| In a book by Dr.
Robert Schuller, entitled: Getting Through the Going Through Stage.
The story goes like this:
After the Second World War, the
townspeople of one devastated city in England were concerned about the
restoration of a large statue of Jesus that had been symbolic of
Christ's help and guidance for many generations. It had stood in the
city square with hands outstretched in an attitude of invitation. The
words carved on the pedestal read: "Come to me."
Master
artists and sculptors worked for months reassembling the figure. But not
enough fragments from the hands could be found in the rubble to mend
them. Finally someone suggested, "The sculptors can make new hands".
The
townspeople rejected the proposal. "Leave him without hands!" they
decided.
Today, the
restored statue of Christ stands in the square without hands. The words
carved on the new pedestal read:
"Christ
has no hands but ours."
Robert A. Schuller,
Getting Through The Going Through Stage
(Nashville Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1986),
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