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A visitor to a glass manufactory saw a man moulding clay into the great pots which were to be used in shaping the glass. Noticing that all the moulding was done by hand, he said to the workman, “Why do you not use a tool to aid you in shaping the clay?” The workman replied, “There is no tool that can do this work. We have tried different ones, but somehow it needs the human touch.
There is much of the Lord’s work that likewise needs the “human touch.” The divine hand would have been too glorious, too dazzling, too bright, if it had been reached out of heaven to help, and lift up, and save, to wipe away tears, to heal heart wounds, to be laid in benediction on the children’s heads; and therefore God took a human form, that with a human hand he might touch the sinful and the sorrowing. And now that Christ has gone away again into heaven he does not reach out of the skies that glorified hand which burns with splendor, to do his work of love in this world, but uses our common hands, yours and mine, sending us to do in his name the gentle things he would have done for his little ones.