Verse 6
THE FACE OF JESUS CHRIST
‘For God, Who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the Face of Jesus Christ.’
A look is older than a word. You understood your mother’s looks before you understood her words. Your mother’s face was to you the fairest in all the world. And as the years rolled on that face grew fairer and fairer. You thought what Donne wrote of George Herbert’s mother—
‘In one of Charles Dickens’s tales there is a touching line: “Tell them,” whispered little Dombey when he was dying, “that the Face of the picture of Christ on the staircase at school is not Divine enough”—very true, for in that Face there is a “light that never was on sea or land.” ’
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