We are in this world slowly but surely coming to be like Christ. To be
Christ-like is one thing--we may be in this way or that--but to be like
Christ is entirely different. Wonderful transformations have been
wrought in this world by education and by culture. I remember when I
was a lad in Indiana being told of a celebrated Indianapolis physician
who advertised for the most helpless idiot child and the most hopeless
was brought to him. For weeks and months no impression could be made
upon that child. He used every day to take the child into his parlor,
put him down on the floor and then lie beside him with the sunlight
streaming in his face. He said over and over one syllable of a word
until at last the child caught it, and I remember as a boy seeing that
same child stand upon a platform, repeat the Lord's Prayer and the
twenty-third Psalm and sing a hymn to the praise of God [Transcriber's
note: part of page torn away here, and one, possibly two, words are
missing] is wonderful; but more remarkable than that is the work which
is going on in us day by day. We are becoming more Christlike; one day
we shall be _like Christ_. "But _when_?" you say. This is the answer:
"Beloved, now are ye the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what
we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like
him, for we shall see him as he is."