“Oh, it is everything!” answered Davie.
“But what first?” asked Donal.
“First, it is to do what he tells us.”
“Yes, Davie: it is to learn his problems by going and doing his will; not trying to understand things first, but trying first to do things. We must spread out our arms to him as a child does to his mother when he wants her to take him; then when he sets us down, saying, ‘Go and do this or that,’ we must make all the haste in us to go and do it. And when we get hungry to see him, we must look at his picture.”
“Where is that, sir?”
“Ah, Davie, Davie! don’t you know that yet? Don’t you know that, besides being himself, and just because he is himself, Jesus is the living picture of God?”
“I know, sir! We have to go and read about him in the book.”
“May I ask you a question, Mr. Grant?” said Arctura.
“With perfect freedom,” answered Donal. “I only hope I may be able to answer it.”
“When we read about Jesus, we have to draw for ourselves his likeness from words, and you know what kind of a likeness the best artist would make that way, who had never seen with his own eyes the person whose portrait he had to paint!”