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Stained glass in St.
Andrew's:
Creator and Carpenter
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each small picture to see a larger image.
The right hand window of the two toward the east end of
the south aisle brings together stories and phrases from the Old and New
Testaments in interesting and rather unusual ways, showing the purposes
of God working out from the very beginning to their culmination in
Christ.
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At the top the two small windows show, left the
original watery chaos with the Spirit of God (represented by the
Dove) moving on the face of the waters, and the creative Hand of
God above. |
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On the right, we see the beauty of God's
creation with light shining on land, sea and vegetation. |
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The rest of the window consists of six panels,
three New Testament stories and, below them, three Old Testament
ones. The text put with each of the New Testament picture,
and the Old Testament story linked with it, and shown below it,
develop an interesting train of ideas.
To illustrate the connection let us consider
them vertically in pairs across the window.
On the left is
portrayed the coming of the Wise Men, who followed the star to
the Light of the World, the Christ Child, to worship Him, with
Isaiah's prophecy 'Arise, shine for thy Light is come'. |
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Below, is King Solomon visited by the Queen of
Sheba, who was immensely impressed by his wisdom and wealth,
with our Lord's words 'Lay up for yourselves treasure in
Heaven'. They come in the paragraph of the Sermon on the Mount,
where He teaches us not to be anxious about earthly possessions
by speaking of the flowers whose beauty outshines Solomon in all
his glory. We are reminded, also, of the passage where he refers
to the Queen making her long journey to hear the wisdom of
Solomon 'and behold a greater than Solomon is here'. |
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