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Influence of a Picture

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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Apr 18, 1911

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 38, No. 16.

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Influence of a Picture

A COLLEGE boy, from a Christian home, a little inclined to be sporty, and very popular with his companions, had the walls of his room lined with questionable pictures, such as come in cigaret packages; but when the holidays came his good old Christian mother sent him a portrait of Hofmann's head of the Christ. After the holiday vacation one of his chums came into his room and, looking around in astonishment, said, "Dick, what's become of all your pictures?" Dick hesitated a moment, and then said, pointing to the Christ, "They didn't seem in place in His presence."—Association Men.