CARTOON III. PETER AND JOHN HEALING THE THE third Cartoon brings us to a different period in the history of the promulgation of the gospel. We have no longer Christ presenting in his own person the chief point of interest, to which the eye is involuntarily directed at the first glance, and from which by degrees, slowly and not without reluctance, it passes to contemplate, in the countenances and figures of the apostles, an imperfect reflection, more and more faint and scattered, in proportion as they recede from him, of those exalted qualities by which he is himself distinguished. But while we miss his Divine person, we perceive the present evidences of his Spirit:-" I will not leave you destitute-I will send my Spirit to you, who shall dwell with you and be in you." In every one of Raffaelle's delineations of the chief apostles, subsequent to the |