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We should live so that those who know us shall recognize in us the unmistakable lineaments of Christ. Retzsch, a German sculptor, made a wonderful statue of the Redeemer. For eight years it was his dream by night and his thought by day. He first made a clay model, and set it before a child five or six years old. There were about the figure none of the usual emblematical marks of designating the Saviour – no cross, no crown of thorns, nothing by which to identify it. Yet when the child saw it, and was asked who it was, he said, “Suffer little children and forbid them not to come unto me.”
This was a wonderful triumph of art; this putting so much divinity into the face of the model that even a little child recognized the artist’s thought. We should exhibit in our life and character such a reproduction of the holiness and beauty of Christ that every one who looks upon us and sees our life may instinctively recognize the features of the Master, and say, “Behold the image of the Redeemer!” There is no other way of magnifying the Lord that so impresses the world.