Aerial photography by Haferkorn Henry Ernest 1859-

Author:Haferkorn, Henry Ernest, 1859- [from old catalog]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Aerial photography
Publisher: Washington
Published: 1918-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

To inarticulate murmurs dies away While the eternal ages watch and wait."

The cultivation of sympathy. —^S)anpathy usually carries with it the wrong connotation. We limit its use almost exclusively to the ex{>ression of a fellow feeling for one who is in sorrow. As a matter of fact

the word really means the act of sharing with another any emotion. This power it is worth our while to cultivate because it is the key of social understanding. It leads to all the virtues that are necessary for our highest usefulness in a world made up of people.

Art gives us an opportunity for self discipline in this regard, also. We may practice feeling o\ir way into the meaning of a picture—which impUes the meaning of the human situation—and so discipline ourselves for the understanding of situations in concrete life. Practice with a given picture. As you regard intently any figure on the canvas there is aroused in you almost automatically the emotion which that person exhibits. You unconsciously imagine yourself in his situation, with his pose and facial expression, and by a well-known law of psychology the appropriate feeling will come; in a flash you will understand what the artist means.

Experiment with Keller's picture, "Raising of the Daughter of Jairus." Put yourself in Jairus's place and feel the anxiety, the reverence, and the awe with which he regards this act. Assume the position of the woman at the foot of the bier and feel her hopeless grief. Look out of the eyes of any of the hired mourners and feel the uncanny fascination of seeing a corpse come to life. Be the sweet maiden and feel yourself faltering back mysteriously to life out of the land of a fading dream. Be Jesus, and realize with him the serene confidence of one who is doing the Father's will, and the joy of loving and helping people.

Pictures are addressed primarily to the emotions. Learn, then, to understand them emotionally.

Exiiotional aspects of symbolism.—^It has been said in the previous chapter that symbols are distinctively

intellectual in character. Yet they are not exclusively intellectual but may have at times an emotional content, depending on the experience which the individual worshiper brings to them. One may pass the flag of his coimtry a hundred times on the street and it will arouse no particular emotion, but let him catch sight of it in a f(^eign land, particularly in some time of storm and stress, or let him realize as he carries the little symbol in his hand that his life depends upon his identification for the moment with that emblem of his country's dignity and power; then he will imder-stand how a mere piece of bunting may be surcharged with a tremendous emotional voltage.

So it is with these heart symbols which have become conventional decorations in our church buildings. They stand upon the walls and in the windows, meaningless for the most part because no one attends to them. But there comes a time when a worshiper enters, bearing

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