'Christ's picture never has been lost

Christ's picture never has been lost

The old legend says that when Jesus passed on His way to Golgotha, a pious woman took off her handkerchief and gave it to Him, that with it He might wipe the blood and sweat from His face.

When He gave back the cloth to her, His features had been impressed upon it — a perfect portrait. The handkerchief has been lost, and artists attempt now to paint our Lord's picture from their own imagination.

But really, Christ's picture never has been lost . It never was impressed on the napkin — that is but a legend. It is impressed, however, on the life of every one of His true followers, where He appears in every deed of beauty and virtue, and in every forgetting of self.

You go to the artists for the likeness of Christ; go rather to lowly Christian lives, which in love, gentleness, unselfishness, and kindly ministry — reflect his beauty.

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