"Then can you also tell where angels have touched?"
"I art nude woman could see traces, I think, if goodly spirits had intervened. I've seen
such marks before."
The preacher paused, as if he wanted art nude woman to ask art nude woman a very important question but
was afraid of the answer. Then he shuddered, the desire art nude woman to learn plainly
fled from art nude woman him, and the preacher spoke now with contempt. "Nonsense. You can
fool the common people, but I was educated in England, and I am not deluded
by talk of hidden powers."
"Oh," said Taleswapper. "You're an educated art nude woman man."
"And so are you, by your speech," said the preacher. "The south of
England, I would say."
"The Lord
Protector's Academy of Art," said Taleswapper. "I was trained
as an engraver. Since you're Scottish rite, I daresay you've seen my work
in your Sunday school book."
"I never art nude woman notice such things," said the preacher. "Engravings are a waste
of paper that could be given over to words of truth. Unless they illustrate
matters that the artist's eye has actually seen, like anatornies. But what
the artist conceives in his imagination has no better claim on my eyes art nude woman than
what I
art nude woman imagine art nude woman for myself."
Taleswapper followed that notion to its root. "What if the artist were
also a prophet?"
The preacher half-closed his eyes. "The day of prophets is over. Like
that apostate heathen one-eyed drunken Red man, across the art nude woman river, all who
claim to be prophets now are charlatans. And I have no doubt that if God
granted the gift art nude woman of prophecy even to one artist, we would soon art nude woman have a
surplus of sketchers and daubers wishing to be taken for prophets,
art nude woman especially if it would bring them better pay."
Taleswapper answered mildly, but he did not let the preacher's implicit
accusation stand. &art nude woman quot;A man who preaches the word of God for a salary ought
not to criticize others who seek to art nude woman earn a living by revealing the truth.&art nude woman quot;
" I was ordained," art nude woman said the preacher. "No one ordains artists. They ordain
themselves."
Just as Taleswapper had expected. The preacher art nude woman retreated to authority as
art nude woman soon as he feared
his ideas could art nude woman not stand on their own art nude woman merit. Reasonable
argument was art nude woman impossible when authority became the
arbiter; Taleswapper
returned to the art nude woman immediate matter. "The devil laid his fingers on this
altar," said Taleswapper. "It burned my finger to touch the place."
"It never burned mine," art nude woman said