The Universalist Quarterly and General Review, 1871, Vol. 8 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Universalist Quarterly and General Review, 1871, Vol. 8 The tendency of religious sculpture and painting has some times been to materialize the mind of the worshipper. This is not necessarily so, but results from perverted faculties and erroneous views of the nature of worship. This is seen in the history of these arts in their relation to religious worship. Though we cannot note the exact time, yet it is believed that the introduction of paintings into the Christian Church took place before the'close of the second century. The earliest ages of the Church witnessed no attempts at artistic decora tion. They were too near the presence of Jesus and his apos tles who had walked the earth, healed the sick, the lame, the blind, and raised the dead. The early Christians preferred to look upon them as beings Of the past who had done this benevolent work. They had passed away, but their works1-1 religion IN its relation To art. [j an. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.