XIII.
“CHRIST” OR “SELF.”
“For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus’ sake.”
“Let me read you something else, Bell, dear,” said Miss Marvin, after Jenny had gone. “Perhaps it will show you another reason why you met with so little success, last Monday.
“THE MASTER’S FACE.
“A great artist called together his friends to view a magnificent work, on which he had been long engaged.
“‘Tell me,’ he said to the friend on whose judgment he most relied, ‘what do you think is the best point in my picture?’
“‘O brother,’ said the enraptured artist, ‘it is all beautiful; but that chalice,—that is a perfect masterpiece, a gem!’
“Sorrowfully the artist took his brush and dashed it over the toil of weary days, and turning to his friends, he said, ‘O brothers, if there is anything in my piece more beautiful than the Master’s face I have sought to put there, let it be gone!’”