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The celebrated statue of Minerva which stood in the Acropolis at Athens was renowned for its graceful beauty and its exquisite sculpture, but there was in it another feature which no close observer failed to notice. Deeply engraved in the buckler on the statue was the image of Phidias, the sculptor; it was so deftly impressed that it could be effaced only by destroying the work of art itself.
In like manner, in the life of every true Christian is the name of Christ; it is so inwrought in the character, in the disposition, in the whole being that it cannot be destroyed. It is toward the filling out of the meaning of this name that all Christian culture aims. All our lessons are lessons in growing Christ like. To get the beauty of Christ out of the Christian’s life, the life itself must be utterly destroyed.