(Made To Worship by Chris Tomlin)
The following illustration is from a sermon by Dr. Henry Van Dyke:
The portrait of Dante is painted on the walls of the Bargello, at Florence. For many years it was supposed that the picture had utterly perished. Men had heard of it but no one living had ever seen it. But presently came an artist who was determined to find it again. He went into the place where tradition said that it had been painted. The room was used as a storeroom for lumber and straw. The walls were covered with dirty whitewash. He had the heaps of rubbish carried away, and patiently and carefully removed the whitewash from the wall. Lines and colors long hidden began to appear, and at last the grave, lofty, noble face of the great poet looked out again upon the world of light.
"That was wonderful," you say; "that was beautiful!" Not half so wonderful as the work which Christ came to do in the heart of man-- to restore the forgotten image of God and bring the divine image to the light.
