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Fifty Great Cartoons

Chapter 45: THE ROCK OF AGES.
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A sequence of fifty cartoons paired with short essays and captions that employ satirical illustration and religious imagery to address moral, ecclesiastical, and civic concerns. The pieces criticize church complacency, commercialized worship, temperance issues, hypocrisy, and political corruption while urging spiritual renewal and practical reform. Many images juxtapose individual conscience and public life, dramatizing dilemmas such as poverty, immigration, and personal faith. The collection blends visual wit with didactic commentary to prompt reflection on virtue, duty, and the social role of religion.

THE ROCK OF AGES.

Some great man of old once declared that words were the only things that live forever. If this is true of the words of men, how much more so is it of the Word of God, the affirmation, the promise, the pledge, of the great I am. Its foundations of adamant are anchored in eternal truth, against its base the angry assaults of bigotry and unbelief will be driven in vain. Its walls will stand four square when the ancient landmarks of dogma, formalism and ecclesiasticism lapse into ruin and decay. Though the earth and starry worlds wax old like a garment, the Word of God which represents his faithfulness and the Cross of Christ which represents his Love, will stand impregnable amid the wreck of worlds.

The grass withereth, the flower fadeth; but the Word of our God shall stand forever.    Isaiah 40:8.

COPYRIGHT, 1896, BY FRED’K L. CHAPMAN & CO.

THE ROCK OF AGES.

“THE WORD OF THE LORD ENDURETH FOREVER.”