The Father's Face

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Jan 27, 1876

The Father's Face.

At a rehearsal for a Sabbath-school entertainment, some time since, a little five year old Bessie was placed upon the platform to recite a short poem. She commenced very bravely, but her eyes wandered all around the church, gathering more and more of disappointment into her face. Soon the lips began to quiver, and the little form shook with sobs. Her father stepped from behind a pillar, and taking her into his arms, said, “Why, darling, what is the matter? I thought my little girl knew the verses so well.”

“So I do, papa; but I couldn’t see you. Let me stand where I can look right into your face, papa, and I won’t be afraid.”

And is it not so with our Heavenly Father's children? We stand too often where we cannot look into his face. Darling sins, and our pride, like pillars, rise up between us and God, and disappointment and tears are ours, until, casting these behind us, we stand in the light of our Father's face.—Lutheran Observer.