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There is a story of an artist in the olden days, who was falsely charged with crime and cast into prison. He was given his paints and brushes, but not a thing on which he might paint. One day a man came to his cell door and said to the artist, “I wish you would paint me a picture.” – “I would,” he replied, “if I had anything on which to paint it.” The visitor looked about him, and on the floor of the prison corridor he found an old soiled napkin. “Paint it on this,” he said, as he passed it into the cell. The artist began at once, and continued his work until the picture was finished. It was a picture of the Christ, a marvelously beautiful one, which afterward found a place in one of the old cathedrals. Thus the artist redeemed the napkin from destruction and dishonour and consecrated it to highest honor and sacredness.
There is no human life so soiled, so debased, but on it the image of Christ can be put by the Spirit of God. You may be the artist through whose hands God may choose to work in thus redeeming a life from ruin to its true and holy use.