Produced by Al Haines [Illustration: Cover art] "Here, when Art was still religion, with a simple, reverent heart, Lived and laboured Albrecht Dürer, the Evangelist of Art; Hence in silence and in sorrow, toiling still with busy hand, Like an emigrant he wandered, seeking for the Better Land." LONGFELLOW, _Nuremberg_. EVANGELISTS OF ART _PICTURE-SERMONS FOR CHILDREN_ BY REV. JAMES PATRICK, B.D., B.Sc. COUPER UNITED FREE CHURCH, BURNTISLAND "Could I have traced one form that should express The sacred mystery that underlies All Beauty, and through man's enraptured eyes Teach him how beautiful is Holiness..." Sir J. NOËL PATON CINCINNATI JENNINGS & GRAHAM 1903 _Printed by MORRISON & GIBB LIMITED, Edinburgh_ CONTENTS I. CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE . . . . . . . . . _W. Holman Hunt_ II. LUTHER AT ERFÜRT . . . . . . . . . . . _Sir J. Noël Paton, R.S.A._ III. HERCULES WRESTLING WITH DEATH FOR THE BODY OF ALCESTIS . . . . . . . . . _Lord Leighton, P.R.A._ IV. ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE . . . . . . . . . _G. F. Watts, S.A._ V. THE LAST SLEEP OF ARGYLL . . . . . . . _E. M. Ward, R.A._ VI. WISHART DISPENSING THE SACRAMENT BEFORE HIS MARTYRDOM . . . . . . . . . _W. Q. Orchardson, R.A._ VII. THE RIDER ON THE WHITE HORSE . . . . . _G. F. Watts, R.A._ VIII. THE MAN WITH THE MUCK-RAKE . . . . . . _Sir J. Noël Paton, R.S.A._ CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE BY W. HOLMAN HUNT [Illustration: CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE. By permission of Mr. Holman Hunt, and of Mrs. Holt, Liverpool] CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE _How is it that ye sought Me? Wist ye not that I must be in My Father's house?_--LUKE ii. 49 (Revised Version). The Bible story from which the text is taken has been illustrated by a famous picture. The artist is Mr. Holman Hunt, who has painted many pictures on Bible subjects, and has spent many years in Palestine in connection with his work. His painting of "The Finding of Christ in the Temple" is well worth seeing for the rich beauty of its colouring and the delicate fineness of its workmanship, and every one who loves the Bible must feel that it is still more worth seeing for the sake of the scene which it represents.