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The Origin of Pennsylvania German Art aONSIDER THE LILIES how they grow; they toil nor, they spin not; and yet 1 say unto you that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. From the mild-mannered brave young man who less than two thousand years ago walked our Syrian hills asking his followers to consider the lilies how they grow,” there comes the meaning of Pennsylvania German art. He asked them to see in a growing flower the magnificent symbol of the unexpressed longings of their hearts. This sort of symbolism has an almost resistless attraction. It has led people of winged minds to speculate with varying results upon the meaning of Pennsylvania German Art. These pieces of Pennsylvania German Art, long of deep interest to specialists have of late gained wider appeal by being collected in public museums and by private citizens. All sorts of theories have been advanced to explain their curious devices and motifs, but most of these speculations have failed to send their roots into the substantial soil of convincing fact. Real evidence has tailed to appearand the time has now come for a new and fresh approach. These motifs have been given many interpretations. Some people have said that over flowers, birds and stars are signs of “hexerei” but they forget the obvious fact that Pennsylvania was not the colony where witches were hanged. Others have been gleeful in claiming them as significant phallic symbols but in this case Pennsylvania German art, as the present writer sees it, was a religious art with roots in the Christian mystical tradition. The descendants of this tradition —whether born of the flesh, or unborn of the spirit came to Pennsylvania to seek in its patterned hills the “lily life.” They come to this experiment of “English Mennonites” to build a land where they could see the lilies bloom and smell their everlasting fragrance. “For the rose in the rime of the lily shall blossom in May when the winter is past, for blindness to the wicked and for light to the seeing.” This from the humble cobbler of Gorlin, Jacob Boehme. And those who seek an organized, systematic scheme of thought in the writings of this Silesian peasant will see no meaning in such a statement. But those who respect the genius of the folk soul, who are not misled by the vain world’s idle pride will feel the writer’s spirituality.With his medieval sense of allegory and symbolism, with his peasant’s love of poetic images, with his Christian faith and love and hope he tells his story. This: that Jesus Christ!the Rose) shall come again here on earth when life is perfect!when the lily blooms), on the fragrant springtime of the paradisiacal new birth in the heart of man there comes the symbolism of Pennsylvania German art. Yes, a blooming lily! Excerpts from the Proem Consider The Lilies How They Grotc —John Joseph Stoudt Bangor, Pennsylvania
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Foreword • • • Time with its ever changing cycle has brought to the 1942 seniors a record of many memories acquired during the course of pur school life. In this Amptennian we endeavor to present a resume of joys, privi-ledges, and responsibilities we have had within the halls of our Senior High School.
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