''The Last Supper.

The Last Supper

When Leonardo da Vinci's great picture, " The Last Supper " was finished, it is said there was much discussion as to which detail was the best. One suggested this, and another that. At length they all agreed that the best feature was the painting of the table-cloth with its fine drawing and rich coloring.

The artist was grieved when he heard what they said. It had been his wish to make the face of the Master so far the most winsome feature, that it would instantly and overpoweringly attract everyone's eye to itself.

But now his friends praised the tablecloth and said nothing of the Master's face. Taking his brush, he blotted from the canvas every thread of the cloth, that the blessed face alone might win the adoration of all beholders.

Let it be so with us. Let us blot out whatever draws any eye or heart away from Christ.

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