac\\nwaukee, 1898: \u00e2\u0080\u009cA most striking \u00e2\u0080\u0098sermon in stone,\u00e2\u0080\u0099\\nand full of spiritual pathos.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nThe Rev. J. H. Ecob, D.D., Albany, N. Y., 1890:\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cThis is not one of the things you have to try to see,\\nbut is as clear and fine as if from the hand of a master.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nEdward Clifford, Honorable Secretary Church\\nArmy, London, 1895: \u00e2\u0080\u009cThe form and expression are\\nboth perfect. It seems impossible to wish for the face\\nto be different in any way.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nThe Rev. Robert Lawrence Ottley, Pusey House,\\nOxford, England, 1893: \u00e2\u0080\u009cIt is one of the most re\u00c2\u00ac\\nmarkable and beautiful things I have ever seen, and I\\nshall long remember it.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nThe Rev. Joshua H. Foster, Tuscaloosa, Ala., 1899:\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cA unique subject, calculated to do good.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nThe Right Rev. Wm. Croswell Doane, Bishop of\\nAlbany, N. Y., 1890: \u00e2\u0080\u009cNo one can look upon this cu\u00c2\u00ac\\nrious natural product without great interest and won\u00c2\u00ac\\nder. It arrests the attention of every one.\u00e2\u0080\u009d", "height": "3127", "width": "2041", "jp2-path": "realstoneface00baco_0096.jp2"}, "97": {"fulltext": "THE REAL STONE FACE.\\n85\\nMrs. M. J. Chase, F. A. A. A. S., Redhill, Surrey,\\nEngland, 1895 \u00e2\u0080\u009cA natural phenomenon calculated to\\nlift the thoughts to the great Designer.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nMrs. Pearl Craigie (John Oliver Hobbes), London,\\n1895: \u00e2\u0080\u009cThe photographs do not give the same sensa\u00c2\u00ac\\ntion of astonishment and, indeed, reverence which the\\noriginal irresistibly conveys.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nThe Rev. Joseph Carey, Saratoga Springs, 1890:\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cIf nature sympathized with Him in His death, and\\nthe rocks were rent, is it at all strange that He should\\nleave His impress on the pages of her mysterious\\nbook?\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nThe Rev. Aspinwall Hodges, Hartford, Conn., 1890:\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cIt represents Christ as dead, He appears to have just\\nexpired for the atonement of our sins. It is a wonder\u00c2\u00ac\\nful stone, but we wonder more at that it represents.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nHenry C. Bowen, The Independent New York,\\n1891: \u00e2\u0080\u009cIt is indeed a marvel, and must be a wonder\\nto all who are permitted to study it.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nMr. R. C. Smith, Baltimore, 1893: \u00e2\u0080\u009c\u00e2\u0080\u0098The Real\\nStone Face\u00e2\u0080\u0099 embodies the characteristics of the pic\u00c2\u00ac\\ntures of our Saviour.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nJudge Sylvester, Syracuse, N. Y., 1890: \u00e2\u0080\u009cNature\\ncarved the resemblance of the face of her Master upon\\nthe everlasting rock.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nThe Rev. Lemuel C. Barnes, D.D., Newton Centre,\\nMass, 1890: \u00e2\u0080\u009cNo eye can fail to see the ideal cameo,\\nyet no stroke of art has produced it, the face was there\\nfrom the beginning.\u00e2\u0080\u009d", "height": "3127", "width": "2041", "jp2-path": "realstoneface00baco_0097.jp2"}, "98": {"fulltext": "86\\nTHE REAL STONE FACE.\\nTHE REAL STONE FACE.\\nO wondrous face, through untold ages wrought\\nBy faithful Nature in the mountain-way\\nO\u00e2\u0080\u0099erlooking \u00e2\u0080\u0099Ammergau\u00e2\u0080\u0099s acted Passion Play,\\nTell us thy secret as to thee \u00e2\u0080\u0099twas taught.\\nMay we, like her whose heart with sorrow fraught\\nReceived thee as her own to be a stay\\nIn hour of loneliness, as truly say,\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cFrom heart of sorrow comes the deepest thought. M\\nNature, as Art, at last has dared reveal\\nThe Man of Sorrows, with marvellous face\\nNo human soul can iully understands\\nBut every heart its secret may so feel,\\nAs to reflect a light no time, nor space,\\nNor element, its blessing can withstand.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094Elizabeth Porter Gould.\\nShort extracts from newspapers:\\nNew York Tribune: \u00e2\u0080\u009cA wonderful piece of stone.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nNezv York Times: \u00e2\u0080\u009cA stratification which forms a\\nface.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nMail and Express: \u00e2\u0080\u009cIn a certain light presents a\\nwonderful likeness.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nSaratogian: \u00e2\u0080\u009cIt is a rare gem.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nAlbany Argus: \u00e2\u0080\u009cCarved by forces of nature into a\\nface.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nRoman Nezvs and Directory, Rome, Italy: \u00e2\u0080\u009cThe\\ndiscovery of the Real Stone Face\u00e2\u0080\u0099 is almost as curious\\nas the portrait itself, which is clear and distinct.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nThe Sun, Baltimore: \u00e2\u0080\u009cBy invitation of Mrs. Harris\\nson, the Real Stone Face\u00e2\u0080\u0099 was taken to the White\\nHouse yesterday.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nSaginaw Courier Herald: \u00e2\u0080\u009cUndoubtedly the rarest\\nnatural curiosity in the world.\u00e2\u0080\u009d", "height": "3127", "width": "2041", "jp2-path": "realstoneface00baco_0098.jp2"}, "99": {"fulltext": "THE REAL STONE FACE. 87\\nDetroit Tribune: \u00e2\u0080\u009cA weather-beaten chip of soft\\nlimestone.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nLos Angeles Times, California: \u00e2\u0080\u009cNo touch of a\\ntool nor mark of color.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nBuffalo Commercial: \u00e2\u0080\u009cPositively nature\u00e2\u0080\u0099s work.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nHome Journal, New York: \u00e2\u0080\u009cThe sorrowful face ap\u00c2\u00ac\\npears like a fine carving.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nProvidence Sunday Journal: \u00e2\u0080\u009cThe resemblance is\\nmarvelous.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nUtica Morning Herald: \u00e2\u0080\u009cA living sermon, that all\\nmay see and read.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nTrenton Evening Times: \u00e2\u0080\u009cThis beautiful portrait\\nfound in the eternal rock.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nThe Montclair Times: \u00e2\u0080\u009cIt is well worth seeing.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nAsbury Park Daily Press: \u00e2\u0080\u009cIt has been examined\\nby queens, lords and ladies of many European courts.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nTuscaloosa Daily Gazette, Alabama: \u00e2\u0080\u009cOne can not\\nsee the face without being impressed.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nWatertown Daily Times, New York: \u00e2\u0080\u009cA stone cut\\nwithout hands. 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