THE LAST SUPPER | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jan 13, 1881

THE LAST SUPPER.

A SPANISH artist was once employed to paint the "Last Supper." It was his object to throw all the sublimity of his art into the figure and the countenance of the Lord Jesus; but he put on the table in the foreground some chased cups, the workmanship of which was exceedingly beautiful. When his friends came to see the picture on the easel, every one said, "What beautiful cups!" "Ah!" said he, "I have made a mistake; these cups divert the eyes of the spectator from the Lord, to whom I wished to direct the attention of the observer;" and he forthwith took up his brush and blotted them from the canvas, that the strength and vigor of the chief object might be prominently seen and observed. Thus all Christians should feel their great study to be Christ's exaltation; and whatever is calculated to hinder man from beholding him in all the glory of his person and work should be removed out of the way. "God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ." Let the sentiment and language of Paul be ours.