WHEN WE FACE THE PAST

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · May 22, 1901

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 27, No. 21.

WHEN WE FACE THE PAST.

A rich landlord cruelly oppressed a poor widow. Her son, then a little boy of eight years, witnessed it. He afterward became a painter, and painted a life-likeness of the dark scene.

Years afterward he placed it where the man saw it. The man turned pale, trembled in every joint, and offered a large sum to purchase it, that he might put it out of sight.

Thus there is an invisible painter drawing on the canvas of the soul a life-likeness, reflecting correctly all the passions and actions of our spiritual history on earth. Eternity will reveal them to every man. We must meet our earth-life again, whether it has been good or evil.—Episcopal Recorder.