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"What is your minister like? Is he eloquent and intellectual?" What answer can be true of you? "Well, I cannot tell you about his sermons; I always think of Christ when I see him." Is that true of you? Then, to you to live is Christ. In a famous Russian palace, in the salon of beauty, a certain artist was asked to paint a great number of pictures for the salon. Eight hundred and fifty of the most beautiful women were chosen as subjects. He finished his work, and in so doing paid a marvelous tribute to the empress. In every individual picture he painted something like Catherine. Here, Catherine's hair; there, a dress like Catherine's; over there, Catherine's favorite flower. This one had Catherine's pose; that one some feature of Catherine; some other one had Catherine's eyes or Catherine's hands; and so, your could go over the canvas, and, taking the different parts, you could have made a picture of Catherine.
It would be a marvelous thing if people would say to me, "Show me Christ," and I would take them to the man who wrote "My Jesus, as thou wilt." You know how he wrote it. He was blind, but he wrote, "My Jesus, as thou wilt."
Campbell Morgan used this text at Winona, and he said: "Suppose I change it -- for to me to live is myself. It is my sermon, my house, my family, myself." Then, for me to die, what is that? "For to me to live is pleasure." A Christian might say that and still be a Christian; then what is it to die? "For to me to live is sin"; then what is it to die? If there is sin in your heart and mine, whether it be great or little, it amounts to the same thing then. If to me to live is sin, what will it be to die? -- J. W. C.
By J. Wilbur Chapan, "Present Day Parables."
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