"
"Yes, Davie: it is to learn his problems by going and doing his
will; not trying to understand things first, but trying first to do
things. We must spread out our arms to him as a child does to his
mother when he wants her to take him; then when he sets us down,
saying, 'Go and do this or that,' we must make all the haste in us
to go and do it. And when we get hungry to see him, we must look at
his picture."
"Where is that, sir?"
"Ah, Davie, Davie! don't you know that yet? Don't you know that,
besides being himself, and just because he is himself, Jesus is the
living picture of God?"
"I know, sir! We have to go and read about him in the book."
"May I ask you a question, Mr. Grant?" said Arctura.
"With perfect freedom," answered Donal. "I only hope I may be able
to answer it."
"When we read about Jesus, we have to draw for ourselves his
likeness from words, and you know what kind of a likeness the best
artist would make that way, who had never seen with his own eyes the
person whose portrait he had to paint!"
"I understand you quite," returned Donal. "Some go to other men to
draw it for them; and some go to others to hear from them what they
must draw--thus getting all their blunders in addition to those they
must make for themselves. But the nearest likeness you can see of
him, is the one drawn by yourself while doing what he tells you.
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