The transforming touch!

Someone tells of going into a jeweler's store to look at certain gems. Among other stones, he was shown an opal.

As it lay there, however, it appeared dull and altogether lustreless.

Then the jeweler took it in his hand and held it for some moments, and again showed it to his customer.

Now it gleamed and flashed with all the glories of the rainbow. It needed the touch and the warmth of a human hand to bring out its iridescence.

Just so, are human lives everywhere about us, that are rich in their possibilities of beauty and glory.

But as we see them, they are dull and lustreless. Perhaps they are even covered with stain, and defiled with sin.

Yet they need only the touch of the hand of Christ to bring out the radiance, the loveliness, the beauty, of the Divine image in them.