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Building Name: St. Paul Lutheran Church

Studio Name: Willet Hauser Architectural Glass

City: Flint

Window Shape: 2 (rectangle)

Date of Window: 1968

Subject/Title of Window: Eye, Ear, and Heart

Brief Description of Subject: From "The Life of St. Paul," booklet.
Two aspects of Paul's story are parallel here. It will be seen that the color scheme alternates panels of warm and cool colors. The reds and golds symbolize the love, the glory and power of God. The panels in these hues portray the temporal life of Paul as he lived it on earth and as described in the Book of Acts. Those openings in cool greens, blues and purples with very little nuance or contrast express the hope and salvation of manking, and symbolize the spiritual life of St. Paul illustrating symbolically some of his words largely from his Epistles.

The fifteenth window on the left side of the church shows the eye, ear, and heart, representing the verse from I Corinthians 2:9-10, "What no eye has seen, or ear heard, nor the heart of man conceived, what God has prepared for those who love him,' God has revealed to us through the Spirit."

The lower half of the window shows a temple, the dome surrounded by a small cross, symbol of the human body, based on I Corinthians 6:19: "Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, which you have from God? You are not on your own. You were brought with a price."

This window was given to the glory of God by Mr. and Mrs. Walter Myers and Mrs. Anita Noel in memory of their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Urban Bernecker.

Height: 132"

Width: 42"

Type of Glass and Technique: Slab or Faceted Glass (Dalle de Verre)

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