y Visits Prang's Chromo Establishment.
When I went to Boston, I went into Mr. Prang's chromo establishment. I
wanted to know how the work was done. He took me to a stone several feet
square, where he took the first impression, but when he took the paper
off the stone I could see no sign of a man's face there. "Wait a
little," he said. He took me to another stone, but when the paper was
lifted I couldn't see any impression yet. He took me up, up to eight,
nine, ten stones, and then I could see just the faintest outlines of a
man's face. He went on till he got up to about the twentieth stone, and
I could see the impression of a face, but he said it was not very
correct yet. Well, he went on till he got up, I think, to the
twenty-eighth stone, and a perfect face appeared, and it looked as if
all it had to do was to speak and it would be human. If you read a
chapter of the Bible and don't see anything in it, read it a second
time, and if you cannot see anything in it read it a third time. Dig
deep. Read it again and again, and even if you have to read it
twenty-eight times do so, and you will see the Man Christ Jesus, for He
is in every page of the Word.
Get the Key to Job.
An Englishman asked me some time ago, "Do you know much about Job?"
"Well, I know a little," I replied. "If you've got the key of Job,
you've got the key to the whole Bible." "What?" I replied, "I thought it
was a poetical book." "Well," said he, "I will just divide Job into
seven heads. The first is the perfect man--untried; and that is Adam and
Eve before they fell. The second head is tried by adversity--Adam after
the fall. The third is the wisdom of the world--the three friends who
came to try to help Job out of his difficulties. They had no power to
help him at all." He could stand his scolding wife, but he could not
stand them. The fourth head takes the form of the Mediator, and in the
fifth head God speaks at last. He heard him before by the ear, but he
hears Him now by the soul, and he fell down flat upon his face. A good
many men in Chicago are like Job. They think they are mighty good men,
but the moment they hear the voice of God they know they are sinners,
they are in the dust. There isn't much talk about their goodness then.
Here he was with his face down. Job learned his lesson. That was the
sixth head, and in these heads were the burdens of Adam's sin. The
seventh head was when God showed him His face. Well, I learned the key
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