TAKING POLISH by Ada D. Wellman

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Apr 9, 1902

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 15.

TAKING POLISH.

By Ada D. Wellman

CERTAIN kinds of wood are much prized for furniture, and house-furnishing, and divers other purposes, because they “take a good polish.” The process employed to produce this polish has little effect upon some woods, and others would be roughened instead of smoothed thereby.

These features of wood have a parallel in human nature. Thus an experience which is intended to beautify character, is stolidly endured by some, and produces in others the opposite of the desired result. These effects are not due to inherent qualities, as in the case of the timber, but depend upon the voluntary course of the individual; and sufficient effort will be made by the Master-Builder to make every soul beautiful enough to be used in that building of which Christ is the Foundation. Will we “take the polish”? ADA D. WELLMAN.