- W. E. Biederwolf

“Ruth found rest and peace and joy at the feet of Boaz. Let us find our rest in Him.

“One if the most exquisite statues of Christ is the one in white marble which stands in the hallway just inside the entrance of the great John’s Hopkins Hospital in the beautiful city of Baltimore. No one whose life the Man

Of Galilee has ever touched can look upon this statue without being profoundly stirred, and the marvel of it is that anyone else ever could.

“Upon the base of the monument are chiseled the word which fell from His blessed lips, ‘Come unto Me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.’ The nail-pierced hands are stretched invitingly. And the face! It is a face of tender patience aa Sarto gave the Master in the Church of the Annunziata, full of compassion and benign yearning. And it puts a richness upon the words that causes hundreds of poor, pain-racked patients to shed tears and to take hope as they are carried through the door and past the wonderful statue.

“One day, it is said, there came one who was a cynic and doubter to view the figure of which he had heard so much. It was very evident he was disappointed. He walked around from side to side and looked at it from nearly every angle and was about to go away. But near by there was standing a little girl, who had watched the man with childish curiosity and something of concern. When she saw him about yo leave without having read the real message of it all, she ran up to him and said, ‘Oh, sir, you cannot see Him that way. You must get very close and fall on your knees and look up!’

“Oh, how much we need this close-up, upward look today! One can never really see Jesus in any other way.”

Guard your heart. Teach your children. Watch and pray.