MAN:
VALUE OF; JESUS CHRIST: HIS INCARNATION

Occasionally, art collectors will come upon an old masterpiece and will hire men who know how to restore it. And here it is, just an old cracked affair, smoky and terrible looking; nobody can see anything there but these keen, sharp-eyed men. These experts know that it’s a da Vinci or a Rubens, and they restore it. They know all the chemicals to use that will remove the dirt without hurting the paints. Pretty soon, shining there before them is an old masterpiece, shining as beautiful as it was the day that it was created.…

Godless philosophies are among us today that tell us we’re only animals. Out of these philosophies have come the totalitarian states—Nazism, communism, fascism and all the rest. But the Christian honors human life because, as the poor, dirty picture by da Vinci or Rubens, human life has about it the inklings and traces of immortality. When God Almighty, by His Son, Jesus Christ, takes that fallen masterpiece and restores it, you will find shining out of it again the face of Jesus Christ. For Christ became a man and was flesh to walk among us.

John 1:14; Romans 6:4–7; 2 Corinthians 5:13–17

Success and the Christian, 107, 110.