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Some years
since the managers of a Young Men's Christian Association
missed a great opportunity by not knowing the value of a
certain painting. A friend of the institution had given a
picture for the walls of the building, not having suitable
room for it in his own home. One day he offered to sell it to
them, asking fifty dollars for it. When they declined the
offer he said they might have it for twenty-five dollars; but
they still declined to purchase it.
Not long afterwards he
died. In disposing of the estate his executors took the
picture from the building and sent it to a picture-mart. There
is was soon recognized as the work of a master and finally
identified. Thirty-five thousand dollars was offered for it,
and later fifteen thousand more. Fifty thousand for a picture
once offered for twenty-five dollars!
How forcibly that
illustrates the way men underestimate the value of true
religion. They think it is good for the low, the poor, the
weak, the dying, not realizing that it is needful to live by,
that it is the greatest need of man and the most valuable gift
of God.
Unknown
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