'You understand the parable

You understand the parable

In the foul gutter of a city street, a drop of water lay — soiled, stagnant, polluted. Far up in the depths of the sky, a gentle sunbeam saw it and pitied it in its vileness, with all its crystal beauty gone.

The sunbeam flew down to the dark gutter, kissed the foul drop of water, and thrilled it with new, strange hope. Soon it felt itself quietly lifted upward by an impulse which it could not resist — higher and higher through the air, and then wafted on, mile after mile.

At last it lay on a mountain-top, pure and transformed — a snow-flake as white as the holy beauty of heaven.

You understand the parable . Thus human souls lie polluted in earth's sins. Thus Christ's love and grace stream down and touch them in their vileness. New desires spring up, longings for holiness, hungerings and thirstings after God.

They lift up their eyes unto the hills. The Holy Spirit draws them upward. At last they enter the life of Christ, then into heavenly blessedness, and at last sit down with Christ in glory — washed in the Lamb's blood, and made whiter than snow!

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