A Living Hope!

     A few years ago we visited the English mansion of Chatsworth, in Derbyshire. Amid the beauty of the gardens, the sculptures, the paintings, and the architecture, was one item that astonished us— a plaster copy of a cast by Johann August Nahl the Elder (1710-1781). It is a graphic statement of firm belief in the resurrection and the Lord’s return; it is a detail from the tomb of Maria Magdalena Langhans with her child:

“On the last day, with a raised arm, she breaks the stone slab in three pieces and comes with her child alive from the grave.”                   Ì