It is proposed that a painting of the' Resurrection, by
Mr. Mime Jones, shall be put up in the centre of the reredos in the church in Vere Street, as a memorial to the late Frederick Denison Maurice, for ten years the incumbent of that charch. The painting will be in keeping with a painted window over the altar, designed by Mr. Mune Jones, and which is to be executed by Messrs. Morris and Co., at the cost of Lady de Blaqeiere, in memory of her husband ; and an inscription on brass will be elsewhere placed in the church to commemorate the fact that Mr. Burne Jones's painting has been chosen as the most fitting memorial of Mr. Maurice. Undoubtedly all those who nine years ago felt that the most potent religious influence of their life had been withdrawn, will recognise in anyfittingpicture of Christ's Resurrection,—which Mr. Burns Jones, if any man, ought to be able to paint,—the truest conceivable .monument-to Mr. Maurice's faith and work. It was to-. that event that the whole of hia life was at once a homely, a pathetic, and an exultant witness,—homely, because it was - the centre of his heart and home; pathetic, because it filled hint with ea profound and patient a pity for every human soul ; . and exultant, basal:ma it lifted him, grave and, shrinking, and all but disclaiming Id only he. could have disclaimed without injustice to the univer- sality of the light it brought) his own personal share in the, grea.tinheritance of that divine event, to: theuerener exultation of the-eternal life.
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