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CARTOONS OF RAPHAEL URBIN.
really is. In short, this cartoon is altogether the most
consummate piece of art that probable ever was or
ever will be produced.
CARTOON IV.
THE DEATH OF ANANIAS.
But Peter said; Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine
heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of
the price of the land ® Whilst it remained, was it not
thine own 2 And after it was sold, zeas it not in thine
own power ? Why hast thou conceived this thing in thine
heart® Thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God.
And Ananias hearing these words fell dozen, and gave up
the ghost: and great fear came on all that heard these
things.—Acts, chap. v. ver. 3, 4, 5.
Of all the various ways ordained by the Almighty for
putting a period to the present existence of human na-
ture, there is none so affecting or alarming as the stroke
of sudden death; whenever, therefore, this happens, it
appears more or less terrible to those who survive, ac-
cording to the state of the soul at that moment when it
is separated from the body. The death of Ananias was
therefore, a subject capable of exciting horror in an ex-
traordinary degree, supposing it to have been only a
common accident: but the circumstance of his death
was much more terrifying, as it was a manifestation of
the divine wrath upon him, “ who had not lied unto
really is. In short, this cartoon is altogether the most
consummate piece of art that probable ever was or
ever will be produced.
CARTOON IV.
THE DEATH OF ANANIAS.
But Peter said; Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine
heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of
the price of the land ® Whilst it remained, was it not
thine own 2 And after it was sold, zeas it not in thine
own power ? Why hast thou conceived this thing in thine
heart® Thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God.
And Ananias hearing these words fell dozen, and gave up
the ghost: and great fear came on all that heard these
things.—Acts, chap. v. ver. 3, 4, 5.
Of all the various ways ordained by the Almighty for
putting a period to the present existence of human na-
ture, there is none so affecting or alarming as the stroke
of sudden death; whenever, therefore, this happens, it
appears more or less terrible to those who survive, ac-
cording to the state of the soul at that moment when it
is separated from the body. The death of Ananias was
therefore, a subject capable of exciting horror in an ex-
traordinary degree, supposing it to have been only a
common accident: but the circumstance of his death
was much more terrifying, as it was a manifestation of
the divine wrath upon him, “ who had not lied unto